CfA: New Approaches to the History of the Second World War
Call for Applications New Approaches to the History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath in Yugoslavia, Greece, and Albania (1939-1949) Venues: Humboldt University Berlin (October 2015), École française d’Athènes (March 2016) Please send us your proposal (max. 2 pages) and a short CV by Monday, 1 December 2014, at the latest. Conveners: Dr. Xavier Bougarel (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin), Prof. Hannes Grandits (Humboldt University, Berlin), and Prof. Nathalie Clayer (CETOBAC/EHESS, Paris) Doctoral researchers, both in the early and final stages of pursuing their PhD, are invited to apply for participation in events organized in the framework of the international project on “New Approaches to the History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath in Yugoslavia, Greece, and Albania (1939-1949)”, to take place in Berlin in October 2015 and in Athens in March 2016. The language of the preparatory workshop in Berlin and the final conference in Athens will be English. The international project on the Second World War and its aftermath in Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania is jointly coordinated by the Humboldt University in Berlin and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. The project focuses on the three occupied countries of Southeastern Europe, and includes the postwar years, characterized by a continuation of massive violence in all three countries. The project aims at accomplishing the following tasks: – to assess the “state of the art” of research Albania, Greece, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro – to identify PhD researchers working on the Second World War in Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania – to sketch pertinent research questions in order to design the framework of the final conference – to discuss how future research can foster integration, comparison, and entanglement of the history of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe into European and global research on that war Xavier Bougarel (Berlin), Hannes Grandits (Berlin), and Nathalie Clayer (Paris) coordinate the project. Its other members are Paolo Fonzi (Berlin/Naples), Tchavdar Marinov (Paris/Athens), Nadège Ragaru (Paris), Milan Ristović (Belgrade), Drago Roksandić (Zagreb), Sabine Rutar (Regensburg), Fabien Théofilakis (Montreal/Paris), Nevenka Troha (Ljubljana), Polymeris Voglis (Athens), and Marija Vulesica (Berlin). Holm Sundhaussen, Professor Emeritus of Southeastern European History at the Free University Berlin, acts as senior advisor. Invited PhD researchers will be invited to participate in two events: A preparatory workshop will take place...
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