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
The University of Leeds is planning a major international conference to consider and debate the various forms and expressions of resistance to the First World War within and across national contexts. It will coincide with the introduction of conscription in Britain, but will explore national, international and transnational aspects of resistance to the First World War.
There will be panels on:
- the cultural representations of pacifism and the mobilization of art and literature to oppose the war
In June 2015 the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo will be marked by a series of major commemorative events in Belgium and across Europe. At the end of this eventful month the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York in co-operation with the National Army Museum will host a major international and interdisciplinary conference Waterloo: Representation and Memory, 1815-2015.
Occupation was a major experience of the Second World War for a large part of Europe and beyond, but the Great War had also been marked by multiple military occupations.
John Keegan considered in 1993 if maybe those scholars studying war wouldn't be "better historians whether they took the trouble to think about what makes people to kill each other". At the end, by talking about these questions we are opening an essential research way in order to delve into human nature and the functioning of societies, matter of interest of every self-respecting historical research.
Despite important differences in the war aims and conduct of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, war crimes trial policies emerged as globally connected domains of meting out justice that cut across the borders of nations, cultures, and continents.
Moderne Militärgeschichte, in seinen Vorläufern vorrangig eine Generalstabswissenschaft, hat sich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu einer anerkannten Subdisziplin der Geschichtswissenschaften entwickelt. Jüngere wissenschaftstheoretische Publikationen zur Militärgeschichte haben ihr akademisches Profil geschärft und sie in die Politik-, Kultur-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte integrieren können.
Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist trotz der zeitlichen Distanz von fast 75 Jahren wie kein anderer Krieg in der deutschen Erinnerungskultur präsent. Es handelt es sich um ein historisches Ereignis, das bis in die heutige Zeit auf individueller wie kollektiver Ebene von allen Generationen mit ganz bestimmten Bildern assoziiert wird. Diese ausgeprägte visuelle Dimension der Erinnerung an den Zweiten Weltkrieg hängt unmittelbar mit dessen historischer Situierung im beginnenden "Visuellen Zeitalter" zusammen.
Military conflicts have always been a major reason for the movement of troops as well as of civilians making mobility an experience widely shared. The current arrival of refugees from the war zones of Iraq and Syria is the latest example of this phenomenon. However, the reasons, types, and effects of population movements linked to wars have differed over time just as different forms of mobility have overlapped or followed each other in the same space or even along one single life.
SCOLMA (UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Annual Conference 2015
The first shot fired for Britain in the First World War was from the rifle of an African soldier in West Africa. The last German troops to surrender did so on African soil, in today’s Zambia. In between African soldiers and civilians paid a heavy price in blood and lives and their societies and outlook were changed for ever.
