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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Occupation Studies Research Network – members’ conference:
Themes, Approaches, and Future Possibilities

10-11 July 2025, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
Organisers: Dr Christopher Knowles (King’s College London), Dr Camilo Erlichman (Maastricht University), Dr Christopher Dillon (King’s College London)

Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2024

The first in-person conference of the Occupation Studies Research Network will be held on 10-11 July 2025 in central London at King’s College London.

The Occupation Studies Research Network was launched in September 2021. The Network currently has over 140 members including PhD students, postdoctoral and early career academics, senior staff and full professors from universities, museums and archives and other higher education institutions across the world. It acts as a hub for the global community of scholars actively researching the phenomenon of military occupation and, in doing so, facilitates the exchange of ideas and encourages a more systematic, comprehensive and interdisciplinary conceptual understanding of the subject. The Network runs an academic Blog that now includes 36 articles, and has so far also organised two seminars and two workshops.

The Network’s first-in person conference is intended to give members the opportunity to present their research, discuss their research agendas, and obtain feedback from an expert audience.

The keynote presentation will be given by Professor Ismee Tames (Utrecht University and NIOD, the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) on ‘Who decides what an occupation is? Reflections on territories, regimes and experiences.’ Professor Tames is the author of Fighters across Frontiers: Global Resistance in Europe 1936-1938 and Global War, Global Catastrophe: Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformation of the First World War.

Panel sessions will be structured with up to four 15-minute presentations, selected from responses to this CfP. Additional time will be provided for open discussion, the exchange of ideas, and networking. To give as many members as possible the opportunity to present papers and receive feedback, panel sessions will run in parallel.

Proposals are invited from Network members:
  • to organise a panel with several speakers or
  • to submit an individual paper, which, if selected, the organisers will allocate to a relevant panel.
Panel proposals with up to four presentations, organised around a theme that cuts across different cases of military occupation. are particularly encouraged by the conference organisers.

Proposals from academic scholars who are not currently Network members are also welcome, provided they join the Network before participating in the conference. Membership is free of charge and open to academic scholars working at PhD level or above in any relevant discipline.

The conference organisers will select proposals that in their view make the best overall contribution to the objectives of the Network.

Suggested themes for panels include:
 
1. Occupation and Empire
Occupation and empire are both forms of foreign rule, generally if not exclusively imposed and maintained by force or the threat thereof. Ruling techniques, experiences gained, and lessons learned may be transferred and applied from one case to another. Military occupation may be implemented during a ‘state of emergency’ in an imperial territory or adopted as an alternative to the incorporation of a territory in a more formal imperial structure. Occupation by a former imperial power, or by its allies, or by rivals for global or regional hegemony, may also follow decolonisation and independence, in which case occupation may form part of informal empire and soft power structures. Yet the historiography of empire is currently quite separate from the historiography of occupation. Can the categories of analysis that are most used in cases of occupation also be applied to the study of imperial projects, and vice versa? Topics and themes that potentially apply to both occupation and empire include, inter alia, ruling techniques, legal and constitutional structures, sovereignty, cultural transfer, violent and transgressive actions, resistance and collaboration, economic exploitation or ‘development’, social interactions, reconciliation, re-education, transitional justice, coming to terms with the past, memories and legacies.
 
2. Occupation and humanitarian aid  
Occupation is often associated with forced migration and population displacement, economic disruption, and sometimes widespread and severe famine and starvation. Many international, public and private organisations have been established to provide humanitarian aid to alleviate suffering, but the provision of aid can be especially difficult in conditions of occupation. How has the provision of humanitarian aid developed over time, can specific cases be usefully compared, and what are the prospects for the future?
 
3. The lived experience of occupation
How did the local civilian population experience and perceive occupation and how did it affect their daily lives at home, work and in public or semi-public spaces, such as shops, marketplaces and streets? Can similarities be identified across otherwise very different cases of occupation, for example in the implementation of requisitioning and the loss of living space, in forced labour, in shortages of food and essential supplies, or in restrictions on movement? How did occupation affect personal and family relationships? What was the nature of the encounters and interactions that took place between occupiers and occupied, both in the course of their work and socially? How did both occupiers and occupied describe and make sense of their experiences both at the time and later? What stories did they tell about their own and other’s experiences? How did they perceive the transition from war to occupation? And how did they perceive liberation or the end of occupation and the withdrawal of occupying troops? 
 
4. Occupation and International Law          
Occupation is a historical phenomenon that can be explored by studying what happened in specific cases, how these compare with each other and through identifying cross-cutting themes that illustrate how policies and practices changed and developed over time. Occupation is also a condition that is recognised and regulated by international law, interpreted in national and international courts of law, and discussed and analysed by legal scholars. What can historians, political scientists and international lawyers who are actively researching the subject usefully learn from each other? How has the law of occupation developed over time, how has it been applied in practice, and is it still fit for purpose?              
 
5. Unrecognised or forgotten occupations
There are many cases that have been described as occupations by scholars, but that the occupying state claimed at the time were not actually cases of occupation: because the occupier was actually the legitimate sovereign of the territory; because a puppet government installed by the occupier was legitimate and did not depend for its survival on the occupying power; or because the occupiers’ armed services were present in the territory for other reasons, such as ‘liberation’, ‘peace-keeping’, ‘regime change’, or to protect against a real or imagined external threat. In other instances, occupations have disappeared from collective memory after their conclusion, often for political reasons. What can we learn from cases of ‘unrecognised’ or ‘forgotten’ occupations and what insights do they provide for Occupation Studies more generally?
 
6. Violent occupations
Some cases of occupation have been especially violent. Why have some cases of occupation been more violent than others? How should violence by armed forces, and by civilian authorities during a time of occupation, be studied and interpreted? How have the issues of retribution, compensation, reparation and justice for victims been addressed following the end of occupation and what were the outcomes? Can any general conclusions be drawn from studying different cases, or were they so context dependent that it is better to examine each case separately? 
 
7. Occupation as transformation
Occupation is often associated with significant changes that, it is claimed, could not have occurred in other circumstances. In some cases, one of the occupier’s principal aims may have been to remove the existing government and impose ‘regime change’ on the occupied state. To achieve this, they may conduct a political purge of former government ministers, leading officials and their supporters. Occupiers may also apply deliberate ‘re-education’ policies to promote social and cultural change. In other cases, one or more local political parties or social groups may achieve sufficient power during an occupation, perhaps with the support of the occupier, to secure long-standing aims that they had not been able to achieve earlier. Some social and economic groups may have emerged from occupation with enhanced power and status, whereas others found that their status within society had been diminished. On the other hand, such changes during an occupation period may be reversed when the occupier leaves and former elites return to power. To what extent has occupation influenced the future political, economic, social and cultural trajectory of a territory, a state or a region?  
 
8. Occupation as a catalyst for national, cultural or personal identity
Occupiers may attempt to exploit regional, ethnic, social or religious differences within an occupied state or territory to ‘divide and rule’ and maintain their own authority as the ruling power. Those resisting an occupation, on the other hand, may appeal to a sense of national identity to justify their actions and attract support from the wider population. Following liberation, those who resisted occupation are often feted as patriotic heroes, while collaborators may be branded as traitors. How has the experience and memory of occupation, from the nineteenth century to the present day, influenced the construction and projection of national, cultural and personal identities, in literature, in film, and in the subsequent historiography? 
 
9. Occupation during Civil War
Occupation is often understood as foreign rule and the international laws of war, as codified at the Hague Conventions, apply to conflicts between nation states, not to internal conflicts within a state. During the course of a civil war, however, both sides may occupy territory over which they exercise de facto control, while their claim to sovereignty over that territory is not recognised by the other side, nor by the local civilian population. There are also cases where a former sovereign has renounced their claim to act as the legitimate supreme authority, but there is no obvious successor, and different factions fight each other to gain control over parts of the country. To what extent should such cases be considered as military occupation, and discussed and analysed in similar ways to occupation during and after conflicts between nation states? 
 
If you wish to organise a panel on one of these themes, or on another theme that you consider to be important and relevant to Occupation Studies (such as ‘New Research Methodologies and Approaches to Occupation Studies’, ‘Occupation and the Environment’, ‘Occupation and Gender’), please submit a proposal including a brief rationale for the panel (max. 300 words), the name of the proposed chair/discussant and a short CV, together with the proposed contributors’ names and affiliation and the titles and abstracts (max. 300 words) for no more than four papers. Panel organisers may contribute a paper and/or act as chair/discussant themselves. Joint proposals are welcome from members who would like to work together to organise and contribute to a panel.
 
If you wish to propose an individual paper, please submit a title and abstract (max. 300 words) as well as a brief CV.
 
All submissions should be sent to Dr Christopher Knowles (christopher.knowles@kcl.ac.uk) who is acting as the conference administrator.
 
The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2024. Applicants will be notified of the outcome by the end of September 2024. Any enquiries should be directed to the conference administrator.
 
There is no conference fee and refreshments will be provided free of charge to participants on both conference days. We regret that the Network does not have sufficient funds to pay travel expenses or the cost of accommodation in London. Contributors will therefore have to either pay travel and accommodation costs themselves or obtain funding for this from other sources (such as from their own institution).
 
The conference is organised by the Occupation Studies Research Network and supported by the Arts and Humanities faculty of Kings College, London.


CALL FOR PAPERS
Understanding the Future of Air Power: Air Forces since 1980 and Beyond
Thursday 5 – Friday 6 September 2024

Organiser: Royal Air Force Museum
Place and Date: Royal Air Force Museum London, Thursday 5 – Friday 6 September 2023.
Application deadline: 28th April 2024.
Submission Type: Abstract, plus a biography and talk title.
Form of Submission: Maximum 300 words in English. Biographies should be no more than 200 words.
Applications to be sent to: megan.kelleher@rafmuseum.org

Hosted at the Royal Air Force Museum’s London site, this two-day conference will explore the complex ways in which air forces have evolved and transformed since the late twentieth century, and what the future of air power may look like. The conference will be interdisciplinary and will host scholars working on topics that relate to air forces, their personnel and technologies, the economies and societies with which they interact, the conflicts in which they have engaged, and the global and international context with which they are connected. Moreover, the conference will explore the legacies of the time period through the lens of the media produced to tell its story, both contemporary to the time period and as part of commemorative works.

The conference will be available to attend in-person, with recordings of the talks and panels being live-streamed and recorded online via Crowdcast.

The research presented will provide new evidence and insights on the development of air forces, speaking to the changes and continuity experienced since 1980. The research presented will help inform the Museum’s new exhibition on the recent development of British air power.

We would welcome papers on a variety of topics which examine topics that include, but are not limited to, the following questions:

  • What were the causes of the changes experienced by the Royal Air Force since 1980?
  • How has the field of air power evolved as a consequence of these developments?
  • What challenges have been faced by air forces facing reductions in expenditure?
  • What lessons from earlier periods help to inform the changes that the RAF experienced during this period?
  • How do changes in society create pressures for air forces, particularly in recruitment, retention and operations?
  • What does the future of air power and the Royal Air Force look like?
If you are interested in delivering a paper, or proposing a discussion panel, please send a lecture title, abstract and biography to the Museum’s Historian and Academic Access Manager, Dr Megan Kelleher megan.kelleher@rafmuseum.org by Sunday 28th April 2024.

We would particularly welcome papers from Masters and Doctoral Researchers, in addition to Early Career Researchers. There are a limited number of bursaries for those requiring financial support to present at the conference; please speak to Dr Megan Kelleher for more details.


CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Virginia Museum of History & Culture’s 2024 History Matters Symposium invites proposals for their upcoming conference, which will be held on September 7, 2024 at the VMHC. The full call for proposals can be viewed at https://virginiahistory.org/2024-vmhc-history-matters-symposium. Application deadline is April 12.


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, PAPERS & PEER REVIEWERS:
Theme issue for American Behavioral Scientist titled:
 "A Sampling of Pre-Internet Networked Operations"

We are soliciting essays for a survey of 1960s military operations such as: COINTELPRO (US); CHAOS (US); Phoenix (Vietnam); Condor (in South America); ORDEN (El Salvador); Jakarta (Indonesia); OBAN (Brazil) and other operations, both inside and outside the US. These operations networked societies prior to the advent of the Internet. Authors are requested to include whatever information they can cite regarding how evident or non-evident the communication equipment was that supported these operations; what the operations consisted of in terms of staffing and hardware; what the operations were used for; and, how much the operations contributed to social and financial inequality and political polarization, in the populations they monitored.

Research article proposals are requested for an issue of American Behavioral Scientist guest edited by Noel Packard Ph.D. and Dr. Bradley Simpson, professor of history and author of Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960-1968. The issue is entitled: "A Sampling of Pre-Internet Networked Operations"
 
The full Call for Papers can be found at https://www.cfplist.com/CFP/40855.
 
If interested, please submit an abstract of 250 words describing your longer essay (5,000-10,000) words and a brief bio to Noel Packard, npac825@aucklanduni.ac.nz by 1 October 2024. Full drafts of accepted papers will be due by November 1, 2024.

Tentative Timeline:

  • November 1, 2024: Deadline for submission of draft essays.
  • December 1, 2024: Authors of selected articles are notified of acceptance.
  • March 1, 2025: Authors receive peer reviews.
  • Early September 2025: Authors submit revised manuscripts
  • December 2025: American Behavioral Scientist publishes issue entitled "A Sampling of Pre-Internet Networked Operations"
Please send two copies of the draft essay to lead editor Noel Packard at npac825@aucklanduni.ac.anz

For more information, please send questions to Noel Packard at npac825@aucklanduni.ac.anz .


CALL FOR PAPERS
Please note that the call for papers for the third international conference of the Military Welfare History Network is now open; closing 1 March 2024. The theme of the event is 'Economies of Military Welfare: Conversations between Past and Present'. Papers can address any aspect of the welfare, care and medical provisions afforded to service personnel and their families and can engage with the conference theme relative to money, material, manpower,  services, etc. They can also engage with concepts such as:

  • economies (financial; emotional; social; of scale)
  • economics (individual; familial; military; local or state governments)
  • economical / frugality / thrift / parsimony / budgets / subsistence / poverty  
Topics may include, but are not limited to
  • state and non-state benefits and provisions
  • representations of military welfare recipients' domestic economies of military welfare
  • emotional economies of military welfare
  • mobilising and demobilizing military welfare provision
  • military welfare economies in international perspective
  • race and racial ‘othering’
  • exclusions from military welfare provision.
Full details about the event and how to submit can be found at https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/2965/conference-military-welfare-history-network-2024.


CALL FOR PAPERS
Society for Military History Panels at the 2024 Northern Great Plains History Conference
 
The 59th Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference will be held 25-28 September 2024 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Society for Military History sponsors a full slate of sessions at the NGPHC, and proposals for all types of military history papers are welcomed. Both individual proposals and session proposals are encouraged. For individuals, send a cv and short one-page proposal. For sessions, send a one-page session proposal, a short one-page proposal for each paper, and short cvs for all participants. Deadline for proposals is 17 May 2024. Send proposals, cvs and inquiries to Dr. Mike Burns at smhatngphc@gmail.com. If you would like to volunteer to chair a panel or comment, please contact Mike.
 
For non-SMH sponsored panels, you can send proposals to Dr. Graham Wrightson at graham.wrightson@sdstate.edu by 20 May 2024, indicating “NGPHC” in the subject line. For additional information on the conference, you can visit ngphconference.org.
 
The Society for Military History sponsors the SMH award for the best graduate student paper in Military History at NGPHC. This prize is valued at $400 dollars. For information on competing for this prize please send inquiries to Mike Burns.
 
In addition to the panels, the conference will hold a luncheon for SMH participants and attendees and the SMH will again be sponsoring a reception on Thursday evening, 25 September. Welcome back to Sioux Falls!


CALL FOR PAPERS
Material Matters: It’s in the Details
January 25, 2025

The vast majority of participants in the military events of the long 18th century left no written traces of themselves. Fortunately for scholars, and the public, evidence of their presence survives in material form. From the arms they carried, to the archaeological evidence of their presence, the material experience of soldiering extensively survives if we look carefully. Often seen as mementos or souvenirs of war, or as distinct areas of avocational collecting, military material culture is pervasive, yet understudied, as a rich body of material culture.

However, “military material culture” is not limited to the weapons men wielded or the uniforms they wore. The dense networks of manufacturing supporting early modern militaries connected civilians across the world and expands our definition of this area of study. Furthermore, militaries left their impact on societies through the appropriation and re-use of materials, as well as physically on landscapes shaped by the presence, or absence, of soldiers. Thus, material culture provides a unique and compelling way to engage with topics and individuals for which no written sources survive.

The Fort Ticonderoga Museum seeks papers relating broadly to material culture made, used, or altered in a military context. From soldier’s encounters with domestic furnishings on campaign, to the weapons designed and built for battle. We are seeking new research from established scholars in addition to graduate students, professionals, and artisans that relate to material culture made, used, or altered in a military context between roughly 1609-1815. Papers may engage but are not limited to:

  • Objects made for military purposes
  • Civilian objects used in military contexts
  • Archeological research into sites of military occupation
  • Ephemeral material cultures such as food or fuel
  • Military material culture crossing cultural, national, and geographic lines
  • Construction and fabrication of material culture
  • Craft, trade, experimental archeology, or living history perspectives on material culture
  • Art and representations of material culture in military contexts
This conference takes place online, using Zoom Webinars, on Saturday, January 25, 2025. Sessions are 30 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for audience questions. Traditional illustrated papers, combined with live or recorded videos of trade practice or object analysis, will all be accepted for consideration. Fort Ticonderoga may provide speakers with an honorarium. Please submit a 300 word abstract and CV by email by July 1, 2024 to Richard M. Strum, Director of Academic Programs: rstrum@fort-ticonderoga.org.


CALL FOR PAPERS
RAF Museum’s Academic Lecture Series
April 2024-March 2025

Organiser: Royal Air Force Museum
Place and Date: Virtual, or onsite at the Royal Air Force Museum (London and Midlands), Lancaster and Wolverhampton. Dates TBC upon selection of applications.
Application Deadline: 1 March 2024.
Submission Type: Abstract, plus a biography and talk title.
Form of Submission: Maximum 300 words in English. Biographies should be no more than 200 words.

Applications to be sent to: megan.kelleher@rafmuseum.org

General Information:
The RAF Museum seeks proposals from postgraduate students, early-career and established researchers for our annual Research Lecture Programme. Lectures will be hosted online and at sites in London and the Midlands, and will share new research being undertaken in the fields of Air Power, aviation history and histories of air forces. The lectures enable those interested in these fields of study to share their knowledge, and to highlight the interdisciplinary approaches and research methods being utilised.

The Museum’s 2024 Research Programme will examine Air Power in its broadest sense, encompassing the history of air warfare and the RAF as well as related fields such as archaeology, law and ethics, museology, international relations and strategic studies. Furthermore, papers relating to the future direction of Air and Space Power are also welcome.

For online lectures, speakers have forty-five minutes to present their talk; for lectures held in-person, speakers have up to one hour to present their talk. Talks will be followed by a question and answer section of 30 minutes. All lectures will also be streamed online via Crowdcast.

As part of the Museum’s ongoing commitment to encourage debate regarding Air Power and the history of the RAF, we also host research panels involving a series of shorter-talks followed by an open discussion.

If you are interested in delivering a Lecture, or proposing a discussion panel, please send a lecture title, abstract and biography to the Museum’s Historian and Academic Access Manager, Dr Megan Kelleher megan.kelleher@rafmuseum.org by Friday 1st March 2024.

If you would like to informally discuss the opportunity of presenting a lecture, then you are warmly encouraged to contact the Museum’s historian.


CALL FOR PAPERS
Military Welfare History Network Conference 2024
Economies of Military Welfare: Conversations between past and present
Friday 21 June 2024 – University of Leeds, UK
Deadline for proposals: 1 March 2024
 
Conference overview:
The Military Welfare History Network (MWHN) will hold its third international conference on the 21st June at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. The conference organising committee invites individual paper proposals that fall under the theme of Economies of military welfare: conversations between past and present.
 
The welfare of soldiers and their families, both provision and neglect, is a theme relevant to wars throughout history. Understanding the role of economies - financial, emotional and social – in the success or failure of past military welfare systems is crucial for identifying how societies can structure and improve these systems today.
 
As the levels of conflict grew in the twentieth century, the welfare of soldiers and their families became an ever-increasing priority for the state systems which fund and direct the military. However, in the context of tightening budgets, the ability for states to address this identified need often proved to be incompatible with other state priorities. Indeed, these priorities have often been determined by the post war political context, rather than the outcome of the conflict itself. Whilst recent history points to a greater societal emphasis on welfare provision for ex-combatants, this is an area of concern that is as old as war itself, and which can be located within all combatant nations.
 
Where state support has been limited, it has left those in need of support without. This has often resulted in military communities, or sections of them seeking private support, to obtain the welfare that states and governments are unwilling or unable to deliver. Foremost amongst these alternative providers are charities and philanthropic organisations. Thus, veteran support was located, and continues to be located in a ‘mixed economy of welfare, ’ where state and private welfare co-exist.
 
The welfare systems developed for military communities have come to embrace different aspects of support: financial, emotional and rehabilitative, and developments in this last field have often been adopted for civilian use by the state. Yet despite this relationship, civilian groups can resent what they perceive to be preferential treatment for veterans, whilst the latter group can feel let down by the levels of government provision. This in turn can cause further challenges, as the development of an alternative veteran welfare economy can elicit contradictory reactions from its clients; for some communities it can affirm an exalted status, but for others it can engender a sense of marginalization from the mainstream.
 
Researchers from the arts, humanities and social sciences are invited to submit. Papers covering under-represented periods and geographies will be particularly welcomed, and proposals from early career researchers and doctoral students are especially encouraged.
 
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
• state and non-state benefits and provisions
• representations of military welfare recipients
• domestic economies of military welfare
• emotional economies of military welfare
• mobilising and demobilising military welfare provision
• military welfare economies in international perspective
• race and racial ‘othering’
• exclusions from military welfare provision
 
Submission:
Please send proposals for papers to militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com by Friday 1 March 2024. Proposals should include a title and abstract of no more than 250 words, outlining your paper, along with a short biography of no more than 100 words, including any institutional affiliations. You will receive notification of acceptance no later than 22 March 2024.
 
All queries should be directed to militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com
 
MHWN provides a networking and dissemination platform for scholars who are active in military welfare history. The network seeks to bring together scholars in this unique yet diverse area of research to promote their research, expand their networks and develop collaborations.
 
Funding:
MWHN acknowledges the kind support from the University of Leeds and the Economic History
Society.
 
For more information about the MWHN see https://militarywelfarehistory.com/


CALL FOR PAPERS
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CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Echoes of Civil War: Legacies of Internecine Conflicts - Ireland and Beyond’
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson St, Dublin, Friday 26 April 2024

Since ancient times civil wars have been recognised as uniquely tragic conflicts that leave particularly traumatic legacies. In circa 61AD the Roman poet Lucan keenly observed that ‘it is wounds inflicted by the hand of fellow-citizens that have sunk deep’. As the bitter confrontation between pro and anti-Treaty factions spread across Ireland in August 1922 a reluctant Frank Aiken reflected on the musings of an old priest that ‘war with the foreigner brings to the fore all that is best and noblest in a nation, civil war all that is mean and base’.

At a time in human history when internecine struggles are now acknowledged as by far the dominant form of warfare across the world, this one-day academic workshop seeks to explore the complex inheritance of such conflicts in an Irish, European, and global context.

Proposals are invited for individual papers on subjects relating to any and all aspects of the social, political, and cultural impacts of these struggles.

However, a particular emphasis of this workshop will be a comparative examination of the everyday ‘echoes’ of civil wars  in order to assess the frequent commonality of these experiences across space and time.

Confirmed Keynote speakers:

  • Professor Robert Gerwarth, School of History, University College Dublin (UCD); author of The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (2016).
  • Professor Judi Pettigrew, School of Allied Health, University of Limerick (UL); author of Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil War (2013).
This event is being organised by Dr Richard McElligott, Department of Humanities, Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) and is being hosted by the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) and generously supported by the RIA’s ‘2023 Decade of Centenaries Bursary’ scheme.

For more details on Dr McElligott’s ‘Echoes of Civil War project’ visit: https://echoesofcivilwar.com/

Proposals for papers of circa 500 words should be emailed along with a brief biography of the speaker to richard.mcelligott@dkit.ie

The closing date for submissions is Friday 2 February 2024.


CALL FOR PRESENTERS
The Second World War Research Group, North America (SWWRGNA) is a regional branch of a larger global organization (https://www.swwresearch.com) dedicated to promoting scholarly work on the long global Second World War across an international community. We have a few more slots open for chapter- or article-length work in progress (as yet unpublished) to present at our monthly virtual reading group in 2023-2024. 
 
Those who have work on which they would like feedback, or who would like to join the virtual reading group, should contact the SWWRGNA co-directors Mary Kathryn Barbier and Jadwiga Biskupska at swwresearchgroupna@gmail.com.


CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Announcing a New Series from Naval Institute Press
Studies in Marine Corps History and Amphibious Warfare
William A. Taylor, Series Editor
 
This series advances understanding of Marine Corps history and amphibious warfare by publishing original scholarship across a broad spectrum of innovative studies. The series analyzes an extensive array of vital aspects of the Marine Corps, amphibious warfare, and their collective role in global security, including battles, leaders, strategy, operations, tactics, doctrine, technology, personnel, organization, and culture. Incorporating both historical and contemporary perspectives, this series publishes important literature about the Marine Corps and significant works relevant to amphibious warfare that span the globe, feature diverse methodologies, and reach general audiences. As a result, the series provides a professional home, central venue, and premier destination for the best and newest research on Marine Corps history and amphibious warfare.

William A. Taylor is the holder of the Lee Drain Endowed University Professorship, previous department chair, and award-winning professor of global security studies at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he holds an MA degree in history from the University of Maryland, an MA degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University, and MPhil and PhD degrees in history from George Washington University. Taylor is the author or editor of four books, including Military Service and American Democracy (University Press of Kansas) and Every Citizen a Soldier (Texas A&M University Press).

Send inquiries and proposals to william.taylor@angelo.edu.


CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS
New Series – Vernon Press Series in Classical Studies

Vernon Press invites proposals on the history, literature, art, philosophy, political or social structures, religion, languages, or archaeology of the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations for its new Series in Classical Studies.

The classics are the earliest branch of the humanities, with a long history of scholarly value, but the field continues to evolve. The past two decades have seen exciting developments in key research areas, especially material culture, reception studies and gender studies. The books in this series will examine such growth areas, while also being open to more traditional approaches.

Comprising edited volumes, co-authored books and single-author monographs, the series will be useful for senior researchers, scholars and practitioners with an interest in this field of study, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.

To receive more information about submitting a proposal or to discuss your idea, please contact James McGovern: james.mcgovern@vernonpress.com

Information also available on: https://vernonpress.com/proposal/47/24ac37c606272b4a01c1bcc8b4b15627


CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
From Balloons to Drones

Established in 2016, From Balloons to Drones is an online platform that seeks to provide analysis and debate about air power history, theory, and contemporary operations in their broadest sense including space and cyber power. Air power is to be understood broadly, encompassing not only the history of air warfare, including social and cultural aspects but also related fields such as archaeology, international relations, strategic studies, law and ethics.

Since its emergence during the First World War, air power has increasingly become the preferred form of military power for many governments. However, the application and development of air power is controversial and often misunderstood. To remedy this, From Balloons to Drones seeks to provide analysis and debate about air power through the publication of articles, research notes, commentary and book reviews.

From Balloons to Drones welcomes and encourages potential submissions from postgraduates, academics, and practitioners involved in researching the subject of air power. Submissions can take the following forms:

  • Articles – From Balloons to Drones publishes informative articles on air power that range from historical pieces to the analysis of contemporary challenges. These well-researched articles should attempt to bridge a gap between the specialist and non-specialist reader. They should be around c.1,000 to 1,500 words, though From Balloons to Drones will accept larger pieces and we reserve the right to publish them in parts.
  • Air War Books – From Balloons to Drones publishes a series of review articles that examine the top ten books that have influenced writers on air power.
  • Commentaries – From Balloons to Drones publishes opinion pieces on recent news on either contemporary or historical subjects. These should be no longer than c.1,000 words.
  • Research Notes – From Balloons to Drones publishes research notes related to contributor’s current research projects. These take the form of more informal pieces and can be a discussion of a source or a note on a recent research theme. These should be c.500 to 1,000 words.
  • Book Reviews – From Balloons to Drones publishes occasional book reviews that aim to be an accessible collection of appraisals of recent publications about air power.

Submissions should be submitted in Word format and emailed to the address below with ‘SUBMISSION’ in the subject line. Also, please include a 50-100 word biography with your submission. References can be used, and please be careful to explain any jargon. However, if you are not sure if your idea fits our requirements, then please email us with ‘POTENTIAL SUBMISSION’ in the subject line to discuss.

If you are interested in contributing, please email our editor, Dr Ross Mahoney, at airpowerstudies@gmail.com or visit our webpage here:- https://balloonstodrones.com/


CALL FOR ARTICLES
International Bibliography of Military History
of the International Commission of Military History
Published by Brill (Leiden and Boston)

In existence since 1978, the International Bibliography of Military History (IBMH) has traditionally published historiographical articles, review articles, and book reviews. Since its recent move to Brill, however, it has been undergoing a transformation into a fully-fledged military history journal. As a next step in this process, the portfolio will be enlarged to include also original research articles.

The IBMH thus invites scholars to submit articles on any military historical topic that can appeal to an international readership, e.g. a topic involving more than one nation and, preferably, based on multi-archival research. There is no chronological limitation. The journal publishes articles ranging from antiquity to the contemporary period, as long as the research method is historical.

The articles should be based extensively on primary research, not have been published in another form or outlet, and not currently be considered by another journal. The submitted work should be between 8,000 and 10,000 words (including footnotes), and be thoroughly referenced. For further information on style and referencing, please visit the journal’s website.

Submitted articles will – after a first editorial screening – be sent out for peer-review (double-blind). This process, from submission to decision, normally takes six to eight weeks. Please submit your article directly to the Scientific Editor, Dr Marco Wyss (m.wyss@chi.ac.uk), who is also available for any potential preliminary queries.


CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The Council on America’s Military (CAMP) past is calling for papers for its Journal. We welcome submissions of interesting, original articles on American military history, especially topics that deal with significant sites (which could include installations, battlefields, ships and airplanes).  We also welcome articles on biography and historic preservation, especially if they are related to particular sites.  Maps and photos are strongly encouraged.  We ask that authors submit manuscripts by e-mail to our editors, using a system that is compatible with Microsoft Word.  The length of the articles that we publish varies roughly between 2,500 and 7,500 words.  The author is responsible for obtaining permission to publish any copyrighted material, and for bearing the costs of obtaining or reproducing illustrations. Interested parties should refer to the CAMP website or contact the editor, Vincent Rospond at EditorJamp@yahoo.com.

A non-profit educational association, CAMP was founded in 1966, representing diverse professions from historians to archeologists, museologists to architects, engineers to authors, active and retired military of all ranks, genealogists to archivists, and just plain hobbyists, the Council on America’s Military Past has only one requirement for membership: commitment to its objectives.

Its focus is on the places and things from America’s military past, and their stories. CAMP looks to all types of military and naval posts, from stockade forts of early New England to adobe presidios of the Southwest, from temporary camps and battlegrounds of a military on the move, to elaborate coastal defense installations along America’s coastlines. For CAMP, old ships and airplanes are also posts.

The Journal of America’s Military Past is a scholarly publication with interesting, illustrated articles on historic posts and battlefields and their people. The journal includes a robust book review section that, by itself, makes it worth reading. It is published three times a year.

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