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 1915
Innocence Slaughtered? An International Conference organised and hosted by the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres - Ieper 17, 18 and 19 November 2005
Chair : Prof.dr. Koen Koch (Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands)
Conference Language: English
Location: City Theatre, Vandenpeereboomplein (unless indicated otherwise) |
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Thursday 17 November
2005
9.00 Reception, registration and refreshments (coffee/tea)
09.45 introduction - Prof.Dr. Koen Koch (Universiteit Leiden - the
Netherlands)
10.15 Dr. Olivier Lepick (Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris,
France): 22 April 1915, the first chemical attack or the introduction of a
weapon of mass destruction
11.15 Prof. Dr. Margit Szöllöszi-Janze (Universität zu Köln, Germany): The
scientist as expert: Fritz Haber and German chemical warfare during the
First World War.
11.45 Dominiek Dendooven (In Flanders Fields Museum): Overview: 22 April
1915 - Eyewitness accounts of the first gas attack
12.30 lunch (Cloth Hall)
2 p.m. Julian Putkowski (London, United Kingdom): Toxic Shock: British
reactions to the use of poison gas in 1915
2.45 Dr Luc van de Weyer (Belgian Army Museum, Brussels): The reaction of
the Belgian Army to the introduction of chemical warfare
3.30 coffee break
3.45 Dr. Nathan M. Greenfield (Ontario, Canada): The Canadian Army and the
2nd Battle of Ypres
4.30 dr. David Omissi (Hull University, United Kingdom): The Indian Army
Corps and the 2nd Battle of Ypres
5.30 Visit: In Flanders Fields Museum
8.0 p.m. Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate
8.15 Conference dinner
Friday 18 November
9.30 a.m. Dr. Nick Lloyd (Centre for First World War Studies - Birmingham,
United Kingdom): The first British gas attack, Loos, 25 September 1915
10.15 Dr. Peter van den Dungen (Bradford University, United Kingdom):
Civil resistance to chemical warfare during the First World War
11.00 coffee break
11.15 Wolfgang Wietzker (Universität Düsseldorf, Germany): Chemical
Weapons and German Newspapers
12.00 Lunch (in Cloth Hall)
1.30 p.m. Bert Heyvaert (In Flanders Fields Museum): Minor actions in the
Ypres Salient in 1915
2.15 Dr. Gery Oram (Open University, United Kingdom): British Morale in
1915
3.00 Coffee break
3.15 Dr. Leo van Bergen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands):
‘Gas is a humane weapon’. The medical (and humanitarian-judicial)
discussion on poison-gas during and after the war
4.00 Prof. Dr. Annette Becker (Université Paris-X, Nanterre, and Centre de
recherche de l'Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, France): La mémoire
du gaz dans l’après guerre
4.45 Discussion
5.30 Drinks
Saturday 19 November 2005
9.30 Lt. Glenn Nollet (Belgian Army Ammunition Disposal Unit DOVO):
Chemical ammunition disposal in Flanders
10.15 Peter Kaiser (OPCW - The Hague, the Netherlands): The work of the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
11.00 coffee break
11.15 Dr. Jean-Pascal Zanders (Bio Weapons Prevention Project - Geneva,
Switzerland): Ypres, 22 April 2015: Can It Be Avoided?
12.00 Dr. Shariar Khateri (Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support -
Teheran, Iran): Mustard Gas Exposure and Long-Term Health Effects. Lessons
Learned From Iraq-Iran War, the most recent large scale use of chemical
weapons
12.45 Lunch
2.00 p.m. Excursion: tour of sites, monuments and cemeteries associated
with the gas attack of 22 April 1915, visit to the Belgian Army Ammunition
Disposal Unit and facility for dismantling chemical weapons.
5 p.m. drink
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