CfP: Divided Memories, Shared Memories Poland, Russia, Ukraine: History Mirrored in Literature and Cinema
Deadline: April 30, 2018. International Conference Geneva, 13-14 December 2018 Divided Memories, Shared Memories Poland, Russia, Ukraine: History Mirrored in Literature and Cinema In Central and Eastern European countries, memorial questions appeared right after the demise of the communist regimes in 1989–1991, revealing long-denied processes. The phenomenon of the rise of repressed memories along with the rewriting of history, and...
1918-2018 : Sorties d’Empire. Sur les traces de l’Empire russe
novembre 2017 – juin 2018 Après le centenaire de la révolution russe, 2018 est celui de la mort des empires continentaux, dont seul l’empire russe s’est reconstitué, avant de disparaître en 1991. Ces ateliers seront consacrés aux multiples reconfigurations qui ont accompagné son éclatement, recomposition, disparition. Dans une perspective comparative, seront examinées les relations de conflit et de dépendance, de...
CfP: Putin’s Russia in the Wake of the Cold War
Putin’s Russia in the Wake of the Cold War Conference venue: Canberra, ACT, Australia Period: 24th-26th August, 2016 Deadline for submitting abstracts: 1st May, 2016 Description of the Conference The Australian National University (ANU)’s Humanities Research Centre invites proposals for papers, panels and roundtables for its conference ‘Putin’s Russia in the Wake of the Cold War’. The conference will be held on the 24th-26th August,...
Ukraine and Soviet Nuclear History
Ukraine and Soviet Nuclear History By Oleksandr Cheban Ukraine’s scientists and nuclear infrastructure played a significant role in the development of the Soviet nuclear program, especially in its first stages. Nuclear physicists from the Ukrainian Institute for Physics and Technology (UIPhT)[i] participated in the creation of Soviet nuclear weapons. Recently declassified documents demonstrate that Ukrainian nuclear scientists were...
