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

Tetiana Grebeniuk (Zaporizhia/Jena)


25. April 2025 - 15:00

Book Launch "Invisible University for Ukraine. Essays on Democracy at War"

On 25 April the IUFU will present the anthology "Invisible University for Ukraine. Essays on Democracy at War", recently published by Cornell…

In March 2022, under the immediate impression of Russia’s total invasion of Ukraine, the Central European University, Budapest/Vienna, founded the…

Featured Article

A Trident on the Shield

Ukraine’s Decommunization Strategy and the Case of the “Mother Ukraine” Statue

by Viktoriia Nechyporuk

While there have been recurring debates about how to deal with the Soviet legacy since the country's independence, in 2015 decommunisation became a systemic imperative of Ukrainian state policy. Particularly in the case of monuments that are an essential part of the public space, redefinition became a strategy of decommunisation. The article examines the debates surrounding and the alteration of such a monument, the Motherland statue in Kiyv.

Please follow this link to read the whole article.

New Publications

Recht und Gerechtigkeit?

Ahndung von Menschheitsverbrechen in Jugoslawien zwischen Völkerrecht und…

Sabine Ferhadbegović gibt in ihrem Buch einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklung des jugoslawischen Rechts zur Ahndung von Kriegsverbrechen und nennt zentrale Akteure und Institutionen.

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Unter deutscher Besatzung

Europa 1939 - 1945

Tatjana Tönsmeyer zeigt eindrücklich, wie die deutsche Besatzung das Leben von Millionen Europäerinnen und Europäern veränderte, und was es bedeutet, unter einer Besatzungsherrschaft zu leben. Eine Erfahrung, die vor dem Hintergrund der russischen Besatzung großer Gebiete der Ukraine von bedrückender Aktualität ist.

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bookcover:  Unter deutscher Besatzung Europa 1939-1945.
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Fellows

Professor Jerzy Kochanowski

Jerzy Kochanowski (born 1960, Warsaw) received his PhD in 1991 and postdoctoral degree in 2001 from the University of Warsaw, from 2000-2005 he was a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute...

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Professor Jerzy Kochanowski

Dr Veneta Ivanova

Veneta Ivanova is a historian of Eastern and Southeastern Europe with an interest on the interplay between socialism, occultism, religion, science, and utopia in twentieth-century Europe.

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Dr Veneta Ivanova

Professor Tetiana Grebeniuk

Tetiana Grebeniuk is a philologist with a research focus on contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture.

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Professor Tetiana Grebeniuk