August 18, 2010 – 10:13 am
Conference organized by the Centre International de Recherche de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre,
in association with the German Historical Institute, Paris and the Institut Universitaire de France
and the participation of the Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham.
9-10 November 2011, Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne (France)
A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.
* Comprises 38 essays by leading scholars who analyze the current state of historical scholarship on the First World War
* Provides extensive coverage spanning the pre-war period, the military conflict, social, economic, political, and cultural developments, and the war’s legacy
* Offers original perspectives on themes as diverse as strategy and tactics, war crimes, science and technology, and the arts
In August 2010, the Australian War Memorial will convene an international conference to mark the 95th anniversary of the climactic battles of the Gallipoli campaign. In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches on Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of assaults in an all-out attempt to break the deadlock [...]
A conference organized and sponsored by
International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences (IIUEPS Academy)
Russian Association of World War I Historians (RAWWH)
Russian State Historical Museum
Russian State Archive of Military History
Polish Academy of Sciences’ Permanent Representative at the Russian Academy of Sciences
Tibbits Historical Foundation (USA)
The Moscow International Conference “World War I and [...]
November 17, 2009 – 11:50 am
Tim Cook’s review of Peter Stanley’s Men of Mont St. Quentin: Between Victory and Death.
Voici deux textes consacrés à la Première Guerre mondiale en Amérique Latine par Olivier Compagnon, maître de conférences à l’Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle et membre de notre Société.
‘Si loin, si proche…’ La Première Guerre mondiale dans la presse argentine et brésilienne
Entrer en guerre? Neutralité et engagement de l’Amérique latine entre 1914 et 1918
First World War Studies, the journal of the International Society of First World War Studies, is pleased to announce its first call for submissions.
February 5, 2009 – 5:51 pm
Un dossier de la Vie des Idées où le débat historiographique français se poursuit…
http://www.laviedesidees.fr/+-La-Grande-Guerre-toujours-presente-+.html
1. Traces de 14-18
À propos de : S. Audoin-Rouzeau & G. Krumeich, Cicatrices, Tallandier.
par Élise Julien
2. La guerre des profiteurs et des embusqués
À propos de : F. Bouloc, Les [...]
The Blitz of 1918
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Baldwin’s pessimism was based on a crucial – but often overlooked – episode in the First World War that was to influence decisively the course of the Second …
Art that brings life to the Leas
Financial Times – London,England,UK
Christian Boltanski picked up on the [...]
Kluge Fellow, Geert Buelens, presents Remember Belgium – Poetry as Propaganda during the First World War, 17 July at 12:00 in Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress. This talk will address the use of poetry as propaganda, using First World War poems about Belgium by poets …
Contact: lckluge@loc.gov
URL: www.loc.gov/loc/kluge//news/news2008.html#buelens