Austerities and Aspirations
Béla Tomka Austerities and Aspirations. A Comparative History of Growth, Consumption, and Quality of Life in East Central Europe since 1945. Central European University Press, 2020. This monograph updates existing scholarship on the economic performance of Czechoslovakia (and its successor states), Hungary, and Poland since 1945, in contrast with Western Europe. For this longitudinal comparative exercise, the author goes beyond the...
CfP: Borders, Boundaries, Territories: Creating and Reshaping Collective Identities
Deadline 15 April 2018 The Doctoral School of the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest, would like to invite PhD candidates in history, political science, international relations, economics or any other related fields, from all over the world, to an international conference about borders, barriers and frontiers as they have evolved and shaped human society throughout centuries. Transnational, regional and global perspectives...
CfP: Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956
The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2018. The Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies invite proposals for panels and papers for a two-day conference to be held at Uppsala University in September 2018 with the theme ‘Regimes and Societies in Conflict: Eastern Europe and Russia since 1956’. Over the last 60 years Eastern Europe and Russia have...
The Holocaust in the Borderlands: Interethnic Relations and the Dynamics of Violence in Occupied Eastern Europe
Munich, 7-9 February 2018 Program: Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17.00-18.00: Registration (Senatssaal LMU) 18.00-20.30: Opening Lecture (Senatssaal LMU) followed by wine reception Doris Bergen (Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto): Saving Christianity, Killing Jews: German Religious Campaigns and the Holocaust in the Borderlands Greetings, introduction and moderation: Frank Bajohr...
