📢 Call for Papers | Military History Consortium – 3rd Annual Conference
The Military History Consortium will hold its third annual conference at Sciences Po Aix, from June 3 to 5, 2026.
🗓 Deadline: 14 December 2025
All details below!

📢 CFP | Food and Nutrition in Wartime, 19th - 21st Centuries | St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (16–17 April 2026)
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to [email protected] 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).

SHoW's @ikapika.bsky.social is presenting today's keynote for the Navigating War and Violence in twentieth-century Ireland conference ( @nwavc2025.bsky.social), which is co-organised by @hayleybrabazon.bsky.social. Fredrika's paper is titled 'Colourising Conflict'.

Fascinating insights this morning from on postcolonial freedom fighters in 1960s Kenya, as part of the Global Geographies of Veteran History panel by @nielsboender.bsky.social

We are here @muahi.bsky.social for New Directions in Veteran History! A brilliant introduction to the COLVET project by @donalh.bsky.social kicked us off for a day of discussion on global, comparative, and inclusive approaches to veteran history.

Great to be with @milwelfhist.bsky.social too!

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.

Call for Papers for the Medievalists among us!

Editors Martin Neuding Skoog and Stefan Stantchev are asking for proposals for chapters in "Innovation in the Later Crusades: War and Society". Proposals are due August 21 2025.

See the CfP below for more information!

This is an excellent opportunity for members to contribute to an edited collection on strategic withdrawals!

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📢Call for papers!
🗓️Deadline: 14 February
📍Dublin City University, 4 - 5 April 2025

The call for papers for Navigating War and Violence in twentieth-century Ireland is closing this Friday! More details below, or at @nwavc2025.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers!
🗓️ Abstract due: 14 March 2025
📍Kings College London

Catholics in Conflict, 1900-1945.

Organised by Joshua Madrid (@jmadrid001.bsky.social) a PhD candidate at University College London working on Catholicism in England during the Second World War.

All the details are below 👇

Good morning SHoW! ☀️

We'd love to hear about what you've been working on! Share your upcoming conferences, recently published papers or books, and any other news you'd like to share with the community. Comment below or DM us – we're excited to hear from you!

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@nielsboender.bsky.social is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in African History at the University of Edinburgh. His work has considered the legacies of anti-colonial conflict in Kenya.

We are looking forward to sharing SHoW updates and connecting with the community!

Meet the SHoW social media team! 📸

We wanted to introduce ourselves as we get started here on BlueSky & LinkedIn (buff.ly/4aQklkj)

@hayleybrabazon.bsky.social is a PhD candidate at Dublin City University, researching the afterlives of female veterans of the Irish Revolution