Category Archives: CFP

CfP: Cities on the Move: Turkey and Yugoslavia in the Interwar Period

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Third Balkan Visual Meeting, 14-16 September 2017, University of Basel

Yugoslavia and Turkey are two nation states which emerged at the end of World War I on the remains of the Ottoman (and in case of Yugoslavia, partly of the Habsburg) Empire. One was a monarchy formed at the Versailles Peace Conference in 1918, with the former King of Serbia becoming the King of a ‘three-named nation’ of South-Slavs. The other, under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was forged under the conviction that the Ottomanist policy of the last Sultans had failed and that the Anatolian ‘heart’ of the former empire was therefore to become exclusively Turk. The founding of the two new states triggered a dynamic development especially in the large cities, where the new regimes first implemented their nation building projects.

The Third Balkan Visual Meeting (14-16 September 2017, University of Basel) will look at these developments from a visual approach and explore how urban landscapes and everyday life in these cities changed under the new national order, addressing the following issues:

1. The city centre as a showcase of progress and modernity
2. The old çarşı/čaršija between neglect, nostalgia, and reform
3. Nationalist ‘Zeitgeist’: Nation and Body in the city
4. From subject to citizen: Gender, body and dress
5. Leisure and holidays
6. Workers and poverty relief
7. Art and Urban Planning
8. The ruler in the city: Progress, Repression, Neglect?

The main focus is on the cities which are under investigation in the ongoing Basel SIBA project: Sarajevo, Istanbul, Belgrade, Ankara, but also other cases are welcome. The SIBA project explores the cities named above through the photographic lens of local press reporters and press reports in large daily newspapers such as ‘Politika’, ‘Vreme’, ‘Cumhuriyet’ and ‘Akşam’ (see https://nahoststudien.unibas.ch/en/research/siba/).

Please submit your paper proposal, including name and affiliation, paper title, an abstract of up to 300 words and a short academic bio, to Yorick Tanner (yorick.tanner@unibas.ch) by 26 February 2017. Successful applicants will be notified by 12 March 2017. We plan to publish a selection of papers in an edited volume on the visual history of the Balkans and Anatolia.

CfP: European Academy of Religion 2017, Ex Nihilo Zero Conference

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Bologna, Sunday June 18–Wednesday June 21, 2017

The purpose of the conference—which will precede the first Convention to be held in March 2018—is to test the initiative of a European Academy of Religion as a research platform and as a network of networks. Fscire will host the conference and be in charge of all its organizational aspects.

The Scientific Program
All the academies and associations, departments and research centers, scientific journals and publishers working in the vast area of EU and Mena Countries as well as the Balkans, Caucasus, and Russia who are willing to participate in this conference are kindly asked to submit proposals for panels and disputationes by February 24, 2017.

Scholars and groups of scholars are invited to present individual papers or panels. Societies or groups who want to hold their own meetings and conferences during the “Zero Conference” are also welcome.

Proposal templates are available in the Download Area at www.europeanacademyofreligion.org and should be sent to eu_are2017@fscire.it.

Further information here: eu_are2017_Call for proposals

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.

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

CfP: Rethinking the World Order: International law and international relations at the end of the First World War

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The horrors of the Great War and the desire for peace shaped scholarship in International Law and International Relations (IR) during the late 1910s—a stimulating time for both disciplines. Scholars observed and analysed political events as they unfolded but also took an active part, as governmental advisors or diplomatic officials, in devising the new international order. The Paris Peace Conference and the subsequent birth of the League of Nations as well as the Permanent Court of International Justice served as testing grounds for new legal and political concepts. The end of the First World War was in many ways a milestone for both disciplines, prompting scholars to reflect on the consequences of the war on society, politics, and the world economy. How could another world war be avoided in the future? How could states be held accountable for violations of international law? What were the preconditions for peaceful international governance? These questions led to pioneering research on issues such as arbitration, sanctions, revision of treaties, supra-national governance, disarmament, self-determination, migration, and the protection of minorities. At the same time, the study of International Law and IR also advanced in terms of methodology and teaching, including new professorships, journals, conferences and research centres.

A century later, it is a good moment to reflect upon disciplinary histories and revisit some of the theoretical and practical debates that shaped the period from 1914 to 1945. The workshop conveners are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in the following research questions:

Was the First World War a watershed moment for the development of International Law and IR?
Which were the key debates in both disciplines? And how can they be re-interpreted today?
What were the connections and/or dividing lines between the two disciplines?
Did International Law and IR evolve similarly across different countries?
Who were the principle actors, both individuals and institutions, in the respective fields?
Which role did International Law and IR respectively play in shaping ‘real-world’ policy? And to what extent were theoretical developments shaped by political events?
How did ideas float between academia and politics?
How successful were non-governmental organisations—such as academic societies, arbitration clubs, political pressure groups, League of Nations clubs, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), etc.—in achieving their goals?

The two-day interdisciplinary workshop will be held at the European Studies Centre (ESC) at St Antony’s College, Oxford, from 31 August to 1 September 2017. We invite abstracts from early career researchers and advanced postgraduate students in history, law, IR and other related disciplines to share their research in a multi-disciplinary environment. By facilitating this exchange we hope to open new avenues of research and to encourage new approaches to the history of both disciplines. We are planning to have six panels, one keynote address, and an open plenary session that allows all participants to pitch their research projects.

Please submit your proposal (including a title, 300 words abstract, and a short bio) to jan.stoeckmann@new.ox.ac.uk by 31 March 2017. Successful applicants will be notified by 30 April 2017. We are currently working on logistical details, including reimbursements and publication plans, and will keep you updated.

Further information and downloadable CfP here.