Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Comparative Historical Experience

The Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena is an Institute of Advanced Studies, with a thematic focus on the history, culture and societies of twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

Events

12. February - 31. March 2024

Upcoming Monday Seminar

We resume our seminar at the begining of the lecture period in April.

have a good semester break


21. - 22. March 2024

DGO-Jahrestagung: Imperiale Herrschaft und koloniale Erfahrung im östlichen Europa

Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde führt in Kooperation mit dem Imre Kertész Kolleg die Jahrestagung 2024 an der…

Die Jahrestagung stellt zur Diskussion, inwiefern postkoloniale Ansätze gegenüber der Imperiumsforschung neue Erkenntnisse zur Erklärung von Politik…

Featured Article

Lithuania’s Postcolonial Iconoclasm

or Politics by Other Means

by Violeta Davoliūtė

The reaction of the Baltic states to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has been debated among academics as a 'postcolonial moment of sorts' as it triggered a new wave of anti-Soviet(Russian) iconoclasm across the region. The article focuses on the politics surrounding the latest wave of dismantling and renaming of monuments, public spaces and paradigms in Lithuania, discussing the arguments and actors involved as well as their motivations.

Please follow this link to read the whole article.

New Publications

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship

Latin America, Central Eastern Europe, and the Fragmentation of International…

The book provides a groundbreaking socio-historical account of the global transformation of international criminal law from these two semi-peripheries of the world system.

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Cover Image Justice and Memory after Dictatorship

Investigating, Punishing, Agitating

Nazi Perpetrator Trials in the Eastern Bloc

The essays collected in this volume are devoted to the history of criminal trials on National Socialist crimes in Hungary, the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union after the "thaw" and ask about the preconditions and peculiarities of these proceedings.

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 Investigating, Punishing, Agitating
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Fellows

Dr Kateryna Burkush

Kateryna Burkush is a social historian of labour in the late Soviet Union.

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Dr Kateryna Burkush

Dr Jan Zofka

Jan Zofka is a Historian of Eastern Europe whose recent research focuses on transnational and global dimensions of socialist industrialization processes during the 1950s.

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Dr Jan Zofka

Dr Juhan Saharov

Juhan Saharov works as Research Fellow in Political Theory at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu. His research focuses on the economic-political debates in the ...

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Dr Juhan Saharov

Dr Nataliia Zalietok

Nataliia Zalietok works in the fields of Women’s and Gender History, Comparative History, and Archival Science.

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Dr Nataliia Zalietok