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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
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...
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...
The Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the International Society for First World War Studies condemns Russia’s military assault on Ukraine and President Putin’s use of historical distortions and lies in the attempt to justify this attack on Ukrainian sovereignty. As a community of scholars studying the history of a global conflict which brought the relentless violence of total...
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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.
...Care After the First World War
9-11 April 2018
University of Leeds
The end of the First World War saw the demobilisation and return to civilian life of millions of service personnel around the world. Governments, charities, families and individuals attempted to support, rehabilitate and reintegrate those who had served through financial provision, medical treatment and social care. In the final year of...
Plenary Speakers:
Oliver Kohns, University of Luxembourg Randall Stevenson, University of Edinburgh Steven Trout, University of South Alabama The First World War was a very real event. However, since August 1914, authors have...
Summer School for Graduate students
With financial support from the Conseil départemental de la Somme, the Mission du Centenaire 14-18, and the Office franco-allemand pour la jeunesse.
June 26th to July 2nd 2016, Péronne & Verdun
 Trench lighter, Coll. Historial de la Grande Guerre, Photo Y. Medmoun The International Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, with its partners at the...
CFP for a conference on Urban Experiences of the Great War in Eastern Europe, Lviv, Ukraine, June 23-25 2016
...Call for Submissions for a volume entitled ‘Painting, Memory and the Great War’
...David Jones: Dialogues with the Past
An International, Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of York, U.K. 21-23 July, 2016
In ‘Past and Present’ (1953), David Jones claimed: ‘The entire past is at the poet’s disposal’. The interweaving of this ‘entire past’ with the present moment fundamentally characterises Jones’s art and thought, from his visual reimagining of historical figures, to the etymologically rich...
Neutrals at war, 1914-1918. Comparative and transnational perspectives Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG) 2015 Annual Conference organised jointly with ACCESS/EUROPE and the Department Art & Culture, History, Antiquity of the VU University Amsterdam
VU University Amsterdam, 20 November 2015
The Great War (1914-1918) was the first world war. Although not all parts of the globe were affected in the same way, at the same...
Call for papers for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Research on Europe on ‘Centre and Periphery in the First World War’.
...Call for Papers for an International Conference on 1916 in Global Context: Connections and Comparisons; National University of Ireland, Galway; Thursday, 16 June - Friday, 17 June 2016
...Neutrals at war, 1914-1918. Comparative and transnational perspectives. Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG) 2015 Annual Conference organised jointly with ACCESS/EUROPE and the Department Art & Culture, History, Antiquity of the Free University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 20 November 2015.
...Conference: Physics and the Great War; This event will be a one-day conference on the 13th June 2015 at St Cross College, Oxford on physics and its development during the First World War.
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