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We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025

You can book to attend in person or online:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War 5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University What did the First World War do to poetry? What did poetry do during the First World War? In this lecture, Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz will explore a brand new corpus of war poets to interrogate not what is a good or bad war poem nor what war poems say about the war, but rather the social and cultural functions accomplished by poetry in 1914-1918: inventing itself, creating social links, anchoring the war in relation to a poetic past and multiple imagined futures, mediating the experience of war, and producing knowledge about the conflict. She will explore how the expansion of our definition of war poetry allows us to ask new questions about the First World War, as well as future possibilities to continue broadening our understanding of what war poetry was and, above all, what it did and continues doing for those writing and reading it. Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz is a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Lille. She completed her doctorate, on French poetry of the First World War, at Université Paris Nanterre. Julia has already published widely in academic journals, and is a Fellow of the International Society for First World War Studies. This lecture continues the annual series of Remembrance lectures at Edinburgh Napier University, marking the historical significance of Craiglockhart as a War Hospital during the First World War, famously the meeting place of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. We also remember our late colleague Catherine Walker, who was for many years curator of the War Poets Collection. Funding comes from the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture and the Centre for Military Research, Education & Public Engagement. This year the event is also the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, selected by the International Society for First World War Studies. Named after Dennis Showalter, the leading historian of Germany during the war and a longtime friend and supporter of the Society it is delivered each year by a leading early career researcher in First World War Studies. The event is held in the Rivers Suite at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus (Google map | travel info). There will be a wine reception from 5.30pm; the lecture will start around 6pm. The event will also be streamed online via Zoom. If you have any queries about the event, please contact Dr Andrew Frayn (a.frayn@napier.ac.uk). This event is both in person and online. If you wish to attend online, please buy an 'online Ticket'. Zoom information will be found in the email confirmations.
September 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers of our next Society Conference to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025.

We are also hosting an open online Q&A event with the organisers on Mon 3rd Feb at 5pm GMT: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-co... 🗃️
Call for Papers: International Society for the First World War Studies Conference, 1-3 October 2025 SEAS The International Society for First World War Studies and the Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia are delighted to announce ISFWWS’ 11th conference, to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025. The city Thessaloniki played a very special role in the history of the First World War both as a base of the Entente, Serbian and Greek troops and as a port. However, as often happens with the naval dimension of the First World War, its maritime role often remained overlooked. To rectify that, this year the conference will focus on the naval side of the war with the broad theme of ‘Seas’. We will be happy to consider proposals touching on any maritime aspects of the war, in the broadest possible sense and we would like to encourage historians, who do not usually focus on the naval side of the war, to find connections with it in their own research. Potential subjects may include, but not limited to: ● naval and maritime history of the war ● amphibious operations ● port cities and coastal areas ● maritime journeys during the war ● economics and logistics (supply, naval blockade and its effects, etc) ● naval and maritime technology ● naval thinking and naval theories developed during and after the war ● social and cultural histories of all belligerent navies ● civilians at sea during the war ● commemoration and memory of maritime aspects of the war ● representation of naval aspects of the war in art, literature, film, computer games, etc. ● environmental history of the seas and coastal areas during the war We are also happy to inform applicants that for those willing we will be able to organise a thematic field trip to the island of Lemnos on 4-5 October (for additional fee). We particularly welcome proposals from early career researchers. There will also be a mentoring programme to help postgraduate and early career researchers develop their papers for publication. Accommodation for all participants will be generously provided by the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. There will also be several bursaries available for the early career scholars and independent researchers. All presenters will be expected to become members of the Society before the conference date. The working language of the conference and all submissions is English. The organisers intend to publish the proceedings of this conference. Paper Selection: Potential presenters are encouraged to submit a 300-word abstract of their paper accompanied by a one-page CV to isfwws2025@gmail.com by 1 May 2025. If you have any questions about the conference, please, email Dr Sofya Anisimova at sofya.anisimova@ucd.ie. If your proposal is accepted a 2500-3000 word short paper will be due 1 September 2025 in order for papers to be pre-circulated and have as much time as possible dedicated to discussion.
January 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM