Category Archives: Events and Conferences

CfP: Visions of War: Experience, Imagination and Predictions of War in the Past and the Present

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Estonian War Museum – General Laidoner Museum calls for papers and panel proposals to a military history conference
Visions of War: Experience, Imagination and Predictions of War in the Past and the Present
Tallinn, 19-20 April 2016

This year’s history conference at the Estonian War Museum will discuss visions of war and predictions of the future in the armed forces, among the security and defence establishment and in society at large. Why have some armed forces been more successful than the others? How should one learn from the past and make accurate predictions? What does it take to innovate successfully? Why should soldiers and security experts learn from civilian visionaries, publicists, writers and even futurologists?

Please send the abstracts of your papers (length up to 4,000 characters) by 29th February 2016 to conference@esm.ee. Panel proposals should include the abstracts of all prospective speakers. We also kindly ask you to send a short, one page CV with an overview of your research so far. The length of presentations will be 20 minutes. The working languages of the conference will be English and Estonian. All the presentations in Estonian will be translated into English and vice versa. Articles based on the presentations will be published in the Estonian Yearbook of Military History in 2017. The Estonian War Museum will cover the travel and accommodation costs of speakers.

Further information here.

Conference: The Great War in the Middle East 1911-1923, 20-21 April 2016

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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

This major international conference, organised jointly by the War Studies Department of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford, will re-examine the origins, conduct and consequences of the First World War in the Middle East. The voluminous historiography of the conflict remains, however, focused on the European experience of 1914-18. This conference brings together historians of the Middle East and the First World War to discuss this formative event and to relate the Great War to the broader period of conflict that affected the Ottoman Empire from 1911 to 1923.

The fee for attending the conference is £200; accommodation and dinners can also be booked as optional extras. If you wish to attend please email Dr James Kitchen for a copy of the conference information pack, booking form and the security form: james.kitchen101@mod.uk

Further information and programme: GWME Advert

The bells of hell: trench songs of the First World War

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The bells of hell: trench songs of the First World War

Stephen Sedley with Les Green and Dick Wolff

Friday 12 February 2016, 5.0 p.m.
Mansfield College Lecture Theatre

Stephen Sedley, an honorary fellow of Mansfield College and retired Lord Justice of Appeal, became interested in British trench songs in the 1960s, when he was able to record the recollections of a number of veterans. He has recently returned to these, and to printed sources, to compile this presentation, first given to the History Faculty in March 2015. With the vocal help of Les Green, Professor of Law,  and the instrumental accompaniment of Mansfield alumnus Dick Wolff (of the Three Pressed Men), he will describe and discuss the remarkable body of insubordinate and humorous song with which the troops faced hardship and death.

Summer School: The Face of First World War Battlefields and Battles

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Summer School for Graduate students: June 26th to July 2nd 2016, Péronne & Verdun

With financial support from the Conseil départemental de la Somme, the Mission du Centenaire 14-18, and the Office franco-allemand pour la jeunesse.

The International Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, with its partners at the EHESS Paris, the Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, Potsdam and the Université de Picardie Jules Vernes invites applications for its summer school in Verdun and Péronne for graduate students working on the First World War or modern conflicts more generally.

Applications (in English or French) consisting of a 1-page summary of the candidate’s field of research [or: “research interests”] and a 1-page academic CV must be received before midnight on 15th February 2016 online: http://batailles2016.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en

Further information: CFP-batailles-Historial

History of War seminar series, Hilary Term 2016

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All events take place on Wednesdays 5.15, Wharton Room, All Souls College
Except the meeting on 17 February at 2.30, Wharton Room, All Souls College

All welcome!

Week 1 – 20 January
Robert Johnson (Oxford) – The Great War in the Middle East: A Strategic Perspective

Week 4 – 10 February
Frederick C. Schneid (High Point, NC) – Imperial Identities at War: the Battle of Solferino

Week 5 – 17 February (NB 2.30pm, Wharton Room, All Souls College)
Brian McAllister Linn (Texas A&M University) – The American Way of War

Week 6 – 24 February
Yasmin Khan (Oxford) – The Raj at War: India 1939-45

Week 8 – 9 March
Nick Stargardt (Oxford) – The Perils of Patriotism: What were Germans fighting for in World War II?

Convenors
Erica.charters@history.ox.ac.uk
Adrian.gregory@history.ox.ac.uk
Peter.wilson@history.ox.ac.uk

Seminar: Protectionism, the Ottawa accords, and British interwar trade: some preliminary findings

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Oxford Centre for Global History: Seminar

Global and Imperial History Seminar
Week 8: Fri 4 December, 5pm – Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George St

Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford), ‘Protectionism, the Ottawa accords, and British interwar trade: some preliminary findings’

Followed by drinks 6.30-8pm in the Common Room. All welcome.

Talk: Military Occupation, International Law, and the End of the 19th Century Conception of War

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The Long Nineteenth Century Graduate Seminar

30 November 2015, 11:10 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2015)
MacGregor Room, Oriel College

Speaker: Jonathan Gumz (Department of History, University of Birmingham)

Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only