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Organisation: Institute of Contemporary History FCSH/NOVA; University of the AzoresVenue: Azores Military Museum, Ponta Delgada (Azores Islands)Dates: 13 to 16 July 2017Deadline for proposals: 1 April 2017ArgumentThe Atlantic Ocean connects the western civilization in its banks, having in its center the archipelago of the Azores. Intensely contested since the discoveries, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, with the mechanical propulsion and the economic and political rise of the USA, this ocean would know a commercial increase, based on a powerful market economy and a strong power of the financial capital, reinforcing even more its paper as a way of supplying the colonial raw materials, to the metropolises. The presence of powerful marines of war as merchants, with a modern naval industry of great capacity of production, becomes more and more its background scene, namely during World War I. By this view, the role of the Atlantic during the Great War would include the importance of maritime commerce and the need to protect commercial traffic from a Europe at war, taking the consequences of disturbing the enemy, as well as the use of a network of submarine cables with branches all over the world. The entry of the United States in World War I marked the end of the world's hegemony by the European continent, which lasted three centuries, changing the symmetries in the center of the Atlantic.To enter the war, besides protecting the great commercial route that the Atlantic represented and reinforcing (or cutting) the logistics of the continental war, implied the preservation of a set of interests of this Atlantic community, identical in the necessities and objectives.This concept, despite having in the second account, a defence concept predominantly geared to land threats, would draw attention to the urgency of preventing trade by sea and the very backs of the belligerents, not only as a way of replenishing but also by the possibility of a successful attack on their rear or flanks. The advent of aeronautics would reinforce this change of policy towards the Atlantic islands, clearly evidenced by the installation of a US naval base in Ponta Delgada, and the passage of Commander Read with its NC 4 in 1919, legitimizing the importance of the archipelago at the heart of Aviation in the North Atlantic.This meeting aims to analyze the relationship of the Atlantic, with particular emphasis on the Azores, the complex logistical support to the belligerents, regardless of the stage of war being European or colonial, and the multiple dynamics involved, whether political, economic, ideological or geographical. Likewise, it seeks to value and dignify not only the memory of those who act as, but the material and immaterial heritage, in the year in which the bombing of the main Azorean city and the creation of a foreign naval base in its territory is evoked.The organizing committee calls for proposals that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:The maritime and terrestrial dimension of the Azores, in World War I;Naval and submarine warfare;The Atlantic and the communications during the Great War;Maritime connections in the Trench Wars, or in the colonies;The internal front: the impact of World War I in the Azores;War and Memory;Museology and Military heritage.Submission guidelinesSubmission: 5 February to 1 April 2017Submission process: Please send your identification (name, institutional affiliation and mail address), Paper title, Abstract (maximum 700 words), and academic CV (1 page) via mail to: azoreswar@gmail.comWorking languages: English, Portuguese (no simultaneous interpretation is available).OrganisationAna Paula Pires (IHC-FCSH/NOVA and Stanford University)Annette D. Amerman (Marine Corps History Division)Jakob Zollmann (Berlin Social Science Center)Rita Nunes (IHC-FCSH/NOVA and National Olympic Committee)S&#233;rgio Rezendes (IHC-FCSH/NOVA and University of the Azores)Scientific CommitteeAnt&#243;nio Paulo Duarte (IDN and IHC-FCSH/NOVA)Carolina Garc&#237;a Sanz (Universidad de Sevilla)Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (Maynooth University)Lu&#237;s Manuel Vieira de Andrade (University of the Azores)Maria In&#233;s Tato (CONICET and Universidad de Buenos Aires)Jorge Augusto Paulus Bruno (Angra do Hero&#237;smo Museum)This call for papers is available for download HERE (PDF).Organiza&#231;&#227;o: Instituto de Hist&#243;ria Contempor&#226;nea da FCSH/NOVA; Universidade dos A&#231;oresLocal: Museu Militar dos A&#231;ores, Ponta DelgadaDatas: 13 a 16 de Julho de 2017Prazo para submiss&#227;o de propostas: 1 de Abril de 2017Apresenta&#231;&#227;oO oceano Atl&#226;ntico agrega a civiliza&#231;&#227;o ocidental nas suas margens, tendo ao seu centro o arquip&#233;lago dos A&#231;ores. Intensamente disputado desde os descobrimentos, com o advento da Revolu&#231;&#227;o Industrial, com a propuls&#227;o mec&#226;nica e ascens&#227;o econ&#243;mica e pol&#237;tica dos EUA, conheceria um incremento comercial, baseado numa possante economia de mercado e num forte poder do capital financeiro, refor&#231;ando ainda mais o seu papel como via de abastecimento das mat&#233;rias-primas coloniais, &#224;s metr&#243;poles. A presen&#231;a de poderosas marinhas de guerra como mercantes, com uma moderna ind&#250;stria naval de grande capacidade de produ&#231;&#227;o, torna-se cada vez mais o seu cen&#225;rio de fundo, nomeadamente durante a I Guerra Mundial. Dentro desta &#243;tica, o papel do Atl&#226;ntico durante a Grande Guerra passaria pela import&#226;ncia do com&#233;rcio mar&#237;timo e pela necessidade de proteger o tr&#225;fego comercial, de uma Europa em guerra, assumindo as consequ&#234;ncias de perturbar o do inimigo, bem como a utiliza&#231;&#227;o de uma rede de cabos submarinos com ramifica&#231;&#245;es para todo o Mundo.A entrada dos EUA na I Guerra Mundial marcou o fim da hegemonia mundial do continente europeu, que durara tr&#234;s s&#233;culos, mudando as simetrias no centro do Atl&#226;ntico. Entrar na guerra, para al&#233;m de proteger a grande via comercial que o Atl&#226;ntico representava e refor&#231;ar (ou cortar) a log&#237;stica da guerra continental, implicava a preserva&#231;&#227;o do conjunto de interesses desta comunidade Atl&#226;ntica, id&#234;nticos nas necessidades e objetivos.Esta conce&#231;&#227;o, apesar de ter em segunda conta, um conceito de defesa predominantemente orientado para amea&#231;as terrestres, chamaria a aten&#231;&#227;o para a urg&#234;ncia de precaver o com&#233;rcio pelo mar e as pr&#243;prias costas dos beligerantes, n&#227;o s&#243; como via de reabastecimento mas tamb&#233;m pela eventualidade de um ataque bem-sucedido &#224;s suas retaguardas ou aos flancos. O advento da aeron&#225;utica refor&#231;aria esta mudan&#231;a de pol&#237;tica em rela&#231;&#227;o &#224;s ilhas atl&#226;nticas, claramente comprovada pela instala&#231;&#227;o de uma base aeronaval americana em Ponta Delgada, e pela passagem do comandante Read com o seu NC 4 em 1919, legitimando a import&#226;ncia do arquip&#233;lago no cerne da avia&#231;&#227;o no Atl&#226;ntico norte.Este encontro visa analisar a rela&#231;&#227;o do Atl&#226;ntico, com particular &#234;nfase nos A&#231;ores, no complexo apoio log&#237;stico aos beligerantes, independentemente do palco de guerra ser europeu ou colonial, e as m&#250;ltiplas din&#226;micas envolvidas, sejam pol&#237;ticas, econ&#243;micas, ideol&#243;gicas ou geogr&#225;ficas. Da mesma forma, procura valorizar e dignificar n&#227;o s&#243; a mem&#243;ria dos atuantes como o Patrim&#243;nio material, e imaterial, no ano em que se evoca o bombardeamento da principal cidade a&#231;oriana e a cria&#231;&#227;o de uma base naval estrangeira no seu territ&#243;rio.&#160;A comiss&#227;o organizadora apela ao envio de propostas que abordem, mas n&#227;o se limitem, &#224;s seguintes tem&#225;ticas:A dimens&#227;o mar&#237;tima e terrestre do envolvimento dos A&#231;ores na I Guerra Mundial;A guerra naval e submarina;O Atl&#226;ntico e as telecomunica&#231;&#245;es durante a Grande Guerra;As liga&#231;&#245;es mar&#237;timas na Guerras das Trincheiras, ou nas col&#243;nias;A frente interna: o impacto da I Guerra Mundial nos A&#231;ores;Guerra e Mem&#243;ria;Museologia e Patrim&#243;nio militar.Submiss&#227;o de propostasEnvio de propostas: 5 de Fevereiro a 1 de Abril de 2017Por favor envie a sua identifica&#231;&#227;o (nome, filia&#231;&#227;o institucional e endere&#231;o de email), o t&#237;tulo da comunica&#231;&#227;o, resumo (m&#225;ximo 700 palavras) e cv (1 p&#225;gina) para o seguinte correio electr&#243;nico: azoreswar@gmail.comL&#237;nguas de trabalho: Portugu&#234;s e Ingl&#234;s (n&#227;o haver&#225; interpreta&#231;&#227;o simult&#226;nea)Organiza&#231;&#227;oAna Paula Pires (IHC-FCSH/NOVA e Universidade de Stanford)Annette D. Amerman (Marine Corps History Division)Jakob Zollmann (Berlin Social Science Center)Rita Nunes (IHC-FCSH/NOVA e Comit&#233; Ol&#237;mpico de Portugal)S&#233;rgio Rezendes (IHC-FCSH/NOVA e Universidade dos A&#231;ores)Comiss&#227;o Cient&#237;ficaAnt&#243;nio Paulo Duarte (IDN e IHC-FCSH/NOVA)Carolina Garc&#237;a Sanz (Universidade de Sevilha)Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (Universidade de Maynooth)Lu&#237;s Manuel Vieira de Andrade (Universidade dos A&#231;ores)Maria In&#233;s Tato (CONICET e Universidade de Buenos Aires)Jorge Augusto Paulus Bruno (Museu de Angra do Hero&#237;smo)Pode descarregar esta chamada para trabalhos AQUI (PDF).