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 […]
Monthly Archives: April 2024
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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 […]