Conflict Landscapes 2014, Universiteit Gent

The study of the archaeology of the First and Second World Wars has rapidly expanded over the last decade, not the least because of the approaching centennial of the First World War in 2014-18. These conflict landscapes and their surviving archaeological remains are mainly studied from two different approaches: either using contemporary historical aerial photographs or with modern day prospection techniques (oblique aerial photographs, Lidar, geophysical prospection techniques, etc…).

This conference will focus on these two approaches and aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines (archaeologists, historians and geographers) studying conflict landscapes over a wide geographic range and time period, including, but not limited to the World Wars.

The conference, which is organised within the framework of ArcLand (http://www.archaeolandscapes.eu), will take place over two days (15/16 May 2014), followed by a field trip in the Ypres Salient (former battlefields of the First World War) on 17 May. The conference venue is the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres (Belgium) (www.inflandersfields.be).