A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
The workshop will deal in the usage of Ego documents by historians. By ego-documents we refer to letters, diaries, life stories written by individuals. The workshop will concentrate of Jewish History in the last three centuries, especially the 20th century. Since early modern hysterography, Ego-documents were considered sources unsuited for historical research. However, in the…
Guerrilla warfare is an ancient concept. Sun Tzu wrote on the subject in the Art of War. Likewise, insurgencies have existed as long as there have been powers to wage them against. Insurgencies often utilize guerrilla warfare as a successful strategy in facing off against larger, more advantaged adversaries. Beyond this, the irregular war of…
A special issue of Jewish Film and New Media (Autumn 2019/Spring 2020) This special issue of Jewish Film and New Media entitled “Insiders/Outsiders” proposes to examine the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to film and television of the United Kingdom. In every field, émigrés arriving from Europe in the 1930s…
Date: 23-24 January 2019 Venue: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London, UK The eightieth anniversary of the scheme that permitted over 10,000 unaccompanied, mostly Jewish, children to enter the UK in 1938-39 seems a fitting time to approach a new, critical assessment of the Kindertransport and its origins, rationales, enactment and outcomes. This interdisciplinary conference…
Organizers: Henning Borggräfe, Christian Höschler, Isabel Panek, Department of Research and Education at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. Venue: Bad Arolsen Date: 8-9 October 2018 Deadline for Papers: 1 April 2018 In the autumn of 1948, search bureaus of various European states accepted an invitation from the recently established International Tracing Service…
The International Journal of Military History and Historiography will commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the start of the Second World War with a special issue dedicated to the wartime experiences of women. The literature of the Second World War has shifted from a narrow focus on political, military and diplomatic interpretations of the origins and…
Second World War Research Group Annual Conference, 14-15 June 2018. Strand Campus, King’s College, London. Keynotes: Prof. Nicholas Stargardt (Oxford) and Dr. Daniel Todman (Queen Mary) For the major Allied powers, the Second World War has long been seen as a ‘good’ war. This has led to a mythologised version of the conflict developing in…
Extended deadline to 30th November 2017 Special Issue: “Close encounters in irregular and asymmetric warfare” Close Encounters in War Journal is a new independent and peer-reviewed journal aimed at studying war as a human experience, through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches ranging from the Humanities to the Social Sciences. The launch issue (n. 0) of Close…
Close Encounters in War Journal is a new independent and peer-reviewed journal aimed at studying war as a human experience, through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches ranging from the Humanities to the Social Sciences. The launch issue (n. 0) of Close Encounters in War Journal will be a Special Issue dedicated specifically to irregular warfare and…
February 24, 2018 – Salle Marc Bloch, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France) Second World War historiography has largely focused, after 1945, on national particularisms and on regional and national perspectives. These studies highlight the history or the microhistory of a society in a small or large geographical area, confronted with the disruption of a war,…