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International Conference: Front lines: the faces of the Great War; organized by THE FRESNES-EN-WOËVRE TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY OF COMMONS, 16 May 2014 through the international literary festival “Le Printemps du Grand Meaulnes”
...To mark the centenary of the First World War, the British Commission for Military History, in Collaboration with the History of War research group of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and the National Army Museum, are holding a conference on the Armies of 1914.
...Marking the centenary of the start of World War I, this conference will consider the content, form and cultural significance of protest against war and military intervention in the years leading up to 1918.
...The new volume by Julia Eichenberg and John Paul Newman, The Great War and Veterans’ Internationalism,will be launched by Prof. Patricia Clavin on 21 Jan 2014, at Trinity College Dublin.
...Cluster conference of the Swiss Association for Military History and Military Science (Annual Conference) and of the Military Academy at ETH Zurich (Spring Conference) 2014
...Prof. J. Lee Thompson would like to announce the publication of his forthcoming book, Never Call Retreat: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War,
...13 PhD studentships are available in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Hull. We have considerable expertise in WW1 across the faculty.
...Organized by the Turkish Studies Project at the University of Utah, the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Social Science History and the Institute for East European History at the University of Vienna
...The online journal dedicated to women’s memory, DEP. Deportees, Exiles, Refugees (www.unive.it/dep), is organising an international conference on women and the First World War to be held in Venice on 27th and 28th November 2014. The themes of the conference will bring together women’s experiences of war, feminist thought on the war/peace dichotomy, and the actions and behaviours that actualised the female vision of the issues and suffering brought about by the war. In methodological terms, preference will be given to subjective and collective perspectives in order to move beyond the conventional images and representations produced by wartime “deployment”.
...COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art / Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte
Jeudi 5 et vendredi 6 décembre 2013
...Le premier conflit mondial obligea la Grande-Bretagne à adapter ses structures militaires, économiques et politiques pour répondre aux exigences de la guerre industrielle. La transformation d’une armée traditionnellement assignée au maintien de l’ordre impérial eut un impact considérable sur la culture politique libérale dominante.
...Last week, I read Kate Adie’s article publicising her new book celebrating the diverse ways in which women worked in the First World War. In it she bemoans the fact that ‘the history of the war has been almost entirely written by men’
...The symposium marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Wharton’s much-read and much-analyzed novel The Custom of the Country.
...Society member Mike Neiberg recently attended the International Centennial Planning Conference entitled “A CENTURY IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT WAR” , held at the National World War One Museum in Kansas and gave a keynote speech entitled: ““The Outbreak of War in 1914: A...
The Great War could neither have been fought nor won without scientific knowledge. Academic expertise in various fields, from history and law to chemistry and medicine, proved crucial to its prosecution. New links were forged with government that would alter forever the ways in which universities functioned and their relationship with the state. As communities, universities were at the heart...