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Violence and Conflict

Graduate Workshop

 

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This workshop tackles the twin themes of violence and conflict throughout the ages. It seeks to bring together military historians with t hose looki ng at the social, cultural and political histories of violence. The use of the term “conflict” is intended to give an arena to histories of grand strategy and operational military history, while the generalized term “violence” widens the scope of the workshop beyond beyond formal war between states to include not only other forms of political violence, such as guerrilla warfare and terrorism, but also socio-cultural manifestations of violence and the impact of these on the groups and individuals who must live with their consequences. In general, the aim is to take a broad, holistic approach to the topic, cutting across periods and specialisations and attracting students with all sorts of different interests connected to our central themes.

 

Convenors:

Christian Schlaepfer (cs548)

Derek L. Elliott (dle29)

Greta Lawrence (gv237)

Ilya Berkovich (ib275)

Mark Condos (mnc24)

 

Schedule for EasterTerm 2012

All meetings take place in Pembroke College, N7, between 17:30-19:00.

For abstracts see our Talks.cam page.

 

24 April - Intelligence Panel

Please note different venue: Nihon Room (Pembroke)

Dr Rory Cormac (KCL): Internationalising Insurgencies: Strategic Intelligence and Competing Understandings of Imperial Decline

Daniel Larsen (Christ's): At the Nexus of Intelligence and International History: A Novel Approach to Signals Intelligence

1 May

Prof Brendan Simms (Peterhouse): The Longest Afternoon: How Four Hundred Germans Decided the Battle of Waterloo

8 May

Jamie Miller (Jesus College): We were ruthlessly left in the lurch": South African and American Collusion in the Angolan Civil War, 1975-6

15 May

Barry O'Connell (Peterhouse): British Intelligence in the North and Baltic Seas, 1807-10

22 May

Harold Guizar (York University): 18th C. French Military Schools: An ‘Enlightened’ Education?

29 May

Neil Rogachevsky (Sidney Sussex): The French Army and the Plebiscite of 1870

9 June - Violent Culture/Cultural Violence - One Day Graduate Conference

For more information on the programme and how to sign up, please visit the conference website.

12 June

Jason Pack (St. Catharine's): The 2011 Libyan 'Uprisings', the Ascendancy of the Periphery, and Western and Libyan Policy Responses

 

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Abstracts and Archive

Between Civilisation and Militarisation (CRASSH Research Group)

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