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The Society for the History of War
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SHoW is an academic society aimed at understanding the history of war across time, spaces & cultures.

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The Society for the History of War @sochistorywar.bsky.social · May 14
SHoW's heading to Potsdam!

📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June

Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk

#SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory
#WarStudies #CFP
Society for the History of War
Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.
www.show.org.uk
sochistorywar.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers | Military History Consortium – 3rd Annual Conference
The Military History Consortium will hold its third annual conference at Sciences Po Aix, from June 3 to 5, 2026.
🗓 Deadline: 14 December 2025
All details below!
📢 Call for Papers | Military History Consortium – 3rd Annual Conference The Military History Consortium will hold its third annual conference at Sciences Po Aix, 3–5 June 2026. Scholars are invited to submit panel or individual paper proposals on any aspect of military history or the history of war and conflict, from Antiquity to the present day and across all global regions. The organisers particularly welcome proposals addressing chronologically or geographically under-represented areas, and strongly encourage submissions from PhD researchers and early career scholars. ✅ Panel proposals: • 3 papers + chair/discussant • 500-word panel rationale • 300-word abstract per paper • 150-word bio per contributor ✅ Individual papers: • 300-word abstract • 150-word bio 📨 Send submissions to militaryhistoryconsortium@gmail.com (cc: Prof. Marco Wyss, Prof. Evert Kleynhans, Prof. Walter Bruyère-Ostells). 🗓 Deadline: 14 December 2025 Keynote: Prof. Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po Paris) The MHC fosters international collaboration, supports early career scholars, and promotes global, comparative approaches to the study of war. Full details available via the links below. 📢 Call for Papers | Military History Consortium – 3rd Annual Conference The Military History Consortium will hold its third annual conference at Sciences Po Aix, 3–5 June 2026. Scholars are invited to submit panel or individual paper proposals on any aspect of military history or the history of war and conflict, from Antiquity to the present day and across all global regions. The organisers particularly welcome proposals addressing chronologically or geographically under-represented areas, and strongly encourage submissions from PhD researchers and early career scholars. ✅ Panel proposals: • 3 papers + chair/discussant • 500-word panel rationale • 300-word abstract per paper • 150-word bio per contributor ✅ Individual papers: • 300-word abstract • 150-word bio 📨 Send submissions to militaryhistoryconsortium@gmail.com (cc: Prof. Marco Wyss, Prof. Evert Kleynhans, Prof. Walter Bruyère-Ostells). 🗓 Deadline: 14 December 2025 Keynote: Prof. Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po Paris) The MHC fosters international collaboration, supports early career scholars, and promotes global, comparative approaches to the study of war. Full details available via the links below.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
📢 CFP | Food and Nutrition in Wartime, 19th - 21st Centuries | St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (16–17 April 2026)
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to foodandwarconf@gmail.com 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food? From rationing and humanitarian relief to scientific innovation, state control, and the weaponisation of hunger, food has long been central to the conduct and experience of war. The organisers invite proposals for a two-day conference at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (16–17 April 2026), exploring the political, social, legal, scientific, and logistical dimensions of food and nutrition in wartime. ✅ Papers may address themes such as: • Technological and scientific innovations • Bureaucratic and legal developments • Feeding of civilian, combatant, and incarcerated populations • Humanitarian logistics • Civilian responses and survival strategies • Food as a tool of coercion, control, or violence • Colonial, civil, and asymmetric warfare 📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22 December 2025 (5pm UK). Hosted by St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Supported by the International Society for First World War Studies and History & Policy. Call for Papers for Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
It's SHoW month! 🎉 We look forward to seeing you all in Potsdam on November 27th and 28th!
cathfletcher.bsky.social Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · Oct 3
Great to see almost 130 delegates registered for the @sochistorywar.bsky.social conference in Potsdam next month. Looking forward to seeing you all there!
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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milwelfhist.bsky.social
Today is day 1 of the second of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social -funded events series, hosted both at @unibirmingham.bsky.social in 2025 and online in 2026. With 'trauma' and its associated medical impacts as our theme, we expect interesting papers and stimulating discussions #milwelfhist
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
We are enormously thankful for the equally enormous response our call has generated: we have recieved 𝟭𝟮𝟬 paper proposals and 𝟭𝟲 three-to-five person panel proposals!
July 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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milwelfhist.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social @sochistorywar.bsky.social @vahs.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @eahnursing.bsky.social

Members and Followers, be sure to follow the #milwelfhist tag over the next three days to stay up to date with the wonderful goings-on @uni-graz.at for the 2026 MWHN conference
July 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
Last call for abstracts for SHoW 2025!

Find the full CFP here: www.show.org.uk
Society for the History of War
Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.
www.show.org.uk
June 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
Please repost folks! Deadline is fast approaching!
sochistorywar.bsky.social The Society for the History of War @sochistorywar.bsky.social · Jun 29
📢 FINAL CALL 📢

🚨Abstracts due tomorrow!!🚨

SHoW's heading to Potsdam!

📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June

Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk
Society for the History of War
Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.
www.show.org.uk
June 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
📢 FINAL CALL 📢

🚨Abstracts due tomorrow!!🚨

SHoW's heading to Potsdam!

📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June

Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk
Society for the History of War
Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.
www.show.org.uk
June 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
Just a couple of days left to send in your paper, panel or roundtable abstract and join our keynote speaker @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social in Postdam!
June 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
‼️🚨 one week left! 🚨‼️

Don’t forget folks, abstracts for SHoW 2025 are due on 30 June!!

All the details can be found here:
www.show.org.uk
June 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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warmatters.bsky.social
Join @sochistorywar.bsky.social in Potsdam for our annual conference.

This time Prof Beatrice de Graaf will give the keynote and the theme of the conference is “Cultures of War and Violence”.
June 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
🚨 Time is running out! 🚨

Get your abstracts in for SHoW 2025!

Deadline: 30 June

All details below!
June 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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willsheehan.bsky.social
Come on Folks, let's see you in Potsdam!!! I have a bet with @warmatters.bsky.social as to the number of papers. So let's have some more!!! You all know you want Matthew to buy me a pint...........
June 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
📣 ‼️ REMINDER ‼️ 📣

Abstracts are due 30 June!

All the details are below ⬇️
June 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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milwelfhist.bsky.social
The programme for the 4th international Military Welfare History Network conference (9-11 July) is now live. Full details can be found at militarywelfarehistory.com/2025-confere.... Book your place now by emailing the organisers #milwelfhist
June 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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sochistorywar.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Beatrice de Graaf will deliver the keynote at SHoW in Potsdam this year!
@beatricedegraaf.bsky.social is a historian and researcher of security, crisis & terrorism at Utrecht University.

Don't forget to get your abstracts in - the deadline is 30 June!
May 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
SHoW's heading to Potsdam!

📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June

Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk

#SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory
#WarStudies #CFP
Society for the History of War
Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.
www.show.org.uk
May 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Beatrice de Graaf will deliver the keynote at SHoW in Potsdam this year!
@beatricedegraaf.bsky.social is a historian and researcher of security, crisis & terrorism at Utrecht University.

Don't forget to get your abstracts in - the deadline is 30 June!
May 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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milwelfhist.bsky.social
@uni-graz.at @sochistorywar.bsky.social @smh-historians.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

The 4th international Military Welfare History Network conference takes place this July (9-11). Watch this space for the programme and more information on accommodation, transportation, etc. #milwelfhist
May 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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emilyrowe1.bsky.social
Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Select tickets – CEMS KCL Colloquium: Early Modern War Narratives – King's College London
This year, KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies' Annual Colloquium will be on Early Modern War Narratives. Join us for a day o...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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sochistorywar.bsky.social
Two great opportunities for researchers interested in global wartime history!

The ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE is hiring:

🔹 1 Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years)
🔹 1 PhD (4 years)

More details here: www.blockades.eu

#AcademicChatter #Postdoc
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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milwelfhist.bsky.social
On to Panel 2, which begins with @donalh.bsky.social who is discussing medical care for French African war wounded #WW1 #milwelfhist
April 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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sochistorywar.bsky.social
SHoW's heading to Potsdam!

📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June

How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it?

All details can be found below! ⬇️
March 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM
sochistorywar.bsky.social
Two great opportunities for researchers interested in global wartime history!

The ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE is hiring:

🔹 1 Postdoctoral Researcher (3 years)
🔹 1 PhD (4 years)

More details here: www.blockades.eu

#AcademicChatter #Postdoc
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM