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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.
An kaum einem anderen Ort der römischen Welt wird die enge Verzahnung von Wirtschafts-, Sozial-, Politik- und Militärgeschichte so deutlich wie in Mogontiacum – dem römischen Mainz. Dies kann die Sonderausstellung "Im Dienst des Kaisers. Mainz – Stadt der römischen Legionen", die vom 26.05.2013 bis 05.01.2014 im Landesmuseum Mainz zu sehen ist, sehr plastisch und anschaulich darstellen. Nahezu alle Ausstellungsstücke sind Bestände des Landesmuseums und führen eindrucksvoll vor Augen, warum Mainz als "Mekka der provinzialrömischen Archäologie" (Th. Fischer) gesehen werden kann.
The History and Political Science Department at Chestnut Hill College will host an interdisciplinary conference on "The Legacy of World War One."
Keynote speakers will be Jay Winter (Yale University) and Laura Lee Downs (European University Institute, Florence, Italy).
Proposals for papers or panels are invited on any issue related to the legacy of The Great War. Papers may relate to the immediate or long-term ramifications of the war: - political, -diplomatic, -military, -social, -economic, -technological, -intellectual, -cultural, etc.
The British Association for Local History and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies are organising a workshop about the First World War.
The workshop will serve as "an introduction to researching war experience and its legacy: individual, family and community perspectives through the prism of the local, national and international".
The workshop will consider the opportunities - in terms of interacting with new people, places and societies - provided by the conflict, and poses several questions which will be explored:
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum of debate for transnational and comparative approaches to the history of small European nations and Europe’s colonial peripheries in World War One in the context of the epochal changes brought by the collapse of large imperial states.
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.
The conference comprises a study day, to be held at King’s College London on 14 March, with a keynote address by Professor Hew Strachan of Oxford University, and a public day, taking place at the National Army Museum on Saturday 15 March.