Podcasts available from Canadian Military History Conference

Colleagues in the School of Advanced Study, the Institute of Historical Research have been podcasting a selection of seminars and conferences this year. Now available are podcasts from the following conference:

Podcasts of Military History conference - Military History in Canada 
22 June 2010

A one day conference hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, in collaboration with the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies and the Department of History, University of Calgary and the History of Warfare Research Group, King’s College London

Panel 1: Military Intellectuals and British Strategy

Chair: Dr. William Philpott, King’s College, London
Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
A Meeting of Minds? Sir Julian Corbett and the Naval War Course, 1902-1914
Paul Ramsey, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Analysing Defence and Thinking Strategically: The Works of Henry Spenser Wilkinson
Daniel Whittingham, Doctoral Student, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
Charles Callwell and British Strategy

Keynote Speech

Professor David Bercuson, Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, Canada
Canadian Military History

Panel 2: First World War

Chair: Professor Brian Bond, King’s College, London
Nikolas Gardner, Associate Professor of Strategy, Department of Strategy and Leadership, Air War College, Alabama, USA
Charles Townshend's Advance on Baghdad: The British Offensive in Mesopotamia, September-November 1915
Meighen McCrae, Doctoral Student, University of Oxford
The Supreme War Council’s Inter-allied War Planning for 1919
Peter Jackson, Reader in International History, Aberystwyth University
Contending Conceptions of Security in French Policy at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919

Panel 3: Economic Warfare

Chair: Professor David French, University College, London
John Ferris, Professor of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Reading the World’s Mail: British Blockade Intelligence and Economic Warfare, 1914-1918
Keith Neilson, Professor of History, Royal Military College, Canada
R.H. Brand, Imperial Unity and Munitions from Canada, 1914-1917

Panel 4: Second World War

Chair: Professor David Bercuson, University of Calgary, Canada
Christine Leppard, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Canada and Coalition Warfare: The Italian Campaign, 1943-44
Russ Benneweis, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Well-Balanced and Hard-Hitting or Uneconomical and Hypertrophied: Manpower Allocation in the Canadian Army during the Second World War
Abraham Roof, Doctoral Student, Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada
Not What is Desirable But What is Possible: The Soviet Union and British Strategy, 1941-1942

For full details, please see here.

http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/military-history/conference/2010-06-22