Once every two years (or thereabouts), we have held a conference. At these events, we aim to put our principles and priorities into action. Our conferences are friendly, rich in new research, constructive and conversational. We put postgrads and postdocs at the heart of them. Often the conferences have been organised by a local team of postgrads, who have taken us in innovative directions. The conference papers are circulated in advance, and then discussants summarise and comment on the papers at the conference, followed by a reply from the author. This leaves the maximum amount of time for discussing the ideas with the other conference participants.
For the most part, the authors who have presented their work have been in the early stages of their career, whilst discussants have tended to be more established members of the academic community. But this is not necessarily the case, and anyone with new research to share and discuss is welcome. We never have parallel sessions at our conferences. We prefer to have everyone, and every type of First World War scholar, in the same room to share their perspectives.
Kyoto 2027
Observation
Held at Kyoto University, Japan
Thessaloniki 2025
Seas
Held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki
Canada 2023
Borders
Held in Windsor, Ontario, and the Downtown Armouries.
Virtual 2021
Technology
A virtual conference hosted at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA (USA).
Leeds 2019
Legacies
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square, Leeds, UK
Melbourne 2018
Recording, Narrating and Archiving the First World War
Melbourne, Deakin Downtown, Melbourne CBD
Oxford 2016
War Time
Maison Française d’Oxford
Italy 2015
Landscapes of the Great War
Hosted by the Italian-German Historical Institute – FBK in Trento and the University of Padua
Paris 2013
Encountering the Other in Wartime
Cité de l’Immigration and German Historical Institute Paris
Innsbruck 2011
Other Fronts, Other Wars?
Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck
London 2009
Other Combatants, Others Fronts
Imperial War Museum, London
Washington DC 2007
Hosted by Georgetown University and the German Historical Institute
Dublin 2005
Uncovering the First World War
Trinity College, University of Dublin
Oxford 2003
Maison Française d’Oxford
Lyon 2001
Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lyon