Call for Papers

The Center for Jewish History with the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University and the American Jewish Historical Society invite proposals for papers to be presented at a conference featuring original research on the experiences of Jews during the First World War and its immediate aftermath.

Since the end of the 19th century Africa stood out as an agent in the globalization process; acting both as an element of direct action, particularly through the exploitation of its natural resources in the widest sense possible, but also through the unique features of its political situation as regards international relations. During the "Belle Époque" the network of transactions of goods and people had spread considerably, bringing remote and peripheral places, like the African territories, closer to the centre of the world-economy.

The Twentieth century was fertile in experiences on the power of propaganda in war context. From the First World War to the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, the Portuguese Colonial War, the ColdWar, the war in Bosnia and the Gulf war, there were several occasions where propaganda stud itself as one of the combat arms. The First World War was the first conflict where the States realized for the first time the importance ofpropaganda as an instrument of war. It then becomes clear the importance and potential of graphic communication.

The historiographies on war and protest are still largely separated. Clausewitz"s famous aphorism is conventionally applied to military history and high politics. However, it also points to the political means employed by those who, for various reasons, disagreed with the use of force to compel an enemy. In the final revision of his unfinished manuscript Vom Kriege, Clausewitz acknowledged this factor: "War is simply the continuation of political intercourse with the addition of other means.

Global War Studies and the Greenwich Maritime Institute are pleased to announce an international conference on the naval and maritime history of the First and Second World Wars. On the centenary of the First World War, the conference seeks to promote an international and interdisciplinary dialogue among naval and maritime historians.

Es ist weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten, dass nicht nur der Zweite, sondern auch der Erste Weltkrieg ein bedeutender Einschnitt in der Geschichte der europäischen Museen war. Der Louvre wurde 1914 von Paris nach Toulouse und Blois fast komplett evakuiert. Die Eremitage in St. Petersburg verwandelte sich für Jahre in ein Kriegslazarett und ihre Sammlungen wurden nach Moskau verlagert. In Berlin gefährdete der Krieg u.a. die großartige Münzsammlung im Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (heute Bode-Museum), die von der Reichsbank als Garantie für Gold in Anspruch genommen wurde.

Die wissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit dem Kalten Krieg hat seit dessen Ende eine dynamische Entwicklung durchlaufen, wie die steigende Anzahl an Publikationen und Tagungen beweist. War es anfangs vor allem die Geschichtswissenschaft, der sich durch die Öffnung von Archiven neue Forschungsmöglichkeiten erschlossen, so ist in den letzten Jahren auch ein verstärktes kulturwissenschaftliches Interesse an den Konfliktfeldern, Deutungsmustern und Narrativen des Kalten Krieges festzustellen.

The historical transcendence of the Great War is beyond doubt. Because of its complex combination of military, social, cultural and political aspects, it has been unanimously considered as a sort of gigantic historical breaking line, a no turning point for the European and worldwide history.

In the centenary year of the outbreak of the First World War, the aims of the panel are to re-examine anarchist responses to the war, conceptions of militarism, pacifism and non-violence and the impact of the war on anarchist movements in and outside Europe. Papers which discuss the activities of anti-war activists (particularly transnational), the treatment of conscientious objectors, the experiences of anarchists caught up in the conflict and the impact of the war on the anarchist movements (at local, regional national and international levels) are welcome.

Im "Kalten Krieg" war die Herstellung nationaler Sicherheit in Form militärischer Stärke von vorrangiger Bedeutung. Seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bildeten sich innerhalb verschiedener gesellschaftlicher Wissensbereiche in Politik, Gesellschaft, Recht, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft soziale Gruppen heraus, deren Aufgabe es war, Wissen für die Herstellung militärischer Sicherheit bereitzustellen. Die hieraus resultierenden Ideen und Vorstellungen von - zukünftiger - Gewaltanwendung bzw.