Category Archives: WW1

Vacancy: Lecturer in the History of the First World War (E&S), University of Exeter

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University of Exeter – College of Humanities

The College wishes to recruit a Lecturer in the History of the First World War (Education and Scholarship) to deliver the level 3 Special Subject modules HIH3410 and HIH3411, ‘The Great War: a Comparative History’, providing maternity cover for a colleague. This part time (24% FTE) post is available from 1st September 2015 to 30th June 2016.

Location: Exeter
Salary: £33,242 to £37,394
Hours: Part Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Closes: 16th April 2015
Job Ref: P48317

Further details: jobs.ac.uk

Lecture: Futurism, Fascism, and the Art of War

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Futurism, Fascism, and the Art of War
Michael Subialka, Powys Roberts Research Fellow in European Literature
St Hugh’s College, Oxford

29 April 2015, 5 pm, Taylor Institution Library, St Giles’, Oxford

The Italian entry into World War I was rooted in a complex mix of secret diplomacy, longstanding nationalist sentiments, and popular cultural provocation. One of the features of that mix is that it made for strange bedfellows and stranger combinations of beliefs even within single groups or movements. The Italian Futurists are no exception, and their years of provocation on behalf of intervention against Austria-Hungary (and in Africa) can be traced to a series of conflicting impulses that emerge out of the 19th century. In their thought, the basic irredentist cause of “completing” the Risorgimento’s unification of Italy is combined with the 19th-century discourse on vitalism, Darwinian visions of race theory and natural selection, and also an impulse toward the abstract, mysterious, and metaphysical, transposed from the realm of religion to human action and artistic creation. This blend of impulses makes the Futurist provocation emblematic both of the late 19th century and of the coming era of Fascism. It is in this light that we should approach the shift of alliances achieved by the Patto di Londra (Treaty of London), signed secretly 26 April 1915, nearly a month before Italy’s entry into the war.

All welcome. Lecture followed by Futurist book display and reception.

Poster: 2015-03-FuturismFascismAndTheArtOfWar-Poster-1

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association: Panel on WWI in Literature

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In light of the centenary of World War I last year, this panel at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, New Mexico, United States, looks to reflect on the significance of the war as a cultural artifact. This panel explores representations of World War I both contemporaneously and as reflective literary and artistic process throughout the following century. All languages, literatures, film, art, and other representations will be considered.

Please submit abstracts ASAP to hillanna@isu.edu. Deadline: 20 March 2015.

First World War 100 at The National Archives

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The National Archives has a range of resources on the First World War, including:

Online collections, including war diaries
Talks and events, including webinars
Learning opportunities

For more information, see here.

The National Archives: Prisoner of war interview reports 1914-1918

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The National Archive records, in series WO 161, are reports on over 3,000 British and Commonwealth prisoners of war captured during the First World War.

The reports were made by the Committee on the Treatment of British Prisoners of War before the Armistice was signed on 11 November 1918. The Committee appointed examiners who conducted interviews with repatriated, escaped or interned prisoners of war to ask about how they had been treated. The examiners then wrote up the reports.

The reports include:

officers
medical officers
other ranks
merchant seamen and civilians (in a minority of cases)

Although the reports contain valuable information, they represent only a tiny percentage of the estimated 192,000 British and Commonwealth captives. They do not include the many prisoners of war who were liberated after the Armistice.

Remembering World War I: A Research and Learning Collection

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A range of resources relating to the First World War are available from Taylor and Francis Online. Please see here for links to interviews, articles and books.

Conference: Breaking Empires, Making Nations? The First World War and the Reforging of Europe

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The Chair of European Civilization at the College of Europe has the pleasure to invite you to an international conference

Breaking Empires, Making Nations? The First World War and the Reforging of Europe

From 14.00 on Tuesday 7 April until 18.30 on Wednesday 8 April 2015 at the Natolin campus of the College of Europe, ul. Nowoursynowska 84, 02-797 Warszawa.

Keynote lecture by Professor Sir Hew Strachan (Oxford): The Ideas of 1914.

R.S.V.P.
e-mail: anna.banach@coleurope.eu
Tel.: 22.54.59.480

Further information: Invitation to WW1 conference
Conference programme: Programme Natolin WW1 conference latest