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The History Foundation (Tarih Vakfı) and Orient-Institut Istanbul with the support of Boğaziçi University, Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes (IFEA), İstanbul Bilgi University, Sabancı University, and İstanbul Şehir University will host an international multidisciplinary conference on World War I at İstanbul Bilgi University between 9 and 12 April 2014.The study of the First World War in the initial phase focused on the question of war aims and the responsibility for its outbreak in the framework of imperialism and the process of nation building and/or reaffirmation of national concepts on the great battlefields. Following the social turn in history of the 1970s, researchers discussed the social history of the war. Following the discursive turn of the late 1980s, a new focus on representations of the war in public memory evolved. More recently, historians have concentrated on atrocities.The historiography of the Ottoman fronts has followed the same general trends, although not always at the same moments in time. Debates have concentrated on: the question whether the Ottoman entry into hostilities was a genuine decision by the country's government or the result of German imperialist manipulation; the relevance of the Gallipoli front (Çanakkale) for the nation building processes in Turkey, Australia, and New Zealand; atrocities committed against civilians in the framework of either retaliation or of demographic engineering.As World War I was the central founding experience of the twentieth century and thus needs to be discussed in relation to various segments of society and on several levels, we believe that its 100th anniversary is the appropriate moment to bring together recent research on the Ottoman theater of the war based on the various traditions of this new military history established in the last 30 years and assess where we stand today in our knowledge of the World War and where we are headed. We therefore invite papers that develop existing approaches and questions to a further level. On this basis these papers will aid us in entering into a comparative, and where possible transnational, perspective of the war.Papers may address one or more of, but are not limited to, the following topics:Experiencing the Warofficersdrafted soldiersdesertersnurses and other medical staffveterans and woundedprisoners of warcivilian internees'ethnic minority' soldiersviolence in its various formsOrganizing the Warwar aimsgovernance in wartimewar economy, supply (incl. black market, smuggling), transporthealth and provisioningthe battlefield and irregular troopsmilitary justiceintelligencethe teşkilat-ı mahsusaforced migrationGermany's role in the warSpeaking about the WarPropaganda: inciting the masses, orchestrating jihad, anti-colonial revolt, etc.literature, arts, culturehistoriography in national and post-national perspectivepersonal testimonies (ego- history)public memory and commemoration&#160;Abstracts and proposals for panels of maximum 500 words should be submitted to info@ottomanfronts1914-1918.org with a brief CV of the submitters.Deadline for submission of abstract: June 1, 2013We welcome papers from across a wide range of academic disciplines, including history, politics, anthropology, sociology, economy, literature, art, media, and geography. We especially seek applications from scholars whose work is informed by a broad perspective of war and society.