NUI Galway is pleased to announce an international history workshop entitled ‘Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I: Europe and the Wider World’ which will take place at the Hardiman Library in NUI Galway on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 June next.
Bringing together younger and established historians of World War One, this conference is open to all and aims to look at the World War I centenary by looking at how the war impacted peoples, like the Irish, who found themselves on the periphery of great powers and empires.
Ranging from Ireland to Australia to Central Asia, the dozen speakers will consider how the war linked ordinary men and women from across the world to the conflict in Europe and across the globe.
A special highlight on Friday afternoon will be the keynote address by the prominent American historian of World War One, Professor Michael A. Neiberg, joining us from the US Army College in Pennsylvania, who will speak on ‘Small Nations inside a Big State: American Immigrant Communities react to War, 1914-17’.
Michael Neiberg is the author of several widely-read books on World War One, including Fighting the Great War: A Global History (2005) and Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of WWI (2011).
All details can be found on http://www.nuigalway.ie/history/
Conference Programme:
Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I: Europe and the Wider World
International Conference
NUI Galway
13-14 June 2014
Venue: The Hardiman Building G010
Generously supported by the Discipline of History, the M.A. in Culture and Colonialism, the School of Humanities, and the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies.
Fri., 13th June
9.00 Welcome and Introduction
9.20-11.00 Panel 1: IRELAND AND THE WIDER IRISH WORLD
Chair: Enrico Dal Lago (NUI Galway)
Conor Morrissey (Trinity College Dublin)
A Minority Voice from the Colonial Periphery: Irish Protestant Nationalists and the Conscription Crisis
Alan Drumm (University College Cork)
The Nationalist Counter-Recruiting Campaigns, 1903-1914
William Buck (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
Ireland’s enemy alien POWs and civilian internees during the First World War
John Cunningham (NUI Galway)
An Anti-War Irish ‘Wobbly’ in Australia
11.00-11.20 Coffee Break
11.20-1.00 Panel 2: NORTH AND CENTRAL EUROPE
Chair: Gearóid Barry (NUI Galway)
Christine Strotmann (Freie University Berlin)
The revolutionary programme of the German Empire: the case of Ireland
Michael Jonas (Helmut-Schmidt University Hamburg)
Neutral Allies, Immoral Pariahs ? Scandinavian Neutrality, International Law and the Great Power Politics in the First World War
Matias Gardin (University of Luxembourg)
Patriotism Contained by Teachers at War: Reflections on Education, Citizenship and National Identity in Luxembourg from 1914 to 1918
Lili Zach (NUI Galway)
“Mosaic without a Pattern”: Irish Catholic Perceptions of Small Nationalities in Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918
1.00-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 Panel 3: EASTERN EUROPE
Chair: Enrico Dal Lago (NUI Galway)
Bozena Cierlik (University College Cork)
“For Your Freedom and Ours”: Polish Military Formation in the First World War
Mariya Romanova (Sorbonne University, Paris)
French and German Colonial Troops in Ukraine in 1918
Steven Balbirnie (University College Dublin)
Small War on a Violent Frontier: Colonial Warfare and British Intervention in Northern Russia, 1918-1919
3.00-4.00 Panel 4: SOUTHERN EUROPE
Chair: Róisín Healy (NUI Galway)
Richard Gow (Trinity College Dublin)
Visions of Grandeur on Europe’s Periphery: Spain and the Great War
Maria Rodriguez Calleja (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Irish and Catalan National Movements within the Context of WWI
4.00-4.30 Coffee Break
4.30-6.00 Keynote Address and Discussion
Michael Neiberg (U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania),
Small Nations Inside a Big State: American Immigrant Communities React to War, 1914-1917
8.00 Conference Dinner
Sat., 14th June
9.00-9.30 Panel 4, Contd.
Florian Grafl (University of Giessen)
“Ara o Mai”: The First World War and its Impact on Catalonia
9.30-11.00 Panel 5: AFRICA
Chair: Kevin O’Sullivan (NUI Galway)
Daniel Rouven Steinbach (University of Exeter)
Allied Troops on German Soil: The Occupation of German East Africa in the First World War
Aude Chanson (Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot)
German East Africa: Local Populations Facing the First World War
Christopher J. Rominger (C.U.N.Y.)
From Tirailleurs to Tramways: Mukhtar al-Ayari and Alternative Voices in Post-War Tunisia
11.00-11.20 Coffee Break
11.20-1.00 Panel 6: CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ASIA
Chair: Gearóid Barry (NUI Galway)
David Noack (University of Potsdam)
Turkestan in the Great War: Between Great Game, Russian and British Colonial Periphery, and German High Ambition
Danielle Ross (Nazarbayev University, Astana, KZ)
Fighting for the Tsar, Fighting against the Tsar: The Use of “Folk” Songs to Mobilize Tatar and Kirgiz Populations for or against Military Service in the Great War (1914-1918)
Niall Williams (NUI Galway)
From Colonists to Enemy Enclave: World War I in the Relationship Between the Volga Germans and the Russian State
Radhika Singha (Jawahalal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Placing India in the ‘European Great War’: coolies and mule-drivers in France
1.00-1.30 Closing Discussion