A conference on Sun Tzu's Art of War will be held at Vanderbilt University on February 27, 2016. For more information, see the official page for the conference: https://www.sonshi.com/conference.html
Chinese Military History Society 2016 conference in Ottawa
The Chinese Military History Society will hold its 2016 conference in Ottawa on Thursday, April 14, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Military History. The program will include the following papers:
Clemens Büttner (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), "The Power of Professionalization: Praise and Criticism of the Professional Soldier in Early 20th Century China"
Desmond Cheung (Portland State University), "Afterlives of Loyalists: Official Recognition and Popular Participation at the Shrines of Yue Fei and Yu Qian"
Ka Ki Alan Ho (McGill University), "Pacifying the Silk Roads: A Study of the Dou Family and Their Governance in Hexi in Early Eastern Han"
Steve Jackowicz (University of Bridgeport), "Medicine and Military in Traditional China: Space, Boundary, and Cognate Vocabulary"
Adrian Krawczyk (University of Zurich), "Bai Xianyong's 'My Father and the Republic': Biographies of Twentieth-Century Military Leaders and the Discourse of History in China"
Sherman Xiaogang Lai (Royal Military College of Canada), "Ensured Loyalty versus Professionalism at Sea: A Historical Review of the PLA Navy (1949-1982)"
Meiying Li (King's College London), "Yuan's Navy: Balancing Imperial Legacies and Republican Needs (1912-1916)"
Fan Lin (University of Ottawa), "Maps and Troops: Impact of Geographical and Cartographic Knowledge on Military Dispositions during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)"
Franco David Macri (St. John's College, Hong Kong), "Hong Kong: Fulcrum of the Sino-Japanese War"
Kenneth M. Swope (University of Southern Mississippi), "Guerrillas in the Mist: Concerning the Alliance between the Ming Loyalists and Former Peasant Rebels"
Kwok-leong Tang (Penn State University), "Proclaiming Success at the National University (Gaocheng Taixue): The Qing Military Monuments at Guozijian"
Peter Worthing (Texas Christian University), "A Tale of Two Fronts: China's War of the Central Plains, 1930"
Pingchao Zhu (University of Idaho), "The Debriefing Process of Repatriated POWs of the Chinese People's Volunteers of the Korean War"
The final schedule for the conference will be sent to CMHS members in March.
Interested non-presenters, especially scholars attending the SMH conference, are also welcome to attend the CMHS conference.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Chinese Military History Society will hold its 2016 conference in Ottawa on Thursday, April 14. The theme of this year's conference is “Loyalty and Betrayal in Chinese Military History.” Papers may address any historical period from antiquity to the present, and comparative work is also welcome. As usual, papers need not address the conference theme. Proposals on other subjects related to the military history of China and other East Asian countries will be considered as well.
The time and place of the 2016 CMHS conference were chosen to facilitate participants' attendance at the 2016 annual meeting of the Society for Military History (SMH), which will be held at the Ottawa Marriott Hotel from April 14 to 17 (with panels beginning on Friday, April 15). Although there is no registration fee for the CMHS meeting, attendance at the SMH conference requires separate registration and payment of applicable fees. For detailed information about the 2016 SMH conference, please visit <http://www.smh-hq.org/2016/
CMHS conference attendees will be eligible for the SMH rate for hotel rooms provided they register to attend the SMH as well.
If you are interested in presenting at the CMHS conference, please send your name and contact information, a paper abstract of no more than 250 words, and a brief C.V. to David Graff by November 15, 2015.
David A. Graff
Department of History
208 Eisenhower Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
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Tel: 785-532-6730
Fax: 785-532-2045
Interested non-presenters, especially scholars attending the SMH conference, are also welcome to attend the CMHS conference.
CMHS board of directors for 2016
Ballots for the election of the CMHS board of directors for 2016 will be sent to members in mid-January. If you wish to nominate a candidate (including yourself), please send the
nomination to David Graff (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
"Waging Peace" Conference 2016
CMHS members may be interested in the following conference, organized by the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society (at the University of Southern Mississippi):
"Waging Peace" Conference 2016
Call for Papers
New Orleans, LA
September 8 - 10, 2016
When wars end the communities, veterans, and governments that waged them begin the processes of peace. From the reconstruction of national identities to the resettlement of refugees, postwar periods are often as complex as the conflicts themselves. The year 2016 marks the anniversaries of the first year of peace following the end of the War of 1812, the U.S. Civil War, the Second World War, and the Vietnam War. The Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi invites papers and panel proposals that explore transitions to peace and postwar experiences from the ancient world through the end of the twentieth century. We are especially interested in panels that are comparative and that offer broad conclusions across time and place about the challenges of "Waging Peace."
The deadline for submission of proposals is February 1, 2016. For full details, please go to
Kenneth Swope is organizing two panels for the "Waging Peace" conference that will be held in New Orleans, LA on September 8-10, 2016. One will likely focus on the 20th century while the other deals with earlier periods. Those interested in participating should contact Professor Swope directly (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). For more information about the conference, go to:
https://www.usm.edu/war-society/waging-peace-conference-2016