Our second GLGW seminar will be on Thursday 5 February 2015. The speaker will be Claire Morelon and her paper is entitled ‘Catholics in Austria-Hungary in the First World War’
All seminars will be held at TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities, room RH07, and will run from 1 – 2pm. Papers will be of 30-40 minutes, with a discussion afterwards.
We look forward to seeing you there!
‘Africa in the Great War: Comparative Perspectives’ workshop
27 February 2015 – St Cross College, Oxford
Sponsored by the CNRS-Oxford Collaboration Scheme, Oxford Centre for Global History and the University of Portsmouth
Please note, places are limited – please contact global@history.ox.ac.uk by 4th February if you would like to book a place.
Registration: 10.00 – 10.15
Opening remarks: 10.15 – 10.30
Contested Identities in Africa, 1914-1918: 10.30 – 11.30
Dr Julie d’Andurain (Sorbonne) –The Meaning of ‘Rebel’ in the French Military Literature (‘la figure du rebelle dans la littérature militaire’)
Dr Richard Fogarty (SUNY) – Whose Islam? Whose Muslims? French African Soldiers and Faith in the French Army
Tea/coffee: 11.30 – 12.00
Keynote: 12.00 – 13.00
Prof. Bill Nasson (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) – A War of South African Succession? A Deluded Dominion and its African Great War
Lunch: 13.00 – 14.00
Comparative Perspectives: 14.00 – 15.00
Dr Jan-Georg Deutsch (Oxford) – Coloniality on the Loose: The Experience of War in East Africa
Dr Jonathan Krause (Oxford/Portsmouth) – Rebellion and Reform in Indochina: the Influence of the Great War on Colonial Discord
Closing Summary and General Discussion: 15.00 – 16.00
Prof. David Killingray (Goldsmiths)
Convenors: Jan-Georg Deutsch, Jonathan Krause, Julie d’Andurain
Workshop poster: ‘Africa in the Great War’ 27 Feb poster
Our first GLGW graduate seminar will take place at TORCH, Radcliffe Humanities, room RH07, and will run from 1 – 2pm. Papers will be of 30-40 minutes, with a discussion afterwards.
Thursday 22 January: Roderick Bailey – Captured German Zeppelin Crews in Britain
The Australasian Association for European History (AAEH) XXIV Biennial Conference: “War, Violence, Aftermaths: Europe and the Wider World”
Call for Papers
14th – 17th July 2015, Crowne Plaza, Newcastle
Hosted by: The School of Humanities and Social Science and the Centre for the history of Violence at The University of Newcastle, Australia
Keynote Speakers:
John Horne, Trinity College, Dublin
Richard Bessel, University of York
Norman Naimark, Stanford University
Patricia Clavin, Jesus College, Oxford
Also participating:
Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne
Katherine Jolluck, Stanford University
Conference Website: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/events/faculty-of-education-and-arts/aaeh-conference
The website will be periodically updated with information about registration, accommodation, keynote speakers, abstracts and the conference program.
Conference Venue:
The AAEH Conference in July 2015 will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Newcastle
http://www.crowneplazanewcastle.com.au/
Conference Overview
For the first time, the University of Newcastle, Australia, will host the 24th biennial meeting of the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH). Newcastle is a vibrant city on the coast, two hours north of Sydney.
Our themes for 2015 coincide with anniversaries of a number of key events in Europe, within the broad themes of war, violence and aftermaths, including: the bi-centenary of the battle of Waterloo; the centenary of the landing at Gallipoli; the centenary of the Armenian Genocide; the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; and the 20th anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica.
The conference encourages reconsideration of Europe’s violent past – national, regional, religious, economic, ethnic, social, cultural, generational, and international. The Organizing Committee particularly invites proposals for papers that address the history of European conflict in terms of its repercussions for the non-European world. Papers on Early Modern Europe are also welcome, as are specialists in the First World War.
The conference will be structured in parallel panels, plenary sessions and round tables.
Each panel presentation should not exceed 20 minutes.
Panels may explore such ideas as:
· Violence in society, culture, economics and politics
· The origins and consequences of war and acts of mass violence
· Ethnic, racial, religious and ideological violence
· Violence and war from a transnational perspective
· Cultural constructions and representations of war and violence
· Emotions and memories of war and violence
· Aftermaths and legacies of war and violence
Proposal submission information:
Title of paper, abstract of 100 words, and a brief professional biography with contact details/institutional affiliation.
Please send these items to: aaeh-conference@newcastle.edu.au
1 February 2015 Submission of abstracts close
1 March 2015 Notification to abstract authors
Early March 2015 Early Bird Registration opens
1 May 2015 Early bird closure
Conference Committee
Prof. Philip Dwyer, Philip.Dwyer@newcastle.edu.au
Prof. Roger Markwick, Roger.Markwick@newcastle.edu.au
Dr. Camilla Russell, Camilla.Russell@newcastle.edu.au
Dr. Matthew Lewis, Matthew.Lewis@newcastle.edu.au
General enquiries
Ms Kara Waite, Kara.Waite@newcastle.edu.au
+61 2 4921 7318
Mailing address
AAEH Conference
School of Humanities and Social Science
University of Newcastle
Callaghan NSW 2308
Australia
This international conference will take place from 1st-2nd May 2015, at Magdalen College / Maison Française d’Oxford.
Submissions particularly welcome from early career researchers and doctoral students working on the Anglophone literature of the First World War
Deadline: 10 February 2015
For more information, download the bilingual CFP: Appel à contributions bilingue colloque MFO
The First World War Centenary Programme has been established by the New Zealand government to mark the First World War centenary through a range of national and community commemorations and activities from 2014 to 2019.
Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand has a vacancy for a Senior Communications and Engagement Adviser First World War Centenary Programme.
Full time – Fixed term or Secondment for a period of nine months
Applications close 5pm Wednesday 14 January (NZ time)
Further information here.
The second year Dance degree module, Choreolab, gives students the chance to explore the intersection of live dance performance and film. This year the creative stimulus for their explorations was the artistic, intellectual, and thematic preoccupations of the Great War era. The challenge for the students was both finding a response to this historical period that speaks to the depth and complexity of this time and making a contemporary piece of art that is relevant for today’s audience.
Please join us for an evening of stimulating original performance work.
The Performance Hub, University of Wolverhampton, Walsall Campus
Magdalene Rd
WS1 Walsall
United Kingdom
3pm Thursday 22 January – Invited Dress Rehearsal
7:30pm Thursday 22 January – Performance
7:30pm Friday 23 January – Performance
Tickets available at: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-to-remember-the-great-war-tickets-15005734556?aff=eac2
For further information please contact: Karen Wood Karen.Wood@wlv.ac.uk or Victoria Thoms vickithoms@wlv.ac.uk
Further particulars: publicity choreolab 2015