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SHoW Conference, 27-28 November 2025:
Call for Papers
The deadline for paper, panel and roundtable submissions is 30th June 2025
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The Society for the History of War invites proposals for a conference on the Cultures of War and Violence. The Conference is organised in collaboration with the University of Potsdam, the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences (Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, ZMSBw), and the Working Group Military History (Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte). It will be held in Potsdam, Germany, close to Berlin, on 27-28 November 2024. Our keynnote speaker is
Prof Beatrice de Graaf.
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The call for papers can be found here.​
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