A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
Conference at the German Historical Institute London, 26–28 April 2018 Brexit, the Basque country, Kashmir – the drawing of social and spatial boundaries, the question of belonging, and the creation of identity are at the heart of many current debates. They are based on general political, social, and economic developments and the historical experience of…
Second World War literature is so voluminous it’s almost limitless. It is, however, swollen by many superficial studies that crowd the historiography. Their views are myopic and the scope limited. This book starts from the supposition that the Second World War was a mosaic of overlapping conflicts rather than a two-sided affair between massive alliance…
MARIANA MASTRÁNGELO, Chilecito National University (UNDEC), Argentina, and Institute of Latin American Studies (INDEAL), University of Buenos Aires, and MIGUEL CARDINA, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES), Portugal, invite you to submit original research papers in Spanish or Portuguese on “Memories of Resistance and Resistance of Memory”, for a special issue of the…
A one-day workshop (11 April 2018) hosted at King’s College, London as part of the AHRC-funded Teaching and Learning War Research Network to explore the latest research into the history, memory and representation of the Second World War (including the Holocaust) from an international comparative perspective. The event will conclude with a publicly accessible roundtable…
Rationale Ever since Mark von Hagen asked “Does Ukraine Have a History?” in 1995, there has been much debate about what constitutes Ukraine as a nation. In the light of recent developments, it might seem that in Ukraine, this question is of particular significance. Still, it is important to understand that in the European context,…
International Forum, Willy Brandt Center Wrocław in corporation with the foundation „Rememberance, Responsibility and the Future” (EVZ), Wrocław/Poland, September 27-30, 2017. The three day international forum provides the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences around the commemoration of forced labor in Europe during World War II. In various formats like public talks, workshops and excursions,…
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide and The Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS University of London CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: RESEARCH WORKSHOP Exploring the UN War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) archive at the Wiener Library Deadline for applications: 15 July 2017 Workshop: 11 October 2017, 13:00 – 17:00 The Centre…
Together with the Centre de Recherches Historiques (EHESS) and the Institut de Sciences Sociales du Politique (Université Paris Nanterre-ENS Paris Saclay-CNRS), the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention is organizing an international conference: “Home as a place for anti-Jewish persecution in European cities, 1933-1945. Crossing urban…
Zdenko Maršálek In Prague, the exhibition of posters from the Spanish Civil War opened on 6th April 2017. The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with the National Archives in Prague and the Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The opening ceremony included a brief lecture by Dr. Zdenko Maršálek from the…
The aim of this three-day conference (January 12-14, 2018), organised through the ERC-funded ‘Cultures of Occupation in Twentieth Century Asia’ (COTCA) project, is to bring scholars from a range of disciplines, backgrounds, and countries together to explore the fundamental question which drives the COTCA project itself: how does ‘foreign occupation’ (broadly defined) shape cultural expression?…