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Images of the Body: First World War and its AftermathDeutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, Via Aurelia Antica, 391, I-00165 Roma, June 9 - 10, 2016This workshop aims at examining the centrality of the body in the narration, representation, experience and understanding of the First World War.It will take into account individual bodies in war, as they were compelled in the trenches, wounded, dispersed, exhausted, mutilated, or killed. As well, it will consider how those bodies came to symbolize the national community as a whole. Therefore, the workshop approaches the topic by paying attention to both the war and the home front, to both wartime and post-war societies.The main idea is to involve historians, art historians and visual culture historians to reflect upon specific key-questions concerning the representation of bodies during and a er the First World War.PROGRAMMEThursday, 9 June10:30 Martin Baumeister (Director, DHI Rome)Welcome10:40 Martina Salvante (Rome)IntroductionI - The Male Body RevisitedChair: Annette Becker (Paris)11:00 Sarah Kinzel (Berlin)Expulsion from Paradise. Representations of the human body in early 20thcentury painting11:30 Monica Cioli (Rome)From Man at War to Machine Man. The Evolution of the Body in the 1920s12:15 coffee break12:30 Flavia Marcello (Melbourne)Art, Architecture and the Body of the Soldier in Marcello Piacentini'sCasa Madre dei Mutilati in Rome13:15 lunch breakII - Memorializing the BodyChair: Martina Salvante (Rome)14:30 Martin Baumeister (Rome)Filling the big void: mourning fallen soldiers and the thirst ofrepresentation15:00 Paolo Nicoloso (Trieste)Memory Strategies: Ossuaries on the Eastern Italian Border18:00 Keynote LectureMichael Diers (Berlin)Fragments. Politics and Aesthetics of the Body in Pieces19.00 ReceptionFriday, 10 JuneIII - Wounded and Dead BodiesChair: Martin Baumeister (Rome)