Doina Anca Cretu published her new open-access article entitled “War is destructive, but it reconstructs anew…:” Refugee Education and State Consolidation in Imperial Austria during the First World War in the Nationalities Papers (2024). The article explores aspects of the organization of refugee education in imperial Austria during the First […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
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On 26 September 2024 at 1 p.m. CET, Michal Frankl will give a presentation entitled East-Central Europe as a Place of Refuge at the HUN-REN Social Sciences Research Center, Institute of Sociology, in Budapest, Hungary. Róza Vajda (HUN-REN TK KDK) and Veronika Kaszás (Unlikely Refuge?) will assume the role of […]
Exploratory workshop Warsaw, February 3-4, 2025 Organised by ERC Consolidator project Unlikely Refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The interdisciplinary […]
Our colleague Doina Anca Cretu was interviewed for the July edition of NewsNet, published bi-monthly by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Talking about her work on refugees, refugee camps, and foreign humanitarian aid, she also introduced her new book. In Foreign Aid and State Building in […]
On 29 June 2024, Nikola Tohma and Maximilian Graf participated in the EDUC Summer School at the University of Potsdam, engaging in a debate with students on the differences and similarities of refugee regimes in the West and the East during early Cold War. Political emigration during the Cold War […]
In the new issue of the journal “Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora” (Studia Migracyjne), devoted to the situation of refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border (edited by Natalia Judzińska and Mateusz Krępa), Lidia Zessin-Jurek contributed an essay on the challenges of communicating the protracted “crisis” in an era where […]
The French magazine “Memoires en Jeu” in its special Spring 2024 issue devoted entirely to “Memories of Refugees,” features an interview with our team member, Lidia Zessin-Jurek, on the role of social memory in the current Polish response to the refugee situation on the Belarusian-Polish border. “History and memory are […]
Doina Anca Cretu joined the Eighth Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies on 20-21 June 2024. She participated in the roundtable discussion titled ““Flyover Country”: East-Central Europe as a Global Region” and acted as a discussant for the panel “Migration & Mobility.” The Tartu Conferenceis a venue […]
Doina Anca Cretu has published her new article entitled Childhood, Experience, Encampment: The Case of Italian-Speaking Refugees in Austria–Hungary During the First World War in the Journal of Contemporary History (2024). This article seeks to uncover and understand children’s experiences in the confining spaces of the refugee camp in Austria–Hungary […]
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum organised the Silberman Seminar ‘Refugees and the Holocaust’ on 5-13 June 2024, an event in which Lidia Zessin-Jurek was invited to participate. Faculty members discussed the tangled history of the Holocaust and the colonial transit points that refugees navigated, and, among other things, considered […]
Ágnes Katalin Kelemen has published her chapter “Next Year in Brno? Brno’s Significance for Hungarian Jews in the Age of the Numerus Clausus and Beyond” as part of the edited volume Quotas: The “Jewish Question” and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945 (ed. Michael L. Miller and Judith Szapor). Book […]
Michal Frankl and Lidia Zessin-Jurek participated at the Challenging Concepts in Refugee History workshop, organized at the University of Gothenburg, its Faculty of Humanities, and the project Outsiders Within: Internally Displaced Persons in Early Modern Europe (PI Sari Nauman), funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. […]
Several members of the Unlikely Refuge? team joined the 6th Congress on Polish Studies at the Technical University of Dresden (14-17 March 2024), forming a panel entitled “Poland as a Place of Refuge in the ‘Short’ 20th Century between Upheavals and New Beginnings”. Still mostly known as a region producing […]
Michal Frankl published his new article entitled “Vast Workshop and Laboratory: Labor and Refugees to the Bohemian Lands and Czechoslovakia, 1914–39” in the Austrian History Yearbook (2024). As a part of the conversation in the forum “Austria and the Czech Republic as Immigration Countries: Transnational Labor Migration in Historical Comparison” […]
On 11-12 April 2024, the “Making Refuge: Place and Space in Refugee Studies” Workshop took place in Villa Lanna, Prague, organized by the Unlikely Refuge? ERC project (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS) and the Refugees in Europe 1914–1923 Research Group (Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, supported […]
Nikola Tohma published her article entitled “The Role of Martyrdom and Victimhood in the Memory of the Greek Civil War Refugees in Czechoslovakia through the Prism of ‘Refugee’ Literature” as part of a special issue of the Journal of Modern European History on Mass Atrocities in Southeast Europe, edited by […]
Read the new open-access article by Francesca Rolandi entitled “Genuinely Anti-Communist, Tactically Anti-Fascist. Framing Refugeedom in Interwar Yugoslavia (1918–1935)”, published in the recent issue of the Godišnjak za društvenu istoriju. This article looks at how the Yugoslav state-making process affected the country’s attitude toward refugees, and it describes the challenges […]
We cordinally invite you to a public debate titled “Refugeedom: History, Present and Global Context” organized by the Dominikánská 8 cultural and educational centre (Husova 8, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic) on 13 May 2024 at 7:30 p.m. Moderated by Daniela Vrbová, the discussion will be joined by Michal […]
Nikola Tohma published her article “As if we were princes.” Greek children in Czechoslovakia and their perception of their stay in children’s homes in the Czech public history journal Dějiny a současnost (no. 1-2, 2024). The text is part of a special issue commemorating the 75th anniversary of the arrival […]
Museum and Research Centre Kazerne Dossin (Mechelen/Belgium) invited Lidia Zessin-Jurek to talk on the political instrumentalisation of Holocaust memory in Europe at the “Holocaust and Human Rights” Conference (21-22 February 2024). Lidia drew a link between the reflection on this topical issue and how coming to terms with genocide does […]
On 20 March 2024 at 9:30 CET, Nikola Tohma will give an online public talk about the Czechoslovak aid to child refugees from Greece as part of the 4EU+ Spring Seminar The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Themes and Approaches in Contemporary European Memory Studies. The series is organized by […]
The International Review of Social History published the article “Like we would help brothers or sisters”? Practising Solidarity with Greek Civil War Refugees in Socialist Czechoslovakia and the GDR in the Shadow of World War II co-authored by UnRef researchers Nikola Tohma and Julia Reinke. The article investigates the solidarity […]
