Event Details

The Military History Consortium (MHC) will be holding its second annual conference on 4-6 June 2025 at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal.

The keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Reid (University of Oxford).

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.

Members:

• University of Amsterdam
• University of Calgary
• Stellenbosch University
• Sciences Po Aix
• Lancaster University
• Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon

The inaugural MHC conference was held at Lancaster University in June 2024. It featured research on military history from the ancient world to today, by delegates from across the MHC member institutions, as well many other universities – from Cambridge to Edinburgh, the University of London and Portsmouth in the UK, to Bologna, Geneva, Lisbon, Potsdam, Trinity College Dublin, Utrecht and Uzhhorod in Europe, and beyond from Chicago, Mississippi, Texas, Zambia and Free State. The keynote lecture was delivered by Professor Tarak Barkawi (Johns Hopkins University), on ‘Fighting and the Production of Military History: The US in the Korean War’.