Conference: 'Empire and War'
Date and Venue
17-18 September 2026
Newman House, University College Dublin
For more information, visit :https://www.ucd.ie/warstudies/events/
ABSTRACT:
Empires have a long association with war. Since Antiquity, wars have been fought to build empires and to destroy them, to expand them and to get out of them, to gain wealth and to consolidate power, to assert ideologies and to mete out punishments. And empires have waged war with conquered peoples in their armed forces and with imperial coalitions of the so-called willing, with allies and without them.
University College Dublin and the Royal Military College of Canada will co-host a conference to examine facets of war and empire since Antiquity. The event will convene at Newman House (St. Stephens Green), Dublin, 17-18 September 2026. Keynote speakers include Jonathan Fennell (King’s College London), Martin Thomas (University of Exeter), Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford), and Brian MacAllister Linn (Texas A & M).
We invite proposals that consider imperial war in any or all of its military, political, social, intellectual, economic, gendered, diplomatic, racial, and indigenous dimensions. Preference will be given to panel proposals.
Panel proposals should consist of:
- rationale and presentation of the panel (300 words maximum)
- abstract for each paper (250 words maximum)
- short biography for each contributor and the panel chair (150 words maximum)
Individual paper proposals should consist of:
- abstract (250 words maximum)
- short biography (150 words maximum)
Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2026.
Notifications of acceptance: 10 April 2026
All submissions should be made to Professor Doug Delaney, Doug.Delaney@rmc.ca.
Space is limited to sixty (60) on-site attendees.