A free Gateways to the First World War study day at the University of Kent.
In recent years both academic and community researchers have challenged the predominant image of the First World War as a primarily European conflict. The extensive colonial empires which existed at the outbreak of the war meant that the conflict would come to involve countries very distant from the Western Front, including India, West Africa, Madagascar, Indochina, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, China and the Dominions. Non-Europeans played significant roles in the First World War as troops, as non-combatants and as civilians on colonial home fronts.
How profoundly did the conflict affect these societies? How were colonial peoples involved in the war as troops and as civilians? What questions did the global nature of the conflict raise about racial and imperial identities?
This event at the University of Kent brings together experts in this field, including Professor Albert Grundlingh, Professor David Killingray, Dominiek Dendooven and Professor Mark Connelly, to discuss the experiences of colonial and non-European peoples during the conflict.
Venue: Darwin Conference Suite 1, University of Kent, Canterbury
Places can be booked online at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-global-conflict-colonial-peoples-and-the-first-world-war-tickets-20502017085
