Events

This cutting-edge collection of essays analyzes the pivotal year of 1989 and the transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a pivot to explore longer-term processes of economic, social, political, and cultural transformation linked to the rise of neoliberalism and globalization since…

This CENTRAL workshop will centre on the individual and collective dynamics of remembering and forgetting in Central and Southeast Europe. We seek to understand the complex and intertwined dynamics of remembering and forgetting and to reveal how voices – both vocal and silent – shape collective and personal memory, what narratives emerge through these…

This seminar analyses this conflict between revolutionary universalism and national liberation, between Communism and Zionism, and the dialectics of Jewish liberation by centring on the experiences of Jewish revolutionaries and the debates within the World Union of Poalei Tsion from the revolutions of 1917 to the split of the organisation in the summer of…

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Belarus presents a thorough introduction and overview of the country's history, politics, and international relations. Belarus is as a country that has attracted increased attention since the mass anti-authoritarian protests of 2020 and the ensuing dramatic changes, including the rise of a digital dictatorship and the…

Welfare Work Without Welfare argues that women activists, wage workers, and homemakers in the Romanian capital Bucharest ensured others’ well-being in the interwar period through their "austerity welfare work".

Imagine a world without corruption. A world in which politicians disregard private interests and are committed to a better future for the people they serve. State socialist political elites in Cold War East-Central Europe promised to build such a world. Now imagine the same elites being caught profiting from their offices, building private homes using state…

It is a usual practice to place an embargo on the disclosure of testimonies of individuals at risk, such as during an ongoing military conflict, following an act of violence or of those dissenting an authoritarian regime. This lecture shows how to safely disclose testimonies while at the same time protecting individuals at risk. We present a secure…

This Transformative Seminar will feature Prof. Paul Betts (Oxford). Seminar abstract tbc.

“The story of work is to a great extent the history of humankind,” writes historian Jan Lucassen in the introduction to his monumental Story of Work. “But what exactly do we mean by work?” From waged labor in the factory or on the field to unpaid care work at home, (re)productive human activity can indeed take many forms, not all of which receive equal…

Hosted by the University of Vienna’s Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), this two-day international conference aims to bring together scholars from two fields that too often work separately: Soviet/post-Soviet history and Jewish studies. Its aim is to challenge the dominant narratives of both fields by telling the story of Jewish…

Building on (and critically updating) Albert O. Hirschman’s classic exit–voice–loyalty framework, the conference invites contributions that explore how migration relates to political circumstances, labour, and agency—across contemporary as well as historical perspectives, and across multiple migration routes (not only “East–West”).