News and Events
Joint Project Presentation, Dr Nicola Camilleri and Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘Colonial Veterans and the ‘Tensions of Empire’ in the Interwar World’, European University Institute Florence, 10/06/2026.
Project Workshop- ‘Global Histories of Provision for Colonial Veterans’, West African Research Centre, Dakar, Senegal, 03/06/2026
09 :00-09 :30 Prof Dónal Hassett, Ouverture et Présentation du Projet Colvet 09: 30-10 :45 Mémoires et Productions culturelles : Présidente : Sarah Frank, (Sheffield University) Uoldelul Chelati Dirar (Université de Macerata), Chérif Bertrand Bassène (UCAD), Martin...
Prof Dónal Hassett, ‘Grief, Loss, Betrayal and Resistance: Tracing the Emotional History of the Aftermath of the Great War in the Colonial Archive’, Universita di Roma Tre, Rome, 11/05/2026
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.
Presentations on COLVET research on citizenship in the Italian and French empires. Nicola Camilleri, 'Citizenship and Subjecthood in the Italian Colonial Empire'. Dónal Hassett, 'Mobilisation, Mobility and the Remaking of Imperial Citizenship in the Interwar French...
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