CfP: the edited volume: “Europeanisation and memory politics in the former Yugoslavia”, Ana Milošević (KU Leuven) and Heleen Touquet (Harvard, KU Leuven)
deadline : 15 Giugno 2018 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2018 Submission date: 15 December 2018 An increasing number of studies from various disciplines have analysed the impact of Europeanisation on collective memory of both EU member states and candidate countries (Mälksoo 2009; Convey and Pattel, 2010; Radonić, 2012; Kucia, 2016; Kowalski and Törnquist-Plewa, 2017; Perchoc, 2018; Milošević, 2017, 2018). They have concluded...
CfA: Ego-Documents in the Soviet Sphere on the Holocaust: Revealing Personal Voices
deadline 12.03.2018 Ego-Documents in the Soviet Sphere on the Holocaust: Revealing Personal Voices Sunday-Thursday, June 3-7, 2018, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are...
European Memories of the Gulag
From 1939 to 1953, nearly one million people were deported to the Gulag from the European territories annexed by the USSR at the start of the Second World War and those that came under Soviet influence after the War: some to work camps but most as forced settlers in villages in Siberia and Central Asia. An international team of researchers has collected 160 statements from former deportees, photographs of their lives, documents from...
Les droits de l’Homme en Europe orientale et dans l’espace post-soviétique
Segnaliamo l’uscita del numero 24 de “Les droits de l’Homme en Europe orientale et dans l’espace post-soviétique” dedicato al rapporto tra storia e memoria. Leggere qui >>
Quest for a Suitable Past
Edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghiţă The past may be approached from a variety of directions. A myth reunites people around certain values and projects and pushes them in one direction or another. The present volume brings together a range of case studies of myth making and myth breaking in east Europe from the nineteenth century to the present day. In particular, it focuses on the complex process through...
