Book Presentation and Discussion: Red Tape. Radio and Politics in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1969
Wednesday, 24 April, 2024 16:00 - 17:30 CEST
In socialist Eastern Europe, radio simultaneously produced state power and created the conditions for it to be challenged. In Red Tape, Johnston reconstructs the relationship between radio reporters and the listeners who liked and trusted them while recognizing that they produced both propaganda and entertainment.
The liberal exodus? Political and social attitudes of Russian migrants
Thursday, 18 April, 2024 13:15 - 14:45 CEST
Flight and migration are part of the dramatic consequences of the escalation of the Russian war against Ukraine. Millions of people have been forced to leave their devastated homes in Ukraine, but hundreds of thousands have also fled their Russian homeland. This presentation will analyze rare survey data on social and political views of Russian migrants in…
20 Jahre EU-Osterweiterung – Wie steht es um die europäische Integration?
Thursday, 11 April, 2024 19:30 - 21:30 CEST
Zwanzig Jahre nach der großen Erweiterungsrunde von 2004 ist es an der Zeit eine Zwischenbilanz zu ziehen: wie hat sich die Osterweiterung auf die EU insgesamt ausgewirkt?
Dignity and Historical Injustice: An Albanian family's history
Thursday, 11 April, 2024 17:00 - 18:30 CEST
Lea Ypi's new book will follow the journey of a woman from Ottoman Salonica to a life under surveillance in post-war Communist Albania. The book explores the moral and political meanings of dignity, individual and collective, in connection to questions of truth and reconciliation, historical injustice and the relationship between fact and fiction.
The Origins of Entanglement: Volkswagen and China's Early Reform Era, 1978-1991
Thursday, 04 April, 2024 13:15 - 14:45 CEST
Understanding VW's intense focus on China requires delving into the history of its interactions with its largest global market. However, much remains unknown about the perspectives of decision-makers in Wolfsburg and Beijing regarding VW's entry into China.
Buchpräsentation: Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium
Wednesday, 20 March, 2024 18:00 - 20:00 CEST
Die Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung erlebt in den deutschsprachigen Regionen seit etwa 2015 einen Boom. Dieses Handbuch erschließt das Feld in seiner Breite und reflektiert zugleich kritisch den Forschungsstand.
Feminism and Marxism in Women’s Thought in Socialist Hungary and Self-Managing Yugoslavia
Tuesday, 19 March, 2024 17:00 - 18:30 CEST
The long debates between feminism and socialism about the place of class and gender in progressive politics were re-invigorated in unexpected ways by the Marxist renaissance and second wave feminism in various locations across East Central Europe.
Eröffnung der Ringvorlesung "Nordic Perspectives on Russia"
Thursday, 14 March, 2024 18:00 - 19:30 CEST
Die Ringvorlesung widmet sich den langen Linien der Geschichte der Nachbarschaft der nordischen Völker und Nationen und Russlands zwischen Konflikt und Koexistenz. Im Laufe des Semesters präsentieren führende Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Geschichts- und Politikwissenschaften aus Norwegen, Schweden, Finnland und Estland ihre aktuellen Forschungen zur…
Everyday World Governance: Soviet Citizens and International Organizations During the Cold War
Thursday, 14 March, 2024 13:15 - 14:45 CEST
Highlighting the forgotten stories of Soviet citizens who contributed to the nuts-and-bolts operations and lesser-known activities of world governance, the talk will illustrate the UN’s importance for a group of Soviet "one-worlders," who used the world body to imagine and work for a better world amidst the realities of the Cold War.
Workshop: VWI invites RECET. Discourses on Fascism and Nazism
Tuesday, 12 March, 2024 14:00 - 18:00 CEST
In this public Workshop RECET scholars meet VWI fellows – four keynote presentations are commented and discussed and you are welcome to join us!
Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia
Thursday, 07 March, 2024 19:00 - 21:00 CEST
In socialist Yugoslavia, there was a vast production of monuments dedicated to the antifascist People’s Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution. Since the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, these monuments have been subject to various fates, from neglect and physical destruction to global fame generated by the high-modernist…
Post-Nazism – Postcolonialism – Post-Migration: The Current Debate on Holocaust Memory
Thursday, 15 February, 2024 17:00 - 19:00 CEST
Questions of historical politics and cultures of remembrance are once again in the focus of public attention. After the phase of its globalization and institutionalization, Holocaust memory seems to be subject to a far-reaching process of change.
