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7-8 May 2010 From next year onwards the Center's Vichy Working group will have an annual workshop on France in the Second World War in collaboration with the Maison française d'Oxford. The first workshop "Vichy in concepts" will take place 7-8 May 2010 at the Maison française d'Oxford. More details to follow
Past Events
From Africa to Berchtesgaden:
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Military History Literary Festival --------- SUMMER CONFERENCE 2009 “New Thinking on the Second World War” 24 July - 26 July 2009 The Centre for Second World War Studies and the British Commission for Military History are organizing a joint conference from Friday to mark the 70th Anniversary of the outbreak of Second World War. The Conference will be held at the Centre for Professional Development, College of Medical & Dental Science, University of Birmingham. The theme of the Conference is “New Thinking on the Second World War”. Archival research is beginning to challenge many of the traditional interpretations and the organizers would like to receive proposals for papers which take a fresh view of many aspects of the war. There will be number of papers review the established reputations of a number of major commanders and there will be five Workshop sessions, dealing with the following topics:
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10/11 December 2009 From Africa to Berchtesgaden: Across the Desert to defeat Hitler --------- Workshop: The War in the Inter-War La guerre dans l’entre-deux-guerres 2-3 April 2009 Organized by the French department -----------
Chris Pearson (University of Bristol) 'Bases, Bombs, and Boars: The Militarization of the French Landscape since 1857' Wednesday 4 March 2009 --------- Dr Joanne Sayner (University of Birmingham) 'Building the Mosaic: A Contribution to the Cultural History of Antifascism' Dr Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert (University of Birmingham)' Memory of the Second World War and Literary Imagination'Thursday, 29 January 2009 --------- 20 June 2008 Workshop: Children born of war during and after World War II ---------
17 October 2008 Workshop: Memory and the Second World War
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