Conscientious Objectors Awareness Day Event Dundee
Saturday 10.30-3.00 May 19, 2018
Dalhousie Building, Room 1LG03, University of Dundee
War, Conscription and Conscientious Objection 1914-1919
A Free Event – including refreshments and light buffet lunch – tickets booked Eventbrite
Session 1 – Organised by Great War Dundee
10.00 to 10.30 Refreshments and Register (this is a free event,
10.30 to 10.40 Welcome
Derek Patrick – Great War Dundee and University of St Andrews
10.40 to 11.00 Commemoration, Conflict and Conscience in Context
Cyril Pearce – Commemoration, Conflict and Conscience, 27-28 April 2019 (UK festival of hidden stories of WW1)
11.00 to 11.30 What would you do?
Audience participation and survey (organised by Kait Laughlin WEA):
your views and thoughts on Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Conscientious Objectors? (Second survey follows in afternoon Session 2)
Comfort Break – 11.30 to 11.40 (prompt)
11.40 to 12.10 Dundee Case study – A Tale of Two Brothers:
Ewan Geddes Carr (Socialist and War Resister) and William Stewart Carr (Socialist and Soldier)
Billy Kenefick and Bill Carr – Great War Dundee
12.10 to 12.30 Session 1 – Panel and Audience Q&A
Buffet Lunch and Refreshments – 12.30 to 1.00
Conscientious Objectors Awareness Day Event Dundee
Saturday 10.30-3.00 May 19, 2018
War, Conscription and Conscientious Objection 1914-1919
Session 2
Organised by
Workers Education Association Scotland
Legacies of Resistance to the First World War
1.00 to 3.00
Session introduced by Kait Laughlin Project Leader for Legacies of Resistance to the First World War. Followed by presentation from Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Project Learner Groups, second survey conducted and closing musical event.
3.00 – END of CO Awareness Day Event
In Association and Partnership with
Abertay Historical Society
Centre for Scottish Culture, University of Dundee
Commemoration, Conflict and Conscience
Edinburgh Peace and Justice centre
Everyday Lives in War Engagement Centre
Gateways to the First World War Engagement Centre
Workers Education Association Scotland