Wednesday 18th July

7.00 - 9.00

Evening Registration

Evening Event

The In place of War Performance event will be rescheduled. It has been cancelled due to ill health of the participants

Thursday 19th July

9.30 -10.30

Registration: Manchester Conference Centre (Weston): lower foyer

10.30

Conference Opening: Weston Theatre
Professor Alan Gilbert, President and Vice-Chancellor, and Professor Alistair Ulph, Vice-president and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, the University of Manchester.

10.30 - 12.00

Platform panel: 'Being at War'

Chair: Anna Ford - Broadcaster and journalist; Co-Chancellor of the University of Manchester
Joanna Bourke - Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London
Abdel-Rahman Ghandour - egional Communication Adviser for Africa and the Middle East; UNICEF in Jordan
Anatol Lieven - Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation, Washington DC, and Professor, KCL

12.00 - 1.30

Lunch

1.30 - 3.30

Parallel Panels 1

3.30 - 4.00

Refreshments

4.00 - 6.00

Parallel Panels 2

Evening Event

Child of Biafra  - Passion Pit Theatre & Theatre Tours International. World Premiere at Contact Theatre, Oxford Road
After performance panel:
Romano Cagnoni, Martin Bell

Friday 20th July

9.00 - 10.00

Registration: Manchester Conference Centre: lower foyer

10.00 - 12.00

Lead Panel: Causes: Weston Theatre   Chair: Tim Jacoby
Chris Cramer,  SOAS
Vivienne Jabri, Kings College
 Stathis Kalyvas, Yale

12.00 - 1.30

Lunch

1.30 - 3.30

Parallel panels 3

3.30 - 4.00

Refreshments

4.00 - 6.00

Lead Panel: Violent Conflict and the Body: Weston Theatre
Joanna Bourke
Rony Brauman
Abdel-Rahman Ghandour

Evening Event

Conference Dinner, 7pm, New Samsi Restaurant, 36-38 Whitworth Street http://www.samsi.co.uk

Saturday 21^st July

9.00 - 10.00

Registration

10.00 - 11.30

PLATFORM: 'Aftermaths' : Weston Theatre
Chair: Admiral Sir John Kerr - Pro-Chancellor, University of Manchester; formerly Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command
Urvashi Butalia - Feminist, activist, historian, publisher and author, based in New Delhi
Rony Brauman - former President of Médecins Sans Frontières, currently researcher at the MSF Foundation
Marianne Elliott - Professor and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, and active in the Northern Ireland peace process

11:30 - 1:00

Lunch

1.00 - 3.00

3.00 - 3.30

Refreshments

3.30 - 5.50

Lead Panel: Performance: Weston Theatre
Chair: Professor James Thompson
Jeton Naziraj - Children's Theatre Development, Kosovo
Sivanagnam Jeyasankar - Third Eye Local Knowledge Group and Eastern University, Sri Lanka
Derik Alfred - Kwoto Cultural Centre, Sudan
Hossam Madhoun - Theatre for Everybody, Gaza

Evening Event

Complimentary wine reception (6.30),  Imperial War Museum North