Just decades after the experience of intense persecution and struggle for recognition that marked the 1870s and '80s, Jewish leaders and ordinary Jews across the globe found themselves at an unprecedented social and political crossroads. The frenzied military, social, and cultural mobilisation of European societies from 1914, along with the outbreak of revolution in Russia and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East, had a profound impact on Jewish communities worldwide.
The Chinese Military History Society will hold its 2014 conference in Kansas City on Friday, April 4. The theme of this year's conference is "Military Deception and the Art of the Stratagem."
Papers may focus on this aspect of the military history (and literature) of China or any other East Asian country, from antiquity to the present, and comparative work is also welcome. As usual, papers on other subjects related to the military history of East Asia will be considered as well.
Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Historische Friedensforschung
Kriege schaffen neue Räume. Sie trennen oder verbinden Regionen und regionale Gesellschaften nach einer vom Krieg und den militärischen Auseinandersetzungen bestimmten, meist bündnisimmanenten Freund-Feind-Logik. Auf diese Weise konstruierte und etablierte auch der Erste Weltkrieg eine neue spezifische Räumlichkeit des Krieges. In dem Maße, wie er neue Grenzen schuf, löste er alte auf oder relativierte sie.
The CISH has a project of conference to be held in Sarajevo in June 2014 about the First World War for the 100th anniversary of the well known event which led to the 1st World War.
Other projects of conference – same topic, same place, same period - exist. But the funds of the Foundation "Sarajevo, heart of Europe" will only be given if there is a merger between these projects. It is necessary to mobilize now the scientific resources of the CISH able to contribute to this unified project.
60th Anniversary Conference of the European Association for American Studies
The paradox inherent in the United States' commitment to the values of justice, liberty, and democracy on the one hand, and the often unforeseen and problematic results of enforcing and/or imposing these values on the other, has shaped the nation's history domestically as well as internationally since independence. At a domestic level, the U.S. was one of the first nations in modern history to establish a democratic and egalitarian form of government based on the Enlightenment principles of equality, political and civil liberties, and freedom of speech.
Held as part of the British Library's Centenary events programme, supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Papers are invited for a two-day international conference on the theme of music during the First World War. The forthcoming centenary of the war is a timely opportunity to reconsider the fundamental role of music and musicians during the exceptional circumstances of the period 1914-1918.
22. Jahrestagung der Wartburg-Gesellschaft zur Erforschung von Burgen und Schlössern e.V.
Die 22. Jahrestagung der Wartburg-Gesellschaft zur Erforschung von Burgen und Schlössern e.V. wird sich schwerpunktmäßig den Wandlungen des Wehrbaus unter dem Einfluss der Feuerwaffen zwischen der Mitte des 15. und dem Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts widmen. Der Tagungsort Schwerin selbst besitzt eine der frühesten regelmäßig polygonalen Renaissancefestungen nördlich der Alpen, errichtet in den 1550er Jahren unter Herzog Johann Albrecht von Mecklenburg durch italienische Ingenieure und Bauleute, und bietet sich damit als Tagungsort für das Thema in hervorragender Weise an.
This conference aims to explore the Anglo-German naval arms race during the early twentieth century and the Great War at sea with an emphasis prior to the Battle of Jutland. Any methodological approach and any aspect of the naval history of this period will be very welcome, including papers addressing French, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Turkish, Italian or Dominion navies as well as the core areas of Britain and Germany.
Papers which address the following areas will be especially welcome:
The Generalplan Ost has become one of the most chilling manifestations of the National Socialist regime. Envisaging a Nazi colonial empire after a victorious war, ethnocrats produced ever more far-reaching plans to radically and violently re-model occupied Europe into German Lebensraum. Murderous demographic interventions to produce a völkisch and racial homogenous German population went hand-in-hand with a total re-configuration of the occupied territories' economy, administration, patterns of settlement, infrastructure, and landscape.
