Volker Prott, European University Institute

Publications
& Conference Papers

Teaching
Experience

Publications

(in preparation): The Temptation of Violence: The Quest to Re-Define the Borders of Europe, 1917-1923 (based on doctoral thesis, European University Institute, Florence)

(accepted, The Historical Journal): Tying Up the Loose Ends of National Self-Determination: British, French and American Experts in Peace Planning, 1917-1919

(forthcoming): A Testing Ground for Ethno-Political Population Politics: Alsace-Lorraine from the First World War to the Versailles Treaty, in: O. Forcade, J. Großmann, R. Hudemann et al., eds., Evakuierungen im Europa der Weltkriege/Les évacuations civiles dans l'Europe des guerres mondiales/Civilian Evacuations in World War Europe, Berlin: Metropol

(forthcoming): "Ruhe an der Grenze!" Irritierte Loyalitäten und politische Entfremdung in Elsass-Lothringen zu Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs, in: J. Angelow and J. Großmann, eds., Wandel, Umbruch, Absturz: Neue Perspektiven auf das Jahr 1914, Stuttgart: Steiner

War Aims, Wilsonian Ideas, and the 'New Diplomacy': Reinventing the Franco-German Border of Alsace-Lorraine, 1914-1919, in: H. Schulz-Forberg, ed., Zero Hours: Conceptual Insecurities and New Beginnings in the Interwar Period, Brussels: Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 147-166

Conference Report on the Workshop 'Evacuations in the German-French Border Region During the Second World-War', Saarbrücken, 10-11 June 2011, in: H-Soz-u-Kult,02.07.2011

Conference Papers

'The Great Fire of Smyrna: The Grassroots Level and the International Dimension'. Paper presented at the international conference 'Ideologie und staatliche Gewaltverbrechen' (Ideology and state violence), Bochum, December 2013

'The Temptation of Violence: Rearranging the Borders of Europe, 1917-1923'. Guest lecture held at the University of Tartu, Estonia, April 2013

'Tying up the Loose Ends of National Self-Determination: British, French, and American Peace Planning, 1917-1919'. Paper presented at the international conference 'Between Autonomy and Engagement. Performances of Scientific Expertise, 1860-1960', Leuven, Belgium, May 2012

Organisation of an international workshop on 'Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Borders', St Andrews, Scotland, October 2011

'A Testing Ground for Ethno-Political Population Politics: Alsace-Lorraine from the First World War to the Versailles Treaty'. Paper presented at the international conference 'Evacuations in the Franco-German Border Region in the Second World War', Saarbrücken, Germany, June 2011

'Réintégration pure et simple? National War Aims, the Pressure of International Principles, and the Dynamics of Practice: Reinventing and Enforcing the Franco-German Border of Alsace-Lorraine, 1914-1919'. Paper presented at the workshop 'Internationalism in the Interwar Years', European University Institute, Florence, Italy, February 2011

'Transnational History and the Study of Borders: The case of the Franco-German border 1914-1925'. Paper presented at the Doctoral Summer School on 'Transnational History', Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010

'Réintégration pure et simple? National War Aims, the Pressure of International Principles, and the Dynamics of Practice: Reinventing and Enforcing the Franco-German Border of Alsace-Lorraine, 1914-1919'. Paper presented at the international conference 'Zero Hours in History', Aarhus, Denmark, June 2010

'International Concepts of Territorial Borders: From the Berlin Congress of 1878 to the Debate in the League of Nations in the 1920s'. Paper presented at the Doctoral Summer School of the Centre Marc Bloch on 'Old and New Borders in Europe', Berlin, Germany, July 2009