Progress, Regress, and Change: Air forces for the reason that early twentieth Century
05 – 06 September 2023
Hosted on the Royal Air Drive Museum, London, this two-day convention will discover the advanced methods during which air forces have been remodeled for the reason that early twentieth Century. This convention shall be interdisciplinary and can host students engaged on subjects that relate to air forces, their personnel and applied sciences, the economies and societies with which they work together, the conflicts during which they’ve engaged, and the worldwide and worldwide context with which they’re related.
The price of attending the convention in-person for each days is £60.00. This price covers registration, refreshments and lunch for each days. The RAF Museum is making as much as a 3rd of the convention tickets accessible at a concession value of £40.00. Concession tickets are supposed for college kids, retired delegates, and those that outline themselves as being on a clearly restricted finances. Tickets can be found now
The analysis introduced will supply new proof and insights on the event of air forces, talking to alter or lack-thereof. In doing so, this analysis gives to contribute to and bolster the rising scholarship on air energy.
The panels hosted on this 12 months’s programme will embody the most recent analysis on a variety of subjects together with: Air Energy for Political Impact? The Deployment of the Royal Australian Air Drive to Vietnam, 1962-1967; Gujranwala: Colonial Violence by way of Air Energy; Be an Air-Wac: Gendering the US Military Air Drive within the Second World Conflict; and Drone Revolution in Army Air Energy: African Experiences and Views. The convention will function papers on the event of Royal Flying Corps coaching, air forces within the interwar Mediterranean, Britain’s air defence in the course of the Battle of Britain, feminine quick jet pilots, strategic bombing within the First Gulf Conflict, and Chilly Conflict defence coverage. The convention will conclude with a panel which considers up to date purposes of air energy in Iraq, Africa and Ukraine.
This 12 months’s keynote shall be delivered by Patrick Main, Professor of Trendy Historical past on the College of Studying. Professor Main’s keynote shall be titled “Historical past from Above/Historical past from Beneath: How Strategic Bombing Remapped the SS Police State, 1942-45”.
Location
The Convention will happen on the RAF Museum’s London web site on Tuesday-Wednesday 5-6 September 2023. Registration will open from 9:00 am on 5 September. The Convention will centre across the Artwork Gallery and Lecture Theatre on the entrance of Hangars 3,4,5*. The convention is scheduled to run from 9.00am to five:30pm on Tuesday, and 9.00am to five:20pm on Wednesday.
*The Convention will kick off earlier than the Museum’s normal opening time. As such, we’d ask attendees to enter through the low gate which connects the principle automobile park to the outside house in-front of Hangars 3,4,5.
Tickets
The price of attending the Convention for each days is £60.00. A restricted variety of concession tickets can be found at £40.00*. Reserving is fast and simple:
*Concession tickets are supposed for college kids, retired delegates, and those that outline themselves as being on a clearly restricted finances.
Programme
The programme for the Convention is out there to obtain right here (RAF-M-Programme-2023-250723). Please notice that modifications in circumstances might require the programme to be altered.
On-line
The Convention may even be accessible to look at remotely through the Museum’s Crowdcast Channel.
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