On the occasion of the commemoration of the First World War, the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), the History Department of the Université Saint-Joseph (USJ) and the Institute of Palestinian Studies (IPS) are organising the...
Most of the current debates about the Great War are euro-centred. Maybe also because of the euro-crisis, European leaders take the anniversary of a war that started a hundred years ago as an example to remind the Europeans of...
L’Institut historique allemand et la Mission du centenaire 1914-1918 s’associent pour proposer, depuis novembre 2013, un « Album franco-allemand de la Grande Guerre ».1 Chaque quinzaine, le grand public pourra découvrir des documents relatifs au premier conflit mondial, expliqués et...
The second WeberWorldCafé How did civilians live and work at the home front? How did artists and writers document their experiences in the trenches? How did the war influence people outside of Europe? The Max Weber Stiftung and the Forum Transregionale Studien would...
On 18th of June a roundtable discussion took place at the DHI London. Margaret MacMillan, Annika Mombauer, Sönke Neitzel and John Röhl discussed with Mark Hewitson what historians don’t know about the causes of World War I. Andreas Gestrich, director...
In cooperation with the University College London and the Arts and Humanities Research Council the German Historical Institute London holds a round table debate on 6pm on the 18th of June 2014: The majority of lectures and conferences marking...
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton and holds a joint appointment as Professor of International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School. Das 20. Jahrhundert & der Erste Weltkrieg: Harold James – Cosmos and Chaos from maxweberstiftung...
Marc Lazar is professor of history and political sociology at Sciences Po. In Sciences Po he is Head of the graduate program in the History department since 2007, Dean of the History department and President of scientific Council since...
The historiography of the First World War has over the last few years quickly shifted beyond the confines of the fields of Flanders and the Somme. The ripples from the seismic change that the First World War enacted were...
During the hight of Ottoman involvement in the Great War (1914-1918), the Comittee of Union and Progress (CUP) led government continued to carry out an agressive penal reform program in an attempt to overhaul the empire’s sprawling and dilapidated...
Abstract for the conference Das 20. Jahrhundert und der Erste Weltkrieg It’s impossible to do an exhaustive paper on this topic. In these conditions, For this panel called “Order and Ideology” in relations to the topic of our Conference, I...
Abstract for the conference Das 20. Jahrhundert und der Erste Weltkrieg My presentation focuses on comparisons between 2013/14 and 1913/14. It makes the following main arguments: Rule-based international orders are strained by transitions in power, even though all the parties...
Zusammenbruch, Neukonstitution und Kontinuität von Ordnungen in globaler Perspektive 2014 jährt sich der Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs zum 100. Mal. Er gilt als große historische Wendemarke. War er das wirklich, und wenn ja: weltweit? Wie sind dieses Ereignis und...
