30. May 2022 - 11:00
Anika Walke
20. May 2022 - 09:30
A Venue in Honour of Włodzimierz Borodziej (1956-2021)
Postcolonial perspectives have become increasingly relevant in the discussion of Central and Eastern European history, offering both challenges and…
by Veronika Pehe
A new prime-time show on Czech public television entitled 'Devadesátky' (‘The Nineties’) has turned out to be vastly popular and triggered a lively public debate. In six episodes, the series reconstructs the most notorious cases of violent, organized crime during the first post-socialist decade in the Czech Republic. The article reflects on the TV series’ popularity and what it tells us about public memory and narratives of the turbulent post-1989 period in Czech society.
Welchen Beitrag leisten die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, um die Hintergründe und Folgen des Ukraine-Kriegs zu analysieren?
Prof. Dr. Joachim von Puttkamer wurde für ein Special des Rahmenprogramms Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (BMBF) befragt, welchen Beitrag die…
Update 31 March 2022
Volkswagen Foundation: Funding for Refugee Scholars and Scientists from Ukraine (applications can be send in until 05 April,…
Béla Tomka is professor at the Department of History, University of Szeged. His main research area is 20th-century social and economic history with an emphasis on comparative approaches.
Miloslav Szabó has been a lecturer at the Department of German, Dutch and Scandinavian Studies at Comenius University in Bratislava since 2018. From 2015 to 2018, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at the In...
Alexandra Ghiț is a postdoctoral fellow who is conducting her research for the project ZARAH: Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th ce...
Adela Hîncu is an intellectual historian who writes on state socialism, social thought, feminism, and the history of the social sciences and humanities in Romania.