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Wednesday 3 June 2026

08:30-09:00

Registration and Coffee

Espace Philippe Séguin 001

 

09:00-09:30

Welcome and Official Opening

EPS 003

 

09:30-11:00

Parallel Panel 1.1 (EPS 201)

Unfulfilled Expectations in the Aftermath of Conflicts: Case Studies in U.S. Military History in the Early 20th Century (Chair: Graeme Plint)

Johannes Allert
(USAF Air University)

A Puppet of Fate: Dr Bernard Gallagher’s Journey from First World War Trauma to Recovery and Redemption

Bobby Wintermute
(Queens College, City University of New York)

The First World War as Moral Crucible: American Military Service and Felons in Pennsylvania’s Eastern State Penitentiary

David Ulbrich
(Norwich University)

The U.S. Marines, Haiti, and Voodoo: Cultural Lessons Learned in the 1920s and 1930s

 

09:30-11:00

Parallel Panel 1.2 (EPS 203)

Habsburg Military and Society during the Wars with France (Chair: Jiří Kubeš)

Balázs Lázár
(Military History Institute and Museum Budapest)

“Money, Horse and Arms”: The Offerings of the Hungarian Aristocrats for the Royal Imperial Army, 1741-1815

István Nagy-Luttenberger
(Military History Institute and Museum Budapest)

Old, New or Military? The Aristocracy in the High Command of the Imperial-Royal Army during the French Wars

Stephan Sander-Faes
(University of Bergen)

Two Eyewitness Accounts of the Wars of Third and Fifth Coalition (1805, 1809), as Recounted in the Diary of Julius Hörweg, Abbot of Zwettl

 

09:30-11:00

Parallel Panel 1.3 (EPS 204)

Violence, Welfare, Pedagogy, and Humanitarianism (Chair: Hendrik Snyders)

Johan Massart
(Royal Military Academy Belgium)

Belgian Military Operations in Congo during the Sixties: Acts of Humanitarian Aid or Instruments of Neocolonialism?

Christian Kjellsson and Francesca Vita (Swedish Defence University & DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte - Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies)

The ‘Welfare’ as Warfare: The Two Side of the Liberation War in Guinea-Bissau, 1968–1974

 

 

09:30-11:00

Parallel Panel 1.4 (EPS 205)

North and West Africa: Cold War Issues in the Diplomacy of Former French Colonies (Chair: Régine Perron)

Arthur Banga
(Houphouët-Boigny University)

Ivory Coast facing competition in the Western bloc

Maxime Hatterer
(CY Cergy Paris Université)

Reconfiguring Alliances in the Gulf of Guinea: West Africa, Decolonization and the Cold War in the 1970s

Enzo Fontanet
(CY Cergy Paris Université)

The Algerian War from a Third World Perspective: Non-Aligned Leaders and Their Responses to the Conflict

 

11:00-11:15

Coffee Break

EPS 001

 

11:15-12:15

Early Career Session

EPS 003

 

12:15-13:00

Lunch Break

EPS 001

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 2.1 (EPS 201)

World War II: Strategic Theatres and Maritime Realities (Chair: Thomas Mockaitis)

Pasi Tuunainen
(Universities of Eastern Finland and Oulu)

The Second World War in the High North: An Under-Researched Topic

Ole Jørgen Maaø
(Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy)

What Constitutes a War Hero? Pilot Officer Bjarne Øen in World War Two

Muhammad Rohaan Pasha
(University of Karachi)

The Forgotten Allies: South Asian Soldiers at Monte Cassino and the Making of the Italian Campaign

Miguel Brandão
(University of Porto)

Max Valentiner’s Attack in Madeira (03.12.1916): Military, Economic and Social Impacts of a German Submarine Bombardment on an Island Community during World War I

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 2.2 (EPS 203)

World War II: Veterans, Prisoners, and Local Recruits (Chair: Jean-Pierre Scherman)

Salah Chig
(University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah)

From Battlefield to Silence: Moroccan Second World War Veterans and the Politics of France’s Representation

Alexandra Pulvermacher
(University of Klagenfurt)

Starvation as Strategy: The Wehrmacht’s Policy Towards Soviet Prisoners of War in the Planning and Execution of Operation Barbarossa

Salvador Lima
(European University Institute)

Antifascist Volunteers in the French Foreign Legion on the Eve of World War II, 1938-1940

Tomasz Korban
(University of the National Education Commission, Krakow)

How to Recover Hitler's Spoils: Allied Efforts to Restitute Gold Looted by the Axis Powers during World War II

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 2.3 (EPS 204)

Social Histories, Emotions, and the Law (Chair: Evert Kleynhans)

Jacopo Pessina
(University of Pisa)

Coercion and Social Origin: The Tuscan Discoli during the Medicean Era, 1686-1737

Tiago Rocha e Melo
(University of Lisbon)

A Trans-Historical Experience of War?: Reading Emotions in Frontinus and Patton

Suné Van Achterbergh
(North-West University)

Patriotism and the Imaginary of “South Africa” during the Second World War

Yohann Vauché

(Sciences-Po Aix-Marseille)

Violence and Dispossession against French Civilians during the American Civil War

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 2.4 (EPS 205)

Global Perspectives on Conflict: Transnational Networks, Ideology, and Wartime Experiences (Chair: Marco Wyss)

Carlo De Nuzzo
(Sciences Po Paris)

Transnational European Far-Right Foreign Fighters: Networks, Ideologies, and Militant Trajectories from the 1960s to the War in Ukraine (2014)

Valeria Vollmer
(University of Zurich)

Lifeworlds of Crimean War Mercenaries in the 1850s and 1860s: A Transnational Collective Biography

Fulvia Dellavedova
(University of Naples Federico II)

Politicising Just War Theory: Catholic Debates and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era (1991-2008)

Séverine Angers
(The National Archives, UK)

“Write to Me by Different Ships Because the English Capture Many”: The Prize Papers Project and Families Wartime Experiences, 1652-1815

 

15:00-15:15

Coffee Break

EPS 001

 

15:15-17:15

Parallel Panel 3.1 (EPS 201)

Resistance and Counterinsurgency in Colonial Africa (Chair: Evert Kleynhans)

Hendrik Snyders
(Stellenbosch University)

Who Captured Winston Churchill? Micro-Historical Reconstruction and Memory Contestation in the Anglo-Boer War

Rhian Davies
(University of Warwick)

Post-Colonial Military Diplomacy: A Social History of British Forces in Kenya since 1964

Niels Boender
(University of Edinburgh)

Counterinsurgent Capitalism: Making a Market during the 1950s State of Emergency in Kenya

Brecht Kreyen
(Université Libre de Bruxelles / Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Rebelling in Wartime? Resisting Arrest on the African Frontlines of WWII (1940-1945)

 

15:15-17:15

Parallel Panel 3.2 (EPS 203)

The First World War: Occupation, Identity, and Civilians (Chair: Christina Twomey)

Samuël Kruizinga
(University of Amsterdam)

A Model Occupation: The Germans in Brussels, 1914-1918

Andrew May
(University of Melbourne)

We Saw what we had Believed: Re-evaluating Place, Race, Religion and Identity in Indian and British Experiences of World War 1

Olga Okhotnikova
(Ludwig Maximilian University)

The First World War and the Politics of Rehabilitation: Military Disability Between Late Russian Empire and Early Soviet State

David Hager
(University of Picardie Jules Verne)

“The Distinction Between the Combat Zone, the Front, and the Rear has Lost Some of Its Significance”: The Bombing of French Cities during the Great War (1914-1918)

 

15:15-17:15

Parallel Panel 3.3 (EPS 204)

Landscapes of Memory and Persuasion: Global Perspectives on War Memorialisation and Propaganda (Chair: Tycho van der Hoog)

Christina Theodosiou
(Hellenic Open University)

The Porte d’Orient War Memorial in Marseille: Local, National or International Site of Memory?

Anna La Grange
(University of Potsdam)

“Their Honour Rooted in Dishonour”: White South African Memorialisation Practices in the Colonial Prelude to the First World War

Michael Beauchamp

(Rogers State University)

The Declouet Memorial: Spanish Ambitions vs. British Realities in Louisiana in 1814

Aimée Dion
(Université Laval)

Making the World Safe for Democracy: Selling Wilson’s Great War

 

17:30-17:45

Introduction to Keynote Lecture: Dr. Alessia Lefebure

Saporta Amphi Cassin

 

17:45-18:45

Keynote Lecture: Prof. Guillaume Piketty

Saporta Amphi Cassin

 

 

Thursday 4 June 2026

 

09:00-10:30

Parallel Panel 4.1 (EPS 201)

The Transient and Enduring Nature of Strategic Leadership (Chair: Scott Brickner)

Vanya Eftimova Bellinger
(US Naval War College)

Creating Military Geniuses: Scharnhorst vs Clausewitz on Strategic Leadership

Andrew Wilson
(US Naval War College)

The Hand of Command: Titus Livius and Master Sun on Strategic Leadership

Brendan Neagle
(US Naval War College)

Irregular Geniuses: Washington, Mao, and Revolutionary Strategic Leadership

 

09:00-10:30

Parallel Panel 4.2 (EPS 202)

Education, Training, and Military Culture (Chair: Samuël Kruizinga)

Thomas Kieslinger
(Diocesan Museum St. Afra, Augsburg)

Drill, Duty and Doctrine: Military Catechisms as Instruments of Soldierly Education in 19th-Century German Armies

Sanghyun Lee
(Republic of Korea Air Force Academy)

The Aviation School in Nanchang/Luoyang and the Italian Aeronautical Mission: An Institutional Study

Graeme Plint
(Stellenbosch University)

Annie Get Your Gun: Girls School Rifle Shooting in Pietermaritzburg, 1909-1960

 

09:00-10:30

Parallel Panel 4.3 (EPS 203)

African Militaries: Assistance, Interventions, and Regional Security

(Chair: Bruno Cardoso Reis)

Tycho van der Hoog and John Kegel
(Netherlands Defence Academy)

A History of Dutch Military Interventions in Africa, 1960-2000

Francesca Vita and Ana Vaz Milheiro
(DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte - Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies)

Villagisation and Military Agency in Late-Colonial Africa: A Comparative Study of Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique (1968-1974)

 

09:00-10:30

Parallel Panel 4.4 (EPS 204)

Policy, Innovation, and National Identity (Chair: Séverine Angers)

Sarah Davis Westwood (Grup d’Estudis de les Societats Africanes)

Envisioning a Senegalese Way of War: Military Culture in 18th and 19th Century Senegalese States

Fabio De Ninno
(University of Siena)

From Cold War to the Mediterranean: Shifts in Italian Defence Policy from Border Defence to Power Projection (1967-1978)

Niels Bo Poulsen
(Institute of Defense Studies Oslo / Royal Danish Defense College)

When Scandinavians Study War: The Role of History in the Professional Military Debate: A Comparative Study of Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1870-1991

 

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

 EPS 001

 

10:45-12:15

Parallel Panel 5.1 (EPS 201)

Home-Front Crises, Infrastructural Strain and State Failure in Wartime Italy (1939-1943) (Chair: Luca Domizio)

Emanuele Venchi
(University of Padua)

An Army Without War: Italian Soldiers, the Second World War Mobilisations and the Fascist Regime

Vincenzo Demichele
(University of Bari)

Targeting Water Supply: Operation Colossus and Its Effects in Fascist Italy

Federico Cormaci
(Universities of Florence and Siena)

Food, hunger, and the collapse of the home front: Fascist failures in wartime Sicily (1940–1943)

 

10:45-12:15

Parallel Panel 5.2 (EPS 202)

Ancient and Medieval Warfare: Strategy and Representation (Chair: Alexandra Kaar)

Steele Brand
(Arizona State University)

“And the Danes Held the Place of Slaughter:” Anglo-Saxon Defeat in Light of the Principles of War

Cynthia Villagomez
(Winston-Salem State University)

Syriac Hagiorgraphical and Ecclesiastical Texts as Sources for Late Sasanian-Byzantine Military Culture and Warfare

Yiming Ha
(Hong Kong Baptist University)

The Mongol-Yuan and Ilkhanate Army in Comparative Perspective

 

10:45-12:15

Parallel Panel 5.3 (EPS 203)

Early Modern Justice, Feuds, and Law (Chair: Niels Bo Poulsen)

Brent Lievens
(Ghent University)

The Strained Relationship of Military and Civil Justice in Early Modern Flanders, 1585-1700

Joost Oosterhuis
(Durham University)

The Juridification of Violence: The Transformation of Feuds in the Dutch States Army (1688-1712)

Erik Wascheck
(Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

Ink Warriors: 10th-Century Weapon Bearers in the Imagination of their Contemporary Clerical Authors

 

10:45-12:15

Parallel Panel 5.4 (EPS 204)

The Global War on Civilians, 1914-1945 (Chair: Victor Louzon)

Sheldon Garon
(Sciences Po Paris)

Writing a Global History of the Second World War by Taking Japan Seriously

Anne van Mourik
(Sciences Po Paris)

Not in Isolation: How Transnational Knowledge from War and Peacetime Shaped Nazi Home-Front Warfare

Boyd van Dijk
(Sciences Po Paris)

Civilian Protection and the Politics of Restraint in an Age of Indiscriminate Warfare: A Global History of Regulating Blockade and Bombardment, 1919-1939

 

12:15-13:00

Lunch Break

 EPS 001

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 6.1 (EPS 201)

Imperial Conflict and Subversion in East Asia (Chair: Johan Massart)

Martin Schulz
(Bundeswehr's Center for Military History and Social Sciences)

German Military in the Boxer War

Lorenzo Capelli
(Sapienza University of Rome)

The Wolf’s Tracks in the Celestial Empire: The Italian Military Involvement in China from 1900 to 1925

Chahineze Ben Daoud
(INSPE, Aix-en-Provence)

The Foreign Legion and the Thái Nguyên Revolt (1917): Operations, Colonial Constraints, and Identity Affirmation

Coralie Tauleigne
(Aix-Marseille University)

A Not-So-Unknown Soldier: Identifying the French Unidentified Soldier of the Korean War (1950-1953)

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 6.2 (EPS 203)

Fighting Beyond the Front: Morale, Mobilization, and Social Forces in War

(Chair: Roy Doron)

Muhammad Alaraby

(Future for Advanced Research and Studies, Abu Dhabi)

The Role of People's War in Egyptian Strategy During the Suez Crisis

Marina Alia Jurišić
(University of Zagreb)

Recruitment and Role of Women in the Partisan Army of Yugoslavia

Hayley Brabazon
(Dublin City University)

Irregular War, Conventional Criteria? Female Military Service Pensions in Post-Revolutionary Ireland

Dmitry Sterkhov
(Russian Academy of Sciences)

Prussian Preachers: War Propagandists? Protestant Church and War Mobilization in Prussia in 1813-1815

 

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 6.3 (EPS 204)

International Dimensions of War Termination: The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) (Chair: Andrew R. Wilson)

Marc Genest
(US Naval War College)

Negotiating with the Kremlin: How the 1905 Russo-Japanese War Negotiations May Predict the Outcome of the Russo-Ukraine War

Anatol Klass
(US Naval War College)

From Imperial Self-Strengthening to Nationalization: Qing China after the Russo-Japanese War

Jesse Tumblin
(US Naval War College)

‘Problems of the Pacific’: Britain, the United States; the End of the Russo-Japanese War

 

15:00-15:15

Coffee Break

 EPS 001

 

15:15-17:15

Parallel Panel 7.1 (EPS 201)

Maritime Logistics, Shipbuilding, and Professionalism (Chair: Walter Bruyere-Ostells)

Erik Odegard
(Netherlands Defence Academy)

Naval Shipbuilding in the Netherlands: An Industrial Analysis, 1916-1940

Diogo Borges and David Alves
(University Institute of Lisbon)

Revolutionary and Maritime Logistics: Overseas Chinese Support Networks in the 1911 Revolution and Military Possibilities

Manuel Dorion-Soulié
(Ecole polytechnique, IP Paris / CIEDS)

Who Killed the Citizen-Soldier? A Transatlantic History of the End of Conscription

Mauro Difrancesco
(University of Salerno)

Reforging Maritime Power: Recruitment in the Royal Sardinian Navy after Napoleon (1815-1821)

 

15:15-17:15

Parallel Panel 7.2 (EPS 202)

Fortresses, Towns, and Frontiers: Warfare and Violence from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era (Chair: Anri Delport)

Alexandra Kaar
(University of Vienna)

How to Get Rid of Your Annoying Neighbour’s Castle: Towns and the Destruction of Noble Castles in Late Medieval Central Europe

Thomas Brosset
(Université de Lorraine)

Mass Violence Towards Civilians in Siege Warfare (1097-1192)

Franziska Quaas
(Philipps-Universität Marburg / Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)

The Significance of Time for Practices and Experiences of Violence in Medieval Warfare

Ján Pastuszek
(Charles University)

The Ottoman Wars and the Language of Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Central Europe

 

 

15:15-17:15

Parallel Panel 7.3 (EPS 203)

What Defined Warfare in the Seventeenth Century? Rethinking Operational Realities Across Europe (Chair: Anna La Grange)

Jaakko Björklund
(University of Helsinki)

Sweden at War 1600–29: Innovation and Adaptation

Luca Domizio
(University of Genoa)

Operational Choices and Constraints in Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Warfare

Grégoire Barou
(Sorbonne Université)

The Nine Years’ War (1688–1697) and the Experience of “Extreme Warfare” in Western Europe

 

17:15-18:00

Book Discussions (Prof. Evert Kleynhans):

 

Dr. Tycho van der Hoog

Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa (Hurst, 2025)

Dr. John Kegel

The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994
(Ohio University Press, 2025)

 EPS 003

 

18:00-19:00

Cocktail Function

 EPS 001

 

Friday 5 June 2026

 

09:00-10:30

Parallel Panel 8.1 (EPS 201)

Mobilising for War: Perspectives from the Era of the World Wars (Chair: Pasi Tuunainen)

Joshua Hickford
(University of Oxford)

Creating the Regimental Family in the Pre-1914 British Army

Qianyi Zhang
(University of Oxford)

British Recruitment of Chinese Labourers during the First World War: Chaotic Structures, Internal Disputes, and the Weakness of Informal Empire

Jake Gasson
(King’s College London / National Army Museum)

Beyond ‘Dad’s Army’: A Profile of the British Home Guard Auxiliary Units during the Second World War

 

09:00-10:30

Parallel Panel 8.2 (EPS 202)

Cultural, Ethnic, and Racial Dimensions of the Second World War

(Chair: Cynthia Villagomez)

Terrance L. Lewis
(Winston-Salem State University)

Before Revisionism: Discussing Appeasement during World War II

David Romine
(Winston-Salem State University)

When Fort Bragg Smoldered: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice during the Second World War, 1941-1944

Roy Doron
(Winston-Salem State University)

Race, Racism, and Demobilization of African Troops in Burma

 

09:00-10:30

Parallel Panel 8.3 (EPS 203)

The Reach of Air Power: Formation, Application, and Consequence

(Chair: Jacob Thomas-Llewellyn)

Konstantinos Xypolytos
(Ibn Haldun University)

From Logistics to Aviation: Muzzafer Ergüder and the Foundations of Turkish Aviation

Rodrigo Martínez-Val
(Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Aircraft and Airfields in the Takoradi-Cairo Air Route of the Second World War

Evert Kleynhans
(Stellenbosch University)

The South African Air Force, Operation Bombay, and Counterinsurgency in Southeastern Angola, 1968-1969

 

09:00-10:30

Parallel Panel 8.4 (EPS 205)

Between Ambition and Constraint: National Identities, Historical Legacies, and the Limits of European Military Integration (Chair: Delphine Deschaux-Dutard)

Benjamin Pfannes
(University of Potsdam)

Limits, Symbol, Joint Force? The Franco-German Brigade as a Test Case for European Military Integration

Lise Dubois
(Institute for European Studies at University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis)

Germany’s Reluctance Toward Space Power

Laurent Borzillo
(École Nationale d’Administration Publique)

Between “Europe Puissance” and Operational Effectiveness: National Roles and Bureaucratic Rivalries in the Genesis of the European Union Battlegroups

 

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

 EPS 001

 

10:45-12:15

Parallel Panel 9.1 (EPS 201)

Frontier, Fleet and Fidelity: The Versatile Roles and Features of the Grenzer in the Habsburg Armed Forces (Chair: Marco Wyss)

Alexander Buczynski
(Croatian Institute of History)

Discipline, Trust, Fidelity and the Imperial Compact: Cohesion in the Military Frontier

Juraj Balić
(Croatian Institute of History)

From “Small War” to Linear Warfare: The Grenzer in the Seven Years’ War

Vedran Klaužer
(Croatian Institute of History)

“Croats at Sea”: The Grenzer and the Austrian Navy, 1750–1815

 

10:45-12:15

Parallel Panel 9.2 (EPS 202)

Material Traces of War: Trauma, Logistics, and Experience

(Chair: Suné Van Achterbergh)

Chiara Maria Pulvirenti
(Sapienza University of Rome / City University of New York)

Humanitarianism at War: Food, Authority and the UNRRA Mediterranean, 1944–1947

Noëlle Manoni
(University of Luxembourg)

Decoding the Cost of Supply or What Bills, Delivery Notes and Soldiers’ Complaints Reveal about Logistics in 1944

Stephan Horn
(Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr)

Desirous Looks: The (Re-)Building of Soldierly Masculinities via Configurations of Civilian Femininities in the Photo Albums held in the Collection of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr (MHMBw)

 

10:45-12:15

Parallel Panel 9.3 (EPS 203)

Second World War and Beyond: Global Perspectives on Military Justice

(Chair: Niels Boender)

Fátima Rodrigues
(Lusíada Norte University / University of Porto)

Crime and Military Justice in the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974): A Socio-Historical Analysis of Common Crimes Tried during the Conflict

Christina Twomey
(Monash University)

Trials of Loyalty: Treason and Justice in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War

Gaël Eismann
(Université de Caen-Normandie)

Military Justice, the Legal Showcase of the German Repressive and Coercive Apparatus in France during the Second World War

 

10:45-12:15

Parallel Panel 9.4 (EPS 205)

The Habsburg Imperial Army and Habsburg Social Elites in the Early Modern Era, 1500-1740 (Chair: Stephan Sander-Faes)

Zoltán Ujj
(Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)

Habsburg Archdukes in the 16th Century Ottoman Wars

Jiří Kubeš
(University of Pardubice)

Younger Sons from Aristocratic Families Settled in the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy Between the Order of Malta and the Imperial Army (1620–1740)

Vítězslav Prchal
(University of Pardubice)

Climbing the Ladder: Successful Military Service and Growing Social Prestige of Bohemian and Austrian Aristocracy Serving in the Officer Corps of the Imperial Army, 1650–1740

 

12:15-13:00

Lunch Break

 EPS 001

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 10.1 (EPS 201)

The Human Face of Conflict: Morale, Mindset, and Subversive Warfare

(Chair: John Kegel)

Jacob Thomas-Llewellyn
(Rabdan Academy)

Day of Chaos: The Irish Army and the Siege of Jadotville, 1961

Zeynep Sabanci

(University of Basel)

Militarism and Its Pedagogical Apparatus: Von der Goltz and the Jungdeutschlandbund

Hendrik Willem Nelis
(University of Oxford)

Operation Falaise: A Case Study in Subversive Irregular Warfare, SOE Methods and Self-Perceptions

Conor Roddy
(Dublin City University)

Jubilation and Unease: Contrasting Morale in the 1921 Anglo-Irish Truce

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 10.2 (EPS 202)

Sustaining Conflict: Logistics, Medicine, and Support Systems in Modern Warfare

(Chair: Alexandra Pulvermacher)

Anri Delport
(Stellenbosch University)

Veld-Bound Medicine: The Role of the South African Medical Corps in the German South West Africa Campaign, 1914-1915

Witali Gerber
(Bundeswehr Military History Museum)

Children of the Air War: Young Germans in the Air Defense of the German Reich

Sean Derrick
(University of Buckingham)

‘A Town Clerk’s Field Ambulance’? Examining the Training and Preparations of the Territorial Force’s Field Ambulances, 1908-1914

Sara Ercolani
(University of Pisa)

Italian Catholic Missionaries between the 1950s and 1970s and the Development of Military Technology in Missionary Activity

 

13:00-15:00

Parallel Panel 10.3 (EPS 203)

The Evolution of Force: Doctrine, Professionalisation, and Tactics across the Eras
(Chair: Sheldon Garon)

Fouad Qachchachi
(Moulay Ismail University)

Principles and Applications of French Military Strategy in Morocco (1912-1934)

Alice Travers
(French National Center for Scientific Research)

The Challenges of the Tibetan Army’s Professionalization in the 19th Century

Jean-Pierre Scherman

(Stellenbosch University)

“The Blue Springboks”: An Introduction to South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Peace Keeping Operations

Petros Nicolaou
(Royal Holloway University London)

How to move in battle: Tactical Mobility in the 10th Century Byzantine army

 

15:00-15:15

Coffee Break

 EPS 001

 

15:15-17:15

Parallel Panel 11.1 (EPS 201)

Economic Autonomy, Information Networks, and Technological Concentration in East Asia, ca. 1660-1946 (Chair: Xing Hang)

Kenneth Swope
(US Naval War College)

Considering the Economic Backdrop to the San Fan Rebellion

Yongchao Cheng
(Tohoku University)

Gatekeepers of Qing Intelligence: Tsushima Domain’s Information Networks via Korea in the Late Tokugawa Period

Christian McCall
(Tennessee Technological University)

Marking the Target: The Socioeconomic Consequences in Central Japan from Aircraft Technology

 

15:15-17:15

Parallel Panel 11.2 (EPS 202)

The Global Heritage of Special Operations Executive (SOE) Operations and Its Roots in Imperial Policing (Chair: Zane A. Whitney Jr)

Elizabeth Gardner
(King's College London)

When Is an Imperial Gendarmerie Not an Imperial Gendarmerie? The Case of 102 Military Mission and the Libyan Arab Force

Jacob Stoil
(US Army Modern War Institute)

From Special Operations to Security: SOE in Palestine Mandate

Chi Man Kwong
(Hong Kong Baptist University)

Hybrid Defence: The British Attempt to Secure the Maritime Border of Hong Kong, 1945-1970

 

15:15-17:15

Parallel Panel 11.3 (EPS 203)

Armed Forces and the State: Crisis, Reform, and Sovereignty in Transition

(Chair: David Ulbrich)

Thomas Mockaitis
(DePaul University)

The American Revolution at 250: Engaging the Past or Perpetuating the Myths?

Jalal Zine El Abidine
(Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University)

Military Reforms in Morocco during the Second Half of the 19th Century: Context, Details, and Consequences

Marcell Matányi
(Ludovika University of Public Service)

Responses to Napoleon's Challenge: The Central and Eastern European Territorial Defense in the Aspect of War and Society

Thierry Guillope
(ENS de Lyon)

Relocating Algeria’s archives (1960-1963): military involvement, sovereignty issues and logistical challenges

 

17:15-17:30

Closing of the Conference

EPS 001

 

18:00-21:00

Conference Dinner

 

 

 

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