Forum for Studies on War
In several Faculties, Schools and Departments at the University o
f Reading, research is being conducted on topics relating to war:
- Professor Colin Gray in the School of Politics & International Relations heads a Centre for Strategic Studies at the School of Politics & International Relations with many different activities.
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One of these activities is Dr Geoff Sloane's and Professor Colin Gray's Seminar Series on 'Technology, Strategy & Warfare' (MS Word - 103 KB) (Funded by General Dynamics).
In the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, there are:
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Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe, 1940-1945' (project funded by AHRC: co-investigator Professor Andrew Knapp)
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Languages at War: policies and practices of language contacts in conflict' (project funded by AHRC: Principal investigator Professor Hilary Footitt).
- An inter-faculty project on The Liberal Way of War' (funded by Leverhulme) is run by Professor Alan Cromartie from within the School of Politics and International Relations.
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Dr Martin Parsons' project on The Effects of War on Children currently run from the Department of Education, includes a variety of activities, such as:
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'The children's war: evacuees in the countryside, 1939-45', an Exhibition in the Museum of English Rural Life, open to the public.
6 December 2012, Assemblée Nationale in Paris
Professor Beatrice Heuser of the Department of Politics & Internatonal Relations, will be speaking to a conference on the Military and the Law. http://www.st-cyr.terre.defense.gouv.fr/index.php/Les-ecoles-de-Saint-Cyr-Coetquidan/Actualites/Colloque-international-La-robe-et-l-epee
25 March 2013, National Army Museum, London
A one-day conference is organised by Professor Beatrice Heuser of the Department of Politics & International Relations, UoR, and Dr Alastair Massie of the National Army Museum on:
The Origins and Transformation of Small Wars (to 1815):
from Special Operations to Ideologically-Driven Insurgencies
Keynote speaker (tbc): Christopher Duffy: The Jacobite Rebellions
Benjamin Deruelle (Lille): "The 16th century roots of small wars and special unit 'parties'" (tbc)
Hervé Drévillon (Paris I): "The origins of the gendarmerie: parties of dragoons and the internal pacification of France"
Bertrand Fonck (Archives de Vincennes) & George Satterfield (Naval War College, Newport, RI): "Partisans in the Franco-Spanish War in the Netherlands"
Alan Forrest (York): "The Insurgency of the Vendée"
Martin Rink (MGFA, Potsdam): "The German Wars of Liberation 1813-1815 : the restrained insurgency"
Charles Esdaile: "The Spanish Guerrilla" (tbc)
Michael Pavkovic (Naval War College, Newport, RI) & Beatrice Heuser (University of Reading): "Lessons learnt? Cultural transfer and revolutionary wars, 1775-1815"
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Forgotten Blitzes: France and Italy under Allied Air Attack. By: Prof Andy Knapp and Claudia Baldoli http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/france-under-allied-air-attack/