Multilingual Environments in the Great War
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 25/06/2021

The Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War at King’s College London will be hosting a virtual book launch for Multilingual Environments in the Great War, the third volume in the series Languages and the First World War. This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War. Offering further developments in an innovative approach to the study of the conflict, it develops a transnational viewpoint of the experience of war to reveal less expected areas of language use during the conflict.

Speakers

- Dr Hillary Briffa, lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London. 
- Mr Julian Walker (co-editor), co-director of the Languages and the First World War project and lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts. 
- Dr Christophe Declerq (co-editor), senior lecturer at CenTraS, University College London, and lecturer at KU Leuven, Brussels Campus. 
- Dr Chris Kempshall (contributing author),  Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Army Leadership, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. 
- Dr Steve Witt (contributing author), Director of the Center for Global Studies (CGS) at the University of Illinois and editor of IFLA Journal.
- Dr Fabian Van Samang (contributing author), editor-in-chief for Tijdschrift voor Mensenrechten (Journal of Human Rights).
- Dr Connie Ruzich (contributing author), Professor of English at Robert Morris University.
- Ms Julia Ribeiro S. C. Thomaz (contributing author), PhD student in French Literature at the Université Paris Nanterre and in History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. 
- Dr Jiří Hutečka (contributing author),  Associate Professor at the Institute of History, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
- Dr Jane Potter (contributing author), Reader in Arts at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University.