Call for Papers: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War

1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War is an English-language online reference work on World War I dedicated to publishing high quality peer-reviewed content. Each article in the encyclopedia is a self-contained publication and its author receives full recognition. All articles receive a distinct URL address as well as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and are fully citable as scholarly publications. 1914-1918-online is an open access publication, which means that all articles are freely available online, ensuring maximum worldwide dissemination of content.

The editors invite academics to contribute articles on a select number of topics not yet covered by our invitation-only editorial process. The Call for Papers will be automatically updated. Authors who are interested in submitting a paper on any of the subjects listed should submit a short CV with a publication list, as well as an abstract (max. 250 words) or a full-length paper.

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Conference “The First World War in the Middle East: Experience, Knowledge, Memory”

On the occasion of the commemoration of the First World War, the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), the History Department of the Université Saint-Joseph (USJ) and the Institute of Palestinian Studies (IPS) are organising the international conference “The First World War in the Middle East: Experience, Knowledge, Memory” to be held in Beirut on November 3 and 4, 2014. 

The aim of the conference is to question and to rethink the place of this conflict in the history of the Middle East. Aiming at encouraging new approaches to a well-established field of historical enquiry, the debates of the conference are organised around three interconnected axes:OIB PLakat

● From the perspective of social history and historical anthropology, the scholars want to explore how people experienced the war, how they lived through it and what it meant for their daily lives.

● From the point of view of a long-term history of science and knowledge production, the conference considers the impact of the war and of its transregional and global dimensions on orders of knowledge and the institutional and informal systems producing it. Of special interest are the emerging nationalist movements, their interactions with the self-reforming Ottoman and later the colonial or Mandatory educational systems, and their long-term effects on shifting notions of science and education in the region.

● Finally, the scholars will examine, from the point of view of the sociology of memory, how this ‘Great War’ is remembered in literature, arts, commemorations and celebrations. The aim is to reflect the dynamics of how, when, where and by whom this war has become the object of commemoration, be it private or official, particularly when taking into account the more recent periods of violence in the region.

The abstracts of the conference you will find here.

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“Der Gang ins Museum wird durch die Virtualisierung nicht wegbrechen”

Dr. Frank Reichherzer arbeitet am Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Westeuropas und transatlantische Beziehungen an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Er konzipierte die digitale Ausstellung “Orte des Übergangs. Eine andere Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs” für Europeana.

Dr. Frank Reichherzer (Foto: privat)

Dr. Frank Reichherzer (Foto: privat)

Sie haben als Kurator die digitale Ausstellung „Orte des Übergangs. Eine andere Geschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges“ für Europeana geplant. Europeana verfügt über zahlreiche (Ego-)Dokumente aus verschiedenen Zeitspannen. Nach welchen Kriterien haben Sie ihre Ausstellungsdokumente ausgesucht?

Unser Kriterium war es, die Dokumente und Objekte als aussagekräftige Quellen für die übergeordnete Frage und das Ziel der Ausstellung zu nutzen. Da der Zugang über das Konzept der Orte nicht der Logik der Verschlagwortung der Europeana entspricht, haben wir uns den Themen in einem ersten Schritt über Quellenarten genähert – also Kriegstagebücher, Verordnungen, Karten, Bilder und andere Objekte, zeitgenössische Literatur bis hin zu Lieder- und Kochbüchern und vielem mehr. Dort haben wir die Stellen, an denen unsere Orte thematisiert wurden, vermerkt und dann für den zweiten Schritt alles, was einen bestimmten Ort betraf, als Materialsammlung zusammengestellt.

Ihr Ziel ist es, den Ersten Weltkrieg aus einer neuen Perspektive, und zwar anhand eines Mosaiks von Orten, zu betrachten. Geht es Ihnen darum, den Krieg, der so 100 Jahre zurück liegt und vielen so abstrakt erscheint, erfahrbar zu machen? Welches Publikum möchten Sie damit ansprechen?

„Erfahrbar“ wollten wir den Krieg nicht machen. Wie wollten den Krieg in seiner Widersprüchlichkeit, in seiner Komplexität sichtbar machen. Abstrakte Orte, wie der Bahnhof, das Lazarett, die Kasernen aber auch das Hauptquartier, die sich überall, auf allen Seiten der Fronten, finden lassen, erschienen uns als geeigneter Zugang, die Pfade der Chronologie des Krieges, der nationalen Perspektiven und der epischen Schlachtengemälde zu verlassen. In diesem Sinne abstrahieren wir sogar noch mehr als die meisten Publikationen zum Thema. Wir fordern unsere Besucher heraus. Sie sollen den Ersten Weltkrieg als diffuses Ereignis erkennen – als gigantischen Ort des Übergangs, an dem Zivilisation und Barbarei, Moderne und Archaik, Zerstörung und Schöpfung, Beschleunigung und Beharrung, Mythos und Rationalität, Traum und Trauma und vieles mehr ineinander verwobene Realitäten bilden. Wir wünschen uns ein breites Publikum. Die Ausstellung ist so konzipiert, dass der Besucher seine Wege und sein Eintauchen in die Materie selbst gestalten kann. Gerade der ‚virtuelle Ausstellungsraum’ macht diese Sprünge und Drifts möglich. Die Orte sind dabei der Einstieg. Die Dynamiken, die sich im Raum zwischen den Orten bilden, sollen mit dem ‚Klicken‘ durch die Ausstellung in einer spezifischen Art im Besucher deutlich werden – und hier stimmt es wohl –hier kann der Besucher die Geschichte des Erste Weltkrieg in einer besonderen Weise „erfahren“.

Mittlerweile stellen auch zahlreiche Museen auf ihren Websites digitale Ansichten von ihren Ausstellungsobjekten zur Verfügung. Welche Bedeutung werden digitale Ausstellungen Ihrer Meinung nach in der Zukunft haben?

Technisch ist und wird vieles möglich sein. Vor allem Hypertextstrukturen und gestaffelte Informationsschichte bieten dem Besucher die Möglichkeit, in unterschiedliche Formen, Intensitäten und eigenen Wegen in die Materie einzutauchen. Wir hatten im ursprünglichen Konzept viel mehr Verlinkungen der Orte und der Narrationen wie ‚Ordnung und Chaos‘, geplant, mussten uns aber an den Europeana-Richtlinien orientieren.

Der Gang ins Museum wird aber durch die Virtualisierung nicht wegbrechen. Das Museum als sozialer Ort wird daher nicht verdrängt. Die Sehnsucht nach dem Sozialen und dem Authentischen ist groß. Ich denke, Mischformen werden sich etablieren. Mehr und mehr wird der Ausstellungsbesuch virtuell durch Terminals vor Ort oder auch durch die Nutzung mobiler Endgeräte weiter mit zusätzlichen Informationen angereichert. Grenzen hierzu sehe ich weder im Wissenschaftlich-kuratorischen Input noch in der Technik. Probleme liegen eher in urheberrechtlichen Fragen.

 

Sie wollen mehr über das Projekt Europeana und digitale Museen wissen? Fragen Sie Dr. Reichherzer bei unserem WeberWorldCafé “Narrating the First World War – Experiences and Reports from Transregional Perspectives”!

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Invitation: “Narrating the First World War – Experiences and Reports from Transregional Perspectives”

1932575_668302079878199_5130398072406880368_oThe second WeberWorldCafé

How did civilians live and work at the home front? How did artists and writers document their experiences in the trenches? How did the war influence people outside of Europe?

The Max Weber Stiftung and the Forum Transregionale Studien would like to kindly invite you to the WeberWorldCafé “Narrating the First World War – Experiences and Reports from Transregional Perspectives”, an exclusive event with international experts hosted at and in cooperation with the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM) in Berlin on September 16, 2014.

During the afternoon experts and participants will discuss the events of the First World War from an interdisciplinary and transregional perspective. With the help of primary sources the guests will be given the opportunity to explore the impact of the war on everyday life of contemporaries all over the world.

The WeberWorldCafé will take place at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin, from 2-6 p.m. It will be introduced by a 45-minute guided tour through the First World War exhibition of the DHM.

The guests of our WeberWorldCafé are: 

1. Western Europe: Elisa Marcobelli, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris / Dr. Juliane Haubold-Stolle, curator of the exhibition 1914–1918. Der Erste Weltkrieg, Deutsches Historischen Museum

2. Central Europe: Dr. Frank Reichherzer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Dr. Silke Fehleman, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

3. Eastern Europe: Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt, Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau /Andreas Mix, curator of the exhibition 1914–1918. Der Erste Weltkrieg, Deutsches Historischen Museum

4. North America/Oceania: Dr. Sebastian Jobs, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin / Dr. Christina Spittel, University of New South Wales Canberra

5. Western Asia: Dr. Philipp Wirtz, SOAS, University of London / Dr. Nazan Maksudyan, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University

6. Near and Middle East: Dr. Valeska Huber, Deutsches Historisches Institut London /Fatameh Masjedi, Zentrum Moderner Orient

7. East Asia/South Asia: Dr. Torsten Weber, Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien Tokyo / Dr. Samiksha Sehrawat, Newcastle University

8. Africa: Dr. Michelle Moyd, Indiana University / Dr. Joe Lunn, University of Michigan (solicited)

Join the discussions whether you know everything or nothing about the First World War – everybody is welcome! There is only a limited number of places available. Please register until August 15, 2014 via schifferdecker@maxweberstiftung.de. Find out more about the event on wwc.hypotheses.org.

Following the WeberWorldCafé there will be a panel discussion “Im Gedenkjahr nichts Neues? – Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Zukunft Europas” which all participants are welcome to attend.

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Round Table Debate – 1914: What Historians Don’t Know about the Causes of the First World War

In cooperation with the University College London and the Arts and Humanities Research Council the German Historical Institute London holds a round table debate on 6pm on the 18th of June 2014:

The majority of lectures and conferences marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War will be examining why the conflict occurred, concentrating on particular sets of events leading to war or on different aspects of the war’s course, character and consequences. By contrast, the emphasis of this roundtable discussion – and claim to originality – will be on continuing areas of uncertainty in the historical account of the outbreak of war: it will show how key decisions are still ‘unexplained’, allowing a variety of interpretations. This roundtable of internationally-renowned scholars will ask what we still do not know about the causes of the First World War.

Chair: Mark Hewitson (UCL)
Speakers: Margaret MacMillan (Oxford)
Annika Mombauer (Open University)
Sönke Neitzel (LSE)
John Röhl (Sussex)

Owing to limited seating, prior registration is essential: Please register by Email: abellamy(ghi)ghil.ac.uk, Tel: 0207 309 2023
Download flyer (PDF file)

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[Video] Das 20. Jahrhundert & der Erste Weltkrieg: Harold James – Cosmos, Chaos: Finance, Power and Conflict

Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton and holds a joint appointment as Professor of International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School.

Das 20. Jahrhundert & der Erste Weltkrieg: Harold James – Cosmos and Chaos from maxweberstiftung on Vimeo.

Abstract

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Das 20. Jahrhundert & der Erste Weltkrieg: Marc Lazar – The Communist Challenge

Marc Lazar is professor of history and political sociology at Sciences Po. In Sciences Po he is Head of the graduate program in the History department since 2007, Dean of the History department and President of scientific Council since 2010. His research interests are Communism in France and Italy, the socialist left and Social Democrats in Western Europe, the changes in politics in France and Italy and the relations between the French left and the public service.

Das 20. Jahrhundert & der Erste Weltkrieg: Marc Lazar – The Communist Challenge from maxweberstiftung on Vimeo.

Abstract

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Podcast – Mahon Murphy: Prisoners of war from Tsingtao during the First World War: A Comparative Perspective

The historiography of the First World War has over the last few years quickly shifted beyond the confines of the fields of Flanders and the Somme. The ripples from the seismic change that the First World War enacted were instantly felt in countries beyond Europe’s borders. The participation of non-European countries, the economic and military mobilisation of the British and French Empires means that the war must be looked at from a global context. Internment in the First World War perfectly highlights this global phenomenon. Britain ran a global camp network that stretched from the Isle of Man, to South Africa, India, the Caribbean and Australia, while France transferred many of its prisoners of war to its possessions in North and West Africa. Neutral countries as far away from Europe as Chile even had internment camps. Japan housed around 4,800 Prisoners of War, taken after its successful siege of Tsingtao. This talk will offer a comparative perspective on the treatment of Germans in internment from 1914-1920. The “myth” of the good treatment of Prisoners of War in Japan is being challenged as more and more research into the camps is done. In contribution to this debate, the main question this talk will seek to address is how did prisoners from the colony of Tsingtao fare in comparison to their counterparts from the other German colonies?

Podcast

Mahon Murphy is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science under the supervision of Professor David Stevenson. His thesis concerns the establishment of prisoner of war and civilian internee camps to house internees from the former German colonies. In the course of his research Mahon has received a one year research grant from the DAAD and a Gerda Henkel/l’Historial Peronne Bourse. He is currently a visiting Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin where he is participating in the 1914-1918-online.net online First World War encyclopaedia. His chapter on the cultural impact of First World War internment in Japan will be published early next year in an edited volume by Brill.

This posting first appeared on dijtokyo.org.

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“Working for the Common Good”: Prisons and the Ottoman War Effort during Worlds War I

During the hight of Ottoman involvement in the Great War (1914-1918), the Comittee of Union and Progress (CUP) led government continued to carry out an agressive penal reform program in an attempt to overhaul the empire’s sprawling and dilapidated network of prisons. Ottoman officials exerted great amounts of time, energy, and resources gathering statistics, conducting investigations, and implementing reforms. In 1916, the Ottoman government even hired a prominent German civilian criminal psychiatrist and prison reformer, Dr. Paul Pollitz, to oversee these efforts. Though these prison reforms predate the onset of WWI, Ottoman prisons were quickly incorporated into the Ottoman “total war” effort in terms of working for the common good (menafi-yi umumi). In other words, prisons served many wartime purposes.

Ottoman Prisons in WWIVortrag zum Themenkomplex Ersten Weltkrieg in englischer Sprache von Prof. Kent F. Schull (Binghamton University).

Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit der türkischen Stiftung Geschichte (Tarif Vakfi).

Wo: Orient-Institut Istanbul

Wann: 17. März 2014, 19 Uhr

 

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Marc Lazar: The Communist Challenge. Five questions about Communism as World System

Abstract for the conference Das 20. Jahrhundert und der Erste Weltkrieg

It’s impossible to do an exhaustive paper on this topic. In these conditions, For this panel called “Order and Ideology” in relations to the topic of our Conference, I have selected five questions about Communism, but only the «Bolshevik Communism», this modern form of Communism of Twentieth Century, created by Lenin and based on the fundamental experience of USSR: What are we speaking about when we speak of Communist System?; What are the main features of the Communist System?; As historians, can we establish a clear chronology and visible sequences of this Communist System?; Did this Communist System was a Perfect Organized World System?; and to conclude: What memory remains of this Communist System and what is its legacy?

I give some elements of answer on the reality of the facts but also indicating some historiography controversies because it’s quite impossible to separate these two dimensions. Very often I will indicate the terms of the debates without giving my own position for favouring the general discussion among us.

Marc Lazar is professor of history and political sociology at Sciences Po. In Sciences Po he is Head of the graduate program in the History department since 2007, Dean of the History department and President of scientific Council since 2010. His research interests are Communism in France and Italy, the socialist left and Social Democrats in Western Europe, the changes in politics in France and Italy and the relations between the French left and the public service.

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