2014 marked the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War - a catastrophe that casts a shadow over us until the present day. The aim of the 2015 military history conference of the Estonian War Museum (General Laidoner Museum) is to study the fundamentally changed security situation in Europe, which formed as a result of the war, the kind of which had never been seen before.

The organizers are looking forward to papers about the following topics:

1.   Post-war conflicts: civil wars, freedom wars and paramilitary violence

2.   New armies on the ruins of empires

3.   Conditions of the Paris Peace Treaties in respect of the armies of the defeated countries of the First World War: Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Hungary and Turkey

4.   International law: the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, the Geneva Conventions of 1928-1929

5.   The arms race and the development of technology and weaponry: the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1932-1934

6.   Military planning: defence and offensive plans, new and ongoing conflicts between states and nations

7.   The peace movement and the idea of world revolution

8.   Political debates about armed forces and armament: training, general mandatory military service and patriotic/ideological upbringing

9.   Paramilitary extremist movements: riots, revolutions, red and iron guards, etc.

10. The topic of war and peace in culture and art

The Estonian War Museum awaits conference paper proposals (length up to 4,000 characters) in English or Estonian.

Please forward the proposals including a short CV with an overview of your research work to conference@esm.ee.

The length of presentations is 20 minutes. The working languages of the conference are English and Estonian (simultaneous translation)

Articles based on the presentations will be published in the Estonian Yearbook of Military History of 2016.

The Estonian War Museum (General Laidoner Museum) will cover the travel and accommodation costs of speakers.

Venue: Estonian War Museum (General Laidoner Museum), Mõisa tee 1, EE-74001 Viimsi, Estonia

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Contact:

Sandra Niinepuu

Estonian War Museum (General Laidoner Museum)

Mõisa tee 1

EE-74001 Viimsi

Estonia

(t)  +372 6217 410

(f)  +372 6217

(@) conference@esm.ee