Mischa Honeck (GHI Washington), James Marten (Marquette University), Andreas Gestrich (GHI London), Arndt Weinrich (GHI Paris) (Web)

Time: June 5-7, 2014
Venue: German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
Deadline: 30.11.2013

The goal of the conference is to enrich our understanding of the place and role of children and youth in war during the first half of the twentieth century; to come to grips with a fundamental paradox: How was it possible for modern societies to reimagine childhood as a space of sheltered existence and mobilize children for war at the same time? And how did modern warfare disrupt or accelerate rites of passage in the realms of gender, sexuality, national loyalty, ethnic and racial identity, and military involvement? We ask these questions on the assumption that young people experienced war in ways that were age-specific and different from how adults endured it. Usually, these differences found some means to express… read more (Website)

Panel for a session at the Deutsche Historikertag

Ort: Göttingen
Zeit: 23.-26.09.2014
Deadline: 25.10.2013

‘War is Good for Babies and Other Young Children’, or at least so said Deborah Dwork (1987) in her book on the infant and child welfare movement in England between 1898 and 1918.

The heavy burdens of infant mortality and non-fatal childhood disease were recognised for the first time by social reformers in industrialising countries during the generation before 1914, and programmes of public health intervention were launched in many countries. Dwork’s argument, in relation to England, was that enthusiasm for these programmes was more easily aroused and maintained in belligerent than in peaceful times. Arguments of ‘national efficiency’ – that child mortality and debility wasted the national stock of future workers and soldiers – acquired new force in countries grappling with ‘total war’ and its unprecedented demands for manpower. Read more and Source …

Ariadne: Forum für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte, Heft 66, Redaktion: Dr. Susanne Hertrampf und Laura Schibbe M.A., Erscheinungstermin: November 2014

Deadline: 23. November 2013

»Wenn die Vermeidung von Kriegen in Zukunft erreicht werden soll, kann auf die Stimme der Frauen nicht länger verzichtet werden.«

1919 formulierte Lida Gustava Heymann diese Forderung in der Nachfolge des Ersten Weltkrieges. Auch im Oktober 2000 war diese Forderung noch aktuell. Der UN-Sicherheitsrat verab schiedete die Resolution 1325: Seitdem werden die Regierungen aufgefordert, die gleichberechtigte Teilhabe von Frauen an friedenserhaltenden bzw.- schaffenden Maßnahmen zu gewährleisten und aktiv herbeizuführen. Anlass dieser erneuten nachdrücklic hen Forderung ist die Tatsache, dass noch immer die internationale Außen- und Sicherheit spolitik eine einseitige Domäne von männlichen Politikern ist. Weiterlesen (PDF)