We are delighted to announce the project “Foreign fighters: Past, Present and Future” has been generously funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (Denmark) with a 2,600,000 DKK (350,000 €) dotation for the period 2019 – 2022. The project will be based at the University of Copenhagen. Dr Enrico Acciai and Prof Morten Heiberg...
School of History – Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds 10 – 11 July 2018 10th July: School of History, Michael Sadler Building, Room 3.11 13:00 – 14:15 Panel I: Transnational volunteering: longue durée approaches Chair and opening of the conference: Nir Arielli (University of Leeds) Enrico...
Dr Enrico Acciai and Dr Nir Arielli will take part in an international conference at the Center for History (Sciences Po, Paris) on Foreign Fighters and Multinational Armies. Nir Arielli will speak about ‘Deconstructing the Motivations of foreign War Volunteers’, and Acciai will deliver a paper on ‘Transnational War Volunteering...
On March the 5th (see the “Events” section for details), Prof. Ismee Tames will deliver a paper titled “Liminality, identity and resistance”, this is a joint seminar organised by the Centre for the History of Ibero-America (CHIA) and the Marie Curie research project “Garibaldinism”. Dr. Nir Arielli (School of History) will...
Nir Arielli was interviewed by the Yorkshire Post: Why do people volunteer to fight in foreign wars? A new book by a Leeds academic examines what makes people want to risk their lives by volunteering to fight in foreign conflicts. Chris Bond talked to its author. Guy Fawkes, George Orwell...
We are excited to announce that Harvard University Press has just published the latest book by Dr Nir Arielli! What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as Lord Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and Osama bin Laden all...
The Italian editor Einaudi just published a new book on Anita Garibaldi by Silvia Cavicchioli. More Info
In the second half of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century supporters of Giuseppe Garibaldi volunteered their services and took part in the Polish uprising of 1863, the Cretan revolt of 1866-1867, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, the Herzegovina uprising of 1875, the Greco-Turkish War of 1896...
The Italian Editor Effigi has just published the latest book written by Enrico Acciai (together with the Ilaria Cansella): http://www.cpadver-effigi.com/blog/storie-di-indesiderabili-e-di-confini-i-reduci-antifascisti-di-spagna-nei-campi-francesi/ This book deals with the internment in French camps of former anti-fascist volunteers in Spain. Acciai and Cansella reconstruct the biographical trajectories of those volunteers from the Spanish Civil War to...
From the Spanish Civil War to World War II. Trajectories of transnational antifascist volunteers School of History, University of Leeds, Michael Sadler Building, room 3.11 29 June 2017 9:30 – 16:00 Between 1936 and 1939 around 40,000 antifascists fought in Spain and most of these volunteers were Europeans. The aim of this workshop is...
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