For a blog I wrote for the University of Kent's Munitions of the Mind website on the importance of integrating neutrality studies in the history of war, please see this website: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/munitions-of-the-mind/2021/02/03/towards-neutrality-studies-an-integrative-perspective-on-the-history-of-war-and-international-relations/
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For a snapshot of the importance of 19th-century neutrality, see my 8-minute performance for the University of Auckland's Research Excellence Forum. RadioNZ taped a panel discussion I took part in at the Auckland War Memorial Museum with my colleagues Drs Felicity Barnes and Maria Armoudian, hosted by Jim Mora. For an audio link to the event: www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/smarttalk/20160501. In the talk, we discuss the Armenian genocide, the global changes wrought by the 1914-1918 conflict and the peculiar impact of the war on New Zealand. In the process, we challenge a few myths. Well worth a listen.
If you are interested in the First World War, I would highly recommend attending the Myriad Faces of War: 1917 and its Legacies Symposium being held at Te Papa Museum of New Zealand (Wellington, NZ) in April 2017. Some of the biggest names in WWI history will be presenting. Early bird registrations close on 3 February! One of my student's response to the cultural appropriation of Adolf Hitler memes in popular culture... For more, read Monsters in the Mirror. Check out these blogs links
Giacomo Lichtner, Mark Seymour, Maartje Abbenhuis, ‘Between cohesion and division. Reconciling the faultlines of Europe’s past’ democraticaudit.com 14 January 2015. Maartje Abbenhuis, ’The present as history’ fifteeneightyfour 9 December 2014. Maartje Abbenhuis, ‘Why neutrality matters’ fifteeneightyfour 28 August 2014. |
AuthorMaartje Abbenhuis is Professor in History at the University of Auckland. Archives |