War and Its Consequences
One hundred years after the outbreak of the First World War, there is no question of the continuing relevance—for scholars and global society alike—of war and its consequences. Over the past century, warfare has undergone technological, ideological, and financial transformations just as it has transformed the world around it. Moreover, the material and ideological traces of these (and much earlier) wars continue to shape the world in which we live: from financial institutions to environmental regimes, from social forms to ideas about self and other to configurations of domestic and international political power. Critical engagement with war and its consequences must certainly remain at the heart of scholarly inquiry across a wide range of disciplines.
The Center for Historical Enquiry & the Social Sciences (CHESS) and International Security Studies (ISS) at Yale University are therefore seeking papers for an upcoming interdisciplinary graduate student conference titled “War and Its Consequences.”
Though the centennial of World War I, bicentennial of the Napoleonic Wars, and semicentennial of the Vietnam War constitute the most immediate impetus for the conference, we encourage submissions that examine the causes, conduct, and consequences of warfare across the world from antiquity to the present. This conference aims to foster an interdisciplinary conversation on the theme of warfare, addressing it from a range of spatial, temporal, and comparative perspectives—with the ultimate goal of posing questions of significant contemporary importance.
As such, successful papers will represent a range of disciplinary approaches to topics which may include (but are not limited to):
· War and identity; communal belonging and difference in conflict and post-conflict societies.
· War and the home front.
· War and memory.
· Ways of waging war: counterinsurgency, guerilla warfare, total war.
· Peace, reconstruction, and the dynamics of post-conflict societies.
· The science and technology of war.
· The class dynamics of war.
· The culture of war: literature, film, and art.
· Gender and war.
· What are we fighting for?: war and ideology; social movements; dissent; religion.
· Political economy of war.
· Environments, resources, and landscapes of war.
· War on the global stage: empire, international institutions, grand strategy.
Applications should send abstracts of 250-300 words and a one-page CV to camille.cole@yale.edu
Successful applicants will be notified by Thanksgiving.
Unfortunately, financial assistance or accommodations cannot be offered by the organizers.
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Contact:
Camille Cole
Department of History
Yale University
320 York Street
P.O. Box 208324
New Haven, CT 06520-8324
(t): (203) 432-1366
(f): (203) 432-7587