A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide Monday 5 September 2016, 6:30pm-8pm Portraits and memories is an ongoing and expanding exhibition and education program launched by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Serbia (FJCS) that portrays the Jewish Community of Serbia and the wider territory of ex-Yugoslavia before the Holocaust. The…
Yaacov Falkov In the third week of August 1944, at about the time the insurrection in Paris was beginning, an unexpected dispatch in Morse code reached the London headquarters of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the British organization that conducted espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in Nazi-occupied Europe. Having been sent in English through previously unknown…
We are looking for contributors for an edited volume concerning how resistance leaders were perceived, constructed and/or combated by the British. Focus is not on the individuals themselves, but rather the reception of these figures from different perspectives (e.g. metropolitan culture, officials, media, military etc.) We particularly welcome papers concerning “enemies” during the ‘scramble for…
Department of History, Rutgers University 03.03.2017 – 04.03.2017 Worries abound about a return of fascism. Recently, the New York Times surveyed the growth of nationalist and authoritarian movements in Austria, Russia, Turkey and beyond, to proclaim a “growing debate over global fascism.” In February, a Polish magazine published a front cover showing a white woman…
6-7 September 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Keynote Speakers: Professor MacGregor Knox, LSE Professor Nicola Labanca, Università degli Studi di Siena Registration now open To register for the conference, please visit the online shop. Background From the invasion of Abyssinia to the end of World War Two, Italy experienced a decade of war. This conference…
Hugo Garcia, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, Cristina Climaco (eds.), Rethinking Antifascism. History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present, Berghahn Books, New York, 2016. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of nations, Rethinking Antifascism provides a fascinating exploration of one of the most vibrant sub-disciplines within recent historiography. Through case studies that exemplify the…
UAB, Barcelona, March 16-17 2017 Organising Committee: Javier Rodrigo, David Alegre and Miguel Alonso Grup d’Estudis República i Democràcia, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona The main aim of this conference is to debate about the existence of a specific way of making war typical of fascism, that is to say,…
A special issue of Patterns of Prejudice edited by Dan Stone In the October 2015 issue of the Journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees, Rabbi Walter Rothschild spoke of ‘public disgust at images of corpses on the beaches and reports of dozens suffocated in what were little more than mobile gas chambers on the…
DeAnna Toten Beard, Baylor University Jenna L. Kubly, Independent Scholar This body will convene a diverse group of scholars, methodologies, and research interests to participate in an ongoing conversation about the complex relationship between war and performance. In concert with the larger conference theme, the working group is interested in projects that consider the many…
Franziska Zaugg “The Designated Successor was found dead in his bedroom at dawn on December 14 [1981]. Albanian television made a brief announcement of the facts at noon: ‘During the night of December 13, the Successor succumbed to a nervous depression and took his own life with a firearm’.” The well-known Albanian writer Ismail Kadare…