Archive

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Sarah Kunte. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

30. May 2022 - 11:00

The People's Memory as Testimony: Witnessing War and Genocide in Belarus

Anika Walke

23. May 2022 - 11:00

Globalization and the East-Central European Societies after 1989: A Book Project

Béla Tomka

16. May 2022 - 11:00

Labors of Love: Women Welfare Workers in Interwar Bucharest

Alexandra Ghiț

09. May 2022 - 11:00

The Social in Transition: Expert Knowledge and Social Thought in Socialist and Post-socialist Romania

Adela Hîncu

02. May 2022 - 11:00

What Happened to Interwar Feminism in post-WWII Hungary?

Zsófia Lóránd

25. April 2022 - 11:00

From Berufsstände to Volksgemeinschaft: A Comparative History of Corporatism and the Semantics of ‘Work’ in Austria and Slovakia in the 1930s and 1940s

Miloslav Szabó

11. April 2022 - 11:00

Making a Murderer: Violent Politics and Nationalization in the Revolution of 1905

Zachary Mazur

04. April 2022 - 16:00

Discussion: The War Against Ukraine - Implications and Consequences for Researchers and Scholarship

The seminar will be held in attendance. Unfortunately due to the current regulations for seminars in attendance, we are unable to welcome guests from outside the Imre Kertész Kolleg and hope for your understanding.

28. March 2022 - 15:00

Communist Gender Policies towards Muslim Men: The Cases of Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Ivan Simic

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

21. March 2022 - 16:00

The Prodigal Son. Migration, Guilt and Ageing after Stalinism and WWII in the Late Soviet Union

Botakoz Kassymbekova

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

14. March 2022 - 11:00

Culture of Compromise. The Round Table Talks in Poland and East Germany 1989-1990

Łukasz Jasiński

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

07. March 2022 - 11:00

Between American Academia and East European Diaspora: Ukrainian Studies at Harvard in the 1960s-1980s

Ostap Sereda

28. February 2022 - 16:00

Women and Revolutions in Ukraine

Olena Nikolayenko

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

21. February 2022 - 10:00

Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II

Mark Edele

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14. February 2022 - 16:00

From Healing to Hazard – An Environmental History of Baltic Sea Tourism

Jan-Hinnerk Antons

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07. February 2022 - 16:00

Framing Central European Culture Wars of the 2010s: Cultural Backlash or (Post-)Communist Continuities

Zora Hesová

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

31. January 2022 - 11:00

Becoming National Against the State: Popular Discontent and Adherence to Minority Nationalisms in Late Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe

Ágoston Berecz

24. January 2022 - 16:00

The Czech(oslovak) Economic Transformation on Film: ‘Privatization Comedies’ as Media of Memory

Veronika Pehe

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

17. January 2022 - 16:00

The Road from Snake Hill. The Genesis of Russian Neoliberalism

Tobias Rupprecht

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

10. January 2022 - 16:00

The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia

Alexey Golubev

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

13. December 2021 - 11:00

State Socialist Female Subjectivities and the Global Condition

Réka Krizmanics

06. December 2021 - 11:00

Security and Paramilitarism in Poland and Czechoslovakia 1918-1920. Comparative considerations

Jochen Böhler/ Barbora Fischerová

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

29. November 2021 - 11:00

Displaced Memory and the Sense of Belonging: Ukrainian IDPs and Receiving Communities after 2014

Viktoriya Sereda

22. November 2021 - 11:00

“The Party's Trust": Discipline, Mobilization and Agency in the Communist Party

Alexei Tikhomirov

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

15. November 2021 - 11:00

Socialist Demography in a Globalizing World: Continental Sites of Knowledge Production during the Cold War

Corina Doboș

08. November 2021 - 11:00

Wood Based Businesses, Economic Development and Industrialisation in East Central Europe

Martin Bemmann

01. November 2021 - 11:00

Religious Plurality Contested: Atheism and the Pentecostal Movement in the Post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia

Martin Pacha

25. October 2021 - 11:00

"Paper Architecture" and its Public Reception: Criticism of the Soviet Built Environment before Perestroika

Andres Kurg

18. October 2021 - 08:00

Field trip to the Adam von Trott Foundation

11. October 2021 - 11:00

Catholicising Nature. Medicine and “Natural Family Planning” in Communist Poland

Agata Ignaciuk

27. September 2021 - 11:00

The 1973 UN Anti-Apartheid Convention and its Aftermath. State Socialist Contributions to International Criminal Law

Raluca Grosescu

13. September 2021 - 11:00

Becoming a Global Port City: The Peak of Riga’s Economic Development before World War I

Katja Wezel

We currently plan to hold the September Monday seminars in attendance. We will meet at 11:00 o'clock in the seminar room 4.119, Carl-Zeiss-Straße 3.

12. July 2021 - 16:00

Women’s Internationalism and Yugoslav Non-Alignment: Vida Tomšič’s Archives

Chiara Bonfiglioli

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

05. July 2021 - 16:00

Reckoning with the Past: Stalin and Stalinism in Putin's Russia

James Ryan

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

28. June 2021 - 16:00

Challenged Possessions. Guardianship in Bosnian Sharia, 1878-1914

Felix Frey

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

21. June 2021 - 16:00

The Fantasies of a Hungarian Empire and its Civilizational Mission

Varga Bálint

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

14. June 2021 - 16:00

Stress and the Czechoslovak/Czech Transformation, 1960s-2010s

Jan Arend

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07. June 2021 - 16:00

The Dissident Genealogy of Culture Wars in East Central Europe 1970s–2000s

Michal Kopeček

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

31. May 2021 - 16:00

The Feel of Lublin's Old Town. Sniffing into Twentieth Century Poland

Stephanie Weismann

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

17. May 2021 - 16:00

Burning Swamps: Metabolic Shifts in the Modern Russian Economy

Katja Bruisch

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10. May 2021 - 16:00

From Solidarity to Shock Therapy. Rethinking and Transforming the Economy in Poland, 1979–1995

Florian Peters

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03. May 2021 - 16:00

Wartime Mobilization of Ethnicity, Shifting Loyalties, and Population Politics in the Borderlands of Nationalizing Empires - and Beyond: Reshaping Bessarabia and Bukovina (1914-1919)

Andrei Cuşco

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

26. April 2021 - 16:00

Eyes on the Ground: Integrating Soviet Records into Holocaust Studies

Paula Chan

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

19. April 2021 - 16:00

Help at all Costs –Food Loans and the Monetization of Relief in the Late Russian Empire

Immo Rebitschek

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12. April 2021 - 16:00

Law and Justice’s Postcolonial Narrative of Liberal Transformation

Marta Bucholc

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29. March 2021 - 16:00

'Two Communisms:' Anarchism, Social Democracy, and the Intellectual Origins of the Czechoslovak Communist Party

Molly Pucci

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

22. March 2021 - 16:00

Putin’s 2020 Constitutional Amendments: What Changed? What Remained the Same?

William Pomeranz

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

15. March 2021 - 16:00

Discipline or Retreat: A New History of German Reunification

Fritz Bartel

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

08. March 2021 - 16:00

In Pursuit of a Country. Civil Society and the Emerging Political Landscapes in Post-Communist Slovakia

Matej Ivančík

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

01. March 2021 - 16:00

Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City

Łukasz Krzyżanowski

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

22. February 2021 - 16:00

Historiography from the Margins? Writing Polish Jewish History before the Holocaust

Natalia Aleksiun

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15. February 2021 - 16:00

Post-Stalin Justice and Trials of Mass Murderers: Some 1960s Collaborator Trials in the USSR

David A. Rich

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

08. February 2021 - 16:00

Szmul Zygielbojm. A Wartime Biography

Michał Trębacz

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

01. February 2021 - 16:00

The Great Terror and the Natural Self

Anatoly Pinsky

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

25. January 2021 - 16:00

National Epistemologies, Memory Politics, and Research Agendas in the Digital Humanities

Peter Haslinger

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18. January 2021 - 16:00

Institutes of National Memory: Between Nation and Europe, Between Politics and History

Zoltán Dujisin

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11. January 2021 - 16:00

Lawyering in Transition: Socio-Economic Changes, Judicial Reforms and Professional Orientation Frames in Poland and Russia

Rafael Mrowczynski

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

14. December 2020 - 16:00

An “Underground Market” in a Non-Market Setting: Movement’s Organizational Form as a Frame in Communist Poland

Mateusz Falkowski

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

07. December 2020 - 16:00

Yugoslav Participants in the Illegal Cross-border Trade in Socialist Czechoslovakia

Ondřej Vojtěchovský

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

30. November 2020 - 16:00

The KGB and the Religious Underground in Soviet Ukraine: Covert Operations against Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Post-War Period

Tatiana Vagramenko

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

23. November 2020 - 17:00

Soviet Judgement at Nuremberg – A New History

Francine Hirsch

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

16. November 2020 - 16:00

A Jewish Bill of Indictment: The New York Black Book of 1946

Elisabeth Gallas

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

09. November 2020 - 16:00

The Shared and Divided Worlds of the Late Cold War. Cultural Scripts, Intellectual Concepts and the Media in Soviet Intellectuals' Encounter with the West

Maike Lehmann

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

02. November 2020 - 16:00

The Economic Consequences of War and Peace: The Industrialists of Austria-Hungary and Germany after Imperial Collapse (1918-1924)

Máté Rigó

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

26. October 2020 - 16:00

Cataclysm: Water and the Holocaust in Central Europe, 1933–1945

Emily Gioielli

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

19. October 2020 - 16:00

A Shadow Falls: “Red Cardinals,” the Central Committee Apparatus, and Purges in the Soviet Periphery in the Khrushchev Era

Michael Loader

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

12. October 2020 - 11:00

Denunciations in Brno during the Second World War: An Attempt at Qualitative Analysis

Piotr M. Majewski

05. October 2020 - 11:00

Agents of Globalisation? Yugoslav Enterprises between Nonaligned Transnationalism and Neoliberal Convergence

Anna Calori

28. September 2020 - 16:00

Book Launch Volume III: Intellectual Horizons

Volume presentation of "The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century" in an online booklaunch with the editors of the volume Joachim von Puttkamer, Włodzimierz Borodziej and Ferenc Laczó.
Commentators: Holly Case (Brown University) and Paul Hanebrink (Rutgers University)

For more details for this event please refer to the section: Lectures & Discussions

21. September 2020 - 17:00

Book Launch Volume II: Statehood

Volume presentation of "The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century" in an online booklaunch with the editors of the volume Joachim von Puttkamer, Włodzimierz Borodziej and Sabina Ferhadbegović.
Commentators: Marie-Janine Calic (Munich University) and John Connelly (Berkeley University)

For more details for this event please refer to the section: Lectures & Discussions

14. September 2020 - 16:00

Book Launch Volume I: Challenges of Modernity

Volume presentation of "The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century" in an online booklaunch with the editors of the volume Joachim von Puttkamer, Włodzimierz Borodziej and Stanislav Holubec.
Commentators: Joanna Wawrzyniak (Warsaw University) and James Mark (University of Exeter).

For more details for this event please refer to the section: Lectures & Discussions

13. July 2020 - 16:00

'Kleio in Pandemia'

Discussion about Historical Dimensions on the Current Pandemic in the Eastern Europe

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

06. July 2020 - 16:00

Klassenkampf or Rassenkampf: The Jewish Window on Front-Lines within War-Time Soviet Society

Tamás Kende

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

29. June 2020 - 16:00

Survival Strategies in Occupied Poland

Jerzy Kochanowski

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

22. June 2020 - 16:00

The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Book Chapter Presentation

Jack Fairweather

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

15. June 2020 - 16:00

Reclaiming the Politics of Emotion

Karolina Wigura

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08. June 2020 - 16:00

To Compare or not to Compare: Reflections on the Recent NYRB Debate on Historical Analogies

panel discussion

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

01. June 2020 - 16:00

Whit Monday - No Seminar

25. May 2020 - 16:00

When Fajga Left Tadeusz. The Afterlife of a War Relationship

Natalia Aleksiun

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

18. May 2020 - 16:00

Samizdat Activism in Dissident Poland (1976-1990): The Lenin Question and the Hirschman Question

Piotr Wciślik

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

11. May 2020 - 16:00

Post-war Violence against Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, 1944-1946

Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

04. May 2020 - 16:00

Topography of Ambivalence. The Evolution of the Polish-Jewish Townscape from the Late 19th Century to the Present

Yechiel Weizman

The seminar will be held on Monday at 4 p.m. as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will send you the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

30. April 2020 - 16:00

Some Thoughts on the Matter of Causality

Holly Case

The New Date

The seminar will be held on Thursday (April 30,2020) at 4 p.m. as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. You will get the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

20. April 2020 - 11:00

Brave New Hungary: A Book Discussion with Balázs Trencsényi

Balázs Trencsényi

The seminar will be held on Monday at 4 p.m. as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. You will get the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

13. April 2020 - 11:00

Easter Monday Holiday - No Seminar

06. April 2020 - 16:00

Middle Classes and the Politics of Crisis in East Central Europe: Comparing Hungarian and Romanian Constellations of Mobilizations after 1973 and 2008

Ágnes Gagyi

The seminar will be held on Monday at 4 p.m. as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. You will get the invitation link shortly before the meeting.

23. March 2020 - 11:00