Call for Papers: Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Conference
06 Feb 2026
Presenting the conflict from both sides – submit your abstracts by Friday, 27 February for the conference on Thursday, 16 and Friday, 17 April.
Almost forty-four years have passed since the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict and yet it still resonates in the UK and Argentina. Once a little-known far-flung archipelago for the British, it is now recalled on a frequent basis with throwbacks to the ‘British Age’. For Argentines, the Islands still remain a symbol of national pride and identity under la causa Malvinas.
Now, as the forty-fifth anniversary approaches, it enables us to pose and address histories, legacies and a number of questions through multiple lenses:
What is the importance and legacy of the conflict forty-four years on? How have scholarly and popular works regarding the conflict and the continued territorial dispute been represented since? What is the current shape and future scope of a nascent Falklands/Malvinas scholarship? The Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Conference will be particularly interested in, but not limited to, media coverage and military aspects of the conflict and thereafter.
Deadlines for submissions
The Call for Papers closes on Friday, 27 February 2026.
Abstracts of 300 words for 20-minute papers should be submitted to: fm44conference@gmail.com. Submissions should also include the applicant’s name, email address and a 100-word biography.
Booking for the conference will be available following the Call for Papers deadline.
The purpose of the conference
The conference hopes to build upon the success of the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict Conference held at the University in 2019, and provide an opportunity for veterans from both sides, experienced and independent scholars, early career academics and postgraduate students, to share their ideas and present their research in a supportive and interdisciplinary environment. The event seeks to draw upon researchers from across the North-West and beyond, and possibly to initiate a ‘Falklands/Malvinas Network’ that might consider further projects and publications as the forty-fifth anniversary of the conflict draws near.
Keynote speakers
Presenting the conflict from both sides, the conference has two sets of keynote speakers. The first set is: Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman who wrote the Official History of the Falklands Campaign, and former UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and one of five current candidates for the UN Secretary General, Professor Virginia Gamba, who co-wrote with Freedman one of the first works to approach the 1982 conflict from both sides: Signals of War. Falklands/Malvinas Conflict veteran, Rear Admiral Jeremy Edmund Shackleton Larken, DSO, Captain of HMS Fearless in 1982 is the second set of keynote speakers.