{"id":472,"date":"2016-09-27T16:43:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=472"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:15:07","slug":"leverhulme-lecture-series-sophie-de-schaepdrijver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2016\/09\/27\/leverhulme-lecture-series-sophie-de-schaepdrijver\/","title":{"rendered":"Leverhulme Lecture Series: Sophie De Schaepdrijver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sophie De Schaepdrijver (Penn State University, USA) joins the University of Kent\u2019s School of History as Leverhulme Visiting Professor for the academic year 2016-2017. During her visit she will be holding a series of lectures exploring how studying military occupation helps us understand the First World War.<\/p>\n

Programme:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 IWM Q87606. German soldiers watching a female lacemaker at work in German occupied Belgium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monday 3rd<\/sup> October<\/strong> Conquered Lands: Occupied Europe in the Great War<\/p>\n

Tuesday 8th<\/sup> November<\/strong> Hostile Hinterlands: Occupation and War<\/p>\n

Tuesday 6th<\/sup> December<\/strong> To Wait In Heavy Harness: The Occupiers<\/p>\n

Tuesday 24th<\/sup> January<\/strong> Dancing with a Bully: Occupied Populations<\/p>\n

Tuesday 28th<\/sup> February<\/strong> Social Contracts: Citizenship and Sacrifice under Occupation<\/p>\n

Tuesday 28th<\/sup> March<\/strong> Tangled Memories: Remembering and Forgetting the Occupations of the Great War<\/p>\n

Lectures will take place in Grimond Lecture Theatre 2 on the Canterbury Campus from 6pm.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor De Schaepdrijver is a historian of the First World War with a special interest in gender, social class, and the uses of language; she has published widely on the history of that war\u2019s military occupations. Her most recent books are Military Occupations in the First World War<\/em> (edited, 2014); Bastion: Occupied Bruges in the First World War<\/em> (2014); and Gabrielle Petit: The Death and Life of a Female Spy in the First World War<\/em> (2015). For her work, she was awarded the title of Baroness by H.M. the King of Belgium.<\/p>\n

The Leverhulme lecture series is supported by the School of History and the Gateways to the First World War public engagement centre<\/a> at the University of Kent.<\/p>\n

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Sophie De Schaepdrijver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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