Samuël Kruizinga

Society for the History of War Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.

We have already set dates for next year's conference (26 and 27 November 2026) and will share updates on the call for panels and papers, and the location of the conference, soon! Will we see you there?

More information on the Society for the History of War can be found on www.show.org.uk.

Finally, a huge thank you to our inspiring keynote, @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social.

Society for the History of War Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.

Thanks are also due to all those who travelled to Potsdam to present papers and share their exciting work, those who participated in open and collegial debates, and those who chaired panels, keeping us in check, on the ball and on time!

Society for the History of War Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.

Thanks are due to our wonderful and generous hosts, the
ZMSBw and the @unipotsdam.bsky.social, and the fantastic work done by their staff in making the conference a huge success.

Society for the History of War Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.

It’s a wrap! The 2025 Society for the History of War conference (#SHoW2025), which featured some 170 (!) papers from participants from all over the world, is over. And what a conference it was!

Conferencing in a freezing Cold christmassy Potsdam, great program (thanks to @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social ), including exiciting panel with NIMH colleagues Schoenmaker, Brocades en Sinke: www.show.org.uk

Can testify to the wonderfulness of the team!

I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...

For more information on the #BLOCKADE project, see blockades.eu

Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939 The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...

See the full vacancy text here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

You will also analyse what lessons contemporaries drew from these sanctions and blockades, both at state and international levels.

Your PhD will focus on the interaction between the international level (and the development of thinking on the ethics and efficacy of using sanctions and blockades in the interest, however defined, of political aims) and one or more concrete case studies of interwar blockades.

Examples include sanctions levied against Japan following its invasion of Manchuria and against Italy following that of Ethiopia, as well as the multinational non-intervention committee set up to isolate both camps in the Spanish Civil War.

Following the experiences of economic warfare during the First World War, blockades and sanctions became tools wielded by the League of Nations and by others on behalf of an ‘international community’ to combat infractions of international law.

Another day, another #BLOCKADE vacancy, this time for a fully funded 4-year PhD at Amsterdam on 'benign blockades'. This PhD project will focus on the interwar period.

The PhD will examine the effect of blockade-induced shortages in order to establish how these shortages affected the standard of living of households. The project will focus on one major blockaded belligerent and on one blockaded neutral or occupied country in the First or the Second World War.

PhD Candidate in Modern Economic History  (281029) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: PhD Candidate in Modern Economic History  (281029), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025

3-year PhD position in modern economic history with the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU), starting 1 February 2026:

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available....

Deadline: 15 September 2025.

The postdoc will determine the Allied implementation of the blockade and its impact on the civilian population of the Middle East (esp. Ottoman Syria and Lebanon) during and after the First World War. One key task is to disaggregate the effect of blockade from other factors.

Job advertisement

4 year PhD position with the @uni-hamburg.de, starting 1 January 2026:

www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Deadline: 15 October 2025

The BLOCKADE project (blockades.eu) continues recruiting! We are looking for a PhD student at the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) in Trondheim, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Universität Hamburg.

We are enormously thankful for the equally enormous response our call has generated: we have recieved 𝟭𝟮𝟬 paper proposals and 𝟭𝟲 three-to-five person panel proposals!

Just a couple of days left to send in your paper, panel or roundtable abstract and join our keynote speaker @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social in Postdam!

Society for the History of War Welcome to the Society for the History of War, a new academic society for academics interested in the History of War.

SHoW's heading to Potsdam!

📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025
🗓 27–28 November 2025
📍University of Potsdam
📝 Abstracts due: 30 June

Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk

#SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory
#WarStudies #CFP

Join @sochistorywar.bsky.social in Potsdam for our annual conference.

This time Prof Beatrice de Graaf will give the keynote and the theme of the conference is “Cultures of War and Violence”.

For more information about BLOCKADE, see www.blockades.eu

One focuses on the strategy of the world war era blockades in Europe, the other on the colonial and imperial contexts of blockade. Deadline: 9 July 2025.

Very happy to anounce nother two (!) fully-funded four-year PhD vacancies within the 𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲-sponsored project 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄. Come work with the amazing Alan Kramer at Universität Hamburg: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan....

The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!

The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!

And I had pizza for lunch! Apparently BLOCKADE has caused a sort of culinary regression amongst the PIs...