Presentations and Project Publications
Joint Project Presentation, Dr Nicola Camilleri and Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘Colonial Veterans and the ‘Tensions of Empire’ in the Interwar World’, European University Institute Florence, 10/06/2026.
Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘Grief, Loss, Betrayal and Resistance: Tracing the Emotional History of the Aftermath of the Great War in the Colonial Archive’, Universita di Roma Tre, Rome, 11/05/2026
COLVET Team Presentations, ‘Forgotten Veterans Symposium’, Returning Soldiers Network, Birmingham Newman University, 09/04/2026.
Presentations, Prof Dónal Hassett and Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Citizens Abroad and the International Order: Past and Present’, Maynooth University, 07/04/2026.
Presentations on COLVET research on citizenship in the Italian and French empires. Nicola Camilleri, 'Citizenship and Subjecthood in the Italian Colonial Empire'. Dónal Hassett, 'Mobilisation, Mobility and the Remaking of Imperial Citizenship in the Interwar French...
Keynote Talk, Joint Presentation by Prof Dónal Hassett on COLVET and Prof Raul Carstocea on his ERC INTEMPO, Irish History Students’ Association Conference, Maynooth, 28/02/2026
Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Guns and Gun Licences for Colonial Soldiers and Veterans. Italian East Africa in Comparative Perspective’, New Perspectives on the History of Firearms, University of Padova, 18-19/12/2025
You can read the programme here: New Perspectives on the History of Firearms
Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘Beyond the Tirailleur: Narrating and Mobilizing Colonial Experiences of the First World War in the French Empire’, Journal of the Western Society for French History, Vol. 51, 2025.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article/id/8676/ Abstract The Centenary of the First World War saw a new focus in official commemoration, cultural production and broader scholarly and public discourses on the figure of the colonial soldier, the tirailleur....
Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘‘The Muslim, in general, was not too troubled by the emotions of the war’: The Influence of the First World War on the Rise of Colonial Psychiatry’, Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 05/12/2025
Project Team Presentations and PI Keynote, ‘Between Choice and Command Workshop, Erfurt, 01/12-02/12/2025
Between Choice and Command: Migration and Return Across and Beyond Colonial Empires, 1900-1960 University of Erfurt, December 1-2, 2025 Monday, December 1st, 9am-7pm, Senatssaal, University of Erfurt 9-9.30: Florian Wagner Welcome and Introduction Section 1:...
COLVET Project Team Presentation, ‘Cultivating Clients and Containing Contestation: Veteran Provision in the Inter-War Empire’, Society of History of War, University of Potsdam 27-29/11/2025
Panel Title: Cultivating Clients and Containing Contestation: Veteran Provision in the Inter-War Empires Chair: Gavin Rand, University of Greenwich Dónal Hassett, Maynooth University: Managing Colonial War Disability: Imperial anxieties and provision for the war...