A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
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…
Sunday-Thursday, June 3-7, 2018, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are pleased to invite applications for…
Dear colleagues, I’m happy to announce that my research on the Soviet Guerrilla’s Intelligence was published by the Hebrew University Publishing House (Magnes Press) and Yad Vashem. The book is based on my extensive archival research (13 archives) in the Former Soviet Union and Germany and contains a completely unique information about the Soviet Partisans…
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…
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,…
Conference at the German Historical Institute London, 26–28 April 2018 Brexit, the Basque country, Kashmir – the drawing of social and spatial boundaries, the question of belonging, and the creation of identity are at the heart of many current debates. They are based on general political, social, and economic developments and the historical experience of…
Second World War literature is so voluminous it’s almost limitless. It is, however, swollen by many superficial studies that crowd the historiography. Their views are myopic and the scope limited. This book starts from the supposition that the Second World War was a mosaic of overlapping conflicts rather than a two-sided affair between massive alliance…
A one-day workshop (11 April 2018) hosted at King’s College, London as part of the AHRC-funded Teaching and Learning War Research Network to explore the latest research into the history, memory and representation of the Second World War (including the Holocaust) from an international comparative perspective. The event will conclude with a publicly accessible roundtable…
International Forum, Willy Brandt Center Wrocław in corporation with the foundation „Rememberance, Responsibility and the Future” (EVZ), Wrocław/Poland, September 27-30, 2017. The three day international forum provides the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences around the commemoration of forced labor in Europe during World War II. In various formats like public talks, workshops and excursions,…