Trophy Photographs in WWII
Above : Private Sam Miller of Pennsylvania holds a photograph of a Japanese woman, found in a Japanese dugout when US forces landed on Wakde Island.
Photographer: Jim Fitzpatrick, 26 May 1944.
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C239703
Trophy Photographs in WWII
An Interdisciplinary and Transnational Debate
Project
Collaborative and Interdisciplinary project funded by the Scientific Advisory Board at Sciences Po and the Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur.
Since the invention of the photographic camera, combatants have captured their experiences of war in images. During the Second World War in particular, amateur photography by soldiers became a social phenomenon and mass medium. Equipped with fast-shutter, affordable 35mm cameras, Axis and Allied servicemen documented their wartime activities extensively, in turn leaving behind a gigantic, private—and largely underexplored— archive that poses multiple epistemological and ethical challenges. In innumerable photographs, soldiers visually celebrated their victories over an enemy or conquered population; common pictorial tropes included posing next to an opponent’s tank or with foreign women, fixating on dead bodies, and mocking the enemy.
News
- June 8-10, 2023 - Workshop in Berlin, Ufer Studios (travail collaboratif)
- February 17, 2023 - Nuffield College / History Faculty's OxPo Exchange / Maison française d'Oxford / Sciences Po, CHSP
How Historians work with visual sources? History as an Interdisciplinary Space (PDF, 790 Ko) - February 8, 2022 - Max-Planck-Institüt für Bildungforschung
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Rivers on the move
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Rivers on the move
June 1-2, 2023
On June 1-2, 2023, the Emergences project SHIFTING SHORES will hold its final workshop at Brown University, United States. Born from a collaboration of Giacomo Parrinello (Sciences Po, CHSP) with Bathsheba Demuth and Larry Smith from Brown University and Mark Healey from the University of Connecticut, the workshop will gather scholars from history, anthropology, landscape architecture, geography, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology to discuss the multifaceted relationship between the natural dynamism of rivers and deltas and social, economic, and political change with case studies covering rivers in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Twenty-first century riverine and coastal vulnerabilities often emerge from past efforts to make amphibious zones fully terrestrial—to settle, confine, and control hydrological processes.The workshop will investigate why and how people have attempted to fix or settle amphibious and shifting riverine landscapes, the consequences for rivers’ forms and behavior, and how such past human-river interactions influence contemporary life. The participants will work together on an edited collection that will present the variety of approaches and case studies to understand the history of “rivers on the move” in well-researched but accessible essays.
Call for Expression of Interest Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2023 (IF)
Actualité Sciences Po
CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE INDIVIDUAL FELLOWSHIPS 2023 (IF)
In the past few years the Centre for History of Sciences Po (hereinafter CHSP) has successfully acted as a host institution for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowships awarded by the European Commission.
The 2023 call for these Fellowships has been published by the European Commission with an application deadline of September 13, 2023 (17:00 CEST).
Read the call
The CHSP welcomes expressions of interest from potential candidates and organizes a pre-selection with a deadline of May 31st 2023 (24:00 CEST).
Candidates should ensure that they fulfill the conditions of eligibility and send an expression of interest to the CHSP (regine.serra@sciencespo.fr)
Application file should include the following elements :
1. Personal data
2. A short CV
3. A two-page research proposal
4. A short statement explaining why the candidate has chosen the CHSP as host institution and indicating the name(s) of CHSP professor(s) who could supervise the research.
The CHSP will decide whether to support the application on the basis of an internal academic evaluation and the availability of appropriate supervision.
Candidates will be informed of the result of the pre-selection by early July. The selected candidates will be offered scientific and administrative supervision in the preparation of the application.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2023 (IF) (PDF, 96 Ko)
CFP | 13th Annual International Student Conference of Cold War History Research Center, Budapest
13th Annual International Student Conference of the Cold War History Research Center, Budapest
CALL FOR PAPERS
from BA, MA and doctoral students
The Cold War History Research Center is now accepting proposals for its 13th Annual International Student Conference to be held at Corvinus University of Budapest on June 6–7, 2023.
The conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary and organized in collaboration with the European Institute at Columbia University, New York, the Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. and the London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of International History, Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War Research Cluster
As was the case with our previous conferences, this year’s Conference will focus also on the Cold War era in general, and on the post-Cold War period. Possible topics may include (but are not limited) the following sections:
- East Central Europe in the Cold War and its Aftermath
- Hungary in the Cold War
- Western Europe and the Cold War
- The Soviet Union and the United States in the Cold War
- Asia and Africa in the Cold War and its Aftermath
- International Relations during the Cold War
- International Relations in the post-Cold War era
- Special topic for 2023: The role of non-state actors in the Cold War
- Presenters on this topic will be eligible for contributing essays for the forthcoming Palgrave
- Handbook of Non-State Actors in East–West Relations.
Please, send us an abstract on any of the abovementioned topics. Abstracts should be
approximately 3000–5000 characters long and should be sent in Word format via email to
Research Coordinator, PhD candidate Leonardo ZANATTA: coordinator@coldwar.hu
