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Conference Presentation: ‘Towards a History of the Systems of Care for War-Wounded Veterans in France’s African Colonies’, Prof Dónal Hassett, Military Welfare History Network Symposium, University of Birmingham, April 11 2025.

Conference Presentation: ‘Towards a History of the Systems of Care for War-Wounded Veterans in France’s African Colonies’, Prof Dónal Hassett, Military Welfare History Network Symposium, University of Birmingham, April 11 2025.

by Donal Hassett | May 14, 2025 | Events, Presentations

Conference Presentation, ‘Comparing Colonial Cultures of Care and Control: Veteran Provision in Interwar Algeria and Punjab’, Society of the History of War, Nicosia, 19/11/2024

Conference Presentation, ‘Comparing Colonial Cultures of Care and Control: Veteran Provision in Interwar Algeria and Punjab’, Society of the History of War, Nicosia, 19/11/2024

by Donal Hassett | Feb 11, 2025 | News, Presentations

Project Presentation: Prof Dónal Hassett at the Military Welfare History Conference in Leeds

Project Presentation: Prof Dónal Hassett at the Military Welfare History Conference in Leeds

by Donal Hassett | Aug 26, 2024 | Presentations

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...
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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

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