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Jutland Conference Schedule
Conference Schedule
Wednesday 31st May 2017 | |
Morning from 10.00 |
Registration and Coffee |
13.00 - 13.10 |
Welcome |
13.10 - 15.10 |
First Session - 'Material Culture #1. Maritime Archaeology Panel Debate' The Archaeology of the Battle of Jutland and the first U-boat Campaign Hidden Heritage: The Jutland Survivor in Portsmouth Harbour The Fate that Sank a Thousand Ships: Archaeology of the East Coast War Channels |
15.10 – 15.25 | Coffee Break |
15.25 – 16.40 |
Second Session - 'Cultural Responses' The Battle of Jutland (1921): creating a record of the battle through cinema Staging Jutland |
16.45 - 17.45 |
Keynote Dr. Andrew Gordon, King's College London |
18.00 –19.30 |
Drinks reception 36 Hours: Jutland 1916, The Battle That Won The War gallery |
Thursday 1st June 2017 | |
09.10 |
Registration |
09.30 - 11.30 |
First Session - 'The German Response' The weight of expectations. The German Imperial Navy's Press Office, the Battle of Jutland and the War at Sea, 1916-1918 A New Analysis of the Battle of Jutland through the Theoretical Framework of Anticipating Surprise Lessons learnt? Continuity and discontinuity in German naval planning and operational thinking, 1919-1939 |
11.30 - 13.30 | Extended Lunch |
13.30 - 15.00 |
Second Session - 'Naval War in the North Sea 1916-18' The High Sea Fleet after Jutland 1916-1918 'Weary Waiting is Hard Indeed: The Grand Fleet After Jutland.' |
15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee Break |
15.30 – 17.30 |
Third Session - 'World War at Sea 1916-18' 'The Adriatic 1916-18: Naval Guerilla War in a Narrow Sea' Richard Pogatschnigg, University of Klagenfurt, Austria 'Little or no satisfactory arrangement': The Admiralissimo Plan of 1918 Establishing a tradition: The Royal Australian Navy in the wake of Jutland |
18.15 - 20.15 |
Screening of Die versunkene Flotte (1926) in Action Stations (Boathouse 6) With introduction by Dr. Bryony Dixon of the British Film Institute and live piano accompaniment Followed by Speakers Dinner in Old Customs House, Gunwharf Quays 20.30 |
Friday 2nd June 2017 | |
09.00 - 10.00 |
Registration and Coffee |
10.00- 12.00 |
First Session - 'Material Culture #2. Museum Responses' The Jutland Short 184 Seaplane HMS Caroline The Battle of Jutland: Exhibitions in British and German Museums |
12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch (provided) |
13.00 – 14.30 |
Second Session - 'Commemoration' German Memorials on the War at Sea British Memorials to the Battle of Jutland |
Conclusions and Summary Matthew Sheldon, National Museum of the Royal Navy |
