CfP: “100 Years after WWI: Local to Global Impact of an International War”

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University of South Carolina Upstate, April 6-7, 2017

As part of its five year commemoration of the centennial of World War I, the University of South Carolina Upstate is hosting an international and interdisciplinary conference on April 6-7, 2017, the anniversary of the United States’ entrance into the war. We seek papers and panels that will examine international aspects of the war, with particular attention to regions of the world and features of the war that are underrepresented. Topics to be explored include military and geopolitical ramifications, colonial experiences, changes in medicine, education, arts, literature, science and economics, and examinations of the roles of and impact on women, African Americans, immigrants and other distinctive population groups.

Keynote address to be delivered by Dr. Jennifer Keene, Professor and Chair of the History Department, Chapman University, CA.

All submissions should be submitted by December 1, 2016 to this website:
https://sp.uscupstate.edu/_layouts/15/WW1Symposium/CallForPapers.aspx

Presenters will be notified by December 20, 2016.

If you have any questions, please contact
Dr. Catherine Canino: ccanino@uscupstate.edu and/or
Dr. Araceli Hernández-Laroche: ahernandez-laroche@uscupstate.edu

Individual Submissions should include:
A 250-500 word abstract and title
A brief curriculum vitae (2 pages)
Full contact information including mail, email, and phone/fax numbers.

Panel submissions are encouraged. Please include the info above for a panel of at least three presenters.

Conference Website: http://www.uscupstate.edu/wwi/
Conference Hashtag: #USCUpstateWWI

USC Upstate World War I Symposium Committee
Dr. Catherine Canino (Professor of English, Director of Honors Program) ccanino@uscupstate.edu
Dr. Araceli Hernández-Laroche (Assistant Professor of French, Assistant Chair of Languages, Literature, and Composition) ahernandez-laroche@uscupstate.edu
Dr. Frieda Davison (Dean of Library) fdavison@uscupstate.edu
Dr. Rob McCormick (Professor of History, Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences) rmccormick@uscupstate.edu
Dr. Dirk Schlingmann (Professor of Mathematics, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences) dschlingmann@uscupstate.edu

Tenure-Track Position: History, Harvard Business School

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Harvard Business School is seeking candidates with a Ph.D. in history for a tenure-track position in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. We are especially looking for candidates whose historical research focuses on one or more of the following areas: history of capitalism, public policy, democratic governance, economic development, and/or political economy – preferably in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Policy areas that are of particular interest include regulation, macroeconomic policy, education policy, environmental policy, social welfare policy, national security, infrastructure, energy, international commerce, and innovation. Candidates may come directly from Ph.D. programs or from the faculties of other universities. The appointment will begin on July 1, 2017.

Requirements
All applicants should have excellent academic credentials and a demonstrated potential for conducting outstanding research. The School is particularly interested in applicants with interdisciplinary interests and a strong record of, or potential for, excellence in teaching. Successful candidates will, at the outset, teach a required first-year MBA course on the economic, political, and social environment of business. Starting salaries will be highly competitive.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Application Deadline
Applications must be received no later than November 7, 2016.

Application Materials
Applications should include curriculum vitae, description of research-in-progress, published articles or working papers, dissertation chapters or other writing samples, statement of teaching interests and, if applicable, teaching evaluations. In addition, three letters of recommendation are required, which should be submitted online directly to the School by the referees.

Apply online. Candidates should select the job title option “Tenure-Track Position: History” when choosing a position on the application. The application can be accessed here: http://www.hbs.edu/research/faculty-recruiting

Material that can only be sent in hard copy can be sent to:
Harvard Business School, Faculty Administration, Attn: BGIE Unit Application, Morgan Hall T25, Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA 02163

CfP: Beyond 1917: Socialism, Power and Social Change

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We invite proposals for an academic conference to be held May 13-14, 2017 at Oxford University, United Kingdom, addressing the following themes:

With the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, socialism attained state power for the first time in history. After more than a century or theorizing socialism as an alternative social order, as a paradigm of social critique, and as an ideal crowning a broad political constellation aimed at ‘forging democracy’ (G. Eley), Lenin’s seizure of power marked a contentious landmark. Among others, the parliamentary social democratic parties of central and northwestern Europe disputed the Bolshevik claim on the intellectual heritage of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as well as their promise to fuse theory and practice in the pursuit of ‘real’ social change. This conference takes this epochal and controversial moment as its starting point to consider the various attempts to combine socialism and power, in the widest sense of both words. It invites papers from diverse disciplines (history, politics, sociology, philosophy, cultural and media studies, etc.) that address efforts to empower socialism by intellectual, emotional, cultural, political and violent means in the twentieth century.

1917 was a European and global event that reconfigured the possibilities for social change in large part by reconceptualizing the relationship between socialism and power. The new questions and challenges raised by this conjuncture were answered in different places in strikingly different ways, from the USSR to the ‘Nordic Model’ to the movements of the Global South and the postwar New Left to the Chinese way to socialism. Power featured differently in these and other programs for a socialist society. Taking critical stock of these blueprints and visions and how they wrestled with the rupture of 1917 is one of the primary aims of this conference. Conversely, papers might consider the potentialities for such a rupture that predated 1917. Contributions may approach power from the perspective of political and/or military dominance, cultural capital or hegemony, theoretical interventions, gender and racial hierarchies, emotional regimes, or dominant myths, memories, and remembrances — to name a few possible frameworks. We especially invite papers that are comparative, transnational, or global in scope clustered around the four themes of 1) socialist visions of power, 2) socialism and power, 3) socialism in power, 4) legacies of power.

Please send an abstract of 300 words with a short CV to the organizers by October 15, 2016 to: jakub.benes@history.ox.ac.uk.

We expect to have limited funds available to cover travel and accommodation costs. The conference will involve around 15 speakers.

Contact Info:
Jakub Beneš, Oxford University, jakub.benes@history.ox.ac.uk.
Christina Morina, German Studies Institute, University of Amsterdam, c.morina@uva.nl

‘Unknown Stories of the Great War’, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, 17 Sept. 2016

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To coincide with the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme (1 July-18 November 1916), Oxfordshire families are urged to bring First World War photographs, letters, diaries and objects to tell their stories at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock on Saturday 17th September between 10am and 4.30pm.

Experts from the Soldiers of Oxford­shire Museum, the Western Front Association and other organisations will be on hand to talk to visitors about the significance of their memorabilia and to help them find out more.

Living historians will be giving demonstrations and there will be displays, activities for children, support for researching a soldier and refreshments available.

This event is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Entry to the museum will be free on the day, though donations would be appreciated.

The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Park Street
Woodstock
OX20 1SN
T: 01993 810 210

Download poster of the event: Unknown Stories of the Great War

Blog: New Perspectives: Thiepval Memorial Museum, France

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Hanna Smyth, who is completing her DPhil on the relationship between Commonwealth War Graves Commission sites and identity, recently contributed to the Museum of Oxford‘s blog as part of the Young Innovators group. Her article on Thiepval Memorial Museum can be found here.

Blog: What was the Imperial War Graves Commission?

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Hanna Smyth, who is completing her DPhil on the relationship between Commonwealth War Graves Commission sites and identity, recently contributed to the Trusted Source project, which is a National Trust-TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) collaboration. Her article on Kipling and the IWGC (Imperial War Graves Commission) can be found here.

Fraenkel Prize Lecture: Hello to All That: Catholicism in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the First World War

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The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
Wednesday 14 September 2016, 6:30pm – 8pm

Offering a more nuanced approach to religious belief during the Great War, Patrick J. Houlihan‘s talk shares research from his book analyzing the lived religion of everyday Catholic belief beyond stark dichotomies. Houlihan’s book, Catholicism and the Great War, which received the Fraenkel Prize in 2015, illuminates the spectrum of belief and unbelief during the Great War, thus revising master narratives of secularization and modernism that dominate the First World War’s cultural history. This book highlights the comparative relevance for the trajectories of Central Europe’s Protestants, Catholics, and Jews into the cataclysm of the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Catholicism and the Great War

Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan is Research Fellow in History at the University of Oxford. He received his PhD in History from the University of Chicago in 2011. Since 2016, he is a member of Oxford’s “Globalising and Localising the Great War” project, particularly its focus on Global Religions, which has received major multi-year funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom. His publications include Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), the manuscript of which was awarded in 2015 the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Wiener Library.

Admission is free but booking is advised as space is limited. Please visit our What’s On page to reserve your ticket

Contact Info:
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
29 Russell Square
London
WC1B 5DP
www.wienerlibrary.co.uk