CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

2023
2 February

The Civilianization of Warfare and the History of Refugees in Europe’s Age of (Civil) Wars

Speakers:

Jay Winter (Yale)
Davide Rodogno (Geneva Graduate Institute) 
Laura Robson (PennState)

In the first half of the twentieth century, civilians became deliberate targets of violence during both inter-state wars and civil wars. In fact, more non-combatants than combatants lost their lives during this extraordinarily violent period, while tens of millions of people were forcibly displaced. This mini-workshop explores why this may have been the case despite significant efforts of the international community to introduce normative rules for military conduct and the emergence of sizeable humanitarian organization to assist victims of war and expulsions.  

We have invited three leading scholars in the filed: Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History (emeritus) at Yale University and one of the world’s leading cultural historians of war. Davide Rodogno is Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a widely published expert on the history of humanitarianism in the twentieth century. Laura Robson is the Oliver-McCourtney Professor of History at Penn State University. Her most recent books have focused on mass violence in the Middle East and the history of Partitions while her current book project is about statelessness. 

 

This event will take place in two parts on the day.

Part 1 - Jay Winter

Location: Room K114, UCD School of History, Belfield Campus, Dublin

Time: 12-2pm

Part 2 - Davide Rodogno and Laura Robson

Location: Clinton Institute, Belfield Campus, Dublin

Time: 4-6pm

2022
9 September

Humanitarianism in an Age of Civil Wars: Europe, 1917-1949

This workshop was the first event run by the ERC-funded CivilWars project under Prof Robert Gerwarth. Full details about the event can be found here on the project website: https://civil-wars.eu/workshops/.

 

 *ERC Advanced Grant (2022-2027) under grant agreement 101054647.

 

2-3 June

War Makes Monsters: Crime & Criminality in Times of Conflict

Call for Papers

https://warmakesmonsters2022.wordpress.com/

THE DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS 1 OCTOBER 2021

Questions about the CfP can be directed to conference organisers, Julie M. Powell (University College Dublin) and Claire Eldridge (University of Leeds) at WarMakesMonsters2022@gmail.com

2021
10-11 September

Civil Wars in History c.1500- 2000

This event was organised by the Society for the History of War and UCD Centre for War Studies, and with the support of the UCD School of History and the UCD Humanities Institute. Full details about the event can be found here: https://www.ucd.ie/artshumanities/newsandevents/researchstrategynewsandevents/civilwarsinhistoryc1500-2000/.