International Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre de Péronne; Emmanuel Debruyne, Erwan Le Gall, Gwendal Piégais, Élise Rezsöhazy and Axel Tixho

Time: 26.-28.10.2017
Venue: Mons
Proposals due: 03.03.2017

The 2016 Summer School has led to many exchanges and debates which needed to be prolonged and perpetuated. In that sense, the organizers invite papers for a symposium directed at young researchers, such as graduate students and PhD students. The organisers intend to publish the proceedings of this conference at a later date.

The historiography of World War I has been largely built upon the basis of separation between the History of battles on one side and occupied populations and the home front on the other. Nonetheless, to reason with this image is to forget that World War I, as total warfare, has set new means of meeting, coexisting and cohabitating between the civilian and the military spheres. From the military front to the home front, and through occupied territories, the war experience is a crossway, perhaps even an interaction between the civilian and military worlds, as the expression ‘home front’ suggests. Read more and source … (Web)