CFP: The First World War at Sea, 1914-19

The First World War at Sea, 1914-19

Conference at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Friday 3 to Saturday 4 June, 2016

The National Maritime Museum, The British Commission for Military History, and The British Commission for Maritime History are jointly organizing an international conference on the First World War at sea to be held at Greenwich in June 2016.

While there have recently been a number of conferences and publications looking at land-based histories of the First World War, there has been relatively little consideration of the war at sea, its significance and its broader contexts. In the centenary year of the Battle of Jutland, The First World War at Sea seeks to address this lacuna through papers that will address the breadth and complexity of the maritime sphere between 1914–19. The organizers welcome proposals that explore political, strategic, tactical, operational, cultural, social, institutional, economic, and industrial contexts – the list is not definitive. The organizers would encourage proposals that move beyond solely British issues and perspectives.

Papers will be considered for publication in special issues of the British Journal of Military History and the Journal for Maritime History.

The deadline for paper proposals is 1st December 2015.

Further information here.

CFP: The British Commission for Military History

The British Commission for Military History invites proposals for its annual summer conference on the theme of ‘culture clash’. The conference will be held at the Old Fire Station, Oxford on 11 July 2015. We will be looking at how different cultural understandings of war shaped the conduct of tactics, strategy and operations in a historical context. We welcome papers on any aspect of any conflict in which two or more different cultures came into contact, and where their cultural differences and similarities shaped the conduct of the war. This includes assumptions of superiority or inferiority, differing strategic goals and operational methodology (societies preferring either raiding or persisting strategies, for example), differing concepts of justness and proportionality in war or any other area of warfare that can be shaped by cultural practices and assumptions.

If you would like to present a paper, please send a short proposal (one or two paragraphs) to the conference organiser Jonathan Krause by 22 May 2015.