Prof Hassett presented a paper on ‘Rethinking the French Model of Military Welfare from the Colonies’. He discussed how the conditionality of rights and the devolution of services to paternalist and authoritarian philanthropic organisations in the French colonies calls into question our broader understanding of French veteran welfare as public, participative, and rights-based.
Recent Posts
- 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.
- Dr Anindita Bhattacharya, ‘The Empire’s Ledger and the Indian Widow: A WWI Story of Grief, Culture, and Imperial Bureaucracy’.
- 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
- Prof Dónal Hasssett, ‘Workshop on Colonial Veterans and Decolonisation’, Lycée Jean Mermoz, Dakar, 12/02 and 20/02/2026