Graduate Scholarships at Oxford Colleges

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There are a number of bursaries currently available at Oxford colleges:

1. T.E.Lawrence bursaries. £5,000. For the study of the History of the Middle East. Funded by All Souls College, but can be held at any Oxford college.

2. Colin Lucas Graduate Studentship. £ 5,000. For the study of French history at Balliol College.

3. Vincent Packard and Geoffrey Smart. Fully funded doctorate at Kellogg College for citizens of the EEA or Switzerland.

4. Winston Churchill Scholarship at Exeter College: Pays College Fee and Maintenance but not University Tuition Fee. For students ‘normally resident in the USA’, working on a topic related to the ‘period and policies of Winston Churchill’. (NB: Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty and Minister of Munitions during the First World War and Secretary of State for war from Jan 1919 and Colonial Secretary from 1920…)

In addition to these, there are also the ‘open’ calls of Ertegun, AHRC and Clarendon awards

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

CFP: How to write the Great War? Francophone and Anglophone poetics through the war and its aftermath

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This international conference will take place from 1st-2nd May 2015, at Magdalen College / Maison Française d’Oxford.

Submissions particularly welcome from early career researchers and doctoral students working on the Anglophone literature of the First World War

Deadline: 10 February 2015

For more information, download the bilingual CFP: Appel à contributions bilingue colloque MFO

Job vacancy: Senior Communications and Engagement Adviser – First World War Centenary Programme

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The First World War Centenary Programme has been established by the New Zealand government to mark the First World War centenary through a range of national and community commemorations and activities from 2014 to 2019.

Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, Wellington, New Zealand has a vacancy for a Senior Communications and Engagement Adviser First World War Centenary Programme.

Full time – Fixed term or Secondment for a period of nine months

Applications close 5pm Wednesday 14 January (NZ time)

Further information here.

Dancing to Remember the Great War, University of Wolverhampton

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The second year Dance degree module, Choreolab, gives students the chance to explore the intersection of live dance performance and film. This year the creative stimulus for their explorations was the artistic, intellectual, and thematic preoccupations of the Great War era. The challenge for the students was both finding a response to this historical period that speaks to the depth and complexity of this time and making a contemporary piece of art that is relevant for today’s audience.
Please join us for an evening of stimulating original performance work.

The Performance Hub, University of Wolverhampton, Walsall Campus
Magdalene Rd
WS1 Walsall
United Kingdom

3pm Thursday 22 January – Invited Dress Rehearsal
7:30pm Thursday 22 January – Performance
7:30pm Friday 23 January – Performance

Tickets available at: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dancing-to-remember-the-great-war-tickets-15005734556?aff=eac2
For further information please contact: Karen Wood Karen.Wood@wlv.ac.uk or Victoria Thoms vickithoms@wlv.ac.uk
Further particulars: publicity choreolab 2015

Bennett Boskey Fellowship in Extra-European History since 1500, Exeter College, Oxford

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Applications are invited for this fixed-term (up to 3 years duration) postdoctoral Fellowship in History at Exeter College. This post is made possible through the generosity of Mr Bennett M. Boskey. The Fellow, who will be a member of the College’s Governing Body, will be required to teach undergraduates, to conduct research of international standing, and to contribute fully to the running of History in the College.

For further information, download the particulars here: Boskey_History_FPs_(final)

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GLGW Graduate Conference – Call for Papers

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Globalising and Localising the Great War Conference, 20 March 2015

Call for Papers:

Globalising and Localising the Great War is a project based at the University of Oxford which aims to bring together scholars who are working on the War from a variety of different perspectives. Its fundamental objective is to ensure that the commemoration of the War produces ground-breaking new research and fresh insights that challenge, rather than confirm, our often clichéd perspectives on an event that shaped – and continues to shape – our world. It is fundamentally interdisciplinary in its methodology and aims to encourage scholars from different fields and backgrounds to broaden their approaches to writing histories of the First World War.

Within this context we invite submissions on a broad range of topics and backgrounds with the aim of providing a conference that is similarly broad and interdisciplinary in its scope and content. All papers relevant to the First World War are welcomed, but we would encourage applications in particular which focus on the following approaches:

  • global/transnational
  • cultural
  • military
  • political/legal
  • social
  • economic

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 30th January 2015.

Conference poster: Globalising and Localising Poster CFP