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,…
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…
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?…
Department of History and the Centre for War, State and Society, University of Exeter 6-7 July, 2017 Convenors: Dr Ana Antic, University of Exeter, and Dr Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom, University of Leeds This workshop aims to explore the intersections between the personal and the political in the experiences of antifascist fighters in the 1930s and 1940s.…
Society for the Study of French History 31st Annual Conference France, Europe and the World University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 26-27 June 2017 Confirmed plenary speakers: Robert Gildea (Oxford) Marie-Laure Legay (Lille 3) John Merriman (Yale) Sophie Wahnich (CNRS) The history of France has been profoundly shaped by its European and global entanglements. Whether through its…