Tag Archives: First World War

CfP: The Cadorna’s War 1915-1917

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Trieste, Italy, October 2016

The General Staff of the Italian Army, the Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism – Directorate General Fine Arts and Landscape, the University of Trieste, the Institute of Political Studies “San Pio V” in Rome and the Institute for the History of Liberal Thought are organizing an international study meeting on “The Cadorna’s War 1915-1917” that will take place in Trieste in October 2016. The meeting will be divided into three panels: political, military and international relations. The aim of the meeting is a critical review of the period from 1915 to 1917, where Italy was involved in his offensive war, led by General Cadorna, against the Central Powers. The main themes on which to focus in proposing papers are:

The political panel will cover the analysis of sequences of governments to the crisis Cabinet Boselli, the leading political forces and factions, the issues of economic and financial, the industrial mobilization and patriotic mobilization and civil.

The military panel will address the following points: management of the war and its aims; the main battles and offensive; the specialties of the army and used in line with the evolution of the technological needs of war; the role of the navy and air force; military justice; discipline and personnel management; war Italian outside of Italy.

The panel will focus on diplomatic international relations with a focus on the following themes: political relations and military allies; the entry in war of the United States and countries of the Danubian and Balkan; the February Revolution in Russia; the inter-Allied command; Italian diplomacy and the purpose of the war; Gjirokastra; the Conference of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne; the declaration of war on Germany; the Masonic Congress in Paris.

These theme topics should be treated in all their complexity, avoiding excessive specialization in the papers.

Those interested in attending the meeting, please send paper proposals of no more than 300 words, with a short biography, to the following e-mail addresses by 30 June 2016: italianeutrale1914@gmail.com

Italian, English and French are the languages of the meeting.

Contact: Andrea Ungari (aungari@luiss.it; a.ungari@unimarconi.it)

Vacancy: Research Associate (The First World War and Global Religions: Islam)

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History Faculty, George Street, Oxford
Grade 7: £30,738 p.a.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the first major research project investigating the role of religion during the First World War. The AHRC-funded project is based at the History Faculty, and will build on Oxford’s ‘Globalizing and Localizing the Great War’ research network. The project team will work together to produce a genuinely transnational history of religion, incorporating both the impact of the war on religious ideas and a consideration of how the war influenced (and was influenced by) the beliefs and practices of millions of people from a range of religious traditions.

We are seeking a talented and enthusiastic individual to carry out research on some aspect of Islam in the era of the Great War; s/he will also publish and publicise the work, provide guidance to junior members of the group and work with the group to disseminate the findings within and beyond academia.

The appointee will hold a relevant doctorate, or show evidence that a doctorate is imminently expected, and have excellent oral and written communication skills, including fluency in relevant languages; experience of successful academic collaborations would be an advantage.

The appointment is fixed-term for 3 years, with a flexible start date (to fall between April and October 2016). This post will report to Dr Faisal Devji: for an informal discussion about the role, please email: faisal.devji@history.ox.ac.uk.

To apply for this role and for further details, including the job description and selection criteria, please see here.

The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon on Wednesday 16 March 2016.

CFP (deadline postponed) – The First World War from Tripoli to Mogadishu (1911-1924)

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“How, because of two wild beasts the world was set alight”

International conference – Addis Ababa University – Sep. 30 – Aug. 1, 2016

Call for abstracts. Attention! Deadline postponed to February 12, 2016.

The idea that WWI has been a global conflict is commonly accepted by the scholarly community and it constitutes a real leitmotif of the most recent literature on this topic. As a consequence of this development, a number of scholars has started investigating the impact of WWI on Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and even Latin America.

Indeed, the Great War, as it is otherwise called, deserves to be remembered not just by the nations of Europe but also by the peoples of the rest of the world whose destinies were shaped by it or because of it. This includes the Middle Eastern countries and a number of German colonies in Africa. Historians have studied the course of the war in these parts and have established how much price was paid and what the enduring legacies were. The effects of the war on the countries of Northeast Africa has not been studied with as much depth. Nevertheless, the available documentation clearly reveals that the First World War indeed had an impact on the history of the region.

Applicants are encouraged to submit original work on the conference themes. To apply, please, send 500 words proposal for 20 minutes papers, inclusive of: paper title, a clear description of sources and methodology that will be used in the paper, and institutional affiliation. To the proposal should also be attached an academic CV.

Proposals must be sent to the following address: secretariat.scientifique@cfee.cnrs.fr, no later than February 12 2016.

Further information here.

Launched Online Exhibition for research project “Making War, Mapping Europe: Militarized Cultural Encounters, 1792-1920”

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Historians at the Freie Universität Berlin have launched a virtual exhibition about intercultural contacts within military and war contexts under the following link:

http://www.mwme.eu/exhibition/index.html

In six thematic sections, the online exhibition “Making War, Mapping Europe” portrays cultural contacts among soldiers from France, England, and Germany who were stationed at the periphery of Europe and in the Middle East during the “long 19th century.” The anniversaries of the Napoleonic Wars and of the First World War have awakened a broader interest in these events. Therefore, the exhibition is not solely designed for an academic audience, but rather was conceptualized for interested laypeople. Visitors here receive a visual impression of the presence of the Napolonic soldiers in Egypt, Italy, and Russia, as well as German military members’ encounters with the Ottoman Empire and the Balkan region during the First World War. Two further sections of the exhibition are dedicated to Bavarian soldiers in Greece and the British soldiers in Egypt in the 19th century.

The online exhibition arose within the framework of the HERA-funded international research project ‘Making War, Mapping Europe,’ which is led by Professor Dr. Oliver Janz at the Freie Universität Berlin, and which is supported by its members at the Trinity College Dublin and the British universities of Swansea and York.

Further information here.

CfP: Contesting Jewish Loyalties: The First World War and Beyond

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Jewish Museum Berlin, 15-17 December, 2016

International conference organized by:
The Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex
The Centre for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin
The Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg
The Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, University of London
Jewish Museum Berlin

The aim of this conference is to explore the multifaceted question of Jewish loyalties. Starting from the Dreyfus affair, we seek papers that consider the degree to which individual Jews and Jewish communities in Europe, the US and elsewhere engaged with the question of loyalty before, during and after the First World War, in a broad interdisciplinary and transnational context. Papers showing comparative elements in analysing questions of loyalty confronted by other national, religious or ethnic groups are particularly welcome.

Abstracts should be no more than 200 words and be submitted alongside a brief biography (including professional affiliation and contact details) by 26 February 2016.

Further information and contact details 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

Shakespeare and the Great War

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Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war!

The War and Representation Network (WAR-Net) invites paper proposals for a conference on Shakespeare and the Great War to be held at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, on Friday 8 April 2016.

2016 is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. This one-day conference will explore intersections between Shakespeare’s plays and the Great War and reflect on anniversary culture more generally.

Keynote Speakers
Professor Gordon McMullan, King’s College, London
Professor Emma Smith, University of Oxford

Proposals for 20-minute papers should be sent to Kate McLoughlin (kate.mcloughlin@ell.ox.ac.uk) by 31 January 2016. Topics might include (but are not limited to):

Ø  Wartime performances of Shakespeare
Ø  Shakespeare in the Trenches
Ø  Shakespeare on the Home Front
Ø  Global Wartime Shakespeare
Ø  Shakespeare / Nation / Empire
Ø  Ireland, Shakespeare and the Uprising
Ø  Shakespeare and Anzac
Ø  Shakespeare in Translation
Ø  Shakespeare and Propaganda
Ø  Shakespeare and Memorialisation
Ø  Shakespeare and ‘The Enemy’
Ø  Shakespeare and Morale
Ø  Wartime dramaturgy
Ø  Wartime publications relating to Shakespeare
Ø  Anniversary Culture (including commemorations of the 350th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and 300th anniversary of his death)

Please send proposals of up to 350 words and include your academic affiliation and a brief (100-word) biography. Please use ‘Shakespeare and the Great War’ as a subject-line.