In 2013, the city of Utrecht commemorates the tercentenary of the “Peace of Utrecht” of 1713. One of the commemorative events of this festive year is a conference, organized by Utrecht University’s School of Law, entitled The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its enduring effects. This multi-disciplinary conference, with contributions from renowned scholars in the fields of international law, history and international relations, will examine what the enduring effects have been of the Peace Treaties concluded at Utrecht in 1713.

The conference will take place on Thursday 19 September 2013, at Utrecht University’s Senate Hall. Speakers are Jaap de Wilde (Groningen University), Isaac Nakhimovsky (University of Cambridge), Randall Lesaffer (Tilburg University), Koen Stapelbroek (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Benno Teschke (University of Sussex), Sundhya Pahuja (University of Melbourne), Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki), Stella Ghervas (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine (MSHA), Bordeaux), and Nicholas Rengger (Univ. of St Andrews).

More detailed information, including the full programme of the conference, can be found on the conference’s website: http://www.uu.nl/utrechtpeace2013. You will also find the most recent programme attached to this announcement. On the website you will further find a registration form, as well as more information on hotel accommodation in Utrecht, et cetera.

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers (Prof. Fred Soons and Dr. Otto Spijkers, Utrecht University) at utrechtpeace2013@uu.nl.

2014 GRANT APPLICATION

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

I’m happy to announce that submissions for the 2014 grant cycle are now
open. We will be giving one $20,000 grant for 2014, as well as naming four
finalists. The work of our grant winner and finalists will be published in
“War is Only Half the Story, Vol Seven.” The deadline for applications is
November 5, 2013. (Please see the very specific instructions below about
how to file).

Kind regards,

Sara Terry
Founder/Artistic Director, The Aftermath Project

APPLICATION GUIDELINES

The Aftermath Project’s mission is to support photographic projects that
tell the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes
for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and
homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war
while struggling to create new avenues for peace. Grant proposals should
reflect an understanding of this mission. Proposals may relate to the
aftermath of numerous kinds of conflict, not just international wars. The
conflict may have been at the community level — for example, violence
between rural ethnic groups or an urban riot in an industrialized country.
It may have been a regional one, such as a rebel insurgency, or it may have
been a full-scale war. There is no specific time frame that defines
“aftermath,” although in general The Aftermath Project seeks to support
stories which are no longer being covered by the mainstream media, or which
have been ignored by the media. In general, conflict should be over for a
situation to be deemed an “aftermath.” There are specific cases, however,
where conflict may have continued for so long, or be the result of an
aftermath situation, that they will be considered to be within the scope of
The Aftermath Project. If you have doubts about whether your proposal meets
these guidelines, please contact us via info@theaftermathproject.org

Proposals should include an explanation of the specific aftermath issues
related to the project being proposed, as well as an overview of the
applicant’s plans for covering the story during the course of the grant
year — i.e, the proposed timing of trips, etc. You MUST inform The
Aftermath Project if you have any commercial commitments or contracts
related to the project you are proposing, including book deals and
exhibitions. Failure to do so on the part of a grant winner will
automatically terminate the grant, and the winner will forfeit any funds
he/she has not yet received from The Aftermath Project.

QUESTIONS: Email application questions to info@theaftermathproject.org

Website: http://theaftermathproject.org/2014-Application

This is a call for papers for the above conference, to be held on June
12-13, 2014, at the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
(NIOD) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in close cooperation with Kwansei
Gakuin University (KGU), Japan. This conference seeks to go beyond the
static passive/pacifist portrayal of women in the Second World War. We are
interested in recovering the history of women who transgressed normative,
peacetime gender boundaries by choosing to be masters of their own fate in
abetting and perpetrating violence, in collaborating with or resisting
aggression, or in actively furthering or frustrating the war goals of their
own side. We aim to examine the actions and image of strong, active, and/or
violent women in the various theaters of the Second World War, contrasting
European, East Asian, and Southeast Asian cases for greater insights into
the relations between gender, culture, and the Second World War. Please
submit a 300-word abstract and a 100-word biographical note to the
conference coordinators (NIOD: Eveline Buchheim, Ralf Futselaar; KGU:
Timothy Tsu,) at info@niod.knaw.nl and indicating Fighting Women as subject
matter by September 1, 2013. Authors will be notified by November 1, 2013.
Please direct your inquiries to the coordinators at the same e-mail address.