College, in collaboration with the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, Lancashire, UK, 25 July 2002; “Regards croisés sur les guerres modernes / Varieties of Experience: Views of Modern Warfare,” Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Université de Caen, France, 27 May 2010. Special thanks are also due to Professor Thomas Adler, who introduced me to Pat Barker's work during my graduate student days at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, USA; to Professor Jean-Michel Ganteau of the Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, France, for his encouragement; to Professor Hervé Fourtina of the Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, France, for butting heads with the establishment on my behalf; to Professor Karen Patrick Knutsen, with whom I had several fruitful conversations on all things Barkerian during a week of Erasmus mobility in March 2009, at Østfold University, Halden, Norway; and to Professor Laurie Vickroy of Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA, for her generous offer to pen the foreword.
