The PhD position is part of the @erc.europa.eu Synergy-sponsored project BLOCKADE. See for more information on the project blockades.eu
In particular, it will study how, when, and why war-related experiences, funding flows, and policy impacted scientific developments related to food consumption and production and their social and cultural environs – and vice versa.
This PhD project will analyse the interplay between the development of social, political and nutritional science and the blockades.
Vacancy for a fully funded 4-year PhD at @uvahumanities.bsky.social on the key roles played by social science, demography, and nutritional science during the blockades of the First and Second World Wars, especially where they related to food.
Deadline approaching (9 March) for two exciting postdoctoral positions within the BLOCKADE project at @uni-hamburg.de!
Position 2: The economic, social and political consequences of the Allied blockade on Japan, 1941-1948: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Postition 1: The repercussions of blockade in the interwar and postwar periods, with a focus on the transition from the autarkic and discriminatory trade policies of the 1930s to the post‑1945 turn toward trade liberalization: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
#BLOCKADE is recruiting again!
Join our team and delve into the history of blockades during the First and Second World Wars — from their planning to their far‑reaching consequences. We are pleased to announce two postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Hamburg:
Deadline approaching (17 January!) on another #BLOCKADE funded PhD position! See for more information on the project and this vacancy our BLOCKADE website at www.blockades.eu.
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.
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!
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.
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/...
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.
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.
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.
