Forthcoming Military History Conferences/Lectures

Will do, Lou.

 

[h=1]"Royal Aeronautical Society Historical Group Lecture[/h]The next Historical Group Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society is as follows:

Jeff JeffordThe Royal Air Force Historical Society‘Pilot Training in the RFC/RAF 1912-1918’​

The event will be on 8 November 2012. The lecture starts at 6:00pm at the Royal Aeronautical Society, No. 4 Hamilton Place, London.You need to make sure that you register for the event, which is open to members and non-members alike."
Royal Aeronautical Society Historical Group Lecture « Thoughts on Military History

 

"Re-engaging with the First World War17 November 2012The British Commission for Military History in association with the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham​

This workshop, organised by the British Commission for Military History in association with the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham will discuss not only how the First World War has been remembered, but also how it will be commemorated in the upcoming centenaries. The workshop will include keynote papers by Professor David Stevenson and Dr Dan Todman and by Dr Andrew Murrison MP, Prime Minister’s Special Representative to the Centenary Commemoration of the First World War. After lunch there will be a range of shorter presentations on themes and issues that the commemorations will engage with from Commission members and others.Provisional Programme09.30-10.00: Morning Coffee10.00-10.45: Dr Dan Todman (Queen Mary, University of London): The First World War in History I10.45- 11.30: Professor David Stevenson (London School of Economics): The First World War in History II11.30-12.00: Coffee12.00-13.00: Dr Andrew Murrison, MP, Prime Minister’s Special Representative to the Centenary Commemoration of the First World War13.00-14.00: Lunch14.00-15.30: Panel: Aspects of CommemorationChris Atkin: Teaching the First World WarDr Kristina Robert: Women and the First World WarDr Tom Greenshields: Living HistoryDr Malcolm Dick (University of Birmingham): Localism and CommemorationProfessor Peter Simkins (President, Western Front Association): The Western Front Association and the CentenaryProfessor William Philpott (Secretary-General, British Commission for Military History and King’s College London): Does the Military History Matter?15.30-16.00: Tea16.00-17.00: Major General (rtd.) Mungo Melvin (President, British Commission for Military History): The BCMH and the Centenary of the First World WarDetails of how to regiter can be found here."
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"Re-engaging with the First World War17 November 2012The British Commission for Military History in association with the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham​

This workshop, organised by the British Commission for Military History in association with the Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham will discuss not only how the First World War has been remembered, but also how it will be commemorated in the upcoming centenaries. The workshop will include keynote papers by Professor David Stevenson and Dr Dan Todman and by Dr Andrew Murrison MP, Prime Minister’s Special Representative to the Centenary Commemoration of the First World War. After lunch there will be a range of shorter presentations on themes and issues that the commemorations will engage with from Commission members and others.Provisional Programme09.30-10.00: Morning Coffee10.00-10.45: Dr Dan Todman (Queen Mary, University of London): The First World War in History I10.45- 11.30: Professor David Stevenson (London School of Economics): The First World War in History II11.30-12.00: Coffee12.00-13.00: Dr Andrew Murrison, MP, Prime Minister’s Special Representative to the Centenary Commemoration of the First World War13.00-14.00: Lunch14.00-15.30: Panel: Aspects of CommemorationChris Atkin: Teaching the First World WarDr Kristina Robert: Women and the First World WarDr Tom Greenshields: Living HistoryDr Malcolm Dick (University of Birmingham): Localism and CommemorationProfessor Peter Simkins (President, Western Front Association): The Western Front Association and the CentenaryProfessor William Philpott (Secretary-General, British Commission for Military History and King’s College London): Does the Military History Matter?15.30-16.00: Tea16.00-17.00: Major General (rtd.) Mungo Melvin (President, British Commission for Military History): The BCMH and the Centenary of the First World WarDetails of how to regiter can be found here."
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Via Mahross-

"Call for Papers:1944: Seventy Years On14-17 April 2014, Royal Military Academy SandhurstGlobal War Studies and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are pleased to announce an international conference on the Second World War with 1944 as the core theme. The conference seeks to promote an interdisciplinary and international study of the period 1919-1945 by means of drawing upon the latest scholarshipfrom a variety of disciplines. Papers dealing with one or more of the following topics are welcome and while 1944 is the focus, papers covering other periods or taking thematic approaches are also encouraged.Military Operations / Naval Warfare / Air Power / Intelligence / HomefrontAlliance Politics / The Holocaust / Neutral States / Theaters of WarEconomics / Grand Strategy / Mobilization / IndustryDisplaced Persons / Prisoners of War / Science & Technology
Paper proposals should be submitted by 15 March 2013 along with an abstract and curriculum vitae. Panel proposals are welcome and should include a brief description of the panel’s theme. Submissions and queries should be addressed to: Robert von Maier (globalwarstudies@gmail.com) and Marcus Faulkner (marcus.s.faulkner@kcl.ac.uk) respectively. Additional details, including registration and accommodation, will be available soon. It is planned to publish the conference proceedings in due course."
​Call for Papers – 1944: Seventy Years On « Birmingham "On War"

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Via Mahross-

"Call for Papers:1944: Seventy Years On
14-17 April 2014, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Global War Studies and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are pleased to announce an international conference on the Second World War with 1944 as the core theme. The conference seeks to promote an interdisciplinary and international study of the period 1919-1945 by means of drawing upon the latest scholarshipfrom a variety of disciplines. Papers dealing with one or more of the following topics are welcome and while 1944 is the focus, papers covering other periods or taking thematic approaches are also encouraged.
Military Operations / Naval Warfare / Air Power / Intelligence / HomefrontAlliance Politics / The Holocaust / Neutral States / Theaters of WarEconomics / Grand Strategy / Mobilization / IndustryDisplaced Persons / Prisoners of War / Science & Technology
Paper proposals should be submitted by 15 March 2013 along with an abstract and curriculum vitae. Panel proposals are welcome and should include a brief description of the panel’s theme. Submissions and queries should be addressed to: Robert von Maier (globalwarstudies@gmail.com) and Marcus Faulkner (marcus.s.faulkner@kcl.ac.uk) respectively. Additional details, including registration and accommodation, will be available soon. It is planned to publish the conference proceedings in due course."
​Call for Papers – 1944: Seventy Years On « Birmingham "On War"

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Via Tim Cockitt-

"NEXT MEETING
Here's the usual reminder for the next SMATS meeting

The Military History of Ireland. 1166 to 1916
Tuesday 13th November 2012 at 7.30pm

Tim Cockitt will ambitiously attempt to cover over 800 years of military history in Ireland. Several key events will be highlighted – namely.

1169. The Norman Invasion of Ireland.
1649. The Siege of Drogheda
1690. The Battle of the Boyne
1916. The Easter Rising


An earlier version of this talk was presented to the SMATS in 2009. Tim claims to have read more books, and visited more sites in Ireland, since that talk.


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The Speaker is Tim Cockitt ... Oh, that's me! ... modesty forbids etc. etc.

I was one of the original people invited to join the SMATS by my very good friend, the late Dr. Paddy Griffith ... and being part of the team which has maintained and re-implemented SMATS, is an important part of my life. The military history of Ireland has fascinated me for years. Amongst the several darker incidents there are several anecdotes which are surreal, and some frankly hilarious ... so my aim is to both inform and amuse. Do get along, if you can.

and a quick plug for December ... always my favourite SMATS of the year ...

Christmas Special

Tuesday 11th December 2012 at 7.30pm

Our annual Christmas meeting always takes a different format.

We invite you to bring along if you are able a short contribution - to run for 5 to 10 minutes (5 mins preferred).

This can be:

a) An amusing quiz - may include pictures, soundbites, objects
b) An amusing brief talk - e.g. Tim will continue his annual contribution of "Military Eccentric of the year"
c) Some other amusement

Don't worry if you don't have a contribution, all are welcome and a lively discussion is guaranteed!

Food will be a choice of hotpot and mild/medium strength curry (Yum!)

Admission £3 per attendee including food.


And the usual logistics stuff




Venue
Scout Building, Knivton Street, Godley, Hyde, SK14 2PU.

this is an ex-scout hut in Hyde, owned by a wargaming group, who are very pleased to provide a venue for us.
Location of the new venue is available on the SMATS webpage here:SMATS South Manchester Tactical Society "

 

[h=1]"Aftershock; Post-Traumatic Cultures since the Great War

University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Denmark
Wednesday, May 22 2013
Keynote speakers [/h]

• Professor Jay Winter, Department of History, Yale University
• Dr Mette Bertelsen, Danish Veteran Centre, Copenhagen Denmark
• Professor Michael Roper, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
• Professor Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and Director, Kings Centre for Military HealthResearch Institute of Psychiatry
• Dr Sophie Delaporte, Faculty of Philosophy and Human and Social Sciences, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens
• Dr. Raya Morag, Department of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• Professor Allan Young, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal

Themes
This cross-disciplinary conference focuses on genres of post-traumatic stress as identified and studied in military and civilian psychology, social and cultural history, and film studies as well as literary and art criticism. Body, mind and emotion inflected by time and locality should be explored together with the interconnected histories of individual (combat) and collective (civilian) aftershock.
Rationale
Since the 1980s public awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder resulting from prolonged battle-field experiences has been on the rise. Indeed, the phrase Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has become part of the normal parlance both in Europe and the United States, and after the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the presence of veterans suffering from psychological wounds has become ever more apparent. Despite this public attention, these disorders and their cultural consequences still cause confusion and anxiety in Europe and the United States, both in academic and public realms. This conference provides a forum where psychologists, military, medical and social historians and other experts from the humanities can gather to explore the familial, clinical, communal, political and cultural consequences of psychological trauma since the First World War. In order to illuminate and contextualize contemporary debates and compare different responses to trauma, the conference aims to examine historical conflicts over the origins of psychological wounds, debates concerning the social and cultural impact of trauma, and perspectives on the political significance of mental trauma in diverse historical settings.
Impact
By bringing together experts from varied fields and regions, we aim to not only strengthen scholarly methods and analysis, but also foster innovative ways of thinking about contemporary public debates over the origins and effects of war-induced traumatic illness. We plan to do this through a discussion of diverse issues, including (1) the effects of psychological trauma on historical and contemporary societies; (2) cultural assumptions and medical theories about traumatized individuals and the nature of trauma; (3) the re-integration of traumatized ex-servicemen into civilian societies, both historical and contemporary; (4) representations of traumatized men and women in political, social and cultural discourse, including art and film; (5) different perspectives on the meaning of traumatic illness and prescriptions for recovery in diverse societies.
Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Form:
In order to achieve this goal, the conference requires an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and transnational breadth. Unlike earlier conferences that have addressed the theme of such conditions, ‘AfterShock’ seeks to bring together such diverse fields of inquiry as history, medicine, sociology, gender studies, literature and film studies in order to integrate our knowledge and surpass the limited ranges on any one discipline. To augment this interdisciplinarity, we also seek to bring in experts from diverse regions, so as to provide us with insights into the various national traditions and histories that evolved out of twentieth century wars and to better understand how these traditions and histories dealt with post-traumatic stress disorders. This interdisciplinary approach will enable us to integrate historical knowledge and contemporary ways of thinking about the cultural impact of traumatic illness, allowing experts from seemingly divergent specialized and chronological contexts to compare and re-consider their methods for investigating the origins, meanings and consequences of these wounds.
Participants

The conference subject is not restricted geographically. We welcome contributions from Denmark and the Nordic countries, from western, central and eastern European as well as from the Americas and elsewhere. We are also keen to promote innovative (for example comparative) methodologies, and to highlight new case studies.
All enquiries should be directed to aftershock@hum.ku.dk. "
About the conference – University of Copenhagen

 

"Aftershock; Post-Traumatic Cultures since the Great War

University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Denmark
Wednesday, May 22 2013
Keynote speakers

• Professor Jay Winter, Department of History, Yale University
• Dr Mette Bertelsen, Danish Veteran Centre, Copenhagen Denmark
• Professor Michael Roper, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
• Professor Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and Director, Kings Centre for Military HealthResearch Institute of Psychiatry
• Dr Sophie Delaporte, Faculty of Philosophy and Human and Social Sciences, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens
• Dr. Raya Morag, Department of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• Professor Allan Young, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal

Themes
This cross-disciplinary conference focuses on genres of post-traumatic stress as identified and studied in military and civilian psychology, social and cultural history, and film studies as well as literary and art criticism. Body, mind and emotion inflected by time and locality should be explored together with the interconnected histories of individual (combat) and collective (civilian) aftershock.

Rationale
Since the 1980s public awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder resulting from prolonged battle-field experiences has been on the rise. Indeed, the phrase Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has become part of the normal parlance both in Europe and the United States, and after the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the presence of veterans suffering from psychological wounds has become ever more apparent. Despite this public attention, these disorders and their cultural consequences still cause confusion and anxiety in Europe and the United States, both in academic and public realms. This conference provides a forum where psychologists, military, medical and social historians and other experts from the humanities can gather to explore the familial, clinical, communal, political and cultural consequences of psychological trauma since the First World War. In order to illuminate and contextualize contemporary debates and compare different responses to trauma, the conference aims to examine historical conflicts over the origins of psychological wounds, debates concerning the social and cultural impact of trauma, and perspectives on the political significance of mental trauma in diverse historical settings.

Impact
By bringing together experts from varied fields and regions, we aim to not only strengthen scholarly methods and analysis, but also foster innovative ways of thinking about contemporary public debates over the origins and effects of war-induced traumatic illness. We plan to do this through a discussion of diverse issues, including (1) the effects of psychological trauma on historical and contemporary societies; (2) cultural assumptions and medical theories about traumatized individuals and the nature of trauma; (3) the re-integration of traumatized ex-servicemen into civilian societies, both historical and contemporary; (4) representations of traumatized men and women in political, social and cultural discourse, including art and film; (5) different perspectives on the meaning of traumatic illness and prescriptions for recovery in diverse societies.

Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Form:
In order to achieve this goal, the conference requires an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and transnational breadth. Unlike earlier conferences that have addressed the theme of such conditions, ‘AfterShock’ seeks to bring together such diverse fields of inquiry as history, medicine, sociology, gender studies, literature and film studies in order to integrate our knowledge and surpass the limited ranges on any one discipline. To augment this interdisciplinarity, we also seek to bring in experts from diverse regions, so as to provide us with insights into the various national traditions and histories that evolved out of twentieth century wars and to better understand how these traditions and histories dealt with post-traumatic stress disorders. This interdisciplinary approach will enable us to integrate historical knowledge and contemporary ways of thinking about the cultural impact of traumatic illness, allowing experts from seemingly divergent specialized and chronological contexts to compare and re-consider their methods for investigating the origins, meanings and consequences of these wounds.

Participants
The conference subject is not restricted geographically. We welcome contributions from Denmark and the Nordic countries, from western, central and eastern European as well as from the Americas and elsewhere. We are also keen to promote innovative (for example comparative) methodologies, and to highlight new case studies.
All enquiries should be directed to aftershock@hum.ku.dk. "
About the conference – University of Copenhagen

 

"Fortifications At Risk 2 Symposium
5th-6th March 2013
National Army Museum
London
As a result of the success of the first ‘Fortifications at Risk’ symposium held in 2011 a further symposium, ‘Fortifications at Risk 2’ will be held on 5th and 6th March 2013 in order to consider further how derelict fortifications may be preserved and re-used. In this second symposium emphasis will be placed on considering the practical aspects of how such fortifications can be re-used without these structures losing their historical integrity. Speakers from heritage bodies in the UK and from overseas, local groups involved
with specific fortifications and architect practices will describe the problems they have faced and the solutions employed in preserving and re-using fortifications.
The symposium will be organised by the Fortress Study Group under the auspices of its patron, HRH The Duke of Gloucester. The venue will again be the Art Gallery of the
National Army Museum, next to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, SW3 4HT. A reception will be held at the museum on the evening of Tuesday 5th March to which all attending the
symposium are invited together with guests prominently involved in heritage conservation.
Speakers will include:
Dr Simon Thurley, CEO English Heritage
Thomas Tram Pedersen Curator, Stevnsfort, Denmark
Dr Mike Heyworth Director, Council for British Archaeology
Michael Franklin FSP Architects
Dr Larry Ostola, Vice President Heritage, Conservation & Commemoration, Parks Canada
Duncan Jackson BillingsJackson Design
Peter Kendall Team Leader SE Region, English Heritage
Roger Curtis Technical Research Manager, Historic Scotland
Wayne Cocroft Senior Investigator, English Heritage
Jonathan Catton Museum & Heritage Officer, Thurrock UDC
Chief Insp Mark Harrison Policing Advisor, English Heritage
For further details and programme see the FSG website
FSG - Home
APPLICATION FORM
Fee for the two days : £95
(or £125 if booked after 1st January 2013)
to include morning and afternoon coffee/tea, light lunch on
each day and evening reception on 5th March.
Undergraduate and post-graduate students £60
A selection of the papers presented at the symposium will
be published in an issue of the FSG journal FORT and this
will be included in the symposium fee.
For further information please contact:
Colonel W.H. Clements
chairman@fsgfort.com
Mr Alastair Fyfe
secretary@fsgfort.com"
http://www.fsgfort.com/uploads/pdfs/Public/FAR_2_leaflet.pdf

 

The First Battle of World War 2 Westerplatte 1939​

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Tuesday 8th January 2013 at 7.30pm


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On September 1, 1939, at 0448 local time, the battleship veteran of Jutland, The Schleswig-Holstein, suddenly opened broadside salvo fire on the Polish garrison of Westerplatte held by 182 soldiers and 27 civilian reservists. World War 2 had begun.

Ian Sanders tells the story of this epic of Polish military history, detailing the surprise attack and desperate defence against massive odds of the beleaguered Polish garrison.

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Via email-
"THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF MODERN CONFLICT
Edinburgh University​
Seminar Programme, Spring Semester 2013
The seminars will take place from 5.00pm to 6.30pm in room G.11 in the William . Robertson Wing, Old Medical School
Everyone is warmly welcome.
Thursday 24 January 2013
Professor Carl Bridge and Dr Jatinder Mann, King’s College, University of London
'Australia in War and Peace, 1914-1919'
Thursday 31 January 2013
Dr Heather Jones, London School of Economics
'The Allied blockade of Germany in The First World War'
Thursday 7 February 2013
Dr Ben Shepherd, Glasgow Caledonian University
'German Armies and Balkan Partisans during the World Wars'
Thursday 28 February 2013
Malcolm Craig, University of Edinburgh
'Britain, America, and the Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Programme: Conflict and Conspiracy'
Thursday 14 March 2013
Dr Miriam Dobson, University of Sheffield
'Building Peace, Fearing the Apocalypse: The Bomb in Soviet Cold-War Culture, 1945-1991'
Thursday 29 March 2013
Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann, Birkbeck College, University of London
'The history of the Nazi Concentration Camps'
If you would like to be added to the Centre email distribution list to receive reminders of the seminars and other events that may be of interest, please email csmc@ed.ac.uk"

"University of Strathclyde War Group
Seminar Series

"The generation of memory: gender and the popular memory of the Second World War in Britain"

Professor Penny Summerfield
University of Manchester

Wednesday 5[SUP]th[/SUP] December 2012 5.30pm
McCance Building, Room 3.03
Refreshments will be served"

 

Via email-
idn[h=1]SMats Dec 2012 Xmas Special[/h]

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[h=2][/h]Don't forget it's our annual Christmas Special on Tuesday 11th December.

It's different from our normal format and includes food and a number of short pieces:
Brief talks on:

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  [*=left]Pigeons in WW2
  [*=left]Military Inventions which didn't actually get produced
  [*=left]The Truck as hero
  [*=left]"Military Eccentric of the year" ... this year will be Alan Turing
  [*=left]"A bit of a Spitfire" (... featuring a bit of a Spitfire!)

• 
  [*=left]A book auction

• 
  [*=left]A surprise Quiz

All are welcome and a lively discussion is guaranteed!

Food will be a choice of hotpot and mild/medium strength curry (Yum!)

Admission £3 per attendee including food.

For directions click here.

Diary Note

Our next talk is on Tuesday 8th January 2013:


"The First Battle of World War 2 - Westerplatte 1939" More info here.'t actually get produced

• 
  [*=left]The Truck as hero
  [*=left]"Military Eccentric of the year" ... this year will be Alan Turing
  [*=left]"A bit of a Spitfire" (... featuring a bit of a Spitfire!)

• 
  [*=left]A book auction

• 
  [*=left]A surprise Quiz

All are welcome and a lively discussion is guaranteed!

Food will be a choice of hotpot and mild/medium strength curry (Yum!)

Admission £3 per attendee including food.

For directions

 

[h=1]"I wanted to prove myself to the men: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields of Eastern Europe[/h]Holocaust Memorial Lecture 2013
Date: Thursday, January 17 2013
Time: 5:30pm for 6pm
Venue: University of Glasgow, Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre, off University Place
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Professor Wendy Lower, John K. Roth Chair of History & George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College Research Associate of the Ludwig Maximilian
Website: hml2013.eventbrite.co.uk/

13th Holocaust Memorial Lecture
I wanted to prove myself to the men: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields of Eastern Europe
Professor Wendy Lower
John K. Roth Chair of History & George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College
Research Associate of the Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich.
Thursday 17 January 2013
Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre, off University Place
Tea/coffee: 5.30pm
Lecture: 6.00pm
The lecture is free and open to the public, however you must register online at:13th Holocaust Memorial Lecture: I wanted prove myself to... - Eventbrite
For more information, please contact DAO Events:
Email: daoevents@glasgow.ac.uk
Telephone: 0141 330 3593
events listing"

 

"International Military Helicopter 2013

Conference

29th to 31st January 2013
London, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.militaryhelicopterevent.com
Contact person: Lucia Kasanicka

International Military Helicopter 2013 provides a unique insight into the world of the rotary-wing commander, his requirements, and the lessons gleamed from recent operational experiences.

Organized by: Defence IQ

Check the event website for more details. "


"Joint Forces Simulation & Training 2013

Conference

4th to 5th February 2013
London, United Kingdom

Website: Joint Forces Simulation & Training : Defence : UK
Contact person: Ray-Leonard Marshall

Don’t miss SMi's 4th annual Joint Forces Simulation & Training conference. This insightful event will discuss simulation training systems used globally by the armed forces to cover the prevalent requirements and capabilities driving the marketplace

Organized by: SMi Group

Check the event website for more details."


"8th Annual Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping & Stability

Conference

11th to 13th February 2013
Washington DC, United States of America

Website: Untitled Document
Contact person: David Drey

Peer-to-peer driven, benefit from 20+ case study driven briefings from leading DoD and Department of State personnel. Key to this meeting is redefining the future of US engagement to improve process, policy and the delegation of resources.

Organized by: marcus evans

Check the event website for more details."

 

Here are the forthcoming SMATS lectures for 2013. Talk about organised!
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[TD]"2013 Programme

8th Jan 2013 The First Battle of World War 2 - Westerplatte 1939

12th Feb 2013 Personal Memoirs of Dunkirk 1940 & Anzio 1944

12th Mar 2013 The Battle of Narocz 1916

9th Apr 2013 Winwick Pass / Red Bank 1648

14th May 2013 Blenheim 1704

11th June 2013 Paddy Griffiths Memorial Lecture - Subject TBC

9th July 2013 Ian Daglish Memorial Lecture - Visiting Normandy Battlefields

10th Sept 2013 The Siege of Tsingtao 1914

8th Oct 2013 Subject TBC.

12th Nov 2013 Jebel Akdar (Nov. 1958) and Personal experiences in Oman – 1960s

10th Dec 2013 Christmas Special[/TD]
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http://www.smatsuk.yolasite.com/new...fe6-2013_Porgramme12_20_2012&utm_medium=email "

 

Via John Bernard Winterburn-
"The Imperial War Museum and Bristol University conference, Friday 6th & Saturday 7th Sept. 2013, Imperial War Museum, London: Call for Papers

Conflict and the Senses is the fifth in the series, and similarly covers the whole of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It acknowledges the recent increase of interdisciplinary interest in the role of the senses in human experience and cultural representation (smell, touch, sound). As modern conflict invokes the extremes of human behaviour, its relationship with diverse and multivalent sensorial dimensions suggests itself to be of critical importance in our understanding of conflict in the recent past and the present.
This conference, as with its predecessors, is free to all who participate, though if interest is particularly high we may need to operate a first come, first served policy. As has been our previous practice, the conference will comprise the speakers themselves and an invited peer audience.
Currently, we are planning to accommodate about 15 presentations on each day, each lasting 15-20 minutes. Papers which focus on the sensorial dimensions of any modern conflict (or its aftermath) during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are acceptable as long as the emphasis is on the creative relationships between the senses, memory, material culture, landscape and conflict.
As a general guide, we are interested in any modern conflict (1900 – the present), in any location, and sensorial engagements with: personal experiences of conflict (or its aftermath) by soldiers and civilians; landscape (battle-zones and conflict-related civilian spaces – such as the home, the museum, and commemorative places); artistic depictions/representations; souvenirs; tourism and heritage as legacies of conflict.
see http://bit.ly/IWM-Senses
for details"

 

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Via email
"Dear All

A reminder that the first of The Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict seminars for semester 2 takes place on Thursday, 24th January:
Dr Jatinder Mann, King's College, University of London- 'Australia in War and Peace, 1914-1919'
The seminar will start at 5.00pm and will be held in Room G.11, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, see Visiting us | About us | School of History, Classics and Archaeology for details of the location.
Please find attached an updated list of seminars for semester 2, please note the last seminar will be on Friday (not Thursday) 29th March. The most up-to-date details of the seminars will be posted at Seminar programme | Events | The Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict.
Please forward this email to anyone else you think may be interested. If this email has been forwarded to you and you would like to be added to the Centre email distribution list for reminders of the seminars and details of other events that may be of interest, please email csmc@ed.ac.uk.

The Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
William Robertson Wing
Old Medical School
Teviot Place
Edinburgh
EH8 9AG"

 

Via Mahross-
[h=1]"University of Oxford Military History Seminar Series[/h]The Military History Seminar Series, convened by Professor Sir Hew Strachan, takes place at 5.15pm in the Wharton Room, All Souls College on alternate Wednesdays during Michaelmas and Hilary terms. Please note that currently there are no Military History seminars in Trinity term.
Hilary Term, 2013
Wednesday 23 January
Ben Shephard, ‘Caught With Our Pants Down’: The South African Army and the Fall of Tobruk, 1942
Wednesday 30 January
Prof. John Hattendorf, The Idea of a ‘Fleet in Being’ and Navies in the American War, 1775-1783
Wednesday 6 February
William Beaver, British Military Intelligence in the Nineteenth Century
Wednesday 20 February
Professor Ian Beckett, Britain’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan, 1880-81
Wednesday 6 March
Dr Nicholas Lambert, Home by Christmas: the Economic Imperative Behind the Short War Assumption And Its Impact Upon British Strategic Planning pre-1914"
Military History Seminar Series | Changing Character of War

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Via Email

"CALL FOR PAPERS

MINORITIES AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR

University of Chester, 14-15 April 2014

Speakers Include:

Professor Tony Kushner (University of Southampton)
Professor Humayun Ansari OBE (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Professor Panikos Panayi (De Montfort University, Leicester)

The experience of minorities in the First World War is one of the most significant, yet least developed aspects of the conflict's history. It is now over twenty years since the major conference on 'National and Racial Minorities in Total War' which spurred the
highly influential volume: Minorities in Wartime. With the centenary of the First World War fast approaching, it seems a particularly appropriate time to revisit this subject.

Over the preceding decades, there have been massive shifts in the writing of ethnic and minority histories, which have started to excavate areas of convergence as well as departure. At the same time, our understanding of the social and military history of the First World War has expanded massively. No longer is the history of the conflict confined largely to the trenches of the Western Front, it now encompasses everything from non-combatants and the home front through to occupation and the memory of war. The aim of this two-day conference is to mesh recent developments in the military history of the First World War with those in the field of minority studies. We welcome proposals covering any ethnic or national minority group involved in the conflict. There is no limit to geographical area, though we are aiming to focus primarily on the main belligerent nations.

Potential themes and questions may include:
* Minorities as both opponents and enthusiastic supporters of the conflict
* Minorities as prisoners of war
* Racism, antisemitism and exclusionary politics during the conflict
* Religious and ritual practices during the First World War
* The decoration and promotion of soldiers from minority groups
* Responses to colonial troops and their wartime experience
* The treatment of minorities in territory occupied during the war
* Enemy aliens: Internment, repatriation and social hostility
* The remembrance (and forgetting) of minority combatants

Please send abstracts (max 300 words) and a short biography to: ww1minorities@chester.ac.uk by 31 May 2013."