News and Events
Project Publication: ‘Rethinking the Colonial in the Greater War’, Contemporary European History, (June 2025)
The Centenary of the First World War saw unprecedent prominence given to the ‘colonial contribution’ in commemorative discourse. While this newfound public recognition sometimes relied on simplistic and sanitised narratives of the war, scholarship produced in the...
Project Presentation, ‘Imperial Loyalty, Legibility and Legal Rights: The Function of the Veteran’s Card in Interwar French West Africa’, HIDDEN Cost Action Conference, Maynooth University, 15 May 2025.
The Colonial Veteran in the Archive, COLVET Workshop, 25 June, Hybrid Workshop, Maynooth University (Hybrid)
Workshop Schedule 09:30-09:45 Registration 09:45-10:00 Welcome, Prof Dónal Hassett 10:00-11:00 Keynote: Prof Santanu Das, All Souls College, Oxford University, ‘Decolonising the First World War: Archive, Resistance, Commemoration’. 11:00-11:15 Coffee 11:15-12:45:...
Project Presentation: ‘Writing the History of Colonial Veterancy: Sources on Eritrean Askari’, Dr Nicola Camilleri, Research and Documentation Centre, Asmara, Eritrea, May 06 2024
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.
New Directions in Veteran History, COLVET Workshop, 02 April, Maynooth University (Hybrid).
The COLVET project held its inaugural workshop in Maynooth on April 02 2025. This hybrid event brought together scholars from across different geographical and temporal contexts of veteran history to explore New Directions in Veteran History. With participants from...
Prof David Murphy, ‘Lamine Senghor: From Servant of Empire to Anti-Colonial Radical’.
On the evening of 11 February 1927, the tall, gaunt figure of Lamine Senghor strode to the podium at the inaugural meeting of the League against Imperialism (LAI). The LAI was one of the interwar communist movement’s most significant attempts to forge an anti-colonial...
Tracing the Global Greater War in the Records of West African Veterans of the French Army
In 2022, the film Tirailleurs premiered to rave reviews in France. Starring the highly regarded actor Omar Sy, the film follows a father and son from the Senegalese interior who are forcibly enrolled in the French Army in 1917 and sent to fight on the Western Front....
Invited Talk, Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, 13/02/2025
