CfP: Chernobyl as a Historical Caesura: Environment, Politics, and Science
University of Naples Federico II 9-10 December 2022 The Departments of Social Sciences and of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Department of History of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy are pleased to announce an open call for papers for the conference...
CfP: Grecia e Italia: 1821-2021, due secoli di storie condivise
La casa editrice ETP Books di Atene, in collaborazione con la Società Filellenica Italiana, l’Associazione AIAL e con il patrocinio di Università “Tor Vergata” di Roma, Università “Capodistria” di Atene, Università Roma Tre, Università di Torino, Ambasciata d’Italia ad Atene,Istituto italiano di Cultura di Atene e Associazione italiana di studi del Sud-est europeo, invita a partecipare al convegno Grecia e Italia: 1821-2021, due...
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...
