Events

This page contains links to information regarding forthcoming events that have been organised by members of the Centre for War Studies or will be carried out under the auspices of the Centre.

Please see here for details of events hosted by the UCD Centre for War Studies.

Michaelmas Term 2013

All seminars will take place in the TRIARC Seminar Room (located in the Provost’s Stables) between 4pm and 6pm, unless otherwise stated.

To find the TRIARC building, take Arts Building Staircase C to the lowest level (Level 1). On exiting the stairwell via the door on the right, turn left and walk straight ahead, exiting the Arts Building. Once outside, continue straight ahead, through the set of gates, following the pathway until the Stables building is visible on the left. Once inside the Stables building, turn right and continue straight ahead to the seminar room. All will be heavily signposted!

Thursday, October 3rd:

• John Horne (TCD): ‘Thoughts on the timeframes of the Great War.’

Tuesday, October 8th:

• Robert Gerwarth (UCD): 'The Vanquished: Europe and the Aftermath of the Great War', Trinity Long Room Hub, 6pm. Part of the Europe's Violent Memories series.

Thursday, October 17th:

• Fergus Robson (TCD): ‘La première battaillon de l'Aveyron: Volunteers and Deserters between Rodez and Ajaccio, 1791-1794.’

Thursday, October 31st :
Themed Session: Brutalisation/Political and Paramilitary Violence, 1917-21:

• James Matthews (UCD): 'Bulwarks Against Bolshevism: The Counterrevolution in Spain, 1917-1923.'
• Mark Jones (Irish Research Council Fellow, Centre for War Studies, UCD): ‘The false Rosa Luxemburg and other tales: violence, atrocities, and political mobilisation in the German Revolution of 1918-19.’

Tuesday, November 12th:

• Michael Richards (University of the West of England): 'A Time of Silence? Legacies of the Civil War in Spain after Franco.' Trinity Long Room Hub, 6pm. Part of the Europe's Violent Memories series.

Thursday, November 14th:

• Tomás Irish (TCD): ‘Allied Universities and Cultural Diplomacy during the Great War.’

Thursday, November 28th: Workshop and Annual Lecture: ‘The Great War in Africa.’           

Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, 2pm – 6pm.

• James Kitchen (UCD): Egypt
• John Horne (TCD): Algeria
• Felipe Ribeiro de Meneses (NUIM): Portuguese Africa
• David Killingray (emeritus, Goldsmith, London): East Africa

Followed by Bill Nasson (Stellenbosch University), annual ‘War in History’ lecture:

‘Dominion with a Difference: South Africa and the Great War.’ Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, 7.30pm.

Thursday, December 12th:

Themed Session: Culture and Humanitarianism in the Cold War

• Patrick Bernhard (UCD): ‘Towards a Cultural History of the Cold War.’
• Kevin O’Sullivan (NUIG): ‘Diplomacy of the stomach: NGOs, humanitarianism and the Cold War.’