30. November 2020 - 16:00
Tatiana Vagramenko
The seminar will be held as a web-based discussion. Should you be interested in joining us, please send us a short message to Diana Joseph. We will…
01. December 2020 - 18:00
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75 years since the end of the Second World War and the opening of the Nuremberg…
by Raphael Utz
As part of our continuous Focus on the memory of the Shoah in Central and Eastern Europe, the article discusses the 2018 Russian feature film ‘Sobibor’ and the story it tells about Sobibór and the Holocaust. Apart from revealing the completely ahistorical character of this movie, as well as a deeply antisemitic undercurrent in its presentation, the article also highlights the broader political context of this officially sanctioned production, raising questions about the current Russian history policy regarding the Holocaust.
Monica Ciobanu's book 'Repression, Resistance, and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944–1964' is a study of competing narratives concerning the meaning of the past as part of a struggle over the legitimacy of the post-communist state, it combines memory studies with a transitional justice approach that will appeal to scholars of sociology, heritage and memory studies, politics, and law.
The novelty of the Béla Tomka's book lies in its broad comparative perspective: it places East Central Europe in a wider European framework that underlines the themes of regional disparities and European commonalities.
Special Issue of the Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest Vol. 51, 2020, N° 2-3 edited by Raluca Grosescu, Laure Neumayer and Eva-Clarita Pettai
The collection investigates how after 1989 the criminalization of communist regimes has turned into a global discourse and practice. From different…
13. October 2020
In view of the present public health situation, the Imre Kertész Kolleg is adopting the following measures:
Our traditional seminar meetings are held on Monday at 4 p.m. as a web-based discussion of pre-circulated texts. Should you be interested in joining…
Natalia Aleksiun is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York. She specializes in the social, political, and cultural history of modern East Euro...
Rafael Mrowczynski holds a doctorate in Sociology, his research interests lie in the field of sociology of law and professions, with an emphasis on the sociology of legal professions, as well as socia...
Ondřej Vojtěchovský works at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, currently holding a position of the head of the Institute of World History. He also works also as a researcher in the In...
Tatiana Vagramenko is a social anthropologist and a religious studies scholar. She is researcher at the Marginalized and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre at University College Cork.
