News and Events
Dr Anindita Bhattacharya, ‘The Empire’s Ledger and the Indian Widow: A WWI Story of Grief, Culture, and Imperial Bureaucracy’.
When we recount the sweeping global history of the First World War, our collective memory is often dominated by the staggering statistics of the battlefield: the millions of artillery shells fired, the miles of trenches dug across Europe, and the incomprehensible loss...
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
Prof Hassett presented to and worked with secondary school students at the Lycée Mermoz in Dakar on topics related to colonial veterans and decolonisation in the French Empire.
‘Exhibiting Imperial Loyalty: Veterans at the Colonial Exhibition of 1931’
On the evening of August 9th 1931, leading figures from the French political, military and colonial elites gathered in the main hall of the Palais de la Porte Dorée eastern Paris to mark the closure of Veterans’ Weekend of the International Colonial Exhibition. After...
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...
Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘Colonial Veterans and Citizenship in the French Empire’, Institute of Historical Research Seminar, Kings’ College London, 19/11/2025
https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/colonial-veterans-citizenship-french-empire