1916: Sex, Planes, and Disasters
About The Event
This year’s theme: “1916: Sex, Planes, and Disasters”
2016 Symposium by the World War One Historical Association in partnership with The General Douglas MacArthur Foundation
The program includes speakers on Verdun, warship development and Jutland, the Brusilov Offensive, the British army and the Somme, and the USA in 1916, plus aerial bombardment and more!
Full symposium package: $225 by 19 September; or $255 by 21 October.
Speakers
Dr. Monique Seefried – World War One Centennial Commissioner, Master of Ceremonies
Friday, 21 October at MacArthur Memorial
Steve Suddaby—From Venice to London: aerial bombing in 1916
Carl Bobrow—Russian air assets in the Brusilov Offensive 1916
At Military Aviation Museum Robert “Boom” Powell—Flying vintage aircraft
At Sheraton dinner banquet Dana Lombardy—Sex…and spies, oh, my!
Saturday, 22 October at MacArthur Memorial
Paul Jankowski, 2014 Tomlinson Prize winner—Verdun after 100 years: an iconic or an exceptional battle?
William MacMullen—Big navies, big innovations, big battle … then “fizzle.” Why?
Graydon Tunstall, 2010 Tomlinson Prize honorable mention—Eastern Front 1916: Russian victory to revolution
Lunch break
David Silbey—A citizen army learns to fight: the tactical evolution of the British Army in 1916
Greg Hansard—“Haven of Safety”: U.S. internment of German sailors, 1914–1917
Paul Walsh—Embattled neutrality: the Western Hemisphere, Europe, and Woodrow Wilson
Program Outline
Thursday, 20 October
6:00 to 8:00 PM Registration and reception at Sheraton with cash bar
Friday, 21 October
8:00 AM to 10:45 AM: 2 seminars with 1 coffee/tea break
10:45 AM to 12:30 PM: Lunch break (on your own) with time to visit the MacArthur Memorial
12:30 to 5:00 PM: Buses to Military Aviation Museum and tour (buses return to Sheraton at 5:00 PM)
6:00 PM: Cash bar before dinner at Sheraton
7:00 PM: Dinner followed by speaker and raffle
Saturday, 22 October
8:00 AM to 11:00 AM: 3 seminars with 1 coffee/tea break
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM: Lunch break (on your own) with time to visit the MacArthur Memorial
1:00 to 3:45 PM: 3 seminars with 1 coffee/tea break
3:45 to 5:00 PM: Symposium ends with time to visit and shop in the MacArthur Memorial before it closes at 5:00 PM
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