Millions experienced physical and mental trauma as a result of the First World War. Government and private organizations attempted to mitigate the war’s impact in multiple ways – whether through direct medical care, through social support, or through rehabilitative assistance.  This panel seeks to explore official and unofficial infrastructures of caregiving that surfaced during the war and postwar periods, with particular interest in the way that these systems are examined and evaluated in writing and the visual arts.  Papers on all aspects of the war’s caregiving infrastructure are welcome. Topics may include but are not limited to transporting the wounded, managing medical or social facilities, training caregiving personnel, or identifying and deploying technical caregiving innovations.  

Please email abstracts of 250-300 words and brief bios (100 words or less) to Meg Albrinck (malbrinck@wisc.edu) by March 28, 2025. (Deadline Extended)