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CfP: Cultures of War in Graphic Novels

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War has long been a central issue in graphic novels. Based on real wars, conflicts, and rebellions, graphic novels by such emerging or already established authors as David Axe, Garth Ennis, Archie Goodwin, Larry Hama, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Doug Murray, George Pratt, Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, and Art Spiegelman tackle the issue of war, placing various war-related complexities at the heart of narration: from ethical questions, to problems of psychological and moral hardships, to political ambivalence, and beyond. A popular medium and powerful cultural agent, the graphic war-novel has, thus, served scholars as a tool to explore war as part of human experience.

Please send a 250-500 word abstract and a short biographical note (up to 100 words), including contact information to Nimrod Tal (talnimrod@gmail.com) and Tatiana Prorokova (tatiana.prorokova@gmx.de) by February 1, 2016.

The selected contributors will be notified about the acceptance of their proposals by March 1, 2016. Full articles between 5,000-7,000 words in length should be submitted by September 1, 2016.

Further information here.

CFP: War and Culture, February 10-13, 2016, Albuquerque

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“WAR AND CULTURE”
37th Annual Conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center on February 10-13, 2016 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The chair for the “War and Culture” area at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites all interested scholars to submit papers on any aspect of the intersection of war and culture in literature, film, television, comics, and digital media; on cultural aspects of representation, mobilization, and memory in journalism, architecture, music, and painting; on American life and culture during wartime, etc. Especially encouraged are submissions on the culture of war protest, on conscientious objectors, deserters, and anti-war activism.

Please submit abstracts and panel proposals at: http://conference2016.southwestpca.org/

If you are interested in being a presenter, please create a detailed abstract (300-400 words) for a paper of 15 minutes reading time.

If you want to propose a panel with multiple papers, please put each person’s individual paper abstract on a separate proposal form in the database. Each abstract should also contain information such as panel title, panel chair, etc.

If you are interested organizing and/or in participating in a roundtable event, please contact the area chair with questions and suggestions for topics and presenters.

The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2015.

Further information here.

CFP: ‘Colonialism, War and Photography’, King’s College London

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Colonialism, War & Photography
King’s College, London – 17 September 2015

Part of the HERA research project, ‘Cultural Exchange in Times of Global Conflict: Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War‘, based at King’s College London.

Using the First World War as a focal point, this interdisciplinary one-day workshop aims to examine the complex intersections between war, colonialism and photography. What is the use and influence of (colonial) photography on the practice of history? What is the relationship between its formal and historical aspects? How are the photographs themselves involved in the processes of cultural contact that they record and how do they negotiate structures of power?

Keynote & Discussant: Prof Elizabeth Edwards
Director, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University

Convenors: Dr Santanu Das & Dr Daniel Steinbach
King’s College London

Participants should send abstracts of up to 300 words for a 20-25 minute paper, a short biography, and any enquiries to daniel.steinbach@kcl.ac.uk by 31 July 2015.

Further information: CfP_Colonialism, War & Photography

CFP: The British Commission for Military History

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The British Commission for Military History invites proposals for its annual summer conference on the theme of ‘culture clash’. The conference will be held at the Old Fire Station, Oxford on 11 July 2015. We will be looking at how different cultural understandings of war shaped the conduct of tactics, strategy and operations in a historical context. We welcome papers on any aspect of any conflict in which two or more different cultures came into contact, and where their cultural differences and similarities shaped the conduct of the war. This includes assumptions of superiority or inferiority, differing strategic goals and operational methodology (societies preferring either raiding or persisting strategies, for example), differing concepts of justness and proportionality in war or any other area of warfare that can be shaped by cultural practices and assumptions.

If you would like to present a paper, please send a short proposal (one or two paragraphs) to the conference organiser Jonathan Krause by 22 May 2015.

Lecture: Futurism, Fascism, and the Art of War

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Futurism, Fascism, and the Art of War
Michael Subialka, Powys Roberts Research Fellow in European Literature
St Hugh’s College, Oxford

29 April 2015, 5 pm, Taylor Institution Library, St Giles’, Oxford

The Italian entry into World War I was rooted in a complex mix of secret diplomacy, longstanding nationalist sentiments, and popular cultural provocation. One of the features of that mix is that it made for strange bedfellows and stranger combinations of beliefs even within single groups or movements. The Italian Futurists are no exception, and their years of provocation on behalf of intervention against Austria-Hungary (and in Africa) can be traced to a series of conflicting impulses that emerge out of the 19th century. In their thought, the basic irredentist cause of “completing” the Risorgimento’s unification of Italy is combined with the 19th-century discourse on vitalism, Darwinian visions of race theory and natural selection, and also an impulse toward the abstract, mysterious, and metaphysical, transposed from the realm of religion to human action and artistic creation. This blend of impulses makes the Futurist provocation emblematic both of the late 19th century and of the coming era of Fascism. It is in this light that we should approach the shift of alliances achieved by the Patto di Londra (Treaty of London), signed secretly 26 April 1915, nearly a month before Italy’s entry into the war.

All welcome. Lecture followed by Futurist book display and reception.

Poster: 2015-03-FuturismFascismAndTheArtOfWar-Poster-1

CFP: War, Violence, Aftermaths: Europe and the Wider World

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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

BBC News – Viewpoint: Why God was not killed by the Great War

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It’s a popular belief that the slaughter of World War One led millions to turn away from religion. But that’s not true, writes author Frank Cottrell Boyce.

For the full article, see here.

One of our research clusters is Global War and World Religions. If you are interesting in carrying out research in this area, then see here. We have a number of academics who are working on religion and the war, including Dr. Adrian Gregory, Prof. Derek Penslar and Dr. Karma Nabulsi. Please contact them directly to discuss your research interests and see here for more information on applying to the University of Oxford with your doctoral proposal.