On the night of September 29-30, 1938, Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy agreed in Munich to order a sovereign state, Czechoslovakia, to cede at very short notice significant parts of its territory to Germany. Czechoslovakia was not invited to the negotiations, which were therefore perceived as a dictate and a national disaster, which resulted in the collapse of the democratic multi-party system that had characterized the country since its creation in 1918.
Das Jahr 1983 stellte mit Ronald Reagans Ausspruch, die Sowjetunion sei ein "Reich des Bösen", seiner Ankündigung der Strategic Defense Initiative und dem Abschuss eines koreanischen Passagierflugzeugs durch die sowjetische Luftabwehr eine dramatische Zuspitzung im "Zweiten Kalten Krieg" dar. Die sowjetisch-amerikanischen Spannungen eskalierten im November im Umfeld der NATO-Kommandoübung Able Archer 83.
A Seminar at the annual German Studies Association (GSA) conference, Denver, October 2013
With the centenary of the First World War approaching, German Studies scholars are busy reconsidering the impact of the Great War on the modern world. Not since the Fischer Controversy has the drive to re-evaluate this war among scholars of modern Germany been so great.
The experience of minorities in the First World War is one of the most significant, yet least developed aspects of the conflict"s history. It is now over twenty years since the major conference on "National and Racial Minorities in Total War" which spurred the highly influential volume: Minorities in Wartime. With the centenary of the First World War fast approaching, it seems a particularly appropriate time to revisit this subject.
The Italian Commission of Military History invites you to take part in the 39th Congress of the International Commission of Military History to be held in Torino, Italy, September 1 - 6, 2013
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 "MEMORY, DOCUMENTARY SOURCES, AND WAR".
After very successful conferences in Lyon, Oxford, Dublin, Washington D.C., London, and Innsbruck, the International Society for First World War Studies is pleased to organise its seventh conference in Paris on 26-27 September 2013. The German Historical Institute in Paris, The University of Birmingham (UK), and the Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration are supporting this event.
Das Rheinland war wie der Westen des Reiches insgesamt vom späten 16. bis in das frühe 18. Jahrhundert fast ununterbrochen von den europäischen Kriegen der Epoche betroffen. Die Reihe reicht vom Achtzigjährigen Krieg in den Niederlanden (1568-1648) über den Kölner Krieg (1583-1588), den Dreißigjährigen Krieg (1618-1648) und die französischen Reunionskriege (1667/68, 1672-1679, 1683/84, 1688-1697) bis hin zum Spanischen Erbfolgekrieg (1701-1714).
The George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), The Center for Cold War Studies (CCWS) of the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme of the London School of Economics and Political Science (CWSP) are pleased to announce their 2013 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, to take place at the George Washington University on April 25-27, 2013.
International Conference on the Occasion of the First Centennial of the Beginning of the First World War
The aim of the Conference is to consider the causes, the course, and the political, social and economic consequences of the First World War on the basis of new historical research in the context of European and more specifically Balkan history. The conference will also explore the legacy of World War One and its place in collective memory today. It intends to highlight the significance of the First World War for Eastern and Southeastern European societies but at the same time will consider the larger European and international picture.
The study of war and warfare through the centuries has generated increasing scholarly attention over the last years. In the resulting literature, historians have tended to focus on pre-war settings, war experiences, and the influence of war memories on national identities. Yet, despite the well-known case of the post-1945 period, it is only recently that scholars working in the field of the so-called "New Military History" have discovered the study of post-war epochs as times of reconstruction and thus as a rewarding fields of historical inquiry.
