This postdoc is part of the @erc.europa.eu-sponsored BLOCKADE project, spanning @uvahumanities.bsky.social, @uni-hamburg.de, @uni-freiburg.de, and NTNU. See our website blockades.eu for more details.
We are looking for someone with advanced skills in ‘decolonising’ international history to answer these questions!
Specifically, it investigates whether these blockade-mediated institutions facilitate or hinder the transition from dependence to independence and the subsequent integration of new African member states into the United Nations-backed global order.
It questions how the blockades of the era of the total war influenced or inspired the key tools of the post-1945 liberal international order, namely inter- and supranational forms of credit, finance, and resource control under United Nations management.
Vacancy for a three-year post-doc position at the Universiteit van Amsterdam!
This postdoc position, part of the European Research Council (ERC)-sponsored 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 project, seeks to understand the long legacies of blockades on the post-war order.
Begeleiders: Floribert Baudet, Esther van 't Veen, Jori Kalkman en ondergetekende. Zie www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/pr... voor meer informatie. Deadline: 4 mei 2026!
... dat richt zicht op weerbaarheid in de context van ‘totale oorlog', zoals (de voorbereiding op) de WOI en II en de Koude Oorlog. We kijken in de eerste plaats naar de situatie in Nederland, maar het is ook mogelijk een andere casus als vergelijking in het onderzoek mee te nemen.
📢 Promotieplaats voor historici in de aanbieding! 📢
De Faculteit Militaire Wetenschappen van de Nederlandse Defensie Academie zoekt, in samenwerking met Universiteit van Amsterdam - Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, een promovendus voor een vierjarig promotietraject...
The PhD position is part of the @erc.europa.eu Synergy-sponsored project BLOCKADE. See for more information on the project blockades.eu
In particular, it will study how, when, and why war-related experiences, funding flows, and policy impacted scientific developments related to food consumption and production and their social and cultural environs – and vice versa.
This PhD project will analyse the interplay between the development of social, political and nutritional science and the blockades.
Vacancy for a fully funded 4-year PhD at @uvahumanities.bsky.social on the key roles played by social science, demography, and nutritional science during the blockades of the First and Second World Wars, especially where they related to food.
Deadline approaching (9 March) for two exciting postdoctoral positions within the BLOCKADE project at @uni-hamburg.de!
Position 2: The economic, social and political consequences of the Allied blockade on Japan, 1941-1948: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
Postition 1: The repercussions of blockade in the interwar and postwar periods, with a focus on the transition from the autarkic and discriminatory trade policies of the 1930s to the post‑1945 turn toward trade liberalization: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
#BLOCKADE is recruiting again!
Join our team and delve into the history of blockades during the First and Second World Wars — from their planning to their far‑reaching consequences. We are pleased to announce two postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Hamburg:
Deadline approaching (17 January!) on another #BLOCKADE funded PhD position! See for more information on the project and this vacancy our BLOCKADE website at www.blockades.eu.
We have already set dates for next year's conference (26 and 27 November 2026) and will share updates on the call for panels and papers, and the location of the conference, soon! Will we see you there?
More information on the Society for the History of War can be found on www.show.org.uk.
Finally, a huge thank you to our inspiring keynote, @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social.
Thanks are also due to all those who travelled to Potsdam to present papers and share their exciting work, those who participated in open and collegial debates, and those who chaired panels, keeping us in check, on the ball and on time!
Thanks are due to our wonderful and generous hosts, the
ZMSBw and the @unipotsdam.bsky.social, and the fantastic work done by their staff in making the conference a huge success.
It’s a wrap! The 2025 Society for the History of War conference (#SHoW2025), which featured some 170 (!) papers from participants from all over the world, is over. And what a conference it was!
Conferencing in a freezing Cold christmassy Potsdam, great program (thanks to @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social ), including exiciting panel with NIMH colleagues Schoenmaker, Brocades en Sinke: www.show.org.uk
Can testify to the wonderfulness of the team!
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
For more information on the #BLOCKADE project, see blockades.eu
You will also analyse what lessons contemporaries drew from these sanctions and blockades, both at state and international levels.
