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.

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Events

13. August 2024 - 15:27

Upcoming Monday Seminar

summer break: we resume our Monday seminar in October

14. August 2024

CfA IUFU 2024 Fall Semester

The Invisible University for Ukraine invites students to apply for the courses of the 2024 fall semester.

Launched in Spring 2022, Invisible University for Ukraine (IUFU) is a certificate program (offering ECTS credits) initiated by Central European…

Featured Article

The “Skopje 2014 project” at its Tenth Anniversary

A Story of Resilience

by Naum Trajanovski

In September 2023, Skopje was named the 2028 European Capital of Culture alongside Bourges and České Budějovice. The news renewed a debate within North Macedonia about the capital city’s past, present, and potential futures. Common to all positions in the debate was that they referred, in one way or another, to the Skopje 2014 project. This article maps the latest critical events pertaining to this project and discusses its legacy after nearly fifteen years.

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New Publications

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.

Lost Fatherland

Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939

This book is a collective portrait of twenty-one key statesmen who came of age during the Habsburg Empire. Taken together, the stories of these men offer readers a window on broad issues of European history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Fellows

Dr Nataliia Zalietok

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

Dr Anastasia Felcher

Anastasia Felcher is an academic specializing in historical research, cultural heritage studies, and archival work.