What is an Occupation? On the Boundaries of a Disputed Subject | Occupation Studies
OSNR unites researchers studying “Occupation.” But what is an occupation? This article explores its complex boundaries in law, politics, and history, showing why it’s more than a legal term: fasos-research.nl/occupationst...
23.02.2026 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Study of Occupations: The Who, the What, and the How | Occupation Studies
OSRN shows the power of interdisciplinarity: history, law, politics, art & more converge to study occupations from multiple angles.
Curious to find out how we combine perspectives across borders and fields?
Read more about our network in our newest blog post!
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13.02.2026 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Conference Report: Occupation, War and Violence | Occupation Studies
Explore how military occupations shaped violence, resistance, and society from the American Revolution to WWII. Our latest conference report dives into historical case studies across Europe and beyond.
Read more on our blog: fasos-research.nl/occupationst...
06.02.2026 13:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Conference Report: Occupation and Culture | Occupation Studies
How does occupation shape culture? How do artists respond, resist, or reflect it?
Four OSRN panels explored the interplay between military occupation and culture — read the report on our blog:
fasos-research.nl/occupationst...
20.01.2026 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Conference Report: International Law of Occupation, Politics and the Fate of Occupied Territory | Occupation Studies
Could international law help bring justice to populations living under occupation? Current occupation situations are complex and often grim, with the role of law under occupation under intense scrutiny.
Two panels at the OSRN Conference explored these issues:
fasos-research.nl/occupationst...
13.01.2026 15:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Who decides what an occupation is? Reflections on flight and displacement, place and time. | Occupation Studies
Can we ever truly define an occupation?
How do flight, displacement, and shifting landscapes challenge the way we understand it?
Professor Tames explored this in her keynote at the Network conference in July. Read a summary of her presentation on our blog: fasos-research.nl/occupationst...
06.01.2026 18:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Conference Report: Occupation from Below / Lived Experiences | Occupation Studies
How is occupation lived, described, remembered?
At our in-person conference, three panels explored everyday experiences, local agency, and interactions between occupiers and occupied.
Read the full conference report on "Occupation from Below" here:
fasos-research.nl/occupationst...
21.12.2025 23:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/
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Very glad to hear about your experience! Thank you for being part of the conference, and we hope to welcome you again at a future event :)
18.12.2025 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Confererence Report – Occupation Power and Authority | Occupation Studies
How is power exercised under occupation?
At our in-person conference, four sessions explored this question through case studies ranging from post-war West Germany and Japan to wartime Belgium, the Netherlands, and Poland.
Read the full conference report here:
fasos-research.nl/occupationst...
17.12.2025 11:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blog | Occupation Studies
Looking back on 2025, one highlight stands out: our first in-person meeting this July at King’s College, London. Bringing OSNR together was energising, inspiring, and truly foundational for our community!
We’ve published a series of conference round-up posts here: fasos-research.nl/occupationst...
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Blog | Occupation Studies
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09.12.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From governance and law to everyday life, memory, and long-term legacies, we study military occupation both as a form of alien rule and as a dynamic power relationship between occupiers and the occupied across regions and historical periods.
09.12.2025 12:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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We are a global, interdisciplinary community of scholars examining military occupations and the ways they shape societies past and present.
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PhD @ Contestations of the 'Social' project. Understanding the social state & racial capitalism working alongside grassroot movements, one conflict at a time. Based in Munich. She/Her
European History and Politics, military occupation, and museum studies.
Author of Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation, and Occupation (OUP, 2025).
Honorary Research Fellow at Brunel University of London.
Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. I work on the comparative Belgian and British history of the FWW (and beyond). She/her. History, history, it is a mystery. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/chloe-pieters
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Associate Professor Modern History & War Studies | Occupations | Blockades | First World War | Spanish Civil War
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Writing fact-based stories about the d’Erlangers at the Ennejma Ezzahra Palace in Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunisia. Currently posting day-to-day diverse accounts of WW2 Tunisian campaign: 'Now' late February 1943: Kasserine Pass in Allied hands.
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Historian, author of The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines (UNC Press, 2025)
Director, Narrative and Content at Imperial War Museums. Military historian, museum professional, and frequent explorer of museums, memorials and battlefields. All views here are mine alone
Historian at UCL SELCS specialising in modern France and Europe, the First World War, and military occupation. Other interests include film, TV, gaming, and comedy (especially puns). Very occasional stand-up comedian (8 performances so far).
Reader in International Law in the UK. Author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (CUP 2018). Posts on PIL, IHL, ICL, IHRL. Share≠endors. Posts in personal capacity.
PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
#Historien sécurité, gendarmeries et polices en Europe, WWII (épuration, répression) - Professeur #uqtr - cieq. #Runner de longues heures
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
est. 1967
#SHAFR2026 - The Ohio State University - June 25-27, 2026
Historian of Food & Foreign Relations | #SHAFR Deputy Director | Senior Fellow @ SMU’s Center for Presidential History
Historian of Modern Germany, the Second World War, and the German Army. Research focus on the German army's ideological, operational, and economic war against the Soviet Union. Teaches at Xavier University.
Hook'em.
ECR in the environmental humanities specialising in Franco-Italian cultural connections. Writing a book on Matilde Serao and Emile Zola. Developing a project on disasters in Naples and Paris.
Historian of violent extremism and de-radicalization; @hfguggenheim fellow; book on Everyday Denazification (CUP, 2023): http://tinyurl.com/4rmrjk2y
Historian & Associate Professor @EHESS in Paris | Group Leader of INFOCOM Project | World War II, National Socialism, Migration, Informal Communication | Currently writing a book on rumors 📚 🖋
PhD candidate @ NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Amsterdam. Interested in: German hunger (WWI and WWII) in memory culture // German colonialism // Dutch colonialism // creator of NIOD Rewind Podcast on War and Violence
Research Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, and media commentator. Comparative Authoritarianism and fascism, political elites, democratization. Latest book The Fascist Zenith, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
