| Crossroads of Memories: Women, Peace and Conflict Resolution |
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| March 2026 |
Please join us at UCD (Newman Building, Room K114) on 6 May 2026 from 1600-1800hrs for a special workshop, brought to you in partnership with the UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies.
Entitled ‘Crossroads of Memories: Women, Peace and Conflict Resolution’, this workshop will comprise two papers given by Dr Patrizia Piredda and Dr Gianluca Cinelli on the legacy of the Second World War in the memories of Italian people born between the 1960s and the 1980s. This research comes from their funded project 'MemoGen'. More on that
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If you would like to attend, please email
(opens in a new window)paul.huddie1@ucd.ie.
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| Empires at War | |
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| September 2026 |
In September 2026, (opens in a new window)Prof Doug Delaney (Royal Canadian Military College), in partnership with the UCD Centre for War Studies, will host a two-day international conference at the Museum of Literature in Ireland. This event will focus on the theme of 'empires at war' and will play host to some fifty scholars from around the world. CALL FOR PAPERS Newman House University College Dublin 17-18 September 2026 Empires have a long association with war. Since Antiquity, wars have been fought to build empires and to destroy them, to expand them and to get out of them, to gain wealth and to consolidate power, to assert ideologies and to mete out punishments. And empires have waged war with conquered peoples in their armed forces and with imperial coalitions of the so-called willing, with allies and without them. University College Dublin and the Royal Military College of Canada will co-host a conference to examine facets of war and empire since Antiquity. The event will convene at Newman House (St. Stephens Green), Dublin, 17-18 September 2026. Keynote speakers include Jonathan Fennell (King’s College London), Martin Thomas (University of Exeter), Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford), and Brian MacAllister Linn (Texas A & M). We invite proposals that consider imperial war in any or all of its military, political, social, intellectual, economic, gendered, diplomatic, racial, and indigenous dimensions. Preference will be given to panel proposals. Panel proposals should consist of:
Individual paper proposals should consist of:
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2026. Notifications of acceptance: 10 April 2026 All submissions should be made to Professor Doug Delaney, (opens in a new window)Doug.Delaney@rmc.ca. Space is limited to sixty (60) on-site attendees. Please note that there is an attendance fee for this event. Two-day, in-person attendance (which includes lunches, coffee breaks and a dinner) will cost €150 and two-day, online attendance (non-participatory) will cost €25. Tickets will be sold via the UCD Booking Centre and will go on sale in Spring 2026. Download the Call for Papers PDF here.
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