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Conference: Solidarias: Voluntary involvement and actions of the foreign women in the Spanish Civil War

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Paris, 24-26 october 2018 Conference website: http://solidarias2018.com/index.php/en/accueil-solidarias-2018-en/ The Spanish Civil War is one of the most studied events in 20th century European historiography. However, some phenomena related to the conflict are still unknown or underestimated. The ways in which Spanish women participated in the conflict on both sides have been examined in the works of…

Witnesses of Effort and Tragedy: The Exhibition of Posters from the Spanish Civil War in Prague

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Zdenko Maršálek In Prague, the exhibition of posters from the Spanish Civil War opened on 6th April 2017. The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with the National Archives in Prague and the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The opening ceremony included a brief lecture by Dr. Zdenko Maršálek from the…

CfP: Fascist Warfare: A Concept to Understand Fascism and Total War in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

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UAB, Barcelona, March 16-17 2017 Organising Committee: Javier Rodrigo, David Alegre and Miguel Alonso Grup d’Estudis República i Democràcia, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona The main aim of this conference is to debate about the existence of a specific way of making war typical of fascism, that is to say,…