The First World War and Global Religions

Lead Research Organisation: University of Oxford
Department Name: History Faculty

Abstract

1. The Context of the Research

There has not as yet been a major research project on the role of religion during the First World War, despite an increasing recognition of the significance of the subject. The particular feature of this proposal is the specific emphasis on the global dimension of religion and the intention to overcome artificial distinctions between European and non-European histories. The existence in Oxford of the Globalizing and Localizing the Great War research network provides a wider context in which 'global religion' is one of five planned thematic investigations in the timeframe 2014-2019.

2. The Objective

The objective of the research is to produce a genuinely transnational history of religion which will incorporate both the impact of the war on religious ideas and institutions and nuance consideration of the ways in which the war both influenced and was influenced by the religious beliefs and practices of millions of people from a range of religious traditions. The intention is to utilize comparative study to both explain commonalities of response to the multiple practical, intellectual and emotional challenges of modern industrial warfare to religious belief and practice whilst at the same time elucidating significant differences in response. In significant respects, war challenged all religions and forced radical adaptive responses, which drew on resources that were both generic to the phenomenon of religion as a whole and specific to different religions. The consequences of this have continued to resonate powerfully one hundred years after the event, in ways both dramatic and subtle, and continue to have important consequences in the early twenty-first century.

3. Benefits of the Research

The major benefit of the research will be the dissemination of a new and important perspective on both the First World War and on modern religions amongst the international academic community, schools and the general public. It will also act as a practical example for other historians of transnational history, for theologians and sociologists.

One further major benefit will be career development for two talented early career researchers.

Planned Impact

Who will benefit from this research?

1. Schools and the general public. As has been evidenced by the many events and news commentaries since the beginning of 2014, there is general interest both in the public role of religion and in the First World War.

2. Public policy makers might well benefit from the establishment of a centre of expertise on religious violence, especially one that was capable of seeing events simultaneously from Jewish, Muslim and Christian perspectives.

3. Community faith groups will benefit through outreach. The centenary of the Balfour declaration, in particular, could be a tense moment in inter-faith relations and sensible input from academics might be helpful.

How will they benefit from this research?

It is frequently remarked that many of the contemporary issues surrounding religion and violence in the contemporary world have roots in the First World War period, but at the moment the public discourse surrounding these issues is simplified in the extreme. We will contribute a nuanced assessment of the issues. One of the ways that we will do this is through contributions to media discussions - through broadcasting, websites and social media - on the series of major centenary events with a religious resonance that will fall within the period of the project (The Arab revolt, the introduction of conscription in the UK and the Easter uprising in 2016, the apparitions at Fatima, the 'papal peace note' and the Balfour declaration in 2017, the execution of the Russian royal family, the collapse of the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires in 2018 and the Paris peace conference and the Khilafat movement in 2019). All of these events are likely to attract a degree of attention in various media and we would anticipate a significant consultancy involvement in this. Dr Gregory has already been involved in the Radio 3 documentary on 'God and the Great War' and has considerable experience as a historical consultant for television. Co-operation with public service 'religious broadcasting' will be beneficial. There are also some interesting possibilities in the form of drama-documentaries associated with some of the more striking anniversaries in 2017.

Another method is through public exhibitions in museums and libraries. Several exhibitions have already raised awareness of the First World War; the recent display at Regent Park College was particularly relevant to the current project. We anticipate seeking additional funds, potentially from the HLF, to host an exhibition on global religion and the First World War, which will provide an additional means of dissemination towards the end of the project.

Publications

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Burton A (2018) The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire in Journal of Natal and Zulu History

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Devji F (2018) India and World War I: A Centennial Assessment

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Devji F (2017) The Mahatma at War in Asiatic Society of Mumbai occasional papers

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Devji F (2018) Secular Islam in Political Theology

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Devji F (2017) Islam After Liberalism

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Devji F (2017) C. A. Bayly in Past & Present

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Devji F (2019) An Elephant in the Room in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

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Devji, F (2018) Will Saudi Arabia Cease to Be the Center of Islam? in The New York Times

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Devji, F. (2018) Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Volume 3, Transformations in Values, Norms, Cultures

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Devji, F. (2018) Life on the Surface in Transmediale Journal

 
Title Belgian Exchange workshop: exhibition on Belgian refugees in Oxford 
Description As part of a two-day workshop exchange between Oxford and Belgian students, a small exhibition relating to Belgian refugees in Oxford and the impact on their lives and religion was created. The PI of the project was Adrian Gregory. The exhibition designer and curator was Liz Woolley, local Oxford historian. Original research was carried out for the exhibition, at the Oxfordshire History Centre. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2017 
Impact This exhibition was viewed by the workshop delegates - 29 in total - and then toured to the Oxfordshire History Centre in January 2018. This second showing featured in the Oxford Mail, complete with photos. The write up stated: A new exhibition about Belgian refugees and troops in Oxford during the First World War will open at the Oxfordshire History Centre on Tuesday 9 January and run until Friday 23 February [though the Oxfordshire History Centre itself is closed for annual stocktaking from from 23 January to 3 February inclusive, and the exhibition will be closed during this period as well]. It is estimated that 250,000 Belgians came to Britain during the First World War, the largest number of refugees this country had ever experienced. More than 450 were housed in Oxford and citizens and members of the university raised thousands of pounds for their upkeep and to send to those still at home in occupied Belgium. There was widespread public sympathy for Belgium's plight and for many people, contact with the refugees acted as a good reminder as to why the First World War was worth fighting. Belgian wood carvers helped to start a local toy-making industry which aimed to replace German toys. Some male refugees found work at the University Press and at the Oxfordshire Steam Ploughing Company in Cowley, both of which were engaged in war work. An Anglo-Belgian lingerie business was established to employ some of the women refugees, and others worked at embroidery or went into service locally. Following the herioc defence of Antwerp in the autumn of 1914, two hundred injured Belgian soldiers were brought for treatment at Oxford's wartime hospital, the 3rd Southern General. The five who died of their wounds are buried in Botley Cemetery, their graves amongst those of over 150 other men from the Commonwealth and allied nations who died at the hospital. 
 
Title Into Silence 
Description Evening of silent performances/performances of silence including sound-sculptures, mime, dance and film. This was a joint event between the History Faculty (Oxford) and the English Faculty (Oxford) and took place at Pembroke College on 6 November 2018 from 18:00 to 20:00. The purpose of the event was to bring together members of the public, academics from a range of disciplines and creative practitioners to share different kind of performed silences together and to reflect on what they have experienced. Audience members were encouraged to write down their experiences of the evening. During the evening, the audience was encouraged to sense silence physically, to feel it emotionally and to think about it critically. After the performances, there was a reception at which organisers, performers and audience informally discussed their experiences. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact People's perceptions of silence were challenged and people reflected on the meaning of silence: a) At the start of the event, people had relatively similar understandings of the meanings of silence. People typically associated the word 'silence' with ideas and notions around peace, individual reflection, calmness, thinking, space, quietness and stillness. These ideas reflect wider discursive ideas around silence as therapeutic, and associated with a largely positive space for tranquillity, mindfulness and stillness. b) A significant majority of people reported a change in their perceptions of silence after attending the event. People's perceptions of silence were both challenged and enlarged through experiencing curated silences. After attending Silence and Body, people predominantly associated silence with rhythm, space and uncertainty. People reflected on silence in terms of voices unheard or constrained. These ideas emphasised the embodied and communicative nature of silence; how silence was something that could be communicated, felt and moved. After attending Silence and Touch, people's responses were much more individual and subjective. No one associated the same words with silence. There were commonalities in people's responses, for example; highlighting the uneasiness and discomfort of silence; death and sorrow; oppression; the unsaid. This event was so successful that the organisers received support from the University of Oxford's Public Engagement Research Seed Fund to hold further events: (1) Silence and the Body at the Ashmolean Museum, 29 April 2019 (2) Debriefing, Harris Manchester College, 30 April 2019 (3) Silence and Touch at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 21 May 2019 (4) Debriefing, Harris Manchester College, 22 May 2019 There is also un upcoming event "Silence and Mindfulness" on 12 November 2019. 
URL https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-suzan-meryem-rosita-kalayci-and-professor-kate-mcloughlin-awarded-%...
 
Title Oxford: The War and the World, 1914-1919 
Description The exhibition produced by the History Faculty, the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum and others highlights the wartime experiences of men and women, both town and gown and others from overseas with links to Oxford. By focusing on individual stories, it emphasises Oxford's international connections during the First World War and helps to expand our understanding of war experiences beyond the trenches. As well as soldiers, airmen and volunteers, it will tell the story of conscientious objector Rajani Palme Dutt, who opposed the war not for pacifist reasons but because it was a clash between rival empires. The exhibition will also feature Constance Coltman, a Somervillian who became the first woman in Britain to be ordained as a minister in a mainstream Christian church, in September 1917. The 12 stories are accompanied by 27 objects, loaned by the Oxfordshire Museum Service. The postcards, photographs, ration books, armbands and boxes provide an insight into life during the First World War, both for the soldiers and those on the home front. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2018 
Impact Members of the public were able to see the exhibition at Somerville College, Oxford through November 2018. Following its debut at Somerville, the exhibition is touring four other venues; The Rumble Museum, Cheney School, Headington - December 1 to December 20 2018; Cowley Library, Oxford - December 22 2018 to 30 January 30 2019; Westgate Library, Oxford - February 1 to March 14 2019; The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock - March 19 to July 31 2019. The exhibition generated both local and national interest. 
URL http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=3554
 
Title The Indian Army in the First World War 
Description This initiative was a collaborative research and exhibition design project, led by Oxford University's History Faculty (PI: Adrian Gregory) and the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO), and incorporating three local Asian community partners: the Oxford Muslim Community Initiative, the Oxford Hindu Temple Project and Oxford University's student Sikh Society. The project was kindly funded by the 'Voices of War and Peace' engagement hub at the University of Birmingham (project website). The aims of the project were to carry out new research into the role played by the Indian Army during the First World War (by conducting an investigation into SOFO's archives, as well as crowdsourcing Asian family stories) and to turn these research findings into an engaging new mini-exhibition, aimed at attracting a primary audience of British Asian and local white British families across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The research and exhibition design work was carried out by a group of multi-faith and intergenerational volunteers drawn from the SOFO team and the three community partners, who were trained and led by project coordinators, Stephen Barker and Dr Priya Atwal. A documentary film was also produced of the workshops and the exhibition. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2017 
Impact The exhibition has already toured to several venues, starting with Wycombe Museum in November 2017, followed by Banbury Museum, the Old Gaol Museum, Buckingham and the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock (who has been awarded an Oxfordshire High Sheriff Integration Award for supporting the project). Requests to display the exhibition have been received from Abingdon Museum for October 2018. A Bradford community centre have also expressed interest in displaying the exhibition. The exhibition received extensive media coverage both locally and nationally, demonstrating that there is a significant interest in new interpretations of the history of the First World War and of the legacy of the British Empire in India. Media included the Bucks Free Press and Oxford Mail, as well as BBC Oxford and Wycombe Sound radio stations, and the BBC South TV news channel. The project also enjoyed publicity from Asian national and regional media: including a feature article in the Eastern Eye magazine, and coverage on the BBC Asian Network, alongside short interviews on the BBC's regional Asian radio programmes for Leeds, Coventry/Warwickshire and Birmingham. Dr Priya Atwal, postdoctoral researcher, was able to apply for and secure a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship through Oxford's Centre for Research in the Humanities (TORCH), in order to carry out further research in the SOFO archives (again pertaining to the Indian Army before and during the First World War). The film has been awarded a place in the following film festivals: 2018 - January 24th & 25th Cortkino 2K18 Film Festival - Thakur College of Science and Commerce, Ram Singh Road, Mumbi, Maharashtra, India; 2018 - May 2-6 - The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival , Video Bar at Eugene Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre, Eugene, Oregon, USA. 
URL http://www.voicesofwarandpeace.org/voices-projects/
 
Title Where do you put the camera? How Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell filmed the First World War 
Description This was a lecture and demonstration by Andrew McCarthy and an accompanying cinematographer on First World War battlefield films. It was accompanied by showings of relevant films and included a demonstration on how First World War films were shot and processed using cameras from the time. This event took place at Pembroke College on 7 February from 19:00 to 21:00. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2019 
Impact This event was open to the public. (check details) 
URL https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/content/%E2%80%9Cwhere-do-you-put-camera%E2%80%9D-lecture-and-film-screenin...
 
Description Through the research undertaken and our scholarly interactions we have begun to reconceptualize the significance of the period of the war as a fulcrum in the history of world religions. We have rethought wartime religious practices through the theoretical framework of sensory history, we have considered the centrality of wartime humanitarian relief in shaping new ideas of transnational religious community, we have identified the period as crucial in constructing the concept of 'religious minorities' and we have developed a comparative framework for thinking about the rise of 'political theology' in the period after the war. We are individually beginning to publish works addressing all these issues and we still intend to create a collaborative multi authored work.
We have very largely fulfilled the original objectives as stated in the original proposal. Some aspects have altered as a consequence of research and workshop discussion but the original five objectives have been largely delivered. We have explored religion as a transnational force and how the war represented a turning point, we have engaged collaboratively both nationally and internationally and in an interdisciplinary spirit. Some of the assumptions in the second objective, to examine the role of religion in the wartime resilience of population gave way to a different emerging intellectual framework.
The secondary objective a career building for the postdocs was very definitely fulfilled as both are now in tenure track permanent academic posts.


The project had five objectives:
1. To investigate the role played by religion as a transnational and global force during the First World War. This has been fulfilled.
2. To explore how religion, specifically Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism and Protestantism, played a central role in shaping the behaviour of distressed populations in response to the pressure of war. This has been largely fulfilled but the precise hypotheses have changed with our research.
3. To understand how the war marked a significant turning point for religion in a global context Largely fulfilled. We are now focussed on four more precise topics: Sensory history of wartime religion, religious humanitarianism, the concept of religious minorities and the rise of political theology.
4. To engage with academic debate, both locally through the networks of Oxford University and with national and international scholars. Largely fulfilled.
5. To encourage interdisciplinary collaboration within a historical frame for the study of religion in the twentieth century. This will also be measured by further publications both in history and in related subjects. This objective has been fulfilled.
Summary Objective:
The objective of the research is to produce a genuinely transnational history of religion which will incorporate both the impact of the war on religious ideas and institutions and nuanced consideration of the ways in which the war both influenced and was influenced by the religious beliefs and practices of millions of people from a range of religious traditions. This is in process of fulfilment.
One further major benefit is the career development for two talented early career researchers. This has been fulfilled.
Exploitation Route We are still in the process of completing individual and collaborative publications so we anticipate that some of the taking forward of this work will be done by the original project members. Subsequently we hope that the themes we have developed will be developed and built on by others interested in the history of world religion who can conduct their own empirical research based studies on the topics we have identified.
Sectors Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
 
Description The project has had significant social and cultural impact. We have run a whole range of events designed to extend the impact of the research to a broad range of societal groups. This mainly relates to the exhibition produced as part of the Indian Army project, which worked with interfaith communities (as detailed under Common Outcomes: Artistic and Creative Products). New skills in research and exhibition design were gained by the community members, their voices were heard through the production of the exhibition and the stories of their relatives were brought to a wider audience. The exhibition generated both local and national interest. It received extensive media coverage demonstrating that there is a significant interest in new interpretations of the history of the First World War and of the legacy of the British Empire in India. Media included the Bucks Free Press and Oxford Mail, as well as BBC Oxford and Wycombe Sound radio stations, and the BBC South TV news channel. The project also enjoyed publicity from Asian national and regional media: including a feature article in the Eastern Eye magazine, and coverage on the BBC Asian Network, alongside short interviews on the BBC's regional Asian radio programmes for Leeds, Coventry/Warwickshire and Birmingham. A further free exhibition, 'Oxford: The War and the World, 1914-1919', was enjoyed by members of the public at five different venues (as detailed under Common Outcomes: Artistic and Creative Products). The exhibition fitted with the core aims of the project - the global and local aspects of the Great War, how that war impacted society at the time and how it continues to impact today. While some citizens left Oxford and travelled to other countries during the First World War, others stayed behind and experienced the city's increasingly international connections; individuals from across the UK and the world joined them here because of the conflict. All these people were involved in, and contributed to, the war in different ways, and twelve of them were commemorated in this exhibition highlighting the wartime experiences of men and women, be they 'town', 'gown', or from overseas. This exhibition was aimed predominantly at Oxford residents, visitors and tourists with the idea of helping to expand the understanding of different types of war experiences beyond the trenches. The exhibition also featured WW1 memorabilia, personal stories and the home front. To this effect, we worked closely with local communities in order to gather artefacts and to record the stories associated with them. Some other artefacts were on loan from the Oxfordshire Museum Service (OMS). Enabling everyone to take part helped breaking down the barriers between professional and public participation. In the course of the project, we have developed collaborations with a number of institutions such as the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO), the University of Birmingham through their engagement hub 'Voices of War and Peace', the University of Salford, and the Oxford Brookes University. These collaborations have enabled us to share ideas/knowledge, to hold a wider number of public talks and events, and to incorporate new elements to our exhibitions. We have also run numerous Oxnet workshops for 6th form students (Greater Manchester) and have given talks at various local schools. Impact questionnaires measured the change in children's knowledge. The project culminated with a 3-day international conference followed by a study day particularly aimed at local residents. Attendees commented on the originality of the presentations and said that it was refreshing to consider new perspectives on the war, particularly through an Oxford lens. They also valued the chance of discussing a topic of interest in an academic context. Our work has also led to the award of further grants. Following 'The Indian Army' exhibition, Dr Priya Atwal, postdoctoral researcher, was able to apply for and secure a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship through the Oxford's Centre for Research in the Humanities (TORCH), in order to carry out further research in the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum archives to produce a short film. The film was awarded a place in the following film festivals: 2018 - January 24th & 25th Cortkino 2K18 Film Festival - Thakur College of Science and Commerce, Ram Singh Road, Mumbi, Maharashtra, India; 2018 - May 2-6 - The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival , Video Bar at Eugene Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre, Eugene, Oregon, USA. Following the event 'Into Silence' (as detailed under Common Outcomes: Artistic and Creative Products), Dr Suzan Kalayci, postdoctoral researcher, was able to secure PER Seed funding through the Oxford's Centre for Research in the Humanities (TORCH) in order to organise four additional events. Lastly, research by Hussein Omar was integral to a report by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (as detailed under Common Outcomes: Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients and the Public).
First Year Of Impact 2017
Sector Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services
 
Description Hussein Omar: research for Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://cihrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Towards_the_em_of_Eg_eng.pdf
 
Description AHRC Public Engagement: Centre for Hidden Histories of the First World War - To Green Fields Beyond
Amount £2,645 (GBP)
Funding ID AH/L008378/1 through the University of Nottingham and University of Salford (collaborators) 
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2016 
End 05/2017
 
Description AHRC WW1 Engagement Centres: Birmingham Voices of War and Peace: Indian Army project
Amount £9,598 (GBP)
Funding ID AH/L008149/1 through the University of Birmingham (collaboration) 
Organisation Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2017 
End 12/2017
 
Description Greening Lamborn Trust, Oxfordshire - to cover the cost of travel for 7 speakers at public engagement events
Amount £700 (GBP)
Organisation Greening Lamborn Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2018 
End 07/2019
 
Description History Faculty Research Committee (re: travel expenses for Hussein Omar)
Amount £250 (GBP)
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2018 
End 02/2018
 
Description History Faculty Sanderson Fund
Amount £2,000 (GBP)
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2017 
End 07/2017
 
Description John Fell Fund, Research Services, University of Oxford
Amount £7,478 (GBP)
Funding ID 163/065 Oxford: The War and the World 
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2017 
End 08/2019
 
Description John Fell Fund, Research Services, University of Oxford
Amount £1,500 (GBP)
Funding ID 153/083 War Time 
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2016 
End 01/2017
 
Description OLHA
Amount £500 (GBP)
Organisation Oxfordshire Local History Association 
Sector Learned Society
Start 08/2018 
End 08/2019
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: travel funding to present a paper at the European Academy of Religion in Bologna
Amount € 300 (EUR)
Organisation European Academy of Religion 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country Italy
Start 03/2018 
End 03/2018
 
Description REF Strategic Support Fund (public engagent activities), Humanities Division, University of Oxford
Amount £2,688 (GBP)
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2018 
End 07/2019
 
Description Research Comittee Funds, History Faculty, University of Oxford
Amount £786 (GBP)
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2019 
End 08/2019
 
Description Rothermere Foundation
Amount £10,000 (GBP)
Organisation Rothermere American Institute 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2018 
End 08/2019
 
Description TORCH funds as part of their Humanities and Performance series for 2018-2019
Amount £494 (GBP)
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2019 
End 08/2019
 
Description Teaching Comittee, History Faculty, University of Oxford
Amount £400 (GBP)
Organisation University of Oxford 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2018 
End 07/2019
 
Description Collaborative Research and public engagement activities: Hidden Histories of the First World War - 'To Green Fields Beyond' 
Organisation University of Salford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution 'To Green Fields Beyond' is a Lincoln based research project examining and reflecting on the impact of the First World War on the lives of people in the city and surrounding county, including the war's impact on the role of women, the domestic and working lives of young people, the role of engineering industry and specifically the local history of tank construction. The University of Oxford provided academic support and, as the project progressed, links into a much larger scale research collaboration with 'Globalising and Localising the Great War' which is based in the Faculty of History, University of Oxford and TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities).
Collaborator Contribution Academics from the University of Salford wrote the theatrical/public engagement event script and also the published pamphlet of stories relating to the World War One in England based on the various research resources examined during the first phase of the project. They also presented a Symposium of World War One performance case studies 'Factual accounts of First World War in Lincolnshire into Performance Events' at the end of 2016.
Impact The performance project was devised in partnership with the BBC. Two main outdoor events took place on Saturday 16 July 2016 and attracted an audience of 20,000 in the daytime and an estimated 10,000 to the evening and outdoor related activities that weekend. The events were recorded and made available online to future audiences. They were also linked with other online written materials for more in depth researchers. All academic partners involved university students in the project, exposing them to both the historic research and its current re-interpretation, and to new skills in managing community participation events.
Start Year 2016
 
Description Faculty Member, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University 
Organisation Cornell University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Faisal Devji was made Faculty Member, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, June-July 2017
Collaborator Contribution N/A
Impact N/A
Start Year 2017
 
Description Faisal Devji - Visiting Professor, Koc University, Istanbul 
Organisation Koc University
Country Turkey 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Faisal Devji was made Visiting Professor, Koc University, Istanbul, May 2018
Collaborator Contribution N/A
Impact N/A
Start Year 2018
 
Description Kerala State Higher Education Council Scholar in Residence, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam 
Organisation Mahatma Gandhi University
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Faisal Devji was made Kerala State Higher Education Council Scholar in Residence, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, March 2019
Collaborator Contribution N/A
Impact N/A
Start Year 2019
 
Description Adrian Gregory - Anglo/Belgian Great War Research Exchange 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This workshop exchange between Oxford and Belgian students took place at Pembroke College on 30 November 2017. It was followed by a tour of Oxford on the Friday afternoon by First World War historian Dr Malcolm Graham.

As a result, a small exhibition relating to Belgian refugees in Oxford and the impact on their lives and religion was created. Please see details under 'Creative and Artistic products'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Adrian Gregory - Article in Research Professional 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The article was entitled 'My winning proposal: First world war faith with the AHRC' and was published online on 26 May 2016.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/funding/insight/2016/5/My-winning-proposal--First-world-wa...
 
Description Adrian Gregory - Conference Paper 'Liberal Protestantism and the Great War' at the '1918-2018 The End of the War & The Reshaping of a Century' Conference, Wolverhampton University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Paper given by Professor Adrian Gregory as part of the '1918-2018 The End of the War & The Reshaping of a Century' International Conference' at Wolverhampton University on 6 September 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.wlv.ac.uk/media/departments/faculty-of-social-sciences/documents/Wolves-Conference-Progr...
 
Description Adrian Gregory - Day workshop 'Great War and Global Religion' at Pembroke College, Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Day workshop 'Great War and Global Religion' organised by Adrian Gregory at Pembroke College on 8 November 2018. Adrian Gregory delivered the paper 'Sensory History of Religion'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-first-world-war-and-global-religions-tickets-50272620762#
 
Description Adrian Gregory - Interview at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Adrian Gregory speaks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips about the role of silence in public commemoration, 30 July 2018.
This was part of the Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation is a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series running in 2017-18 at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/interview-dr-adrian-gregory
 
Description Adrian Gregory - Lecture at Christ Church College, Oxford: 'The Great War and Modern Religion' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Lecture 'The Great War and Modern Religion' given by Professor Adrian Gregory at Christ Church College, Oxford on 13 April 2018 as part of a vacation course.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Adrian Gregory - Lecture at Pembroke College (Oxford) Alumni Weekend: 'The Great War and Modern Religion' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Public Lecture given by Professor Adrian Gregory as part of the Oxford Alumni Weekend 2018 at Pembroke College on 15 September 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/content/great-war-and-making-religion
 
Description Adrian Gregory - Paper 'Armageddon: The Great War as millenarian moment' at the Harold Vyvyan Alfred and Vere Harmsworth Memorial Lecture, Pembroke College, Oxford for the Centenary of the Armistice 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Harmsworth memorial lecture 'Armageddon: The Great War as millenarian moment' for the Centenary of the Armistice, given by Professor Adrian Gregory at Pembroke College on 8 November 2018. It was followed by a Roundtable discussion on 9 November https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-discussion-memorial-lecture-tickets-50273184448
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/content/memorial-lecture-armageddon-first-world-war-millenarian-moment
 
Description Adrian Gregory - Podcast 'Religion in Britain during the Great War' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interview conducted at St Andrews 'Home Front' conference 21 June 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://isws.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/the-british-home-front-1914-1918/
 
Description Adrian Gregory / Patrick Houlihan: "Religious Communities in the Holy Land during the Great War," Pembroke College, University of Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Adrian Gregory: academic lead for the conference; Dr Patrick Houlihan: chair and commentator: "Religion and Everyday Experience in a Time of War." Conference on "Religious Communities in the Holy Land during the Great War," Pembroke College, University of Oxford, 5 May 2016. Wide ranging discussions included plans for future workshops and discussions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Adrian Gregory and Hussein Omar: workshop for OxNet (Pembroke College, Oxford) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Adrian Gregory and Hussein Omar ran an OxNet workshop at Pembroke College Oxford on 2 August 2017 for 6th form students from the North-West Theology & Religious Studies Centre (an OxNet hub), Greater Manchester on the Balfour Declaration and the politics of religion. This was part of the class, 'The First World War, religion and the making of the Modern Middle East'. Evaluation forms were completed by the students. The questions on the forms comprised: 1. Do you feel that this research presentation has changed or developed your views on this subject? 2. What do you feel were the most interesting new insights you gained? 3. Did this presentation make you want to study this subject further at university? All students but one reported that it changed their views. Most students referred to the establishment of Israel, Zionism and the impact of the Balfour Declaration. Just over half the students thought that they would study the subject further.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.ox-net.org/
 
Description Adrian Gregory gave a talk 'Religion in the First World War' at the Constance Coltman event, Mansfield and Somerville College (Oxford) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Talk by Adrian Gregory: 'Religion in the First World War', event to commemorate the life and ordination of Constance Coltman, the first Congregationalist female minister (ordained 17 Sept. 1917), Mansfield and Somerville Colleges, 21 October 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/?p=2910
 
Description Adrian Gregory gave a talk at the Research Colloquium of Modern History at the Freidrich Meinecke Institute of the Freie Universita¨t Berlin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Adrian Gregory gave a seminar paper, 'The Great War and Global Religion', to the Research Colloquium of Modern History at the Freidrich Meinecke Institute of the Freie Universita¨t Berlin (The Professor Oliver Janz research group) at 5pm on 13 February 2018. This was attended by doctoral and postdoctoral members of the Free University. Purpose: dissemination of research to a postgraduate audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Adrian Gregory lecture: OxNet North West April 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Lecture by Adrian Gregory: 'The First World War and the making of Modern Religion'. Easter Conference' of the North-West Theology & Religious Studies Centre (an OxNet hub), Greater Manchester, 5 April 2017, University of Manchester. Purpose: dissemination of research to an audience of 90 6th students across the north west of England, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.ox-net.org/
 
Description Adrian Gregory lecture: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum (SOFO), June 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Lecture by Adrian Gregory: 'Global Religion and the War', lecture given to interfaith groups (Muslim, Sikh and Hindu communities) as part of the AHRC 'Voices of War and Peace' (University of Birmingham) First World War Centre, 'the Indian Army in the First World War' project, at The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, on Tuesday 27 June 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an interfaith audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher and information for the delegates that contributed towards a touring exhibition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Adrian Gregory talk: Great War Centenary, Birmingham 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Lecture by Adrian Gregory: 'A Religious War', Centre for War Studies, University of Birmingham Great War Centenary Lecture, Tuesday 14 March 2017, part of the Arts and Science Festival, 13-19 March 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to a general and academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://artsandsciencefestival.co.uk/festival-event/adrian-gregory/
 
Description Adrian Gregory: Cultures and Commemorations of War: Workshop One, 10 Nov 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Adrian Gregory, panel contributor (with Elleke Boehmer, David Rieff, and Sara Haslam): 'Why Remember? War and Memory Today', part of the 'Cultures and Commemorations of War' Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Rothermere American Institute, Friday 10 November 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/?p=3033
 
Description Adrian Gregory: Global and Imperial History Research Seminar: War and Empire (Oxford) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact '"A Band of Mothers". The Mothers Union and Global Solidarities amongst Anglican Women during the First World War'. Seminar given by Adrian Gregory on 18 November 2016 to the Global & Imperial History Research Seminar: War & Empire, Faculty of History, University of Oxford. The audience included academics, postgraduates and undergraduates, who engaged in debate and discussion following the seminar.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Adrian Gregory: Lecture 'Religion and the Balfour Declaration' at the University of Southampton 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk by Adrian Gregory: 'Religion and the Balfour Declaration' University of Southampton, 19 October 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, providing useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.southampton.ac.uk/greatwar_unknownwar/news/2017/10/19-colloquium.page
 
Description Adrian Gregory: Talk at the 'Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions' conference, London School of Economics 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Lecture by Adrian Gregory: 'Religious motivations and religious responses to the Balfour declaration', part of the 'Legacies of the Great War in Global Religion' panel at the "Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions: How narratives of faith are shaping today's world" Gingko and LSE Faith Centre conference, 14-15 June 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Article in the Oxford Mail about the exhibition on Belgian refugess in Oxford (please refer to 'Artistic and Creative products') 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The article was entitled 'From Belgium with love: history show celebrates Great War refugees in Oxford' and was published in the Oxford Mail on 11 January 2017. It included 4 photos of the exhibition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15819622.from-belgium-with-love-history-show-celebrates-great-war-...
 
Description Collaborative event with Oxford Brookes University 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This event took place on 17 May 2018 at the History Faculty, University of Oxford. This symposium explored how messages about the First and Second World Wars are conveyed through print culture, material culture, spiritualism and teaching.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Constructing-Messages-of-War-poster-17.5...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in Aenon, digital magazine 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "Age of sincerity," Aeon Essays, 17 April 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://aeon.co/essays/beyond-right-or-wrong-beyond-fact-or-fake-lies-sincerity
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in Naya Daur, digital media platform (Pakistan) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "National Identity is a Political Project. Turning that into a Religious Endeavour Does not Work," Naya Daur, 15 February 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nayadaur.tv/2019/02/national-identity-is-a-political-project-turning-that-into-a-religio...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in Open Magazine 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "After the Talaq," Open Magazine, 9 September 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/essay/after-the-talaq
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in Prospect Magazine 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "Why Playing for Pity in the Face of Islamic State's Atrocities is Counter-Productive," Prospect Magazine, 20 July 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/why-playing-for-pity-in-the-face-of-islamic-states-atroc...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in Prospect Magazine 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "Our Obsession with Aung San Suu Kyi Blinds us to the Deeper Causes of the Rohingya Tragedy," Prospect Magazine, 16 March 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/our-obsession-with-aung-san-suu-kyi-blinds-us-to-the-deeper...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in The Guardian 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact *"Gandhi 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha review-the Mahatma as a Liberal Icon," The Guardian, 4 October 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/04/gandhi-1914-1948-ramachandra-guha-review
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in The Hindu newspaper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "Partition or Independence?" The Hindu, 15 August 2017.
Hebrew translation in Haaretz, Aug. 27, 2017 (https://www.haaretz.co.il/blogs/sadna/1.4388845).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/partition-or-independence/article19493390.ece
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in The Hindu newspaper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "The Search for a majority," The Hindu, 23 May 2019.
Hindi translation, "'Bahutak' ki khoj," in The Wire Hindi, May 29, 2019 (https://m.thewirehindi.com/article/the-search-for-a-majority/83354).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-search-for-a-majority/article27210858.ece?homepage=true
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in The Hindu newspaper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "Myanmar and the Limits of Pan-Islamism," The Hindu, 18 October 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/myanmar-and-the-limits-of-pan-islamism/article25252377.ece?hom...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in The New York Times 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact *"Jamal Khashoggi and the Competing Versions of Islam," The New York Times, 25 October 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/opinion/islam-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-turkey.html
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in The New York Times 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "How Caste Underpins the Blasphemy Crisis in Pakistan," The New York Times, 18 October 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/opinion/caste-blasphemy-pakistan.html?fbclid=IwAR1jhqmeK97OqhccNI...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in the New York Times 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact *"Will Saudi Arabia Cease to be the Center of Islam?", The New York Times, 7 September 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/opinion/saudi-arabia-islam-mbs.html
 
Description Faisal Devji - Article in the New York Times 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "Conversions from Islam in Europe and Beyond," The New York Times, 15 August 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/islam-conversions.html
 
Description Faisal Devji - Cited in an article in The Telegraph 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Cited in Tim Wigmore, "Why India vs. Pakistan is the biggest game in all sport: When politics, passion and national identity collide," The Telegraph, 16 June 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2019/06/15/india-vs-pakistan-biggest-game-sport-politics-passion...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Contribution to the discussion 'Ethnicised Religion and Sacralised Ethnicity in the Past & the Present', Radcliffe Humanities (Oxford) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Faisal Devji: panel member (with Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, Magdalen College, University of Oxford; and Peter Leary, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL; chaired by Ilya Afanasyev, BRIHC Research Fellow, University of Birmingham) discussing 'Ethnicised Religion and Sacralised Ethnicity in the Past & the Present', Monday, January 22, 2018, Radcliffe Humanities, University of Oxford. Purpose: research discussion to a public and academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Faisal Devji - Interview with CTV Canada 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interview with CTV Canada on protests in Pakistan, 25 October 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1270746
 
Description Faisal Devji - Interview with the London School of Economics 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Interview with the LSE about a lecture on Gandhi at the Inner Temple, 17 October 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2017/10/16/while-gandhis-thought-can-at-times-seem-paradoxical-it-...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Interviewed for ILNA (Iranian Labour News Agency) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed for ILNA (Iranian Labour News Agency) on the Pakistani Prime Minister's visit, 22 April 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.ilna.ir/???-?????-3/752794-???????-????-?????-???-?????-??-????-?????-??????-???????-???...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Interviewed for a Channel News Asia 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Two-part documentary, India on Film, 14 August 2019.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video-on-demand/india-on-film
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video-on-demand/india-on-film/hope-and-change-11806606
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video-on-demand/india-on-film
 
Description Faisal Devji - Interviewed for the BBC Radio 3 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed for the BBC Radio 3 episode of "Free Thinking" on terrorism, 21 June 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v8y00#play
 
Description Faisal Devji - Interviewed for the Indian Express 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact History writing is fixated on the trope of archival discovery: Author and historian Faisal Devji, 4 August 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/history-writing-is-fixated-trope-of-archival-di...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Interviewed on Times Now India 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed on Times Now India on Muslim militancy, 30 January 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvbTWZ7Pq0A&feature=youtu.be
 
Description Faisal Devji - Lecture 'The Mahatma at War' at the University of Southampton, part of the Great War: Unknown War Lecture Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Lecture 'The Mahatma at War' given by Professor Faisal Devji at the University of Southampton on 18 October 2018. This was part of the Great War: Unknown War Lecture Series.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.southampton.ac.uk/greatwar_unknownwar/news/events/2018/10/18-devji-gwuw.page
 
Description Faisal Devji - Quoted in an article in Open Magazine 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Quoted in Ullekh NP and Amita Shah, "Inside the mind of the Indian Muslim voter," Open Magazine, 26 April 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/general-election-2019/inside-the-mind-of-the-indian-muslim-vo...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Quoted in an article in TIME Magazine 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Quoted in K. Ayyar and A. Kidangoor, "How the memory of India's traumatic partition is being preserved across borders" TIME Magazine, 15 August 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://time.com/5365226/india-pakistan-partition-history/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter&utm_medium=soc...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Quoted in an article in The Japan Times 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Quoted in Jeff Kingston, "The Unfinished Business of Indian Partition," The Japan Times, 12 August 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/12/commentary/unfinished-business-indian-partition/#.WY_...
 
Description Faisal Devji - Quoted in an article in The New York Times 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Quoted in Kai Schultz, "We were friends, and then we started killing each other. India recalls Partition. Carefully," The New York Times, 23 February 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/world/asia/india-pakistan-partition-museum.html?fbclid=IwAR2eJq3e...
 
Description Faisal Devji: Lecture 'Gandhi's Great War' at the Tiwari 2017 Annual lecture, University of Indiana 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Talk by Faisal Devji: "Gandhi's Great War," The Tiwari Annual Lecture, The University of Indiana, Bloomington, September 12, 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic and general audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Faisal Devji: South Asian Studies Seminar, University of Leeds 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact 'Gandhi's Great War', lecture delivered by Dr Faisal Devji, to the School of History, University of Leeds, South Asian Studies Seminar on 12 October 2016. The lecture was followed by debate and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/events/event/3340/south_asian_studies_seminar
 
Description Faisal Devji: The Asiatic Society of Mumbai: the Fifth Professor Dhirendra Narain Endowment Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact 'The Mahatma at War: How India Redefined the First Global Conflict' (Fifth Professor Dhirendra Narain Endowment Lecture), given by Dr. Faisal Devji, Reader in Indian History, St. Anthony's College on Wednesday, 14th December, 2016 to an international audience of society members and the general public. Debate and discussion followed the lecture. Presided over by President, Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Mumbai.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://asiaticsociety.org.in/index.php/programmes-this-week/365-the-mahatma-at-war-how-india
 
Description Final event - Oxford in the Great War: Oxford in WWI study day 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This was a public workshop for anyone interested in Oxford's role in the First World War. This event took place at Somerville College on 22 June from 10:30 to 17:00. Attendees were charged a small fee of £20 to cover the cost of refreshments and speakers fees.

Impact questionnaires measured the change in attendees' knowledge, by asking the following questions:
a) Did the study day deepen/alter your understanding of the effects of the First World War?
b) What was the highlight of the study day for you?
c) To what extent might the study day affect your practice in this area?
d) Did the study day inspire you and provide you with new ideas that you can apply to your own research?
e) Did you make useful professional contacts, e.g. plans for any future work with other attendees?

Attendees commented on the originality of the presentations and said that as they were based on original research and in most cases were being delivered for the first time, it was refreshing to consider new perspectives on the war, particularly through an Oxford lens. They also valued the chance of discussing a topic of interest in an academic context.
Attendees said that they were left wanting to know more and that they had made useful contacts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford-in-wwi-study-day
 
Description Hussein Omar - "Conscript and Sacrifice: the Political Theology of the Egyptian Revolution of 1919", SOAS, University of London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Supporters
Results and Impact Seminar given by Dr Hussein Omar on 19 March 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.soas.ac.uk/history/events/nmehistseminar/19mar2018-conscript-and-sacrifice-the-political...
 
Description Hussein Omar - London Review of Books Blog 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Blog, The Arab Spring of 1919, 4 April 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/april/the-arab-spring-of-1919
 
Description Hussein Omar - Nations and Minorities, Sovereignty and Secessionism, 1918-2018, International workshop, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Hussein Omar gave a paper and organised this AHRC conference on the history of the religious minority and its relationship to nationalism from the First World War to 2018, 18-20 November 2018. Two separate journal special issue publications arose from this conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Hussein Omar - Paper ''Gin, gambling, debt and guilt in the writings of Sa'd Zaghlul 1908-1917' at the closed door workshop on the 'Intellectual and the Material in the History of the Nahda', Pembroke College, University of Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr Hussein Omar during the 'Intellectual and the Material in the History of the Nahda' Workshop, 21-23 June 2018. Dr Omar was also one of the organisers of the Workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-for-beyond-circulation-the-intellectual-and-the-material-his...
 
Description Hussein Omar - Talk 'Accounting for the Ancestors' at the Middle East Studies Association meeting in San Antonio, Texas 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr Hussein Omar at the Middle East Studies Association meeting in San Antonio Texas, 15-18 November 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/previous-meetings
 
Description Hussein Omar - Talk on 'The Global History of the Minoritty Concept' at the Global Religions and the First World War Workshop, Pembroke College, University of Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr Hussein Omar on 8 November 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-first-world-war-and-global-religions-tickets-50272620762#
 
Description Hussein Omar: Conference: Middle East Studies Association, 2016 Annual Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Hussein Omar presented the paper 'Colonialism by Comparison: Christians, Muslims and Empire in Egypt, 1882-1911' at the Middle East Studies Association, 2016 Annual Meeting, 17-20 November 2016, in Session P4461 (Egypt is not Algeria is not Iran: the Politics of Comparison in the Middle East). The four papers in the session together sought to elaborate a different approach, one that treated acts of comparison as a distinctive and constitutive feature of political contestation across the long twentieth century. From this perspective, comparative frameworks have proven every bit as important to overthrowing hegemonic regimes as to bolstering them. The panel elicited a variety of questions and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://mesana.org/mymesa/meeting_program_session.php?sid=9e17b2b1213cf420c544c9ea73b72f50
 
Description Hussein Omar: Conference: South-South: Intellectual History across Middle East and South Asia, 1857- 1948, October 20-21, 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Dr Hussein Omar gave the talk 'Occupy Egypt! Diffusion, Derivativeness and Discourse in The History of Anticolonial Ideas' in the session Theory from the South, at Columbia University Workshop, New York, NY, October 20-21, 2016. Questions and discussion followed the panel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://cih.columbia.edu/events/south-south/
 
Description Hussein Omar: Egypt in the First World War workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Symposium organised by Hussein Omar: 'Egypt in the First World War', 1911-1924. 8 February 2018, Pembroke College. Introduced and chaired by Adrian Gregory. Speakers & discussants:
Aaron Jakes (The New School): The Balance Sheet of Empire
Christopher Rose (University of Texas at Austin): Famine, Disease, and Death in Egypt, 1914-1919
Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford): Reading Women in the Great War
Hussein Omar (Pembroke Collge, Oxford): Conscript and Sacrifice: The Political Theology of the 19191 Revolution
Khaled Fahmy (King's College, University of Cambridge): Remembering the War that never was
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=2913
 
Description Hussein Omar: Ethics and Empire, The Conversation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Hussein Omar co-authored and published letter on the 'Ethics of Empire' project for The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/ethics-and-empire-an-open-letter-from-oxford-scholars-89333) which received over 40,000 hits and coverage in major news outlets (Daily Mail, Times, Telegraph, Breitbart, the Guardian, New York Review of Books etc).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://theconversation.com/ethics-and-empire-an-open-letter-from-oxford-scholars-89333
 
Description Hussein Omar: History of Political Thought Seminar, Oxford University, November 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Dr Hussein Omar gave the paper 'Liberalism, Empire and Islam: The View From Colonised Egypt, 1882- 1919' to the History of Political Thought Seminar, University College, Oxford University, 4 November 2016. The paper was followed by questions and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Hussein Omar: Lecture 'Muslims and Minorities in the Middle East' at the University of Southampton 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk by Hussein Omar: 'Muslims and Minorities in the Middle East', University of Southampton, 19 October 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, providing useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.southampton.ac.uk/greatwar_unknownwar/news/2017/10/19-colloquium.page
 
Description Hussein Omar: Talk at the Middle East Studies Association 2017 Annual meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hussein Omar organised a panel on religion and First World War at the MESA 51st Annual Meeting, 18-21 November 2017, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Hussein Omar: talk on Minority as Microbe 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Talk by Hussein Omar: MINORITY AS MICROBE: Secularism, Sectarianism, and Sovereignty in British-Occupied Egypt, 1910-22. Delivered at King's College London, June 2017; University of Oxford, July 2017; and University of Southampton, November 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Hussein Omar: talk on religion and violence for OxNet, Greater Manchester 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Talk by Hussein Omar on religion and violence with a focus on black liberation, for the North-West Theology & Religious Studies Centre (an OxNet hub), Greater Manchester on 27 November 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an audience of 90 6th students across the north west of England, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.ox-net.org/
 
Description Jeanette Atkinson - Chaired the Commemorative Event 'Constance Coltman' at Mansfield and Somerville College (Oxford) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Jeanette Atkinson chaired a day of talks by invited speakers at Mansfield College, Oxford: Revd. Dr Kirsty Thorpe (Wilmslow United Reformed Church), Dr Matthew Grimley (Merton College, Oxford), Professor Jane Garnett (Wadham College, Oxford), Dr Adrian Gregory (Pembroke College, Oxford), and Revd. Kate Harford (Ecumenical Chaplain, Oxford Brookes University). The talks were followed by a film showing of 'Constance'. The event continued with and an ecumenical service of celebration with music at Somerville College Chapel, led by Revd. Mia Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, followed by a drinks reception at Somerville College
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/?p=2910
 
Description Patrick Houihan / Adrian Gregory: American Historical Association (AHA) Conference, Denver, 6 January 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel: "Global Christianity in War and Peace, 1914-1945," organised by Dr Patrick Houlihan. Panel members included Dr Adrian Gregory and Dr Patrick Houlihan. "Beyond Belief: A Catholic Sensory History of War, 1914-1945," talk given by Dr Patrick Houlihan. Panel debate at American Historical Association (AHA) Conference, Denver, on 6 January 2017, to large international audience of scholars, which included debate and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.historians.org/annual-meeting/2017-program
 
Description Patrick Houihan: Conference: "The Book and the Sword: The Bible and the Cultures of War, 1914-1918," University of Cambridge, 13 September 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Adapted Tradition: Everyday Catholicism and the Liturgical Movement in Central Europe during the First World War," talk given by Dr Patrick Houlihan at "The Book and the Sword: The Bible and the Cultures of War, 1914-1918" conference, University of Cambridge, 13 September 2016. The talk explored the theme of how the Bible shaped people's experience of the war.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.bibleandww1.divinity.cam.ac.uk/Workshops
 
Description Patrick Houihan: Conference: Deutscher Historikertag "Glaubensfragen," Hamburg, 20-23 September 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Katholizismus und der Große Krieg. Religion und Alltag in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg," Deutscher Historikertag "Glaubensfragen," Hamburg, 20-23 September 2016. Talk by Dr Patrick Houlihan. The conference was organized by the Association of Historians and Historians of Germany (VHD) together with the Association of German History Teachers (VGD). The theme of the 51st German History was "questions of faith". The talk enabled the wide dissemination of research to a diverse audience of scholars and non-scholars.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL https://www.geschichte.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-den-fachbereich/historikertag2016/historikertag2016-ruec...
 
Description Patrick Houlihan gave a talk at the Workshop 'Menschenrechte in der katholischen Kirche', German Historical Institute in Rome 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Menschenrechte und Globale Mission im Zeitalter der Weltkriege," German Historical Institute, Rome, Workshop, "Menschenrechte in der katholischen Kirche," 22-24 March 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Article in America Magazine 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact "Pope Benedict XV and the Forgotten Campaign to End World War I" America August 3, 2017. Purpose: to make research on the Catholic Church and the First World War available to a wider audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/08/03/pope-benedict-xv-and-forgotten-campaign-end-...
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Conference presentation at the European Academy of Religion 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conference paper by Patrick Houihan: "A Global Humanitarian Moment: Pope Benedict XV and the First World War", 7 March 2018, given at the European Academy of Religion annual conference, Bologna, Italy. Part of a three speaker panel on Benedict XV. Pope Giacomo Della Chiesa in the world of the useless slaughter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Conference: "Benedetto XV nel mondo dell'inutile strage" ("Benedict XV in the world of the useless slaughter") 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Le proposte territoriali: Europa e colonie," John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies, FSCIRE, Bologna, "Benedetto XV nel mondo dell'inutile Strage," 3-5 November 2016. Talk given by Dr Patrick Houlihan, followed by questions and discussion. The conference aimed to deepen the knowledge of Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922) by providing historians with the opportunity to meet and discuss his pontificate in light of contemporary research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Conference: "World-Counter-Revolutions: 1917-1920 From a Global Perspective," Hanover, Germany, 9-11 June 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Global Catholicism's Crusade against Communism, 1917-1963," talk given by Dr Patrick Houlihan, at the Volkswagen Foundation conference, "World-Counter-Revolutions: 1917-1920 From a Global Perspective," Hanover, Germany, 9-11 June 2016. The talk presented recent research to a wide audience of scholars.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/disziplinen/geschichte/conference-revolutions/index.html
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: European Academy of Religion Founding Event, John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies, FSCIRE, Bologna, 5 December 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Patrick Houlihan: Session Chair and Co-Organizer, "Research Program," European Academy of Religion Founding Event, John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies, FSCIRE, Bologna, 5 December 2016.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Fraenkel Prize Lecture, the Wiener Library (London), 14 September 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Hello to All That: Catholicism in Germany and Austria-Hungary in the First World War," Fraenkel Prize Lecture given by Dr Patrick Houlihan at the Wiener Library (London), 14 September 2016. The talk shared research from his book, Catholicism and the Great War, which analyses the lived religion of everyday Catholic belief beyond stark dichotomies and illuminates the spectrum of belief and unbelief during the Great War, thus revising master narratives of secularization and modernism that dominate the First World War's cultural history.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/Whats-On?item=271
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: International Society for First World War Studies conference, "War Time" University of Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Dr Patrick Houlihan: Chair, "Ideological Timelines" at the International Society for First World War Studies conference, "War Time" University of Oxford, 9-11 November, 2016. The conference brought together early career researchers and established scholars to provide commentary and support on research. Future plans include an edited volume of selected papers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.firstworldwarstudies.org/conferences.php?s=oxford-2016
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Lecture 'Globale Perspektiven. Der Katholizismus wa¨hrend des Ersten Weltkriegs' at the Humboldt University of Berlin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Globale Perspektiven. Der Katholizismus wa¨hrend des Ersten Weltkriegs," Institut fu¨r Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt University of Berlin, 1 February 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Lecture 'Le proposte territoriali: Europa e colonie' at the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies, Bologna 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Le proposte territoriali: Europa e colonie," John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies, FSCIRE, Bologna, "Benedetto XV nel mondo dell'inutile Strage," 3-5 November 2016. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Lecture 'The Irony of Human Rights: Catholicism during the World Wars' at the University of Southampton 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk by Patrick Houlihan: "The Irony of Human Rights: Catholicism during the World Wars," University of Southampton, 19 October 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, providing useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.southampton.ac.uk/greatwar_unknownwar/news/2017/10/19-colloquium.page
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Lecture at the 'Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions' conference, London Scool of Economics 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Lecture by Patrick Houlihan: "Catholicism and Human Rights during the World Wars" "Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions" Conference. LSE, 14-15 June 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Lecture on 'Faith during Imperial Collapse' at the Lay Centre of the Pontifical Academies at Foyer Unitas, Rome 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact "Faith during Imperial Collapse: Catholicism in Germany and Austria-Hungary," Lecture, Lay Centre of the Pontifical Academies at Foyer Unitas, Rome, 23 February 2017. Audience included Austrian Ambassador to the Holy See and his wife. Purpose: dissemination of research to a wide ranging audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Lecure 'Global Catholicism during the First World War' at the John Cabot University, Rome 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Global Catholicism during the First World War," Lecture, John Cabot University, Rome, 21 February 2017. Purpose: dissemination of research to an academic and public audience, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Patrick Houlihan: Talk 'Religion during the Second World War' at St. Joseph's Primary School, Headington 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Dr. Patrick Houlihan Presentation at St. Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Headington, 24 November 2017: "Religion during the Second World War". Impact questionnaires measured the change in children's knowledge, by asking the following questions: 'What do you already know about "Religion during the Second World War"?'; 'What did you learn from the presentation about "Religion during the Second World War"?'
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Patrick J. Houlihan - "A Century after the Armistice: Remembrance, Sacrifice, and Charity, 1918-2018," St. Joseph's School, Headington, Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan and took place on 29 November 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Patrick J. Houlihan - "Belief, Ideology, Perspective: The First World War's Legacy" Trinity College Dublin, Department of History 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This presentation was given by Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan and took place on 11 February 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Patrick J. Houlihan - "CS Lewis and Religion during the Second World War," St. Joseph's School, Headington, Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan on 18 May 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Patrick J. Houlihan - "Die Rezeption an der Front. Reaktionen von Soldaten," 100 Jahre Friedensappell Papst Benedikts XV. "Dès le début" Tagung des Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt University of Berlin 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan on 8 September 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Patrick J. Houlihan - "Global Community? Rethinking Twentieth-Century Catholicism and Nationalism across the World Wars," Nation and Minority, Sovereignty and Secession Conference, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan on 23 November 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Patrick J. Houlihan - "Philantrophy", AHRC Colloquium on Global Religion during the Great War, Pembroke College, University of Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan on 8 November 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-first-world-war-and-global-religions-tickets-50272620762#
 
Description Patrick J. Houlihan - "Rethinking Modernism: European Catholicism during the First World War," Queen's University, Belfast 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan on 26 April 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Patrick J. Houlihan - "The Great War's Legacy: Quiet and Unquiet Fronts, 1918-2018," St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Headington, Oxford 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan on 4 December 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Patrick J. Houlihan - Religion, War, and Empire during the Downfall: New Perspectives for Habsburg Studies," Central European University, Budapest 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was given by Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan on 19 June 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Project Wrap-up Conference - A World Transformed 'The First World War and its Legacy' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a three-day international conference, which took place on 19-21 June 2019 at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. This conference served as the culminating event for the network, and featured its current and former PhD students, postdocs, post holders, visiting researchers, and collaborators gathering to share their research and discuss the post-centenary future of First World War studies.
The conference was open to the public and registration fees, which covered lunches, refreshments, dinner, drinks reception and trip to the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum, were applicable.
The fees were: £175 (General public); £150 (Affiliated academic); £90 (student); £45 (student registration without reception/dinner/museum trip)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/glgw-conference-2019
 
Description Talk by Patrick Houlihan: Fatima event, Pembroke College 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact 'Apparitions at Fatima, 1917-2017: A Century after the "Miracle of the Sun" '
Pembroke College, 11 October 2017
Two lectures given, one by Patrick Houlihan - Witnessing 'Real Presence': The 'Miracle of the Sun' at Fátima, 1917-2017 - and one by presenter Dr Magnus Henry (Director, the Invensys University Technology Centre for Advanced Instrumentation at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) - The Miracle of the Sun.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://greatwar.history.ox.ac.uk/?p=2950
 
Description Talk: Patrick Houlihan - OxNet Manchester 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Talk by Patrick Houlihan for OxNet 6th Form students, given at the University of Manchester on 27 February 2018. Organised by Peter Claus, as part of the Theology and Religion series for the North-West Theology & Religious Studies Centre (an OxNet hub), Greater Manchester. Purpose: dissemination of research to an audience of 90 6th students across the north west of England, which sparked questions and discussion afterwards, resulting in useful feedback for the researcher.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.ox-net.org/
 
Description The Indian Army in the First World War: An Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Perspective 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Media included the Bucks Free Press and Oxford Mail, as well as BBC Oxford and Wycombe Sound radio stations, and the BBC South TV news channel. The project also enjoyed publicity from Asian national and regional media: including a feature article in the Eastern Eye magazine, and coverage on the BBC Asian Network, alongside short interviews on the BBC's regional Asian radio programmes for Leeds, Coventry/Warwickshire and Birmingham.

https://www.easterneye.biz/new-project-highlights-role-indian-soldiers-world-war-one/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://vimeo.com/236205546