29. May 2020
Press Statement on the publication of Volume I and II of the Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
We, at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, are excited and very happy to announce the publication of the first two volumes of our four-volume series, “THE…
by James Krapfl and Andrew Kloiber
How vigorous are memories of the revolution in eastern Germany and the Czechoslovak successor states, and how do they reinforce democratic politics today? In a vivid comparative review of the thirtieth-anniversary commemorations of the 1989 revolutions in Leipzig, Berlin, Prague and Bratislava, the article discusses the extent to which these events managed to reanimate the civic spirit of 1989 and how they alert to contemporary threats to democracy.
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The book challenges widespread conceptions of Central and Eastern European countries as merely countries of origin. It sheds light on their experience of immigration and the establishment of refugee regimes at different stages in the history of the region.
Czechoslovakism is one of the most controversial terms in Czech and Slovak history. If it was perceived by some as an effort to assert Czech domination in Slovakia, for others it represented a symbol of struggle for the Republic and state-political existence in the interwar period.
11. May 2020
In view of the present public health situation, the Imre Kertész Kolleg is adopting the following measures:
Our traditional Monday Seminar meetings with personal presence have been cancelled until further notice. In the meantime, the seminars are held on…
Professor Włodzimierz Borodziej, Professor of History at Warsaw University, Co-Director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena from 2010 to 2016 and…
Mykhaylo Tyaglyy has been working for the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies doing research on the National Socialist genocide of Roma in Ukraine. He is also managing editor of the scholarly journ...
Holly Case is a historian of modern Europe whose work focuses on the relationship between foreign policy, social policy, science, and literature in the European state system of the nineteenth and twen...
Piotr Wciślik is intellectual historian and digital humanist. He serves as an assistant professor and deputy director of The Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Poli...
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, PhD, is a cultural and historical anthropologist, and a religious studies scholar. She isprofessor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences,Warsaw an...
