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Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 2022
The International Society for First World War Studies is delighted to announce that the 2022 Dennis Showalter Public Lecture for an Emerging Scholar is now open for nominations. The deadline for nominations are 1 May. We urge members to consider their outstanding emerging colleagues for nominations. Full details on the award and how to nominate can be found at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QX98Oi-D1ImJNR20FcyCFEkLief_ZquSQ_6T2TCyj_4/edit
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Jeffrey Grey and Elizabeth Greenhalgh Awards 2022
The International Society for First World War Studies is delighted to announce that the 2022 Jeffrey Grey Award for Postgraduate or Early-Career Research Mobility is now open for applications, and that the Elizabeth Greenhalgh Award for Outstanding Emerging Female Scholar in First World War Studies is now open for nominations. Deadlines for all applications and nominations are 1 May. We...
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Dr Elizabeth Greenhalgh (Liz)
An Appreciation by Professor Robin Prior
I was sitting in my office at ADFA in 1992 or 1993 hard at work marking papers or reflecting on whether the military could be used to forcibly expel those members of the School of Economics who were not members of the Union (all of them) when I heard a voice say: ‘You don’t say...
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Grants and Awards
Elizabeth Greenhalgh Award for outstanding emerging female scholars Jeffrey Grey Research Mobility Award Dennis Showalter Lecture for an outstanding emerging scholar
Grants for events and conferences.
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Dennis Showalter
Society members will no doubt by now be aware of the death of Professor Dennis Showalter on 30th December, 2019. Dennis was a pillar of the International Society to the end. A long-standing and active member, he was a member of the Board of Directors for many years, helping to support and guide the Society. The most generous of mentors,...
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A reply to Elizabeth Greenhalgh: An Appreciation
by Craig Gibson
I met Elizabeth at the 2002 SFHS conference in Toronto, where I also met yourself and Bob Young for the first time. I felt privileged to have presented alongside her, as I’m sure our co-panelist Robert Hanks did too.
We obviously were both interested in Anglo-French relations during the Great War, though approached the topic from what could only...
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Elizabeth Greenhalgh: An Appreciation
by Dr Chris Kempshall
I suspect that I was not alone in feeling both shocked and deeply saddened recently at the news that Elizabeth Greenhalgh had passed away. Similarly I was not alone in immediately thinking of her family and her friends at this time.
However, as word began to spread over twitter it also became clear how many historians recognised the...
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A new President for the Society
Congratulations to Dr Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds, UK) who was announced as the next President of the International Society for First World War Studies on 6 July 2018.
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Collaborative Bibliography is now available
We’ve made an important new addition to this website today: our collaborative bibliography is now available once more.
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"Encountering the Other in Wartime: The Great War as an intercultural moment?" 7th Society Conference, Paris 26th & 27th September 2013
After very successful conferences in Lyon, Oxford, Dublin, Washington D.C., London, and Innsbruck, the International Society for First World War Studies is pleased to organise its seventh conference in Paris on 26-27 September 2013. The German Historical Institute in Paris, The University of Birmingham (UK), and the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration are supporting this event....
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"Altérités en guerre. La Grande Guerre comme moment interculturel ?" 7e colloque international de la société, Paris 26-27 septembre 2013
Après le succès des rencontres précédentes organisées à Lyon, Oxford, Dublin, Washington, Londres et Innsbruck, la Société Internationale d’Etude de la Grande Guerre tiendra son septième colloque à Paris les 26 et 27 septembre 2013, grâce au soutien de l’Institut Historique Allemand de Paris, de l’Université de Birmingham et de la Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration.
Le thème retenu pour...
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Statement on position in relation to Open Access
A number of leading history journals have produced a joint statement on the open access policy proposed by the UK Government in response to the publication of the Finch report. First World War Studies is among the signatories to this statement.
We, as editors of the History journals listed below, would like to make our views clear in relation to... -
New collaborative bibliography of First World War Studies
We are pleased to announce that the bibliography section of the Society website has been entirely reworked and considerably augmented, combining elements from several existing ressources.
The navigation menu on the right-hand-side of the website...
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Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922: The Centennial Reappraisal
Further to the Centenaries Roundtable at the London Conference, click here to read the call for papers for the project ‘Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922: The Centennial Reappraisal’
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London 2009 Conference Papers Now Online
Papers for the September conference are now available online for registered delegates. You can find them here.
Please note, this page is password protected. If you are having access problems please contact me at michaelfinch[at]firstworldwarstudies[dot]org
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Top Young Historian: Michael S. Neiberg
Congratulations to our friend and Society stalwart, Mike Neiberg, recognized as a Top Young Historian by the History News Network. Read the full story here:
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New publication by society member Alex Watson
Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914–1918
by Alexander Watson, University of Cambridge
Published by Cambridge University Press
Description
An innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which emphasises the strength of societies or military institutions, this study argues that at the heart...
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Apéro 14-18 Seminars, Trinity Term 2008
Details of the summer term Apéro 14-18 Seminars, organised by society members Alisa Miller and James Kitchen are now online and can be found here.
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Post-doctoral Fellowships at TCD/UCD
2 two-year Post-doctoral Fellowships from 1 Sept 2008 – 30 Aug 2010 – for more information click here
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Javier Ponce's paper now available
Javier Ponce’s paper for the Washington conference, ‘Germany and Spain during the First World War: A Difficult Relationship’, is now available in English and may now be accessed by conference delegates here.
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