Samuël Kruizinga
Associate Professor Modern History & War Studies | Occupations | Blockades | First World War | Spanish Civil War
@UvA_Amsterdam
- #BLOCKADE is recruiting again! Join our team and delve into the history of blockades during the First and Second World Wars — from their planning to their far‑reaching consequences. We are pleased to announce two postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Hamburg:
- Postition 1: The repercussions of blockade in the interwar and postwar periods, with a focus on the transition from the autarkic and discriminatory trade policies of the 1930s to the post‑1945 turn toward trade liberalization: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
- Position 2: The economic, social and political consequences of the Allied blockade on Japan, 1941-1948: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...
- Deadline approaching (17 January!) on another #BLOCKADE funded PhD position! See for more information on the project and this vacancy our BLOCKADE website at www.blockades.eu.
- I would like to re-up this as there are 4 more weeks to hand in an application for this PhD position on the "hunger blockade" @uni-freiburg.de
- It’s a wrap! The 2025 Society for the History of War conference (#SHoW2025), which featured some 170 (!) papers from participants from all over the world, is over. And what a conference it was!
- Thanks are due to our wonderful and generous hosts, the ZMSBw and the @unipotsdam.bsky.social, and the fantastic work done by their staff in making the conference a huge success.
- Thanks are also due to all those who travelled to Potsdam to present papers and share their exciting work, those who participated in open and collegial debates, and those who chaired panels, keeping us in check, on the ball and on time!
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View full threadWe have already set dates for next year's conference (26 and 27 November 2026) and will share updates on the call for panels and papers, and the location of the conference, soon! Will we see you there? More information on the Society for the History of War can be found on www.show.org.uk.
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaConferencing in a freezing Cold christmassy Potsdam, great program (thanks to @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social ), including exiciting panel with NIMH colleagues Schoenmaker, Brocades en Sinke: www.show.org.uk
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaI m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
- Another day, another #BLOCKADE vacancy, this time for a fully funded 4-year PhD at Amsterdam on 'benign blockades'. This PhD project will focus on the interwar period.
- Following the experiences of economic warfare during the First World War, blockades and sanctions became tools wielded by the League of Nations and by others on behalf of an ‘international community’ to combat infractions of international law.
- Examples include sanctions levied against Japan following its invasion of Manchuria and against Italy following that of Ethiopia, as well as the multinational non-intervention committee set up to isolate both camps in the Spanish Civil War.
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View full threadFor more information on the #BLOCKADE project, see blockades.eu
- The BLOCKADE project (blockades.eu) continues recruiting! We are looking for a PhD student at the Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) in Trondheim, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Universität Hamburg.
- 4 year PhD position with the @uni-hamburg.de, starting 1 January 2026: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... Deadline: 15 October 2025
- The postdoc will determine the Allied implementation of the blockade and its impact on the civilian population of the Middle East (esp. Ottoman Syria and Lebanon) during and after the First World War. One key task is to disaggregate the effect of blockade from other factors.
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View full threadThe PhD will examine the effect of blockade-induced shortages in order to establish how these shortages affected the standard of living of households. The project will focus on one major blockaded belligerent and on one blockaded neutral or occupied country in the First or the Second World War.
- We are enormously thankful for the equally enormous response our call has generated: we have recieved 𝟭𝟮𝟬 paper proposals and 𝟭𝟲 three-to-five person panel proposals!
- SHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk #SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory #WarStudies #CFP
- Just a couple of days left to send in your paper, panel or roundtable abstract and join our keynote speaker @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social in Postdam!
- SHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk #SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory #WarStudies #CFP
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaSHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk #SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory #WarStudies #CFP
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaJoin @sochistorywar.bsky.social in Potsdam for our annual conference. This time Prof Beatrice de Graaf will give the keynote and the theme of the conference is “Cultures of War and Violence”.
- SHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June Find the full call for papers here: www.show.org.uk #SHoW2025 #HistoryOfWar #CallForPapers #MilitaryHistory #WarStudies #CFP
- Very happy to anounce nother two (!) fully-funded four-year PhD vacancies within the 𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲-sponsored project 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄. Come work with the amazing Alan Kramer at Universität Hamburg: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan....
- One focuses on the strategy of the world war era blockades in Europe, the other on the colonial and imperial contexts of blockade. Deadline: 9 July 2025.
- For more information about BLOCKADE, see www.blockades.eu
- The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!
- And we also have a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher (3 years, 0.8 fte, deadline 11 May) Digital Humanities Approaches to Deep Collaborative Work: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
- The deadline is approaching, so apply soon!
- We currently have a vacancy for a PhD (4 years, 1.0 fte, deadline 11 May) on Blockades and the Second World War in Asia: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
- On 1 May 2025, our ERC Synergy-sponsored project, The Hidden Weapon: Blockade in the Era of the Two World Wars, or BLOCKADE for short, will begin. BLOCKADE is a collaborative initiative aimed at uncovering the most globally consequential blockades in history, those of the World Wars.
- I am beyond excited to work on this with @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social , with Alan Kramer, and Jonas Scherner, and our host institutions @uvahumanities.bsky.social, @uni-freiburg.de, @uni-hamburg.de and @ntnu.
- We will recruit a team of nine PhD candidates and ten postdoctoral researchers who, together with us PIs, will demonstrate that blockades are essential to understanding not only how the world wars were fought but also their global scope, totality, immediate effects, and long-term repercussions.
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View full threadAnd we also have a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher (3 years, 0.8 fte, deadline 11 May) Digital Humanities Approaches to Deep Collaborative Work: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
- Happy to announce two vacacies at the @uvahumanities.bsky.social for a postdoctoral researcher (3 yrs) and a PhD (4 years) in our ERC Synergy project BLOCKADE, which explores the two global blockades of the First and Second World Wars and their aftermaths. See www.blockades.eu for more info.
- Reminder: the deadline is in slightly less then three weeks! If you have any questions about the vacancy, do not hesitate to send me a DM or an e-mail.
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaSHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it? All details can be found below! ⬇️
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaSHoW's heading to Potsdam! 📢 Call for Papers – SHoW 2025 🗓 27–28 November 2025 📍University of Potsdam 📝 Abstracts due: 30 June How do societies understand, justify, and remember war and violence? And how do cultures resist, represent, or misrepresent it? All details can be found below! ⬇️
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaFrom Amsterdam to Nicosia, SHoW conferences have sparked ideas, conversations, and friendships. This November, we meet again in Potsdam! In the meantime, tell us your favourite SHoW memory—the best paper, panel, night out, or unexpected conversation. We’d love to hear what’s stuck with you.
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaThe first Freiburg-based job of BLOCKADE (@erc.europa.eu synergy grant) is out. A 4-year postdoc to research the world war blockades & their impact on women's mobilisation, vulnerability and resilience. Hoping to put together an amazing team in Freiburg. Please share! uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaIk mis het oude Twitter, en denk dat veel X-verlaters dat ook doen. Ze gaan niet weg omdat ze bang zijn voor ‘andere meningen’, maar simpelweg omdat het er minder interessant is. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
- Reposted by Samuël KruizingaBij waarschuwingen voor een hybride oorlog met Rusland gaat het soms over een ‘vijfde colonne’. De uitdrukking stamt uit de Spaanse Burgeroorlog en is de afgelopen eeuw vooral gebruikt om vergaande maatregelen te nemen tegen minderheden, zegt @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social
- On November 28–29 of this year, the Society for the History of War (SHoW) convened in beautiful Cyprus. Hosted by the University of Cyprus Library, the event featured nearly 100 presentations across 23 panels, alongside two roundtables and a keynote by the incomparable Martin Thomas.
- Given Cyprus’s rich and complex history, it was particularly fitting that the theme of the conference was 'The Legacies of War and Violence.' And, of course, there was plenty of time to enjoy Cyprus’s breathtaking beauty and warm hospitality.
- As SHoW's secretary, I had the privilege of working closely with Maria Hadjiathanasiou, whose contributions were absolutely essential to making this event the success I believe it was.
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View full threadA massive thank you to everyone who joined us in Cyprus. Looking ahead: Next November, our conference will be held in Potsdam, near Berlin, with the theme 'Cultures of War and Violence.' We hope to see many of you there.
