The Unlikely Refuge? team members took part in the “Refugees and the (Global) Cold War” workshop, hosted by the Cluster of Excellence ‘Contestations of the Liberal Script’ (SCRIPTS), Freie Universität Berlin, at Harnack-Haus on 29-30 October 2021. Maximilian Graf and Nikola Karasova presented their paper, suggesting a comparison of Western […]
Monthly Archives: October 2021
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On 14 October 2021, Ágnes Katalin Kelemen (UnRef) presented her paper entitled From the “Gang of Thirteen” to the “Brno Group” at a conference Radical Left in Central Europe and its Development since WWI until 1933, organized by the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the National […]
Michal Frankl (Unlikely Refuge?) will give a lecture titled Languages of loyalty. Revocation of Jewish citizenship in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939 (in English). The event is organized by the Masaryk Institute and Archive and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Prague […]
On Wednesday, 14 October 2021 the Graduate School and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) hosts a lecture by Francesca Rolandi and Michal Frankl (Unlikely Refuge?) entitled “Making Sense of Refugees: Historiography of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia”. The presenters will analyze and compare the approaches to refugees in […]
Listen to the second episode of the “Eastern Europe’s Minorities in a Century of Change”, a podcast series on the history of minorities and minority experiences in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe prepared by the BASEES Stud soundcloud.com. In this episode, Michal Frankl, principal investigator of the ERC-funded project “Unlikely […]
Nikola Karasová (Unlikely Refuge?) participated in the 59th International Academic Week Memory Cultures since 1945: German-Southeast European Entangled History, organized by the Südosteuropa Gesellschaft in Tutzing, Germany, between 4 and 8 October 2021. She presented a paper titled “The memory of Greek civil war refugees in Czechoslovakia: Conflicting narratives, differing […]
Francesca Rolandi (Unlikely Refuge?) will take part in the 5th International Conference entitled Socialism on the Bench, organized by the Center for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, September 30 – October 2, 2021. On Saturday, October 2 at 9 am, she will […]
On 28-29 September 2021, a conference took place in Wrocław entitled “Conflict-Stabilization-Assimilation? Consequences of migration in the life of inhabitants of Lower Silesia.” Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) presented a paper In Search of “Lost Refugees”: Historiographical Paradigms of Postwar Migration in Poland. Her presentation in simultaneous translation into Polish (albeit […]