Like in former years the Educational Committee of the International Commission of Military History invites young ph.d. students to take part in a workshop for young scholars who are still working or have just finished their ph.d. thesis on a subject dealing with Socio-economic and Cultural Aspects of World War I.

The purpose of the workshop is to give young scholars the opportunity of discussing their projects with young as well as experienced colleagues from more than 40 Countries.

We expect a talk of 30 Minutes. A Printed version may be published in the conference proceedings to be published in 2015. In Return we offer a reduced congress fee (150 EUR) and reduced student accommodation (40 EUR) as well an allowance of 150 EUR.

Applicants should offer papers dealing with

- The experience of war in letters, carnets, diaries and memoires

- The debate on consent or coercion of the servicemen

- Resistance, mutinies, discipline, and court-martial law

- Gender and War

- War economy

- Home front problems: e.g. Nutrition and Food Crises

- Peace movements and strikes

- Propaganda

- Science, Humanities, and War

- Memory and Commemoration and their Impact upon the Politics of National Identity,

- Memory and Commemoration in War Museums, War Memorials, Public History, Art and Literature

Applicants should send their proposals to the Secretary General of the Educational Committee, Prof. Dr. Michael Epkenhans (Center for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany). Email: michaelepkenhans@bundeswehr.org

The Educational Committee will inform all applicants about the acceptance of their proposals no later than 1 May 2014.

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contact:

Prof. Dr. Michael Epkenhans

ZMSBw

Zeppelinstraße 127/128

D-14471 Potsdam

Tel.: +49-(0)331/9714540

email: michaelepkenhans@bundeswehr.org