Francesca Rolandi (Unlikely Refuge?) earned together with Dominique K. Reill and Ivan Jeličić the Annelise Thimme Article Prize for 2021-2022. It was awarded by the Central European History Society for their co-authored article “Redefining Citizenship after Empire: The Rights to Welfare, to Work, and to Remain in a Post-Habsburg World.” […]
Yearly Archives: 2023
21 posts
Prague, April 11–12, 2024 The refugee experience is inevitably spatial. It involves movement between different places and imagination of locations as spaces of protection or danger, of mobility or immobility. It is no coincidence that terms like refuge, displacement, andasylum express the spatial dimension. Being uprooted often results in a […]
The Principal Investigator of the ERC project “Unlikely Refuge?” Michal Frankl commented on the interwar Czechoslovak refugee policy for the “SOPADE90” film, produced by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Prag to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of this Prague-based exile organization of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Available on YouTube in […]
The Principal Investigator of the ERC Project Unlikely Refuge? Michal Frankl has published his book entitled Občané země nikoho. Uprchlíci a pohyblivé hranice středovýchodní Evropy 1938-1939 (in Czech, Citizens of No Man’s Land. Refugees and Moving Borders of East Central Europe, 1938-1939). At the end of the 1930s, groups of […]
On 6-8 September 2023, the European University Viadrina held a conference „Contesting 21st Century B/Orders”. A member of our team, Lidia Zessin-Jurek composed a panel which generated great interest and lively discussion. “Polish Racial Frontier – Refugees on the Eastern Border of Poland” consisted of an interdisciplinary group of academics: […]
International workshop “Petitioning on the Move” will take place on 19-20 September at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. The workshop is organized in cooperation with the Unlikely refuge? and Nepostrans ERC-funded projects.
Nikola Tohma participated at the 2023 Conference of the Society for History of Children and Youth (SHCY) at Guelph University, Canada (8-10 June 2023). She presented her paper titled Children’s Homes as Refugee Spaces: Child Refugees and Institutional Care in Socialist Czechoslovakia. Together with Swen Steinberg and Joy Damousi, she […]
The Unlikely Refuge? team members participated at the “Remaking the World in the Shadow of the Cold War. Migrants, Workers, Soldiers, Spies in Post-1945 Reconstruction” workshop that took place at Central European University in Vienna on 1-2 June 2023. Apart from acting as chairs, two our researchers presented their own […]
At the invitation of the EuMePo (European Memory Politics) Jean Monnet Network, Lidia Zessin-Jurek participated in a conference organized in Budapest (June 14-16, 2023), where she presented a paper in the panel “Intergenerational Trauma after Violence: Memory, Narrative, and Agency across Vulnerable Populations” led by Laura Kromják and Oliver Schmidtke. […]
A new article by Lidia Zessin-Jurek has been published in the Journal of Genocide Research on 14 June 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2023.2221552) During World War II, tens of thousands of Polish Jewish refugees spent several years in Soviet Central Asia. Yet, little of the intriguing character of the Silk Road remains in […]
The Unlikely Refuge? team will coorganize and participate at the “Remaking the World in the Shadow of the Cold War. Migrants, Workers, Soldiers, Spies in Post-1945 Reconstruction” conference at the Central European University, Vienna, on 1-2 June 2023. For more details please visit this webpage.
Doina Anca Cretu will participate in the Minorities at War from Napoleon to Putin | BASEES Study Group for Minority History Biennial Conference 2023 on 12 May 2023. She will join the panel on East-Central Europe in the Era of the Great War chaired by Olena Palko (University of Basel) […]
Amidst Russia’s war against Ukraine and against the backdrop of an often contentious and politicized shared history, Poland has demonstrated extraordinary solidarity with Ukraine, welcoming and helping thousands of refugees. Lidia Zessin-Jurek’s article discusses how various Polish memory frames have affected public attitudes towards the Ukrainian refugees and how in […]
We tend to push them aside on a daily basis, but the faraway conflicts, consequences of climate change and hunger, have long been reaching Europe’s borders, including, for some time, those of Eastern Europe. They take the form of refugees on our doorstep. What happens to these people once they […]
Workshop Call for Papers Prague, September 19-20, 2023 Petitions and addresses to higher authorities offer a unique look into people whose voice is hard to find in the material historians mostly use. Wishes or complaints addressed to places and representatives of power or appeals against decisions from the above was […]
The UnRef team member Francesca Rolandi published her new article titled “Shaping the nation through social work. Aid organizations for Istrian refugees in interwar Yugoslavia” in Italian in the «Qualestoria» journal, no. 2 (December 2022). The full text can be downloaded here Abstract: This article looks at the network of […]
On February 8, 2023, at the invitation of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder (Center for Interdisciplinary Polish Studies´ research colloquium), Lidia Zessin-Jurek presented the results of her research on historiography concerning refugee movements in Poland. Importantly for the author, the topic was exposed and discussed there among German, Polish, […]
Deadline: March 1, 2023 Date: June 1-2, 2023 Venue: Central European University (Vienna, Austria) Conference organized by the CEU Jewish Studies Program in cooperation with the CEU Nationalism Studies Program and the ERC Consolidator project ‘Unlikely refuge? Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century’. “The new world […]
The Unlikely Refuge? (UnRef) team members contributed to the thematical issue of the Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO/JECES), Vol. 71 No. 4 (2022), entitled East Central Europe as a Place of Refuge in the Twentieth Century: State and Patterns of Historical Research. The individual contributions can be accessed […]
The Unlikely Refuge? project team has published an online and open-access searchable bibliographical database of existing literature relating to research on migration and refugeedom in East-Central Europe, namely Poland, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and their successor states, during the 20th century. You can access the bibliographical database via Zotero by […]
Please join us for the talk by Keely Stauter-Halsted (University of Illinois at Chicago) Time: 25 January 2022, 3 p.m. CET Venue: Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University (Smetanovo nábřeží 6, room 212) Also online (via Zoom): https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84043059405 Borders and Bordering in Interwar East-Central Europe: Refugees and the Shaping […]