Histagra co-organises the I Compostela Colloquium on War Studies

On October 8 in the auditorium of the Faculty of Philosophy (Plaza de Mazarelos), the USC Research Groups, HISPONA and HISTAGRA, are organising a colloquium on the war, with the participation of European specialists on this subject: Robert J. Gerwarth from University College Dublin, Assumpta Castillo from the University of Girona, Antonio Miguez, Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas, Fernando J. Sapiña and Alfonso Iglesias Amorín from the USC, Stephanie Wright from the University of Lancaster, Arturo Zoffmann from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Magdalini Fytili from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

Advances in war studies in historiography have contributed in recent decades to distinguish war from different angles, from the social and cultural to the traditional focus on the politics of rearguard war operations. This led the two students of the Master's in Contemporary History in the 2023/24 academic year, supported by the research groups of the Contemporary History area Hispona and Histagra, to propose an international colloquium that would bring together different voices and perspectives. Around the common thread of the socio-cultural history of war, the aim is to offer a rigorous, synthetic and accessible approach to war studies. In this first edition, the thematic axes are the violence(s), its aftermath and the processes of demobilisation in European war and post-war conflicts; the dynamics of social revolution that accompanied the European civil wars between 1917/18 and 1949 and the colonial war in Morocco