CREES

During the conference, we will focus on the question of how both the concept and the practice of neutrality were changed by the First World War. In order to do so, we will study the following themes in a comparative fashion:

- In what way and in what direction did neutrality change during the First World War?
- How did changes in the concept of neutrality impact on a “neutral” society?
- How and why did these changing concepts influence “neutral” countries in the economic, military, political and cultural sphere?

We invite scholars to contribute to this conference. Please send a one page proposal, detailing the outline of an article which deals with these themes, plus a short c.v. of the author (or authors) to the organizers before May 31st, 2008 to the following address: s.f.kruizinga@uva.nl or m.de.keizer@niod.nl.
The organizing committee will select the most promising papers on their scholarly merits. The selected authors will be invited to give a lecture at The Hague. Naturally, we invite all those interested in this subject to attend and participate in discussions as well.
A collection of the papers will be published in the autumn of 2009 by the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD). Details of the conference will be published on the website of the NIOD by January 2008: www.niod.nl/conferences

http://www.concepta-net.org/cfp_concept_and_practise_neutrality