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Sofya Anisimova
@sdanisimova.bsky.social
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Early career historian. Post-Doctoral Fellow at
University College Dublin. Working on First World War and Russian Civil War.
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cjapieters.bsky.social
I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22/12/25!
CALL FOR PAPERS Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries 16-17 April 2026 We welcome papers with a historical focus on a range of food and nutrition-related topics, including, but not limited to: Technological and productive innovations in food production in war Food and nutrition as a site of technocratic and bureaucratic developments Food and nutrition science in wartime Turning points in the development of bureaucratic, legal, social, political, etc approaches to food management e.g. the impact of the First World War blockade on the Second World War or wartime rationing on subsequent wars Social, cultural and legal perspectives on feeding of civilian, combatant and incarcerated/prisoner populations in war. Civilian, individual and/or community responses to food shortages. Survival strategies for populations facing difficulties accessing food and malnutrition in war, including generational and demographic cohort effects e.g. the elderly, marginalised and minority populations, such as those living in asylums, etc. Humanitarian interventions; including logistics, organisations, distribution on the ground and the use of humanitarian aid for religious, social or political aims. The weaponisation of food and nutrition in war in colonial and civil war contexts. The changing uses of food and nutrition in local, regional, national or international contexts over the period. Proposed panels (submissions do not need to be limited by these themes): Feeding incarcerated populations in wartime. Wartime occupations. Humanitarian interventions. Feeding fighters and civilians during asymmetric warfare, civil wars, guerrilla wars and/or anticolonial wars. Please submit a paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by Monday 22 December 2025, 5pm (UK time). Informal enquiries may be sent to foodandwarconf@gmail.com. CALL FOR PAPERS Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries 16-17 April 2026 We welcome papers with a historical focus on a range of food and nutrition-related topics, including, but not limited to: Technological and productive innovations in food production in war Food and nutrition as a site of technocratic and bureaucratic developments Food and nutrition science in wartime Turning points in the development of bureaucratic, legal, social, political, etc approaches to food management e.g. the impact of the First World War blockade on the Second World War or wartime rationing on subsequent wars Social, cultural and legal perspectives on feeding of civilian, combatant and incarcerated/prisoner populations in war. Civilian, individual and/or community responses to food shortages. Survival strategies for populations facing difficulties accessing food and malnutrition in war, including generational and demographic cohort effects e.g. the elderly, marginalised and minority populations, such as those living in asylums, etc. Humanitarian interventions; including logistics, organisations, distribution on the ground and the use of humanitarian aid for religious, social or political aims. The weaponisation of food and nutrition in war in colonial and civil war contexts. The changing uses of food and nutrition in local, regional, national or international contexts over the period. Proposed panels (submissions do not need to be limited by these themes): Feeding incarcerated populations in wartime. Wartime occupations. Humanitarian interventions. Feeding fighters and civilians during asymmetric warfare, civil wars, guerrilla wars and/or anticolonial wars. Please submit a paper title and abstract of no more than 300 words to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by Monday 22 December 2025, 5pm (UK time). Informal enquiries may be sent to foodandwarconf@gmail.com.
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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fwwsoc.bsky.social
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
sdanisimova.bsky.social
I rely a lot on the British library in my research, the effects of the cyberattack were devastating.

The Library staff helped the readers to get through it, delivering books to the reading rooms by hand and in million other ways. They are amazing and should be remunerated fairly for their job.
October 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
sdanisimova.bsky.social
It still feels a bit surreal, but I am very grateful to our members for trusting me with the role the President of the Society and am looking forward to productive and exciting three years ahead!
fwwsjournal.bsky.social First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · Oct 8
🎉 We are delighted to announce that Dr Sofya Anisimova (@sdanisimova.bsky.social) has been elected President of the International Society for First World War Studies starting in January! 🧵
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October 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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draefox.bsky.social
Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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chriskempshall.bsky.social
Now that I'm back home and (sort of) recovering from all the fun of last week, it might be time to do some reflecting on the conference itself and my time (as it draws to an end) as President of @fwwsoc.bsky.social 1/
fwwsoc.bsky.social International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · Oct 6
Last week during the (wonderful) Society conference at the University of Macedonia, we announced the outcome of our recent elections at our AGM. With both @chriskempshall.bsky.social standing down as President & David Monger doing the same as Treasurer those 2 positions in particular were open.
October 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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uclssees.bsky.social
🔊 One week until this event with Prof. Theodora Dragostinova, who will examine the case of adopted and fostered refugee children in the Balkan borderlands.

Co-sponsored by @criticalchildhood.bsky.social

🗓️6 October at 5pm
📍 UCL SSEES
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for '“Like My Own”: Adopting Displaced Children after the Great War' with a collage of photos from the Bulgarian state archives
September 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
sdanisimova.bsky.social
The conference of @fwwsoc.bsky.social may be ended, but our trips around the Aegean continued. Some of us were in Lemnos, visiting the Allied cemeteries and sites
October 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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tvaisset.bsky.social
Très heureux d'avoir présenté une communication consacrée aux évolutions de l'historiographie française de la guerre sur mer pendant la Première Guerre mondiale à l'occasion du colloque organisé par @fwwsoc.bsky.social à l'University of Macedonia
Extrait du programme du colloque de l'International Society for the First War Studies "Seas", du 1er au 3 octobre 2025 à l'université de Macédoine à Thessalonique 16-15 – 17-45 Panel 3. Presences and Absences in Writing about the Naval Aspects of the First World War Chair: Ellie Lemonidou (University of Patras) Jean de Preneuf (University of Lille, Service historique de la Défense) & Thomas Vaisset (University of Le Havre Normandy) Writing the History of the First World War at Sea: An Assessment of a Century of French Historiography David Monger (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) What is the Navy Doing? The Curious Absence of the Royal Navy in British First World War Propaganda Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University) The Silent Seas: Trawling for the Oceans in British Creative Texts About the First World War Connie Ruzich (Robert Morris University) Tides of War, Floods of Refugees, and First World War Poems of the Sea
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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thehistorygirl1.bsky.social
Closing out this year’s @fwwsoc.bsky.social’s conference in Thessaloniki with a guided tour of the Allied Military Cemetery at Zeitenlik. An appropriate end to an intense, enjoyable and educational few days.
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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fwwsjournal.bsky.social
📢 🧵 This year the International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social is hosting a conference in the University of Macedonia! If you can't attend in person, you can still take a look at the work that has been published in First World War Studies by some of this week's speakers.
October 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
sdanisimova.bsky.social
After more than a year in the making, it is finally here! Check out the programme of the bi-annual Society conference dedicated to naval aspects of the First World War
fwwsoc.bsky.social International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · Sep 27
The Program for our 11th conference, to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025, is now available!

firstworldwarstudies.org/wp-content/u...
firstworldwarstudies.org
September 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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fwwsoc.bsky.social
The Program for our 11th conference, to be held at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki on 1-3 October 2025, is now available!

firstworldwarstudies.org/wp-content/u...
firstworldwarstudies.org
September 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
sdanisimova.bsky.social
Another ERC CivilWars paper at ICCEES 2025. Gwendal Piègais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social presenting his fascinating research on humanitarian efforts in Ukraine in 1918-1921.
July 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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ktarasov.bsky.social
@sdanisimova.bsky.social searches for the origin of the word intervention
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
#iccees2025
July 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
sdanisimova.bsky.social
If you are headed to ICCEES in London this week, come join us today at the panel on narratives of Russian Revolution at 14h25. I will be talking about whether we should use the term ‘intervention’ in connection with the Russian Civil War and if yes, then how.
July 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
sdanisimova.bsky.social
Last few days to apply to join us in Thessaloniki in October at the ISFWWS Conference on all things maritime in the First World War!
sdanisimova.bsky.social Sofya Anisimova @sdanisimova.bsky.social · Mar 15
Dear everyone! The CfP for the 2025 conference of @fwwsoc.bsky.social is still ongoing. The deadline for proposals is 1 May.
This year's conference will take place in Thessaloniki and the theme will be 'Seas' (interpreted as broad as possible) www.firstworldwarstudies.org/conferences....
April 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
📆 🚨 “Global Patterns of #Violence in Post #Imperial Societies, 1914-1949”, University of Crete #Rethymno, #Crete May 9-11, 2025. Check the full program👇 #Empire #Greece civil-wars.eu/wp-content/u...
Global Patterns of Violence in Post-Imperial Societies, 1914-1949 University of Crete / Rethymno, Crete Conference Programme
April 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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chriskempshall.bsky.social
If you're interested in finding out more details about @fwwsoc.bsky.social's upcoming conference then you can watch a whole Q&A event with @sdanisimova.bsky.social - who is one of the main organisers - on the Society's YouTube channel: youtu.be/maM5HqUyc0c?... 🗃️
April 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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chriskempshall.bsky.social
This week @fwwsoc.bsky.social launched the brand new 'President’s Undergraduate Essay Prize'. This award has a cash prize and the opportunity for publication in the Society Journal. 🗃️

You can find the details here: tinyurl.com/4wyjvxmf

And the cover sheet here: tinyurl.com/4pxafxdz
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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chriskempshall.bsky.social
This event is tomorrow! Still time to sign up to learn about the most fantastic resource for studying the First World War! 🗃️
nina-regis.bsky.social Nina Régis @nina-regis.bsky.social · Mar 13
Do you know a fantastic tool to keep up with publications about #FWW? @fheimburger.bsky.social will present it during the Society Bibliography Event @fwwsoc.bsky.social with over 20,600 references! Join us on Friday 21st March at 1pm CET ! Suscribe here : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1279469510...
Society Bibliography Event
Discussion with Franziska Heimburger and Nina Régis about the Society Bibliography
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
sdanisimova.bsky.social
Dear everyone! The CfP for the 2025 conference of @fwwsoc.bsky.social is still ongoing. The deadline for proposals is 1 May.
This year's conference will take place in Thessaloniki and the theme will be 'Seas' (interpreted as broad as possible) www.firstworldwarstudies.org/conferences....
March 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
sdanisimova.bsky.social
Hello everyone! Seems appropriate to begin my posting here with a new publication alert. My paper on Russian missions sent to France in 1915 learn about trench fighting is out in the latest volume of Russia’s Great War and Revolution series.
December 12, 2024 at 11:07 AM