8-9 May 2015
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario
Hosted by: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies
The keynote address will be provided by Professor John Buckley from the University of Wolverhampton and author of Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe 1944-5.
Submissions
Conference organizers invite submissions pertaining to all periods & aspects of Canadian military history and war and society. Given the hundredth anniversary of the Great War, we especially invite papers on the Canadian experience of war in 1916 which might be considered for a special issue of our journal Canadian Military History. Proposals are welcome from all scholars including faculty, independent researchers, MA and PhD students.
There is no registration fee or conference fee for graduate students presenting papers.
A total of fifteen travel bursaries of $500 each will also be offered to the top graduate student presenters from non-Ontario universities, provided they submit a 7500 – 10,000 word (including notes) article based on their conference presentation by 15 April.
To apply, please submit a 250-300 word abstract and a brief bio to: [email protected]
Application deadline now extended to 1 March 2015.
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