The Long Great War: Imperial Wars, National Revolutions, and Anti-Imperialisms from 1914
May 28th & 29th, 2015
NYU Prague
The war that started in 1914 had various end-points (1917, 1918, 1921) and for good reason. It was connected with a great number of political revolutions (Russia, Germany, Hungary, Turkey) and an ongoing stream of national revolutions (much of Europe, Asia, and Africa). This conference will bring together colleagues from all of these fields and subfields in an effort to consider the wider patterns and particularisms at issue, examining the most recent trends in the historiographies. The organizers seek overviews and analytic syntheses, a conversation that might transcend the specific fields and events and come to wider understanding of the old and new regimes, the emergence of mass societies, and their manifestations in new nations, new national movements, liberal and communist societies, and anti-imperialist movements.
Generous support is provided by NYU Prague, the NYU Provost's Global Research Initiatives, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, and the NYU Department of History.
