Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Comparative Historical Experience

The Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena is an Institute of Advanced Studies, with a thematic focus on the history, culture and societies of twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

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Events

12. June 2023 - 16:00

Upcoming Monday Seminar

Сivil Society Archive in the midst of Transformation: The Archives of Memorial

Nikita Lomakin (Jena)

06. June 2023

Tagungsanmeldung - Registration for the Conference

Aus organisatorischen Gründen bitten wir um eine Anmeldung zur Tagung "1989 und die Zukunft Europas" bis zum 26. Juni 2023 unter folgender…

Featured Article

Sebald's Path in Wertach

Commemorating the Commemorator

by Hans Gutbrod

How can we remember writer's as both, children of their time and creators of literature that represents collective experiences? The article takes us on a path that is dedicated to the memory of the writer W.G. Sebald and reflects on the multiple and sometimes contingent ways in which landscape and literature put together can create unique narratives of remembrance.

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New Publications

Memory Crash

Politics of History in and around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s

This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020.

Ich werde mich nie an die Gewalt gewöhnen

Polizeibrutalität und Gesellschaft in der Volksrepublik Polen

The book explores how police brutality ceased to be considered a natural phenomenon in Poland and became morally reprehensible. It tells of the progressive self-destruction of the communist dictatorship. Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wie polizeiliche Brutalität in Polen aufhörte, selbstverständlich zu sein, und moralisch verwerflich wurde. Es erzählt von der schleichenden Selbstzerstörung der kommunistischen Diktatur.

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Fellows

Dr Alexandr Voronovici

Alexandr Voronovici is a historian whose research is primarily focusing on memory politics in the post-Soviet de facto states.

Professor Tetiana Hoshko

from May 2023

Dr Irina Shcherbakova

Irina Shcherbakova is a historian and human rights activist. She is a founding member of Memorial, where she is the director of the youth and education programms and a member of the International Memo...

Dr Jan Zofka

Jan Zofka is a Historian of Eastern Europe whose recent research focuses on transnational and global dimensions of socialist industrialization processes during the 1950s.