The sixty-ninth Anglo-American Conference of Historians, which will take place on 5, 6 and 7 July 2000 in London, will be devoted to the subject of "War and Peace". In so doing, it will seek to bring together two subjects, central to human experience throughout history, and self-evidently interconnected, which are usually (and understandably) treated separately, but which also demand to be treated in an inter-related way. Not for nothing was War and Peace the title of Tolstoy's greatest novel.
The conference intends to explore, in the broadest and most wide-ranging historical way, the effects of war and peace on all aspects of society. This may be taken to include: theories of peace and theories of war; the culture of war and the culture of peace; the organisation of military force and war, and of peace and of peacekeeping; the outbreak of war as the end of peace, and the end of war as the beginning of peace; war (and peace) as victory or defeat, conquest or occupation; pressure groups and organisations for war and for peace; the costs of war and the costs of peace; the historiography of war and the historiography of peace. It will give attention to technology, education, government, religion and propaganda as they influence, and are influenced by, war and peace.
The format of the conference will be a mixture of plenary and discussion sessions, and submissions from younger scholars and graduate students are especially encouraged. The conference will not be addressing the tactics or strategy of war, and preference will be given to lectures and papers concerned with the inter-relatedness of war and peace. Suggestions for speakers, subjects and sessions are now being invited, as are proposals (not more than three hundred words) for papers and lectures.
The deadline is 30 November 1999 and both suggestions and proposals should be sent to Dr Debra Birch, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Fax: 0171-862-8811. Email: d.birch@sas.ac.uk
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