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The Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin, in collaboration with the Society for the History of War, hosted Civil Wars in History, an online conference on the global history of civil wars (c. 1500-2000).
The conference was supported by the UCD School of History and the UCD Humanities Institute. It took place on 10/11 September 2021. Papers and panels covered a range of themed topics from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
Despite much scholarly attention to the widespread phenomenon of internal armed conflicts, comparative histories of civil wars remain a remarkably under-developed area of historical research, particularly for Europe in the modern period. The conference organisers sought to address this by considering the origins, forms, and consequences of civil wars across time and space, thereby bringing scholars from different disciplines (Sociology, Politics, History, and Literature) together.
Conference keynotes by Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford), Penny Roberts (Warwick), David Appleby (Nottingham), and David Armitage (Harvard) are now available to watch (on Youtube) and to podcast (on Soundcloud, Apple, and Spotify).
The podcasts of the keynotes are available to download from Apple and available to stream from Spotify and Soundcloud.
Image: Red Guards and Russians fighting on the red side in Ruovesi, Pirkanmaa, Finland, 1918 Julius Jääskeläinen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Image: Red Guards and Russians fighting on the red side in Ruovesi, Pirkanmaa, Finland, 1918 Julius Jääskeläinen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Since 2011, researchers from a range of disciplines including History, Irish, English, Archaeology and Art History, have presented papers at Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences. History Hub, in association with Real Smart Media, has produced more than 320 podcasts from these conferences.
UCD offers a variety of study options and entry pathways, ranging from full-time degrees to short-term courses for pure interest. Lifelong Learning offers all adult learners the opportunity to explore a subject of their choice without the pressure of an examination. Open Learning is a flexible way of studying history part-time at UCD. Explore your UCD History options for the coming year.
LGBT Activism in Ireland, 1973-2023: Looking Back, Going Forward is a UCD project which comprised of two workshops which were organised by Dr Mary McAuliffe (Director, UCD Gender Studies), in partnership with the National LGBT Federation (NXF), and funded by a Research Ireland New Foundations award.
The workshops – History of LGBT Activism in Ireland and Where We’re Going – Backlash, Solidarity, and Mobilising took place in UCD Humanities Institute in April 2025. Podcasts from the workshops are now available on History Hub.
Holocaust Education Ireland’s Holocaust Memorial Lecture for 2025 was given by Prof. Anthony McElligott from University of Limerick. A podcast of his lecture – “Surviving Liberation: Jewish Camp Survivors 1945-1948” – is now available on History Hub.
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