The BLOCKADE project (blockades.eu) continues recruiting! We are looking for a PhD student at the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) in Trondheim, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Universität Hamburg.

We are enormously thankful for the equally enormous response our call has generated: we have recieved 𝟭𝟮𝟬 paper proposals and 𝟭𝟲 three-to-five person panel proposals!

Just a couple of days left to send in your paper, panel or roundtable abstract and join our keynote speaker @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social in Postdam!

SHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk #SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory #WarStudies #CFP

Join @sochistorywar.bsky.social in Potsdam for our annual conference. This time Prof Beatrice de Graaf will give the keynote and the theme of the conference is “Cultures of War and Violence”.

Very happy to anounce nother two (!) fully-funded four-year PhD vacancies within the 𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲-sponsored project 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄. Come work with the amazing Alan Kramer at Universität Hamburg: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan....

The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!

The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!

On 1 May 2025, our ERC Synergy-sponsored project, The Hidden Weapon: Blockade in the Era of the Two World Wars, or BLOCKADE for short, will begin. BLOCKADE is a collaborative initiative aimed at uncovering the most globally consequential blockades in history, those of the World Wars.

Happy to announce two vacacies at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social for a postdoctoral researcher (3 yrs) and a PhD (4 years) in our ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE, which explores the two global blockades of the First and Second World Wars and their aftermaths. See www.blockades.eu for more info.

SHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it? All details can be found below! ⬇️

SHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it? All details can be found below! ⬇️

From Amsterdam to Nicosia, SHoW conferences have sparked ideas, conversations, and friendships. This November, we meet again in Potsdam! In the meantime, tell us your favourite SHoW memory—the best paper, panel, night out, or unexpected conversation. We’d love to hear what’s stuck with you.

The first Freiburg-based job of BLOCKADE (@erc.europa.eu synergy grant) is out. A 4-year postdoc to research the world war blockades & their impact on women's mobilisation, vulnerability and resilience. Hoping to put together an amazing team in Freiburg. Please share! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Ik mis het oude Twitter, en denk dat veel X-verlaters dat ook doen. Ze gaan niet weg omdat ze bang zijn voor ‘andere meningen’, maar simpelweg omdat het er minder interessant is. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Bij waarschuwingen voor een hybride oorlog met Rusland gaat het soms over een ‘vijfde colonne’. De uitdrukking stamt uit de Spaanse Burgeroorlog en is de afgelopen eeuw vooral gebruikt om vergaande maatregelen te nemen tegen minderheden, zegt @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social

On November 28–29 of this year, the Society for the History of War (SHoW) convened in beautiful Cyprus. Hosted by the University of Cyprus Library, the event featured nearly 100 presentations across 23 panels, alongside two roundtables and a keynote by the incomparable Martin Thomas.

On 28-29 November 2024, join us in Nicosia, Cyprus for the 2024 Society for the History of War conference on "Legacies of War and Violence". The deadline for paper and panel proposals is 30 June. The CfP can be found here: shorturl.at/twyzR. #SHoW2024

New postdoc vacancy: Meat Culture: Popular Representations of Meat Consumption in the 19th and 20th Centuries. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post.... We invite those with a PhD in History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, or in other relevant fields to apply. @uvahumanities.bsky.social.

Reposting this by the brilliant Frédéric Mégret from the other website. As a historian working on colonial warfare and mass violence, I have always had a rather cynical view of the legal framing of war and 'war crimes' etc. and it is tragic to see legal scholars begin the question this as well...

A reminder that The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is open for 2023. Grants of up to £2,000. All aspect of Great War history considered. #fwwhist shar.es/ag0M0R

Er zijn veel interessante historici bijgekomen hier (of al langer aanwezig), volg ze allemaal! @saskiabonjour.bsky.social @carolienstolte.bsky.social @mdwars.bsky.social @annepetterson.bsky.social @jorisoddens.bsky.social @helmer.bsky.social @judithpollmann.bsky.social @annegoldgar.bsky.social

#Job UCD Dublin is seeking to appoint a Teaching Fellow to a specified purpose post in 20th century global history and/or the history of warfare. Contract: Type Temporary. Hours: Full Time. Deadline: 17:00hrs (Irish time) on the 2nd November 2023 www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Op 27 oktober a.s. organiseert de "route" Tussen conflict en coöperatie van de Nationale Wetenschapsagenda een symposium waarin we nieuw onderzoek presenteren. Een ideale gelegenheid om bij te praten én te netwerken! Met o.a. Beatrice de Graaf en Folkert Jansma (@nrcnl.bsky.social). En met mij!

I'm the Secretary to the Society for the History of War & co-organiser for our annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal on 23-24 Nov. Programme is out. The line up is amazing. While BlueSky is small I thought I'd catch your attention with it. Join us if you can. Margaret MacMillan giving the keynote.