Forthcoming Military History Conferences/Lectures

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"2015 Conference on “Gender, War, and Memory in the Anglo-American World,” October 1 - 3

University of Mississippi

Oxford, Mississippi

The Center for Civil War Research and the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History at the University of Mississippi, in conjunction with WAR-Net, are pleased to announce the 2015 Conference on “Gender, War, and Memory in the Anglo-American World.” The conference uses the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, the 100th anniversary of the First World War, and the 75th anniversary of the Blitz as an opportunity to bring together scholars of gender, memory, and war on both sides of the Atlantic.

Three keynote panels covering each war will pair a scholar from the United States and United Kingdom. Keynote speakers include Professor Susan-Mary Grant of Newcastle University (UK), Professor Michael Roper of the University of Essex (UK), Professor Kimberly Jenson of Western Oregon University, Professor Leisa Meyer of the College of William and Mary, Professor Gill Plain of St. Andrews University (UK), and Professor Anne Sarah Rubin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Panel sessions will be held beginning at 2:30pm October 1st through 5:00pm October 3rd at the Butler Auditorium at the University of Mississippi. All sessions and keynotes are free and open to the public.

For more information on the 2015 Conference on “Gender, War, and Memory in the Anglo-American World,” and a full list of panel sessions, please visit -http://www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu/Conference2015.shtml.

 

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"Manchester Military History on Tour

Waterloo 1815, The Why, The Who, The How With controversies and some extraordinary facts

Friday 25th September 7:30pm Didsbury Old Parsonage

As part of the MMHS "on tour" programme we will be visiting Didsbury Civic Society on Friday 25th September 2015. MMHS stalwart Tim Cockitt will be delivering his Waterloo talk at the Old Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury Manchester M20 2RQ

More Information http://didsburycivicsociety.org.uk/

Time: 7:30pm £3 pay on the door"

 

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"It is now only a year until the 2016 Fields of Conflict Conference between 22-25 September 2016.
The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Trinity College Dublin is delighted to host this flagship three-day conference in conflict, battlefield and military archaeology. The conference aims to provide an opportunity for scholars to present, discuss and debate their research in this highly significant discipline.

The conference invites submissions of papers or posters on all aspects of conflict archaeology from all periods. Papers should be presented in English and be of 20 minutes duration (there will be a further 10 minutes for discussion and questions). Suggested topics are:
Aspects of 1916 (eg. in relation to the Easter Rising, Battle of the Somme or Siege of Kut)
Heritage Management of Battlefields and Conflict Sites
Commemoration, Memorialisation and Remembrance
Landscapes of Conflict
Experimental and Combat Archaeology
Methodological Approaches
Archaeology of Maritime Conflict
Please include a short biographical profile with your proposed paper or poster. Please note: full written papers must be submitted electronically by 22 May 2016. It is intended that a peer-reviewed publication will follow the conference.
Please send abstracts (approx. 200 words), to fieldsofconflict2016@gmail.com by 1st January 2016. Successful proposals will be notified by 1st February 2016.

Here are some appropriate links.
WEB SITE DETAILS - https://fieldsofconflict.wordpress.com/
CALL FOR PAPERS - https://fieldsofconflict.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ "

 

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"MANCHESTER MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY
T-Time A history of The Royal Navy T (Triton) Class Submarines
7.30pm Tuesday 13th October 2015

Stephen Clarke recalls the Royal Navy T (Triton) Class Submarines: 1934-1977."

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"Manchester Military History Society
"Custer and The Battle of the Little Big Horn"
Tuesday 10th November 2015
7.30pm

Tony McMylor looks at the life of the enigmatic "boy general" and annihilation of five companies of the 7th Cavalry in June 1876 at this iconic battle of American history.

All are welcome and a lively discussion is guaranteed!"
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"MANCHESTER MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY
"The 2015 Christmas Special"

It's our annual Christmas Special on Tuesday 8th December 2015 at 7.30pm

Please indicate which meal you would like on this link.

It's different from our normal format and includes food and a number of short pieces.

Let us know your ideas and we will try and fit them in.

Previous years have included:
Pigeons in WW2
Military Inventions which didn't actually get produced
The Truck as hero
"Military Eccentric of the year" ...
"A bit of a Spitfire" (... featuring a bit of a Spitfire!)
A book auction
A surprise Quiz
All are welcome and a lively discussion is guaranteed!

Admission £4 per attendee including food.

For further info and to add to your calendar click here."
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"CALL FOR PAPERS​

11th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology​

43rd Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology​

Porto, Portugal, 26–30 July 2016​

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Proposals are sought for papers to be presented in the 11th Annual Symposium of the Social History of Military Technology (SSHMT), scheduled as part of the program for the 43rd Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), Porto, Portugal, 26–30 July 2016. The general theme selected for the 2016 ICOHTEC symposium is: Technology, Innovation, and Sustainability: historical and contemporary narratives. In submitting a proposal for SSHMT, you are encouraged, but not required, to address the ICOHTEC themes. For the 2016 ICOHTEC conference as a whole, including information about accommodations, travel grants, and so forth, see: www.icohtec.org/annual-meeting-2016.html.
[SIZE=12pt]SSHMT, a regular part of the ICOHTEC annual meeting since 2005, strives to move beyond the narrow material focus of fans, antiquarians, and even some historians. The history of military technology usually centers on weaponry, warships, fortifications, or other physical manifestations of warfare, emphasizing how they were made or how they worked. Historians have also tended to assume a strictly utilitarian and rational basis for military technological invention and innovation. However necessary they may be, such approaches largely ignore some very important questions. What are the contexts of social values, attitudes, and interests, non-military as well as military, that shape and support (or oppose) these technologies? How does the social order reciprocally interact with military technology? Or, more generally: How do social and cultural environments within the military itself or in the larger society affect military technological change? And the indispensable corollary: How does changing military technology affect other aspects of society and culture? In brief, [/SIZE]this symposium will address military technology as both agent and object of social change, taking a very broad view that encompasses not only the production, distribution, use, and replacement of weapons and weapon systems, but also communications, logistics, medicine, and other technologies of military relevance as well as sciences of military interest.
We seek papers about: (1) representations of weapons as well as weapons themselves, about ideas as well as hardware, about organization as well as materiel; (2) ways in which social class, race, gender, culture, economics, politics, or other extra-military factors have influenced and been influenced by the invention, r&d, diffusion, or use of weapons or other military technologies; (3) the roles that military technologies play in shaping and reshaping the relationships of soldiers to other soldiers; soldiers to military, political, and social institutions; and military institutions to other social institutions, most notably political and economic; and/or (4) historiographical or museological topics that discuss how military technology has been analyzed, interpreted, and understood in other fields, other cultures, and other times. Pre-modern and non-Western topics are particularly welcome.
Please keep in mind that conference presentations are not complete research papers. You will be allotted no more than 20 minutes to speak, and possibly as little as 16 minutes. Precise times available to speakers will be determined after the program is complete. All participants are encouraged to submit the full, annotated versions of their papers as articles to Vulcan: The International Journal of the Social History of Military Technology. Articles should be submitted to the editor, Bart Hacker, at: hacker@si.edu. For more about Vulcan, including sample issues and a stylesheet, see www.Brill.com/Vulcan.
[SIZE=12pt]Do not submit your paper proposal to ICOHTEC[/SIZE][SIZE=12pt]. The symposium is being co-organized by Bart Hacker and Ciro Paoletti. Send your proposal to Bart Hacker at: [/SIZE]<hackerb@si.edu>, no later than 10 January 2016, but earlier is better. He will assemble and submit the complete symposium. Please feel free to distribute this CFP to anyone you believe may be interested and qualified."

 

Not actually a conference, but probably still worth a visit-
"SAND TO SNOW: GLOBAL WAR 1915
May 1, 2015 - April 10, 2016, Exhibit Hall

The year 1915 was pivotal in terms of the world-wide involvement in the war. World War I was the first truly global war starting in Europe, then spreading to Africa, Asia and the Near East. The European powers mobilized their colonies and commonwealths around the world. Soldiers and laborers from Southeast Asia, India, Africa and the Caribbean were sent to Europe and the Near East to fight. Particularly, the British Commonwealth nations of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa made a decisive impact.

Sand to Snow: Global War 1915 illustrates the convergence of diverse military, political, economic and social forces of the combatant nations and neutral countries. The faces, actions, voices and objects of the people, often from an individual viewpoint, serve as our guides. Their contributions and sacrifices are the central themes.

The exhibition showcases objects and documents from more than 20 countries across the world – the most encompassing special exhibition in the Museum’s history – including Bulgaria, The Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, Australia, India, Germany, Montenegro, Poland and the United States. The vast majority of items are on exhibition for the first time at the Museum.

The diversion of European factories to war production disrupted the entire world economy. To fight a global war the combatant nations incurred enormous debts to produce the weapons, ammunition and equipment necessary. Soldiers and sailors fighting across the globe required uniforms, supplies and food."
https://theworldwar.org/explore/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/sand-snow

 

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"Manchester Miitary History Society
Tuesday, 12th January 2016
"Great Military Innovations"

Firstly we would like to wish a Happy New Year to all our members.

For our January meeting members of the committee will be presenting their personal views on the greatest military innovations.

All are welcome and a lively discussion is guaranteed!"
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"Centre For The Study Of Modern Conflict
University of Edinburgh
On the 20th of January, Politics and International Relations and the Centre for Security Research (CeSeR) are delighted to host distinguished critical war studies scholar Dr. Tarak Barkawi (LSE).

He will give a lecture on 'Orientalism and War - Why Small Wars have Big Consequences', at 16:00 in Lecture Theatre 3 in 7 Bristo Square.

In the morning, PhD students are additionally given the opportunity to attend a Workshop with Tarak on critical war studies, which will take place from 11:00 to 13:00 in a place TBC followed by a sandwich lunch. If you are interested in attending the workshop, please send a quick email to Lisa Schweiger at eschweig@ed.ac.uk

Tarak Barkawi is Reader in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests concern armed conflict between the West and the non-European world in historical and contemporary perspective. He has written on colonial armies, 'small wars' and imperial warfare, the Cold War in the Third World, and on counterinsurgency and the War on Terror. More generally, he is interested in the place of armed force in histories and theories of globalization, modernization and imperialism, especially from a postcolonial perspective."

 

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"MANCHESTER MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY ON TOUR
WW2 Invasion Defences In The North-west

Monday 1st February 7:15pm at the Alderley Edge Methodist Church, Cheshire

Fortified pubs, hedgehogs and dragons teeth! - hear about the network of defences that was hastily built all over the British Isles in 1940 to prevent an anticipated German invasion.

MMHS Secretary Ian Sanders details the fascinating story behind the varied and ingenious types of defences in the North West and shows where to find still intact defences that remain almost 80 years later.

More Information http://alderleyhistorygroup.org.uk/

Time: 7:15pm £3.50 pay on the door"

 

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"Manchester Military History Society
'Field Surgery in the History of War'
Tuesday 9th February 2016
7.30pm

Martyn Lovell, Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon in South Manchester and keen medal collector will be presenting this talk.
Martyn is also a keen military historian and researcher and has has 10 years service in the RAMC TA.

All are welcome and a lively discussion is guaranteed!"
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The Battle for Lake Tanganyika 1915-1916 Mimi and Toutou Go To War
Tim Stoneman
A lecture and sandwich lunch 12.30-2.00pm Wednesday 17th February 2016
Hosted by The Fusiliers Museum London in the Officer's Mess of The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
HM Tower of London.

Fund raising talk for the Battlefields Trust and the Fusiliers Museum

In what was truly a World War, a campaign was waged in the heart of Africa, thousands of miles from the North Sea and the Western Front. The Kaiser's ships dominated the waters of Lake Tanganyika, on the western flank of Oberstleutnant von Lettow-Worbeck's troops in German East Africa.

A small force of Royal Naval vessels was sent to give battle; in the course of a deployment lasting fourteen months, the actions of this little flotilla resulted in the capture or sinking of all the German vessels without the loss of a single RN officer or rating, leaving Britain and her Belgian ally in control of the Lake. The actions even inspired a major film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn!

Tim Stoneman is a member of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides who left the RN in 2007 after 35 years as a warfare officer. He has a wide knowledge of naval conflict, and has been guiding tour groups on battlefields for many years, both whilst in uniform and since retiring.

Booking details here https://www.justgiving.com/Mimiandtoutougotowar

Causes:
The Battlefields Trust http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/
Fusiliers Museum http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/

 

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"Great War in the Middle East, 1911-1923 Conference - Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 20-21 April 2016
Type: Conference
Date: April 20, 2016 to April 21, 2016
Location: United Kingdom
Subject Fields: Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, Diplomacy and International Relations, Middle East History / Studies, Military History, World History / Studies
This major international conference, organised jointly by the War Studies Department of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford, will re-examine the origins, conduct and consequences of the First World War in the Middle East. The voluminous historiography of the conflict remains, however, focused on the European experience of 1914-18. This conference brings together historians of the Middle East and the First World War to discuss this formative event and to relate the Great War to the broader period of conflict that affected the Ottoman Empire from 1911 to 1923.

The conference will provide a forum for scholars from around the world to examine the complexities of the Middle East’s Great War, and to discuss new avenues for research and debate. This was a region in which the great imperial powers of the early twentieth century struggled for control, and the resulting conflict unleashed powerful nationalist, imperial, religious, and ethnic dynamics that continue to both fascinate historians and to shape the region to this day. The conference will address these inter-related factors, and their role in the breaking and making of empires and nation-states in the Middle East. In doing so, the breadth of papers and discussions will integrate military, social, cultural, and political histories together to provide a broader history of the Middle East and the First World War.

Conference Registration Fee: £100

* Reduced fee for postgraduate students and early career researchers of £75 *

(Book by 19 February to secure reduced fee)

Accommodation and dinners can also be booked as optional extras. If you are interested in attending please email Dr James Kitchen for a copy of the conference information pack, booking form and the security form:

james.kitchen101@mod.uk

Conference Programme

Wednesday 20 April 2016

09.30 – 10.30 Registration

10.30 – 10.40 Welcome and Opening Remarks

RMAS Commandant and Director of Studies

10.40 – 12.30 Panel 1: Global Strategy and the Middle East

Chair: Matthew Hughes (Brunel)

James Renton (Edge Hill) – The British Idea of the Middle East and its Consequences

Hervé François (Historial de la Grande Guerre) – France

Christopher Read (Warwick) – Great Game, Great War, Great Revolution: Continuity and Change in Russian and Soviet Policy in the Middle East 1914-22

Peter Lieb (ZMSBw, Potsdam) – German Policy towards the Middle East in 1918

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

13.30 – 15.30 Panel 2: Beliefs and War

Chair: John Darwin (Oxford)

Adrian Gregory (Oxford) – Western ‘Crusading’ in the Middle East

Roberto Mazza (Limerick) – Alone, with the Enemy or With God? The Christian Churches of Palestine during the War

John Slight (Cambridge) – Jihad Beyond the Ottoman Empire

15.30 – 16.00 Break

16.00 – 18.00 Panel 3: Military Operations and Adaptation

Chair: James Kitchen (RMAS)

Kaushik Roy (Jadavpur) – Learning and Fighting: The Indian Army in Mesopotamia and Syria, 1914-1918

Aimée Fox-Godden (Birmingham) – ‘From Experience Gained in France’: Disseminating and Adapting Western Front Lessons in the Middle Eastern Theatres, 1914-1918

Metin Gurcan (Bilkent) – Gallipoli

19.00 Formal Conference Dinner (Optional – must be booked separately)

Thursday 21 April 2016

09.30 – 11.00 Panel 4: Imperial Home Fronts and ‘Total War’

Chair: Roberto Mazza (Limerick)

Leila Fawaz (Tufts) – Civilians and Soldiers in the Levant 1914-1918

Mario Ruiz (Hofstra) – Martial Law, Rural Labourers, and the Egyptian Home Front, 1914-1918

Oliver Bast (Manchester) – ‘The Rape of Persia’? – World War I in Neutral Iran as a Humanitarian Disaster

11.00 – 11.30 Break

11.30 – 13.00 Panel 5: Tactics and Combat in the Middle East

Chair: Robert Johnson (Oxford)

David Murphy (Maynooth) – The Arab Revolt, 1916-18: Sideshow or Major Campaign?

Nikolas Gardner (RMC Canada) – Tactics and Morale in Indian Expeditionary Force ‘D’, 1915-1916

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30 Panel 6: Building and Challenging Post-War Empires

Chair: Peter Lieb (ZMSBw, Potsdam)

James Kitchen (RMAS) – Egypt 1919: The British Army and Counter-Revolutionary Operations

Robert Fletcher (Warwick) – Britain's Borderlands in the Post-Ottoman World

Michael Provence (UCSD) – Ottoman Military Culture and Anti-colonial Insurgency in Greater Syria

15.30 – 16.00 Break

16.00 – 17.30 Panel 7: Representations of the First World War in the Middle East

Chair: Adrian Gregory (Oxford)

Justin Fantauzzo (Memorial University, St John’s) – Amongst Gyppos, Jews, Arabs, and Abdul: Imperial Soldiers and the Levant in Inter-war Fiction

Nadia Atia (QMUL) – Murder in Mesopotamia: Agatha Christie’s Life and Work in the Middle East

Jenny Macleod (Hull) – Memory/Representation of Gallipoli

Gizem Tongo (Oxford) – Ottoman Art of the First World War

Alev Karaduman (Hacipteppe University) – Ottoman Literature and Modern Turkey

19.00 Buffet Dinner (Optional – must be booked separately)



Contact Info:
Dr James Kitchen

War Studies Department

Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Camberley

Surrey, GU15 4PQ

UK"
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"MANCHESTER MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY
The Battle of the Atlantic Operational Research"
Tuesday 8th March 2016
7.30pm

While most people are aware of the contributions of allied scientists and engineers to the war effort through, for example, the development of Radar, the Engima programme, jet engines etc. Far fewer are aware of the work of a small group who applied scientific methods to operational and tactical problems.

Their work significantly improved allied fighting effectiveness in a number of areas and founded the modern discipline of Operational Research in the process.

The first operational researchers worked with RAF Coastal Command and later the Admiralty during the Battle of the Atlantic. This talk gives an introduction to their work and the impact they had illustrated by examining a few key projects and setting them in the context of the battle as a whole.

All are welcome and a lively discussion is guaranteed!"
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"A reminder that the next Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict seminar takes place on 8th March at 6.00pm in room G.05, 50 George Square.

Our speaker is Lucy Noakes (Brighton), 'Burying the People of the People's War: Death, the Individual and the State in Second World War Britian'.

All welcome.

Regards
Elaine


Elaine Philip
Research Centre and Events Administrator
University of Edinburgh
Room 2.28 School of History, Classics and Archaeology
William Robertson Wing
Old Medical School
Teviot Place
Edinburgh
EH8 9AG"

 

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"Call for Papers-
The 8th Modern Conflict Archaeology Conference
University of Bristol
Saturday, October 15th 2016"

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"2016 Symposium by the World War One Historical Association in partnership with The General Douglas MacArthur Foundation

This year’s theme: “1916: Sex, Planes, and Disasters”

The program includes speakers on Verdun, warship development and Jutland, the Brusilov Offensive, the British army and the Somme, and the USA in 1916, plus aerial bombardment and more!

Full symposium package: $195 if you register by 30 June; $225 by 19 September; or $255 by 21 October.

$55 for additional Friday night dinner banquet tickets.

There are also one-day options with and without the dinner banquet, plus tickets are offered for just the tour of the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach. Download the Symposium Program Book for full program details.

Location: MacArthur Memorial and Museum, Norfolk, Virginia. http://macarthurmemorial.org/"
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"Manchester Military History Society

"The Desert Battle of Qatia 23rd April 1916"

Tuesday 12th April 2016

7.30pm


Stuart Hadaway is the author of acclaimed book "Pyramids and Fleshpots - The Egyptian, Senussi and Eastern Mediterranean Campaigns, 1914-16" and "From Gaza to Jerusalem - The Campaign for Southern Palestine 1917"

He describes the Battle of Qatia on 23rd April 1916 which was fought during the Defence of the Suez Canal Campaign of World War 1.

Stuart's books will also be available for sale at special discounted prices (Cheaper than Amazon!) Prices and details on this link. Click here

All are welcome and a lively discussion is guaranteed!"
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