Warfare in the Ancient World International Conference - Madrid 2026
The 2026 European session of the Warfare in the Ancient World International Conference will be hosted by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Conference dates: June 8-11, 2026
Conference venue: The conference will be held at the Faculty of Geography and History (UCM, Madrid) (for access, see the Travel planner).
Organizing team: Fernando Echeverría, Lucía Pagola, Arturo Moreno, Alejandro Escribano, Diego Tobar.
Supporting institution: Cátedra Extraordinaria de Historia Militar.
Information for participants and attendants (maps, arrival, transportation, accommodation).
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Zoom links
Salón de Actos: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/
Room 014: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/
Room 02: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/
Room 01: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/
Registration
The conference is open to the public at both venues and will also be streamed online. Interested participants are kindly asked to register with Birgit Luschei (LuscheiB@geschichte.hu-berlin.de) and to indicate whether attendance will be via Zoom or in person. In the case of in-person attendance, the venue (Madrid or Winnipeg) should also be specified.
For organizational queries, please contact the organizers at wawic.ifg@hu-berlin.de
Conference participants are invited to submit their paper to the newly founded Diamond Open Access Online Journal Deimos after the conference (https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/deimos/index). Thematic panels may be proposed for the newly founded book series Bellona.
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CONTACT
Local Contacts
European section (Madrid): Fernando Echeverria (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, fecheverria@ucm.es)
North American section (Winnipeg): Conor Whately (University of Winnipeg, c.whately@winnipeg.ca)
Conference Coordinator Contacts
Europe: Lennart Gilhaus (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, lennart.gilhaus@hu-berlin.de)
North America: Graham Wrightson (South Dakota State University, graham.wrightson@sdstate.edu) and Jeffrey Rop (University of Minnesota Duluth, jarop@d.umn.edu)