Thursday 1 November at 18:00
at the Aula Magna, University of Malta Valletta Campus
The Humanities, Medicine and Science Programme (HUMS) will be holding a Symposium to commemorate the Centenary of the end of the First World War on Thursday 1 November 2018 at 18:00 at the Aula Magna, University of Malta, Valletta Campus.
at the Aula Magna, University of Malta Valletta Campus
The Humanities, Medicine and Science Programme (HUMS) will be holding a Symposium to commemorate the Centenary of the end of the First World War on Thursday 1 November 2018 at 18:00 at the Aula Magna, University of Malta, Valletta Campus.
Programme
Welcome and Introduction
Professor Joseph Cacciottolo
World War I: Fumbling for a Meaning
Professor Dominic Fenech
World War I. Effects on progress in Medical Science
Professor Charles Savona Ventura
'Lest we Forget': The Illusion of the Great War on Celluloid
Professor Gloria Lauri Lucente
European Literary Modernism and the Great War: The Experience of Robert Musil and Robert Walser
Professor Ivan Callus
No Comic Matter. Technology in the Great War, as depicted by Four Graphic Novel Authors
Dr Ing. John Charles Betts
Beating (chemical) ploughshares into swords: how WW1 influenced the fate of artificial nitrogen fixation
Professor Alfred J. Vella
Moderated panel discussion
Professor Clare Vassallo
Refreshments
Presentations are 20 minutes long and will be followed by discussion amongst speakers and audience.
The event is free of charge, however persons wishing to attend the Symposium are asked to email danielle.baldacchino@um.edu.mt to register, for practical purposes.