Pre-Conference Symposium: "Resistance! Life Under Occupation"

Thursday, November 17

8:00am – 8:05am 

Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:05am – 9:15am

Resistance from Within: Germany and Austria

• Chair - Jason Dawsey, PhD
• German resistance - Nathan Stoltzfus, PhD
• Austria After the Anschluss – Guenter Bischof, PhD

9:15am – 9:35am

BREAK

9:35am – 10:50am

Living Under the Rising Sun

• Chair - Richard Frank    
• Fighting in the Philippines – Ricardo Jose, PhD
• Indonesia Under Occupation – Ethan Mark, PhD

10:50 am – 11:15am

BREAK

11:15am – 12:30pm

Between Hitler and Stalin on the Eastern Front

• Chair - Jennifer Popowycz, PhD
• The Hidden Front: The Soviet Union – Rob Citino, PhD
• Uprising: Polish Resistance – Alexandra Richie, DPhil

12:30pm – 1:30pm

BREAK and LUNCH

1:30pm – 2:30pm             

Fighting a Common Foe in Asia

• Chair - Allan Millett, PhD
• Chinese Nationalists and Communists: A “Unified” Effort – Xiaobing Li, PhD
• The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies – Dixee Bartholomew – Feis, PhD

2:30pm – 2:45pm

BREAK

2:45pm – 4:00pm

External Threat, Internal Struggles: Europe Under Occupation

• Chair - Mark Calhoun, PhD
• “Vivé La Résistance”: The French Fight – Sarah Bennett Farmer, PhD
• Italian Partisans: Victories and Reprisals – Jason Dawsey, PhD

4:00pm

Symposium Closing Remarks, Book signing, Conference Reception begins

Thursday, November 17, 2022

4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Conference Opening Reception

6:00 p.m. – 6:20 p.m.

Conference Opening

• Conference Opening Remarks – Stephen Watson, President & CEO, The National WWII Museum
• Presenting Sponsor Remarks – Krewasky Salter, PhD, President, Pritzker Military Museum & Library

6:20 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

• 15th International Conference on World War II Opening Session
• Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945
• Richard Overy in conversation with Alexandra Richie, DPhil

Friday, November 18, 2022

8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. 

Losing at War: Battlefield Blunders and the Men who Made Them

• Chair - John Curatola, PhD
• James Holland
• Conrad Crane, PhD                                      

9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

BREAK

10:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Asia Aflame

• Chair – Richard Frank
• China’s War of Resistance – Xiaobing Li, PhD
• Famine and Forced Labor in Southeast Asia – Ethan Mark, PhD

11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

BREAK and LUNCH

12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 

Women at War: Resistance

• Chair – Steph Hinnershitz, PhD
• Women in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – Elizabeth Hyman
• Empress of the Nile – Lynne Olson

1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

BREAK

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

The Old Breed, K Company and Eugene Sledge

• Chair - Richard Frank
• Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan – Saul David
• The Son of Sledgehammer – Henry Sledge

3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. 

BREAK

3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

“I Was There:” WWII Veteran Conversation

• Chair – Michael Bell, PhD
• Z. Anthony Kruszewski, PhD, Polish Uprising 1944

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.     

Museum Open House

• Campaigns of Courage and Louisiana Memorial Pavilion

Saturday, November 19

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

“Saving Freud: The Rescuers who Brought him to Freedom”

• Andrew Nagorski in conversation with Rob Citino, PhD

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

BREAK

10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.

• Final Resistance – July 20th and Its Legacy in Germany
• Alexandra Richie, DPhil
• Levin von Trott zu Solz – Nephew of July 20th Plotter

11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

BREAK

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 

A French Teenager in the Resistance

• A Conversation with Nicole Spangenberg and Steph Hinnershitz, PhD

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

BREAK and LUNCH

1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. 

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

• Interviewer – Marcus Cox, PhD
• Author – Matthew Delmont, PhD

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

BREAK with SNACKS

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 

Masters of the Air, the Bloody 100th and John “Lucky” Luckadoo

• A conversation with veteran “Lucky” Luckadoo and Donald Miller, PhD

6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. 

15th International Conference on World War II Closing Banquet Presentation

• Ben Macintyre – “Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison”