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

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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…

The Usage of Ego-documents in Jewish Historical research – an International researchers’ workshop

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The workshop will deal in the usage of Ego documents by historians. By ego-documents we refer to letters, diaries, life stories written by individuals. The workshop will concentrate of Jewish History in the last three centuries, especially the 20th century. Since early modern hysterography, Ego-documents were considered sources unsuited for historical research. However, in the…

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

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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…

CfP: INSIDERS/OUTSIDERS: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Film and Television

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A special issue of Jewish Film and New Media (Autumn 2019/Spring 2020) This special issue of Jewish Film and New Media entitled “Insiders/Outsiders” proposes to examine the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to film and television of the United Kingdom. In every field, émigrés arriving from Europe in the 1930s…

CfP: The Kindertransport 80 Years On: Critical Approaches to Kindertransport Research and Historiography

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Date: 23-24 January 2019 Venue: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London, UK The eightieth anniversary of the scheme that permitted over 10,000 unaccompanied, mostly Jewish, children to enter the UK in 1938-39 seems a fitting time to approach a new, critical assessment of the Kindertransport and its origins, rationales, enactment and outcomes. This interdisciplinary conference…

Journal of Modern European History: articles on resistance and collaboration

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A special issue of the Journal of Modern European History has just been published: ‘Resistance and Collaboration in the Second World War as Transnational Phenomena‘. ISSN print: 1611-8944, ISSN online: 1611-8944, DOI: 10.17104/1611-8944-2018-2-175 Contents: Robert Gerwarth / Robert Gildea Introduction Seite 175–182 Samuël Kruizinga Struggling to Fit in. The Dutch in a Transnational Army, 1936–1939…

CfP: Tracing and Documenting Victims of Nazi Persecution: History of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Context

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Organizers: Henning Borggräfe, Christian Höschler, Isabel Panek, Department of Research and Education at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. Venue: Bad Arolsen Date: 8-9 October 2018 Deadline for Papers: 1 April 2018 In the autumn of 1948, search bureaus of various European states accepted an invitation from the recently established International Tracing Service…