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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...
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.
...Nationality in war; 1789-1991; International university symposium organised in partnership with the
établissement public du Palais de la Porte dorée/Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration and the National Archives
On November 5/6, 2015, the University of Groningen will host a conference about the South Eastern and Eastern European theatre of the First World War.
...International conference; European “domestic fronts” : the home front at war (1914-1920); University of Pau (France); November 19-20th, 2015
...The experience of the gueules cassées has given rise to a unique cultural history, and one which is now being rewritten in the centenary years of the First World War. This conference, arising from the INTERREG IV-funded project 1914FACES2014, led by the Institut Faire Faces and the University of Exeter, assesses the legacy of the gueules cassées.
...Remembrance and Representation: Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in World War I: A workshop hosted by the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ) with support of the Canadian High Commission and Australian National University.
...A two-day conference on ‘War in Legend and Tradition’ will be held on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th September 2014 as the ninth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society, at Fort Amherst in Chatham, Kent
...Call for articles for a volume on ‘Literary Journalism and World War 1’, edited by Andrew Griffiths, Sara Prieto, and Soenke Zehle.
...We invite presentation proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on ‘Culture, Theology and World War I’, which will be hosted by The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) on Friday 19 September 2014.
...The Great War, a Hundred Years On: Origins, Lessons and Legacies of the First World War; 6-8 November 2014, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia; Extended deadline for Proposals: 16 June 2014
...A Conference Organized by the Humber School of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Participation with the
International Festival of Authors; Toronto, Canada; Oct 31-Nov 2 2014
A conference entitled ‘the International Congress on War History Studies’ (ICOWHIS) will be held in Çanakkale, Turkey on 6-8 November 2014 at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. The main aim of the conference is to create a platform in which wartime history studies are discussed with a specific focus on the World War I and its heritage in the 100th Anniversary. The World War I, as one of the greatest wars of humanity, requires specific attention both in national and international arenas since the Ottoman Empire participated in the war and the region itself and the surrounding areas witnessed the leading great wars.
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