Events and conferences – Transnational Resistance

Conference: Solidarias: Voluntary involvement and actions of the foreign women in the Spanish Civil War

24th September 2018jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

Paris, 24-26 october 2018 Conference website: http://solidarias2018.com/index.php/en/accueil-solidarias-2018-en/ The Spanish Civil War is one of the most studied events in 20th century European historiography. However, some phenomena related to the conflict are still unknown or underestimated. The ways in which Spanish women participated in the conflict on both sides have been examined in the works of…

Roundtable: 100,000 Lost: Child Victims of the Holocaust in Hungary

31st August 2018jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

Mon 22 Oct 2018, 6pm – 8pm The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide 29 Russell Square London WC1B 5DP Every tenth victim of the Holocaust was a Hungarian citizen, a victim group constituting half a million people. Among them, more than one hundred thousand were children and teenagers. Most of…

Conference: Global Yugoslavia: New research on Yugoslavia in transnational, comparative and global perspectives, 1918-2018

14th August 2018jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

Taking place at Goldsmiths, University of London on the afternoon of 28th November (programme available here), this conference brings together nine academics at different career stages working on the history of Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav region. All the papers have been written specially for the event and will benefit from, and contribute to, a range…

CfA: Ego-Documents in the Soviet Sphere on the Holocaust: Revealing Personal Voices

25th January 2018jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

Sunday-Thursday, June 3-7, 2018, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are pleased to invite applications for…

CFA: Exploring the UN War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) archive at the Wiener Library

23rd June 2017jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

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…

CfP: Revolutionary experiences: transforming the personal and the political in wars against fascism 1936-49

15th March 2017jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

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.…

Talk: The Orchestras of Auschwitz

23rd January 2017jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

Date: Monday March 20 Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm The Orchestras of Auschwitz is an opera-ballet production that memorialises the Jewish musicians imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau who were forced to play each day as slave labour commandos set off to and returned from their work. The production will focus on the Sunday concerts given by the camp’s…

Conference programme: 80th anniversary of the International Brigades formation

6th December 2016jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

Olga Manojlović Pintar and her team recently held a conference in Belgrade dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the International Brigades formation. The conference comprised two panel discussions, a film programme and two exhibitions in association with the National Archives of Catalonia and an interesting NGO, Archives of War and Exile from Madrid. Participants were…

Announcement of Mini-Symposium: “Gewone Helden – Ordinary Heroes: the Making of Dutch-Paris”

17th October 201617th October 2016jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

After several years and 31 archives, the Dutch translation of Megan Koreman’s history of the Dutch-Paris Escape Line will be released with a mini-symposium at the Amsterdam Hilton at 14:00 on 10 November 2016. Dr Koreman’s talk will be followed by a discussion among panelists Hans Blom (historian), Onno Sinke (historian), Ad van Liempt (journalist)…

Conference: La résistance à l’épreuve du genre. Hommes et femmes dans la résistance antifasciste en Europe du Sud, 1936-1949

5th September 2016jeanetteatkinsonLeave a comment

Paris, Maison de l’Italie 12-13 septembre 2016 Ce colloque international analyse pour la première fois les résistances antifascistes en Europe du Sud avec une approche de genre. Dans tous les pays européens du pourtour méditerranéen, des hommes et des femmes se sont engagé-e-s, selon des modalités différentes, dans des mouvements de résistance antifasciste, que ce…