This page lists academic conferences—both forthcoming and completed—and similar events that focus on Clausewitz.
If you are planning or are otherwise aware of any relevant event, conference, or publication that has some significant focus on Clausewitz, please contact ClausewitzStudies.org.
Call for papers: Clausewitz as a Practical Philosopher Special Issue of the Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence More detail HERE. Published as: Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence (PJCV) Special Issue: "Clausewitz as a Practical Philosopher"
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Obituary Announcement of the death of Professor Sir Michael Howard" |
Sir Michael Eliot Howard (1922–2019) See also: Wikipedia biography. |
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Obituary Announcement of the death of Professor Peter Paret" |
Announcement from the Institute of Advanced Studies: Peter Paret (1924–2020) Noted Clausewitz scholar Peter Paret, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, passed away peacefully at age 96 at his Salt Lake City home on September 11, 2020. A German-born American and acclaimed cultural and intellectual historian, Paret studied the modern historiography of war from 18th- to 20th-century Europe, as well as the relationship of art, society, and politics. See also: Wikipedia biography. |
TUESDAY 19 JAN 2016 at the Fort Myer Officer's Club
Topic: Carl von Clausewitz and Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, On Waterloo: Clausewitz, Wellington, and the Campaign of 1815, transl. & ed. by Christopher Bassford, Daniel Moran, and Gregory W. Pedlow, 2010. ISBN: 9781453701508
Jon Sumida
Carl von Clausewitz
Speaker: Jon Sumida, Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park
Schedule: 5:30 Gathering 6:30 Dinner 7:30 Discussion
Cost: $35.00
POC Eric Joyce at this e-mail address: [email protected] or Bob Goldich by phone at (703) 359-1074.
10:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. 11 December 2015 in the Joint Staff Flag Room • Room 2D852
A panel discussion on the current relevance of Clausewitz,
featuring Christopher Bassford, Alan Beyerchen, Brad Carson, Antulio J.
Echevarria II , Jennie Kiesling, Erin Mahan, Peter Paret, and Jon Sumida
(This is the conclusion to an 8-part series.)
14 October 2014
BSHP Conference:
War in the History of Ideas
Netherlands Defence Academy, Breda, The Netherlands. Organized by Paul Schuurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam/British Society for the History of Philosophy) and Paul Donker (Netherlands Defence Academy/Erasumus University Rotterdam), 14 October 2014.
Announcement — Program & Abstracts
The first centennial in 2014 of the First World War forms the occasion for a one-day conference on War in the History of Ideas. The nature of war, the causes of war, its prevention, its acceptability, war as a cultural phenomenon, the relation between war and philosophy, war and religion, war and politics have all been the object of intense scrutiny by the greatest thinkers in the history of ideas. Twenty scholars will discuss topics that range from ‘Just War Thinking in Ancient Greece’ to ‘The Cognitive Roots of Modern “Inglorious Wars” and the Ukrainian Experience’. Papers will include the following philosophers: Plato, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Carl von Clausewitz, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Carl Schmitt. Panelists will include Paul Donker, Paul Schuurman, Azar Gat, Cian O’Driscoll, Bruno Colson, David van Dusen, Anthony Sampson, Christopher Coker, Andreas Herberg-Rothe, Hannes Rusch, Charlotte Störmer, Tom Sorell, Esmeralda Kleinreesink, Frank Daudey, Jan Willem Honig, Sebastian Schneider, Herman Siemens, Yuriy Loboda, Isabelle Duyvesteyn, and Richard Feist.
1-2 SEP 2011
Immediately below are links to the Clausewitz-related slide presentations from this conference described above:
Dr. Antulio Echevarria, (U.S. Army, Strategic Studies Institute)
“Clausewitz
and Contemporary War: The Debate over War’s Nature”
Major Todd E. Pierce (US Army Jag Corps)
“The
Dichotomy of U.S. Counter-terrorism Strategy: Carl Schmidt v. Carl
von Clausewitz”
Dennis Prange (Hanns Seidel Foundation) & Nubert Boubeka (Ambivium Institute)
“Networking
Centers of Gravity”
Mr. Mark Silinsky (Department of Defense)
“An
Old Prussian, an Ancient Land, and a New War: Carl von Clausewitz
& Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan”
Lt. Col. Dale Eikmeier (U.S. Army)
“A
Contrarian View on the Relevance of Clausewitz’s Center of Gravity
in the War on Terrorism”
Lars Falk, PhD (Swedish Defense Research Agency)
“Centers
of Gravity and Clausewitz’s Model of War”
6 APRIL 2011
One-Day Workshop on Clausewitz and Small Wars, in Washington, DC
It is the workshop organizers' conviction that Clausewitz should be regarded as an early theorist of wars of national liberation. In his “Lectures on Small War,” he analyzed guerrilla warfare by studying the rebellion in the Vendée 1793-1796, the Tyrolean uprising of 1809, and most prominently, the Spanish insurrection from 1808 onward. In his famous Testimonial or “Bekenntnisdenkschrift” of 1812, in which he demands a “Spanish civil war in Germany,” he outlined a comprehensive guerrilla strategy against Napoleonic France and supported his view with theoretical reflections about the nature of defense and offence. In his posthumously published work On War, Clausewitz included a short chapter on “The People in Arms” in the sixth book on defense, in which he deals with practical as well as theoretical aspects of popular uprising and guerrilla warfare. It is safe to say that biographically and intellectually “People's War” was at the very beginning of Clausewitz’ career.
Hosted by the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies thanks to financial support from the Smith Richardson Foundation.
Contact: Dr. Christopher Daase
21-23 March 2005
OXFORD • 2005
CLAUSEWITZ CONFERENCE
An important reflection of this renewed interest was "Clausewitz
in the 21st Century" – a conference held in the
Department of Politics and International Relations, University
of Oxford, 21-23 March 2005, sponsored by the Oxford Leverhulme
Programme on the Changing Character of War (CCW).
Conference report by Andreas Herberg-Rothe (in German)
Conference report by Ulrike Kleemeier (in German — see pp.187-91)
Conference report by Claus Eskild Andersen, then-cand.phil. Danish
officer (Major) (in Danish)
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Hew Strachan and Andreas Herberg-Rothe (Oxford University Press, September 2007). ISBN: 0199232024. This is the proceedings of the March 2005 Oxford University conference on Clausewitz in the 21st Century, a stellar, multidisciplinary collection of essays that defines the current state of the art in Clausewitz studies.
