The two-day conference about "The First World War in Eurasia: Historiography and Public Image" is held at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.

1. List of Participants
Brunnbauer, Ulf (Prof. Dr.), University of Regensburg, Institute of History, Germany
ulf.brunnbauer@geschichte.uni-regensburg.de
Çelik, Birten (Assist. Prof. Dr.), Middle East Technical University, Department of History, Turkey
birten@metu.edu.tr
Dietrich, Ayşe Pamir (Prof. Dr.), Middle East Technical University, Department of History, Turkey
dayse@metu.edu.tr
Frierson, Elizabeth B. (Assoc. Prof. Dr.), University of Cincinati, Department of History, USA
elizabeth.frierson@uc.edu
Gauin, Maxime (PhD Candidate), Middle East Technical University, Department of History, Turkey
gauin.maxime@wanadoo.fr
Halaçoğlu, Canan (PhD Candidate), Middle East Technical University, Department of History, Turkey
hacanan@metu.edu.tr
Kolev, Valery (Assoc. Prof. Dr.), Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of History, Bulgaria, vkolev22@yahoo.com
Kostopoulos, Tassos (MA), Independent Researcher, Journalist, Greece, tkostop1965@gmail.com
Kundakbayeva, Zhanat (Prof. Dr.), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Faculty of History, Kazakhstan, janbekkun@mail.ru
Markovic, Predrag (Prof. Dr.), Inst. of Contemporary History, Serbia, predragjmarkovic@yahoo.com
Sahara, Tetsuya (Prof. Dr.), Meiji University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Japan
ac00091@kisc.meiji.ac.jp
Soy, H. Bayram (Assoc. Prof. Dr.), Kırıkkale University, Department of International Relations, Turkey
bayramsoy@yahoo.com
Toprak, Zafer (Prof. Dr.), Boğaziçi University, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Turkey
toprakz@boun.edu.tr
Turan, Ömer (Prof. Dr.), Middle East Technical University, Department of History, Turkey, omert@metu.edu.tr
Türkeş, Mustafa (Prof. Dr.), Middle East Technical University, Dept. of International Relations, Turkey, turkes@metu.edu.tr
Yılmaz, Erol Ozan (MA), Middle East Technical University, Department of History, Turkey, yozan@metu.edu.tr
ORTA DOĞU TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Fen - Edebiyat Fakültesi Tarih Bölümü
Üniversiteler Mah. Dumlupınar Bulvarı
06800-Çankaya, Ankara/Turkey
Telephone : +90 312 210 3137
e-mail: hist@metu.edu.tr
web: http://soc.metu.edu.tr
31 October - 1 November 2014
31 Ekim - 1 Kasım 2014
METU Cultural and Convention Center, Hall A
ODTÜ Kültür ve Kongre Merkezi, Salon A
The First World War in Eurasia
Historiography and Public Image
MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
&
MEIJI UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE OF HUMANITIES

2. October 31, 2014
Friday
METU Cultural and Convention Center, Hall A
ODTÜ Kültür ve Kongre Merkezi, Salon A
09.30 – 10.00 Registration
10.00 – 10.15 Welcoming Addresses
10.15 – 11.00 Keynote Address: Zafer Toprak, How to Finance the War: Economic Historiography of WWI
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee Break
Session I
Teaching the War
Chair: Zafer Toprak
11.20 – 11.40 Elizabeth B. Frierson, Educating the Senses and Normalizing Total War in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America
11.40 – 12.00 Tetsuya Sahara, “Rising East and Falling West”: Japanese Views on WWI and Their Impact on “Asianism”- the Ideology of Japanese Fascism
12.00 – 12.20 Tassos Kostopoulos, From Civil War and Foreign Occupation to Oblivion, from “Persecution” to “Genocide”: WWI Greek Historiography and its Sociopolitical Background
12.20 – 12.40 Discussions
12.40 – 14.00 1Lunch
Session II
Sources of War
Chair: Tetsuya Sahara
14.00 – 14.20 Ayşe Pamir Dietrich, Russian Historiography on the Battle of Sarykamysh
14.20 – 14.40 Maxime Gauin, Between Trauma and Resistance: French Historiography of the First World War
14.40 – 15.00 Valery Kolev, Bulgarian Historiography on the Great War in the Years of Transition, 1990 – 2014
15.00 – 15.20 Discussions
15.20 – 15.40 1Coffee Break
Session III
The Image of the War
Chair: Ömer Turan
15.40 – 16.00 Birten Çelik, British War Propaganda Used during the Gallipoli Campaigns
16.00 – 16.20 Predrag Markovic, WWI on the Screen: The Yugoslav and Serbian Case
16.20 – 16.40 Zhanat Kundakbayeva, Kazakh National and Cultural Identity in Early Stalinist Period: Kazakhs during the First World War in M. Auezov’s Historical Novel “Hard Times”, 1928
16.40 – 17.00 Discussions
November 1, 2014
Saturday
Social Sciences Building, B04
Sosyal Bilimler Binası, B04
Session IV
Clashing Approaches
Chair: Mustafa Türkeş
10.00 – 10.20 Ömer Turan, Turkish Memoirs of the First World War
10.20 – 10.40 H. Bayram Soy, The Ottoman Image in Germany during the First World War
10.40 – 11.00 Ulf Brunnbauer, Revising Revisionism: German and Serbian Reactions to Christopher Clark’s Sleepwalkers
11.00 – 11.20 Discussions
11.20 – 11.40 1Coffee Break
11.40 – 12.10 1Evaluation