A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
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…
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…
As a consequence of the military defeat of the Axis powers and the establishment of communist regimes in eastern and southeastern Europe under Soviet domination, various organized groups decided to resist by force the newly established systems of repression and compulsion. In some cases these groups were newly formed; in others the roots were wartime.…
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain) On 15th and 16th December 2016, UAB’s GERD (Working Group on Republic and Democracy), with the support of RETTDES (Network of Studies on Totalitarianisms and Transitions to Democracy in 20th Century Europe), organizes the International Seminar ‘Violence and its Narratives (1936-1948)’. In order to achieve a broad debate and…