Category Archives: Events and Conferences

RAI Book Launch: Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin

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23 November, 17:00-18:30

Rothermere American Institute book launch and wine reception

Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Nottingham)
Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin

Details about her book here.

For self-made artist and soldier Horace Pippin — His ability to transform combat service into canvases of emotive power, psychological depth, and realism showed not only how he viewed the world but also his mastery as a painter. In Suffering and Sunset, Celeste-Marie Bernier painstakingly traces Pippin’s life story of art as a life story of war.

Illustrated with more than sixty photographs, including works in various mediums—many in full color—this is the first intellectual history and cultural biography of Pippin, a pioneering African American artist who served in the 369th all-black infantry in World War I until he was wounded. The war defined much of his life and work. The Great War, Pippin wrote, ‘brought out all the art in me.’ Working from newly discovered archives and unpublished materials, Bernier provides an in-depth investigation into the artist’s development of an alternative visual and textual lexicon and sheds light on his work in its aesthetic, social, and political contexts.

Celeste-Marie Bernier was a Visiting Professor in Oxford in 2013 at the RAI and at Wolfson.​ ​S​he has since held appointments at Harvard, Memphis and King’s College, London.

Postgraduate workshop: Connecting Approaches on the First World War in the Wake of the Centenary

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The programme for the Postgraduate Workshop, Connecting Approaches on the First World War in the Wake of the Centenary, taking place on Monday 7 December from 09.00-18.30, at the Maison française d’ Oxford is now available.

This workshop is generously supported by the Sanderson Fund, Oxford History Faculty, the Maison française d’Oxford and the Observatoire du centenaire de l’université Paris 1.

For the full programme, please see: http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=2042

CfP: New Researchers in Maritime History Conference

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Applications are invited for the twenty-third New Researchers Conference. The conference provides a unique opportunity for emerging scholars to present their work in one of the world’s most important historic maritime settings.

The Conference supports emerging scholars who wish to share their work in a supportive environment and build relations with other maritime historians. We encourage applications from research degree students, the world of museums, and warmly encourage participation by independent scholars. The organisers encourage contributions that address all aspects of the maritime history in its broadest sense.

Those wishing to offer a 20 minute paper should complete the form on the conference website and send it to Dr G H Bennett (h1bennett@plymouth.ac.uk) and Dr Elaine Murphy (Elaine.murphy@plymouth.ac.uk) no later than 14 February 2016.

Further information and proposal form: http://www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-researchers/

CFP: David Jones: Dialogues with the Past

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An International, Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of York, U.K. 21-23 July, 2016.

As 2016 marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme which profoundly shaped David Jones’s imagination and thought, it provides an ideal moment to reconsider the entirety of Jones’s engagement with the many, various, elusive and intertwined ‘pasts’ through which he conceived history and culture. It will be an opportunity to explore Jones’s own style, subject matter, allusive practice and intellectual questions including the role of ‘memory’, ‘inheritance’ and ‘history’ in art and life, while also reflecting upon Jones’s own past and contemporary moment.

We welcome papers from scholars and postgraduates of multiple disciplines, including but not limited to: English, History of Art, History, Philosophy, Theology and any others that may offer relevant perspectives to the study of David Jones.

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to: davidjonesdialogues@gmail.com

The deadline for paper proposals is 31 January, 2016.

Further information: http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/blog/post.php?s=2015-10-27-cfp-david-jones-dialogues-with-the-past
Conference website: http://www.davidjonesdialogues.com/

CfP: GLGW graduate conference, March 2016

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‘Stories, Spaces, and Societies’
Globalising and Localising the Great War Graduate Conference, University of Oxford
17th and 18th March 2016

Call for Papers

Proposals are invited on the theme of ‘Stories, Spaces, and Societies’. Papers falling under the stories category can look to establish new narratives, or revisit our understanding of old tales. Spaces can be real or imagined, and focus on the lived experience of the First World War, both at the front and at home. And papers focussing on societies should take the opportunity to adopt local, national, transnational, or global approaches, seeking to enhance our understandings of how societies were disrupted by the war, and how they interacted with each other to shape experiences of the conflict. Naturally some crossover will occur, and any paper that touches on one or more of these broad themes is invited. When submitting proposals for consideration, it would be helpful to indicate which broad area you anticipate your paper would cover, as well as the field in which you study.

Papers should be designed to be approximately 20 minutes in length. We particularly invite submissions from postgraduate students and early career researchers.

To apply, please send a 200 word abstract with your approach in the subject line to glgw.gradconference@history.ox.ac.uk by Friday 18 December 2015.

CFP: Connected Histories, Mirrored Empires British and French Imperialism from the 17th through 20th centuries

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How were the British and French empires formed in relation, contrast or in spite of the other? How was each complicit in shaping the other—as opponent, ally, or frère ennemi? How were they connected? This conference encourages historians to conceive of the French and British empires together, as each empire endured as a point of reference and connection for the other. This conference addresses connections and shared experiences of the French and English/British empires from their emergence in the early modern period through decolonization.

Venue: University of Hong Kong, 27-29 May 2016

Proposals are invited for individual papers of about 20 minutes, and for panels including three such papers. Address questions to James Fichter at britfran@hku.hk.

To apply, send abstract of 200 words (maximum) and one-page c.v. by 1 December 2015 to britfran@hku.hk

Further information here.

CFP: Russia as a Field of Experiment? Scientific, Technological and Financial Investments and the Interaction of European Countries in the Russian Empire in the Decades before World War I

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For historians, the scientific, technological and financial investments and the interactions of European countries in the Russian Empire are an ideal field for the investigation of historical processes of transfer. Parallel to the military alliances formed before the First World War (Triple Alliance, Franco-Russian Alliance, and Triple Entente) the decades before 1914 were marked by vivid and rich scientific and economic contacts between the Russian Empire, the other European powers, and the United States of America. In the course of time the latter invested in the Russian Empire and transferred their know-how and capital. At the same time they increased their knowledge about this more or less unexplored country and expanded their influence in many aspects. Also Russia benefited from these ideological, scientific and economic interventions, such as in the fields of infrastructure or the professionalization of the sciences. In any case there was a mutual transfer.

Organizers: Kerstin S. Jobst (University of Vienna / Institute for East European History), Francine-Dominique Liechtenhan (Centre Roland Mousnier, Université Paris-Sorbonne)

Meeting dates: 9th-10th of June 2016
Place: Paris, Fondation Singer-Poligniac
Conference languages: French and English.

Deadline: 20 December 2015

Please send an abstract (max. 2000 characters incl. spaces) and a short CV in English or French to both organizers:
Kerstin Susanne Jobst : kerstin.susanne.jobst@univie.ac.at
F.-D. Liechtenhan : francine-dominique.liechtenhan@paris-sorbonne.fr

The conference will take place after the necessary funding has been received.

Further information here.