University of Galway History Research Seminar: Rethinking Veterancy from the Colonies

University of Galway History Research

Rethinking Veterancy from the Colonies

Dr Dónal Hassett (University College Cork)

Biography

Dr Dónal Hassett is Senior Lecturer in French at University College Cork. His research has two main focuses: the history of the French Empire, in particular North Africa, and the legacies of conflict, especially veteran studies. He is primarily interested in how those who participated in military conflicts in the colonial world grappled with the legacies of war in peacetime. His work seeks to bring together the approaches used by historians of the colonial word with the analyses of those who study veterancy to lay the foundations for a global history of the war veteran. He has published widely on these topics and his first monograph, Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939, appeared in August 2019 with Oxford University Press. Dónal was also recently awarded an ERC Starting Grant of €1.2 million for a project titled COLVET – Ex-soldiers of Empire: Colonial Veterancy of the Interwar World.

Registration

This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92657616291.

Seminars are not recorded.

To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/vuiCM5FvtH

This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series and is co-hosted with the Centre for the Investigation of Transnational Encounters (CITE).

The event will be followed by a reception with tea, coffee, and pastries. All are welcome!