Op donderdag 20 november 2014 om 20u15 vindt in de conferentiezaal van het Ieperse stadhuis de eerste in een reeks voordrachten door wetenschappers van de University of Kent plaats.

Ypres was a place imagined as well as visited by huge numbers of people in post-war Britain and Germany. This lecture will examine the various ways in which Ypres was described and constructed for visitors and for those who remained at home but wished to gain a deeper understanding of the salient. We will examine a wide range of materials including guidebooks, maps, films, books and newspaper reports to show how a set of key ideas about Ypres was developed and presented. We will show that Ypres impressed itself on British and German popular culture in a range of ways and how particular places in the salient were invested with particular qualities by each nation.
 
Over de sprekers

• Prof. Mark Connelly is de auteur van onder meer Steady the Buffs! A Regiment, a Region and the Great War (Oxford University Press, 2006) en The Great War: Memory and Ritual. Commemoration in the City and East London 1916-1939 (Boydell and Brewer, 2002).
• Dr. Stefan Goebel is de auteur van Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War (co-editor) (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011) en The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Beiden zijn verbonden aan de School of History van de University of Kent.