4th International Conference of the Military Welfare History Network (MWHN) 2025 (Web)
Time: 09.-11.07.2025
Venue: Univ. of Graz
Programme (PDF)
Keynotes
- Maren Lorenz (Bochum): Beyond the Messiness of War – Conceptional and Terminological Challenges to Historicising Military-Civil Entanglements
- Ruth Nattermann (Munich/Leipzig): Rethinking Humanitarianism and Gender
Approaches to Military History and the History of War Welfare have changed fundamentally in recent decades. They shifted from a focus on event history, the depiction of predominantly operational levels, the monopolisation of military meanings or discourses of legitimation to innovative approaches to a cultural history of armed conflicts, which is particularly influenced by Social History, the History of Mentalities, Body or Gender History. This also applies in particular to the analysis of military welfare and care practices from a historical and social science perspective, which has undergone a fundamental reorientation in recent years, not least as a result of current care ethics debates. The conference aims to explicitly focus on the theoretical, conceptual and research-practical dynamics associated with this reorientation. It seeks to reflect about these changes in studies of care and welfare practices in military contexts and to discuss older and new concepts and their implementation in research. Referring to a problem-orientated approach, an explicitly interdisciplinary and trans-epochal orientation will be taken.
The Univ. of Graz MWHN Conference Team: Heidrun Zettelbauer and Viktoria Wind (Graz/Cultural and Gender History at the Department of History), Sabine Haring-Mosbacher (Graz/Sociology – Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria), and Sabine Jesner (Vienna/Military History Museum Vienna)
Source: fernetzt@lists.univie.ac.at