Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World
By Anna Procyk © 2019 Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 1830–1. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores the core message that the Polish revolutionaries carried, a message based on the...
CfP: Understanding Childhood and Construction of National Identities in Central and Eastern Europe from 18th Century until the Beginning of the Second World War
Deadline 30 giugno 2020 The notion of childhood is a socio-historical construction, as it is might be seen differently not only in various cultures but also experienced differently within the same society. Even the definition of who is a child has changed over time, revealing fluctuations of childhood periodization. Therefore, the understanding of childhood is always in the process and its notion might be constantly shifting. French...
Memory Politics in Far Right Europe
Memory Politics in Far Right Europe: Celebrating Nazi Collaborationists in Post-1989 Belarus, Romania, Flanders and Denmark is a research project financed by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) and based at the Institute of Contemporary History, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. The project new website is available at the following link:...
CfP: Special Issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Dissent and Dissidents in Central and Eastern European Film
Deadline 1 maggio 2020 Following the establishment of the «people´s democracies» in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, Lenin´s dictum about «film being the most important art» brought change in terms of an improved infrastructure for film production. Often, the Soviet film was seen as a role model for the other Socialist states. The establishment of Socialist film schools or academies, for example, in Czechoslovakia...
CfP: Sexual Knowledge and Expertise in Europe’s East
Deadline 20.04.2020 Call for papers for a thematic issue Sexual Knowledge and Expertise in Europe’s East. Editors: Prof. Kate Fisher (University of Exeter) and Dr. Kateřina Lišková (Masaryk University). Deadline 20.04.2020 East-Central Europe played a key role in shaping the development of sexual science from the 1880s onwards, producing well-known figures such as Freud or Hirschfeld. By 1932, when the World League for Sexual Reform...
