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. December 2021 - 11:00

Upcoming Monday Seminar

State Socialist Female Subjectivities and the Global Condition

Réka Krizmanics

01. - 03. December 2021

The Imre Kertész Kolleg at the ASEEES Virtual Convention 2021

We are part of the ASEEES Virtual Convention in 2021, too. Join us for example for the discussion of our forthcoming and final volume of "The…

The Imre Kertész Kolleg is present at this year's ASEEES Virtual Convention with the following panels:

01 December

Roundtable "History of the…

Featured Article

(Re)construction of Czech History

The National Museum and its New Permanent Exhibition on the Twentieth Century

by Karolína Bukovská

After twelve years of restauration and preparation, the new permanent exhibition on twentieth century Czech history finally opened its doors last July at the National Museum in Prague. The article provides a critical review of this exhibition, questioning its educational function and criticizing its rather narrow, national approach to Czech history as well as its narrative design.

Please follow this link to read the whole article.

New Publications

The Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe

The case of Hungary and Romania

Based on an empirical comparison of two countries with significantly different political regimes throughout the period, Hungary and Romania, this study shows how different constellations of successive late socialist and post-socialist regimes have managed internal and external class relations throughout the same global crisis process, from very similar positions of semi-peripheral, post-socialist systemic integration.

book cover Agnes Gagyi Political Economy of Middle Class Politics and the Global Crisis in Eastern Europe

Historisches Reenactment

Disziplinäre Perspektiven auf ein dynamisches Forschungsfeld

English title: Historical Reenactments: Disciplinary Perspectives in a Dynamic Research Field keywords: Reenactment; living history; history culture; performance

cover picture of the book Historisches Reenactment

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Fellows

Dr Réka Krizmanics

Réka Krizmanics is a collaborating lecturer in the Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig.

Dr Corina Doboș

Corina Doboș is a researcher and associate lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

PD Dr Martin Bemmann

Martin Bemmann has been a lecturer at the University of Freiburg since 2013. Currently, he is working on a project which explores the relevance wood bases businesses had for the economic development o...

Dr Agata Ignaciuk

Agata Ignaciuk is an Assistant Professor at the Department of the History of Science, University of Granada (Spain). Between 2017 and 2019, she was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions COFUND Research Fel...