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Call for Papers – The Great Transformation? Reassessing the Causes and Consequences of the End of the Cold War, Geneva, Switzerland, Period: November 31, 2014

The Department of International History of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, with the support from the Fondation Pierre du Bois pour l’Histoire du Temps Présent, will host an international conference on the end of the Cold War in Geneva on September 24-26, 2015. The conference seeks to bring together different perspectives on…

Call for papers – Balkan Worlds II: Balkan Perceptions of War and Revolution (1789-1918), Thessaloniki, Greece, November 27-30, 2014

The “Long nineteenth century” ended with the First World War and the War ended with a Revolution, in an exact reversal of the way this age opened. In 1789, a Revolution prompted a massive realignment of international power relations through the Napoleonic Wars, while in 1914 the international state system created by the Holy Alliance…

Call for Papers: Histories of 1914. Debates and Use of the Origins of World War One in Southeastern Europe, University of Graz, November 20-22, 2014

The annual conference of the Centre for Southeast European Studies “Southeast European Dialogues” will be devoted this year to the centenary of the beginning of World War One. Rather than looking at the war itself and its causes, the conference will explore the way the war is remembered in Southeastern Europe. The narratives of the…

Call for papers – An International Scientific Conference Commemorating the Hungarian Holocaust, Budapest, Hungary, November 12-14, 2014

An International Scientific Conference Commemorating the Hungarian Holocaust The Institute for the Holocaust & Christianity at the John Wesley Theological College in cooperaton with the Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue at Nazareth College of Rochester present a joint conference in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Hungarian Jewry. We are…

“Climax or Beginning? Modernity, Culture, Central Europe and the Great War” (October 24-25, 2014 — Prague, Czech Republic)

The year 2014 will inevitably be a year of remembrance and offers to look back at the origins, course and consequences of the First World War. Contemporary reflections, however, tend to oscillate between two poles. One of the classic interpretations is the thesis of the Great War as the “seminal catastrophe of the 20th century.”…

Call for Papers – Popular Culture in East-Central Europe before WWI, Conference venue: Prague, Czech Republic, Period: October 24, 2014

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the development of early mass-mediated popular culture in the East-Central European region and its significance for revealing fundamental social and political changes that took place at the turn of the 20th century. During the 19th century industrialization and urbanization contributed to profound changes in the development of…

All Quiet on the Eastern Front? World War I in Central and Eastern Europe in the experience of soldiers, social groups and local communities (23-25 October, 2014 — Krakow, Poland)

For several years succeeding 1914, the world went through the first global military conflict. Undoubtedly, this experience left its mark on the population of Central and Eastern Europe too. However, both historiography and popular idea about WWI is heavily dominated by the perspective of the western front. At the same time, research on the realities…

14th Annual Aleksanteri Conference: “Restructuring State and Society in Russia” (22-24 October, 2014 — University of Helsinki, Finland)

The Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, Choices of Russian Modernisation will hold the 14th Annual International Aleksanteri Conference, 22-24 October 2014. The conference will bring together scholars, experts and advanced graduate students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to social…

International Scholarly Conference: “National Minorities in the Soviet bloc after 1945” (October 22-25, 2014 — Vilnius, Lithuania)

A great deal of attention has been paid in the past to how Soviet ethno-federalism was formed and functioned. Many so-called post-revisionist historians (T. Martin, R. Sunny, Y. Slezkin and others) have been central in this trend. They asked questions such as how “the centre” encouraged the formation of non-Russian national identities on the periphery…

Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki, October 22-24, 2014

The Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki) and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies, “Choices of Russian Modernisation” will hold the 14th Annual International Aleksanteri Conference on 22-24 October 2014 in Helsinki, Finland. This year the conference, entitled “Restructuring State and Society in Russia” aims to examine the intersections of and interrelationships between…