News and Events
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
Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘Former Eritrean Soldiers in the Italian Colonial Army: Fragments of Life and Documentation’.
Chiflè Seghid was born in Zagher, a village in the Hamasien region of colonial Eritrea, not far from Asmara, the capital city of Italian colony Eritrea. His date of birth is unknown, but we know that he enlisted on 18 September 1912. This date marked the beginning of...
Conference Presentation at the International Conference on Ethiopian Studies, Hawassa, Ethiopia, 01/10/2025. Dr Nicola Camilleri, ‘From Slaves to Ascaris: Colonial Soldiers and their Pasts in Slavery’
Nicola presented as part of a broader panel on the history of 'Ethiopian Voices against Slavery'. You can access the full programme here: Conference Programme
Dónal Hassett, ‘No Right to Return or Remain: French Colonial Soldiers and Discriminatory Demobilization (Hosted by The Returning Soldier)
You can access this piece here: https://returningsoldier.co.uk/2025/09/18/no-right-to-return-or-remain-french-colonial-soldiers-and-discriminatory-demobilization/
COLVET Conference Panel, 35th Irish Conference of Historians, Presenting: Prof Dónal Hassett and Dr Nicola Camilleri, Chaired by Dr Anindita Bhattacharya
For the 35th Irish Conference of Historians, the COLVET team organised a panel entitled 'Life in the Shadow of Conflict: Survival and Self-Realisation in the Africa after the Great War'. Prof Hassett presented on 'Grief and the Global Greater War: Tracing the...
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:...
