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…
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…
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…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The fall of communism in East Central Europe threw into question many politically imposed schemes of history in this part of continent. The unfettering of historical research from political and ideological limitations made it both possible and pressing to begin to rewrite the history of the East-Central European countries. This task includes not only the…
