Military History Consortium
3rd Annual Conference
Sciences Po Aix
3-5 June 2026
Keynote
Professor Guillaume Piketty, Sciences Po Paris
Call for Papers
The Military History Consortium (MHC) will be holding its third annual conference on 3-5 June
2026 at Sciences Po Aix in Aix-en-Provence, France. The organising committee invites panel and
individual paper proposals on any aspect of military history and the history of war and conflict in
its broadest sense, ranging from ancient to modern times and spanning the entire globe. This
includes the cross-chronological interactions between political, economic, social, and cultural
history with military history. In line with the MHC’s aims, panels and papers that cover periodically
and geographically under-represented areas (e.g. Antiquity, Medieval, and the Global South) are
especially welcomed. A key aim of the MHC is also to provide a platform for and support the
development of early career scholars, and therefore submissions from PhD students and postdocs
are strongly encouraged.
Panel proposals should consist of:
– 3 papers and 1 chair/discussant
– 500 words rationale and presentation of the panel
– 300 words abstract for each paper
– 150 words short bio for each contributor
Individual paper proposals should consist of:
– 300 words abstract
– 150 words short bio
The submission deadline is 14 December 2025. The organising committee will inform potential
participants on whether or not their paper/panel has been accepted by 26 January 2026.
The conference fee will be set at €105 and will cover coffee breaks, the welcoming reception, and
lunches. The conference dinner will be bookable separately at a moderate fee.
Please send your submissions as pdf or word documents by email to the MHC mailbox
(militaryhistoryconsortium@gmail.com), and copy in Prof. Marco Wyss
(m.wyss@lancaster.ac.uk), Prof. Evert Kleynhans (kleynhans@sun.ac.za), and Prof. Walter
Bruyère-Ostells (walter.bruyere-ostells@sciencespo-aix.fr).
The MHC
The MHC connects institutions, academics, and students engaged in the study of warfare and/or
military organisations in the past. Its dual aim is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas in
order to strengthen international research cooperation, and a framework for joint teaching
initiatives and programmes. The MHC’s membership is international, and its scope is global. While
the consortium’s teaching and research agendas focus on the past, it seeks to address contemporary
security challenges and inform related policy debates. It is only the study of war and the military
in the past that enables us to understand and contextualise the present and thus prepare for the
future.
For more information, please refer to the following links:
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/centre-for-war-and-diplomacy/military-history-consortium/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/military-history-consortium?trk=public_post_followview-
profile
Members
University of Amsterdam
University of Calgary
Stellenbosch University
Sciences Po Aix
Lancaster University
Norwich University
Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon
Sapienza University of Rome
Félix Houphouët-Boigny University Abidjan