CfP: Provisioning Crisis and Transformation of East-Central Europe, 1918–1923
From various perspectives and using different methodologies, recent historiography has shown that food ‘decided’ the First World War. Above all, it was the failure of the food provisioning system towards the end of the war that accelerated the disintegration of societies and the internal breakdown of states such as Austria-Hungary. The growing imbalance between appeals to selfsacrifice and the state’s worsening inability to satisfy...
CfP: Beyond Moscow. Rethinking the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet Republics
Beyond Moscow Rethinking the international and transnational dimensions of the Soviet Republics 2-3 October 2022 Scuola di Procida per l’Alta Formazione (UniOr) Procida, Italy Call for Papers Thirty years after the Soviet collapse, it remains challenging to identify an international role for the USSR that goes beyond the patterns of the Cold War. Nor is it possible to clearly assess the complexity of a system where...
CfP: Assistere e unificare? Nation building e welfare nell’Alto Adriatico e nel Baltico orientale nel corso del XX secolo
Nella grande messe di studi sulla nascita, lo sviluppo e la diffusione delle pratiche di welfare nel corso del XX secolo, la dimensione nazionale è stata a lungo dominante. Nell’ultimo decennio si è tuttavia assistito a una crescente attenzione alla multidimensionalità del fenomeno e delle reti in cui i suoi attori si sono mossi. Pur avendo generalmente riconosciuto alle pratiche di welfare e all’assistenza sociale un ruolo di nation...
CfP: “The Armed Conflict on the Dniester: Political and Social Implications for the Republic of Moldova”
The war on the Dniester, which experienced a phase of military operations between March and August 1992, tragically marked the birth of the state of the Republic of Moldova. Three decades later, resolving the conflict still seems far from a political solution. Reconstructing the facts and de-ideologizing the interpretation of the causes, essence, and consequences of the war remains a difficult task for historians and political...
CfP: Greece Reborn: Aspects of Modern Greece, 1821-2021
In 2021 Greece celebrated 200 years since the outbreak of the Greek Revolution in 1821 that led to the creation of the modern Greek state. The Greek Revolution was a pivotal historical event, the first successful uprising against the Ottoman Empire, with considerable repercussions in Europe and the Mediterranean. Greece was founded as an independent state in 1830 after an arduous military struggle that entailed various political and...
CfP: Borders and Transfers
15-17 June 2022 Society for Romanian Studies Hosted by Universitatea de Vest and Muzeul de Artă, Timişoara The Banat is “a reality, and at the same time a myth, situated at the place where borders meet.” – Adriana Babeţi (2007) The Society for Romanian Studies invites you to Timişoara in June 2022, where the soup is sweet and it is bad luck to serve chicken on New Year’s Day. Timişoara, and the Banat more generally, has been shaped by...
