“Napoleon and his Legacy: Warfare, Politics, and Society”
18-21 March 2021
THURSDAY, 18 MARCH, Opening Keynote Speech
“Napoleon: the ‘Famous Delinquent’”
Michael Broers, University of Oxford
FRIDAY, 19 MARCH, Roundtable Discussion: The World of Napoleonic Podcasting
Chair: J. David Markham, International Napoleonic Society, Co-Host of The Napoleon 101 podcast
Alexander Stevenson, Host of The Napoleonic Quarterly podcast
Zack White, Host of The Napoleonicist podcast
Everett Rummage, Host of the Age of Napoleon podcast
Friday Keynote Speech
“Napoleon as an Eighteenth-Century War Leader: A Strategic Approach”
Jeremy Black (Professor Emeritus), University of Exeter
SATURDAY, MARCH 20
SESSION 1: Napoleon at War
Chair: Kenneth Johnson, Air University
“The Lithuanian Quagmire: two weeks that cost Napoleon the Russian Campaign.”
Claudio Man, University of North Texas
“A Detail-Oriented Personality: Bonaparte in Command, 1800”
Eric Smith, University of North Texas
SESSION 2: The Revolution at War
Chair: Frederick Schneid, High Point University
“Enforcing Revolutionary Unity: Representatives on Mission and the Army of the Alps, 1792-1794”
Michael Bonura, U.S. Army
“Politics, Personality, and Command: Representatives on Mission and the Careers of Generals Jourdan, Pichegru, and Hoche”
Jordan R. Hayworth, Air Command and Staff College
“Maintaining and Restraining Force during the Peace Process: The Representatives on Mission in the Vendée, Summer 1794-Fall 1795”
Paul Strietelmeier, Independent Scholar
SESSION 3: New Perspectives on Individuals in History
Chair: Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University Shreveport
“A Scoundrel for All Seasons? Sir Home Riggs Popham’s amphibious career”
Jacqueline Reiter, Independent Scholar
“New discoveries of accounts of Napoleon by British Witnesses on St Helena”
Peter Hicks, Fondation Napoléon
“Beyond Bad Poetry: How Frederick the Great’s Affinity for Classical Antiquity Shaped his Military Life”
Scott Madere, Louisiana State University
SESSION 4: The French Way of War?
Chair: Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas
“The Role of Powerful Individuals in Mid-Eighteenth-Century French Army Reform”
Jonathan Abel, US Army Command and General Staff College
“A Flood of Cossacks: French Rear Area Security in 1813”
Jack Gill, Near East-South Asia Center, National Defense University
“The Revolt of the Catalan Audiencia in 1809: Napoleonic Command and Last Stand of the Ancien Regime.”
John Morgan, Independent Scholar
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2021
SESSION 5: Re-Examining the Napoleonic Legacy in Italy
Chair: Karen Reid, Joliet Junior College
“Collaboration, resistance and performative flattery in Napoleonic Italy.”
Doina Georgeta Harsanyi, Central Michigan University
“Smallpox vaccination in Napoleonic Italy”
Alexander Grab, University of Maine
SESSION 6: Prussia in the Age of Napoleon
Chair: Victor-André Masséna, Fondation Napoléon
“The Germs of Rot: The Prussian Officer Corps and the Kartoffelkrieg.”
Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas
“Prussian Conceptions of a National Army Before 1806”
Ethan Soefje, University of North Texas
“Is Carl von Clausewitz the Father of the Prussian Landwehr? Revisiting the Forgotten Debate and Its Implications Today”
Vanya Eftimova Bellinger, Air University
Closing Keynote Speech
“Napoleon rules OK? Some thoughts on recent biography”
Charles Esdaile (Professor Emeritus), University of Liverpool