Category Archives: WW1

WW1 Centenary blog: Tagore in the time of war 1913-1919, by Sneha Reddy

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Ideas and influence of poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore during the first world war
Marking 100 years of Tagore’s lectures, delivered in Japan and USA, published in 1917 under the title ‘Nationalism’

‘Although Tagore is best known for his poetry, he was also an accomplished novelist, artist, dramatist, essayist and made prolific music compositions. His work gained international prominence just as the winds of nationalism and mutual distrust swept across the European continent and morphed into a conflict in 1914. The poet saw the oncoming war as an assault on humanity and explored its political and cultural consequences through his writings. European intellectuals and literary figures who witnessed the war’s brutality at their shores sought ‘insights coming from elsewhere’ and for many, Tagore’s voice ‘fit the need splendidly’ (Sen 2011).’

Full article here.

Sneha Reddy is a first-year PhD student at the School of International Relations in the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland. Her research focuses on French North African and British Indian soldiers in the First World War in the Middle East. She is on twitter @sneha_tumu

Lecture: ‘The Bush, the Suburbs and the Long Great War. A Family History’, Magdalen College Oxford

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Daubeny Laboratory, Magdalen College
Wednesday 15 February (5th week) 12:30-1:45pm

Professor Michael Roper (University of Essex) ‘The Bush, the Suburbs and the Long Great War. A Family History’
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminar

Directions: the door is between Rose Lane and the Botanic Garden entrance, on the other side of the High Street from Magdalen porters’ lodge. If you’re not sure where to go, please meet at the Magdalen porters’ lodge at 12:25.

CfP: Proximity and Distance: space, time and the First World War

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This edited volume will investigate the impact of proximity and distance in relation to the battlefront during and after the First World War. International in scope, this book will be an important contribution towards engaging with the various challenges that different nations faced during the war through an investigation of how physical and temporal proximity or distance to the battle-front impacted upon belligerent and non-belligerent countries and peoples.

Interested authors are invited to submit a short resume and a 400-word proposal to the editors, Dr. Emily Robertson (E.Robertson@adfa.edu.au) and Dr. Romain Fathi (romain.fathi@sciencespo.fr) by 30 April 2017. At this stage, a Series Editor from an academic publishing house has expressed interest in publishing our edited volume.

Submission of completed chapters is expected by 30 November 2017. More details will be provided to selected authors by mid-May. Chapters must be original work (not published or submitted elsewhere) and will be a maximum of 7000 words (including referencing).

Download further information: Call for chapters Proximity and Distance

CfP: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War

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1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War is an English-language online reference work on World War I dedicated to publishing high quality peer-reviewed content. Each article in the encyclopedia is a self-contained publication and its author receives full recognition. All articles receive a distinct URL address as well as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and are fully citable as scholarly publications. 1914-1918-online is an open access publication, which means that all articles are freely available online, ensuring maximum worldwide dissemination of content. Please click here for detailed information for authors.

The editors invite academics to contribute articles on a select number of topics not yet covered by our invitation-only editorial process. The Call for Papers will be automatically updated. Authors who are interested in submitting a paper on any of the subjects listed on the website should submit a short CV with a publication list, as well as an abstract (max. 250 words) or a full-length paper.

Further information and list of articles here.

Lecture: ‘Part of the Family’ – the Medical Officer on the Western Front

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‘Part of the Family’— the Medical Officer on the Western Front
A lecture in memory of Noel Chavasse, VC and bar

Speaker: Professor Mark Harrison
Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine

Weston Library, Broad Street
5.30pm, Thursday, 2 February 2017

Advance booking essential

For more information and to book places:
alumni@trinity.ox.ac.uk
01865 (2)79887

Further information here. Download poster: poster lecture

This is the final lecture in the series Duty, Courage, Faith: The Chavasse Family in World War I, inaugurated by St Peter’s College.

CfP: November 2nd 1917-November 29th 1947 – the make-up and break-up of British colonialism in the Middle East

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An international Conference, Western Galilee College, 29-30 November 2017

The conference will focus on British Colonial policy in the Middle East starting with the Balfour Declaration (November 2nd, 1917) until the UN decision to end the British Mandate on Palestine (November 29th, 1947). The conference will take place in the Western Galilee College in Akko, Israel on Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 of November 2017, celebrating a century of the Balfour Declaration and seven decades of the UN decision.

Proposals regarding all aspects of British Colonialism in the Middle East are to be sent to Dr. Yitzhak Ronen Roneni@wgalil.ac.il or Dr. Haim Sperber Haims@wgalil.ac.il until Wednesday March 1st, 2017. Answers will be sent by April 20th, 2017.

CfP: The Peripheries of the European Revolutionary Process(es) 1917–1923

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International Conference at the European University Institute, Florence 5–7 October 2017

The fall of the Russian Tsar and the rise to power of the Bolsheviks sent shock waves across Europe and beyond, initiating a period of momentous revolutionary transformations. Indeed, the protagonists of 1917 did not envisage their endeavour as an exclusively Russian phenomenon, but as the first act of the world revolution. As Lenin reflected in 1921, ‘we have made the start. When, at what date and time, and the proletarians of which nation will complete this process is not important. The important thing is that the ice has been broken’.

The conference aims to bring together many often-neglected geographic and ideological peripheries of the revolutionary process. Rather than focus on the familiar stories of the German, Austrian, or Hungarian revolutions and the debates and schisms within the major Social Democratic parties, we aim to discuss movements and actors that participated in the major transitional processes in Europe that followed the Russian Revolutions but that have traditionally fallen outside of the purview of the historiography. These include not only political organisations of the radical left, but a medley of fellow travellers: national and independence movements, bourgeois intellectuals and artists, feminist activists, religious militants, anti- colonial groups, and others who, even for a short period, associated themselves with the promise of radical change heralded by the Russian Revolution.

Participants with no institutional support can apply for funding of their travel and accommodation expenses.

Please send an abstract (circa 300 words) with a short biographical note to the organisers by March 31, 2017 to: EuropeanRevolution@EUI.eu

Further information here.
Download call for papers: CfP_European_Revolution_Conference