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.

by Donal Hassett | Dec 8, 2025 | Publications

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

by Donal Hassett | Dec 8, 2025 | Presentations

Project Team Presentations and PI Keynote, ‘Between Choice and Command Workshop, Erfurt, 01/12-02/12/2025

by Donal Hassett | Dec 8, 2025 | Presentations

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

by Donal Hassett | Dec 8, 2025 | Presentations

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...

Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘Colonial Veterans and Citizenship in the French Empire’, Institute of Historical Research Seminar, Kings’ College London, 19/11/2026.

by Donal Hassett | Dec 8, 2025 | Presentations

https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/colonial-veterans-citizenship-french-empire