Europe's Violent Memories:

This new three-year series of public lectures delivered by eminent international scholars in different disciplines such as history, literary and film studies, and memory studies, will explore how war, its traumas and its contested memories have proved pivotal to the formation of European identites in the 20th century.

The series is being co-organized by the Centre for War Studies (School of Histories and Humanities), the Centre for European Studies (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies) in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub. It will adopt a different focus each year.

In 2013-14, the centenary of the First World War, the series will explore the nature and legacy of that conflict down to the present. The focus in 2014-15, the seventieth anniversary of 1945, will be on the extreme violence of the Second World War and the ways in which this has shaped subsequent European memories and identities. The final year, 2015-16, will re-examine the legacies of the Easter Rising at its centenary and of Ireland's revolutionary decade more generally. It will seek to locate the founding decade of modern Ireland in the context of Europe and the non-European world over the last hundred years, including inter-war Eastern Europe, post-1945 decolonization and Norther Ireland during the 'Troubles.'

Full details can be found here.

Centre for War Studies Seminar Schedule, Michaelmas Term 2013:

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Commemorating the Disabled Soldier: Comparative Approaches to the History of War, Disability and Remembrance, 1914-1940 (Ypres, 4-6 November 2013)

A three-day conference co-organized by Martina Salvante (TCD Centre for War Studies), Pieter Verstraete (KU Leuven) and Julie Anderson (University of Kent)

http://commemoratingthedisabledsoldier.wordpress.com/