Friday 28 May 2010

Trinity College Dublin Venue: Graduates Memorial Building, HIST Room, College Historical Society, 1st Floor, TCD

11:45–12:15 Registration

12:15-12:30 Introduction: Robert Gerwarth

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

13:30-15:00 Class War (Chair: Peter Gatrell, University of Manchester)
William Rosenberg (University of Michigan): Revolution and Counter-Revolution: The Syndrome of Violence in Russia’s Civil Wars, 1918-1920
John Horne (Trinity College Dublin): Defending Victory: Paramilitary Politics in France, 1918-26. A Counter-example?
Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin): The Counter-Revolutionary International in Central Europe

15:00 – 15:30 COFFEE BREAK

15:30-17:00 War and Nationality: Ireland and East Centre Europe
(Chair: Bill Kissane, London School of Economics)

Serhy Yekelchyk (University of Victoria): The Bands of Nation Builders: Insurgency and Ideology in the Ukrainian Civil War
Julia Eichenberg (Trinity College Dublin): Both Sides of the Gun’: Soldiers and Civilians in Poland and Ireland after the First World War
Anne Dolan (Trinity College Dublin): The Culture of Paramilitary Violence in the Irish War of Independence

Saturday 29 May 2010

Trinity College Dublin Venue: Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) Seminar Room, Arts Building, 6th Floor, TCD

09:00-10:30 War and Nationality: the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire
(Chair: Cathie Carmichael, University of East Anglia)
John Paul Newman (University College Dublin): Paramilitary Violence in the Balkans: Origins and Legacies
Ugur Umit Ungor (University College Dublin): Paramilitary Violence in the Former Ottoman Empire

10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00-12:30 War and Nationality in Finland and the Baltic States (Chair: John Hiden, University of Glasgow)
Tomas Balkelis (University College Dublin): Turning Citizens into Soldiers: Lithuanian Paramilitaries in 1918-1920
Marko Tikka (University of Tampere): Killing, Terror or just Acts of War - Punitive measures in the Finnish Civil War 1918
Pertty Haapala (University of Tampere): Brothers in arms? The mysterious roots of the Civil War in Finland 1918

12:30 – 13:30 LUNCH

13:30-15:00: Colonial Empires and Paramilitary Violence (Chair: Prof Emeritus David Killingray, Goldsmiths University of London)
Andrew Syk (University College Dublin): British Imperial Paramilitary policing and the 'Crisis of Empire'
Richard Fogarty (University at Albany - State University of New York): Anxieties and Realities of Violence: French Colonial Subjects, the Monopoly of Force, and the Future of Empire
Michael Silvestri (Clemson University): “What Ireland has Done, Bengal Will Do": Bengali revolutionaries in India and North America after the First World War

15:00-15:30. Conclusions
John Horne, Trinity College Dublin