Conference Cost: $20 (including lunch), $10 for students with identification
Please pre-register to facilitate food planning – hrgmail@uwindsor.ca, or (519) 253-3000 ext.3508.
Registration at the door is also possible.
For an up-to-date program, see our website at www.uwindsor.ca/hrg
Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies

Friday, February 4, 2011
6:45-7:30 pm Registration
7:30-9:00 pm Keynote Address – Dr. Douglas Delaney
Chair of War Studies, Royal Military College of Canada
“The Problem(s) with ‘Tommy’ Burns: Command in the Italian Campaign”

Saturday, February 5, 2011
8:30-9:00 am Registration
9:00-9:05 am Opening remarks
9:05-10:30 am Caitlin McWilliams, Wilfrid Laurier University
“Windsor’s Wartime Wings: #7 Elementary Flight Training School and Essex County, 1940-1941”
LCol John Conrad, Canadian Forces College, National Centre for Strategic Studies
“Merlin’s Laugh: Sustainment Lessons and Cultural Reflections from the Sands of Kandahar”
10:30-11:00 am Coffee
11:00 am-12:30 pm Professor Michael Boire, Royal Military College of Canada
“Tanks in Tight Corners: The First Canadian Armoured Brigade in the Fight for Ortona, December 1943”
Professor Mike Bechthold, Wilfrid Laurier University
“C3 (Command, Control and Communications) in Normandy: Worthington Force, August 1944”
12:30-1:15 pm Lunch (featuring performances by Windsor Regiment Band and
the Essex & Kent Scottish Regiment Pipes and Drums)
1:15-2:15 pm Professor Terry Copp, Wilfrid Laurier University
The Secret of Our Success: The Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days, 8 August – 11 November 1918
2:15 pm Closing Remarks by the conference organizers

The conference will also feature various book vendors and displays of military artifacts.