The Global War On Civilians: 1905-1945

Sheldon Garon, Principal Investigator of the The Global War on Civilians project, delivered talk entitled “Morale on the Home Front, 1914–1945: Its Transnational Construction and Destruction” at the European Studies Centre of St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

Sheldon Garon, Principal Investigator in "The Global War on Civilians" project, delivered a talk entitled “The Transnational Destruction of Cities in Europe and East Asia, 1914–1945” as part of the Environmental History Seminar at EHESS.

The publication entitled “Toward a Global History of Bombing in the Second World War: Taking Japan Seriously” revises key arguments from Richard Overy’s book "Rain of Ruin".

Dr Van Dijk, Senior Researcher in "The Global War on Civilians" project, examines the interwar period as a formative moment in the development of modern norms for civilian protection, showing how international law evolved amid the rise of blockade, bombing, and economic warfare.

The lecture at Tokyo College, titled “Morale” on the Home Front: Its Transnational Construction and Destruction, 1914–1945, sheds light on how it became “normal” to win wars by attacking cities and civilian morale.

Professor Garon, Principal Investigator in "The Global War on Civilians" project, delivered a lecture at German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo titled “Writing a Global History of the Second World War by Taking Japan Seriously".

Professor Garon, Principal Investigator in "The Global War on Civilians" project, delivered a seminar at Tokyo College titled “The Global War on Civilians: Applying Transnational History in a Collaborative Project".

In this episode, Dr Van Mourik, Postdoctoral Researcher in "The Global War on Civilians" project, speaks with historian Tatjana Tönsmeyer (University of Wuppertal) and Peter Romijn (NIOD and UvA) about Tönsmeyer’s groundbreaking book Unter deutscher Besatzung: Europa 1939–1945 (Under German occupation: Europe 1939-1945).

Professor Garon, Principal Investigator in "The Global War On Civilians" project, delivered a keynote address at the international conference "The Second World War: 80 Years On", held at King’s College London from June 11 to 13, 2025.

The inaugural conference of the ERC-funded "The Global War on Civilians: 1905-1945" project took place at the Institut d'études avancées (IEA) in Paris on 10-11 March 2025.