Conferences

Category: Conferences, XXw, News, Social history, Political history, Historical Policy

"Remembering Europe - Civil Society Under Pressure Again", Call for Papers, Budapest

27 November 2017

Call for Papers/Presentations for academic/practitioner workshop at the History Department, Central European University, Budapest, on December 8 - 9, 2017

From the Baltics to the Black Sea and back the legitimacy of critical civic institutions, organisations and movements of civil society is under...

Category: Conferences, XXw, News

Image, History and Memory. Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe

24 November 2017

Images as witnesses to history, materialised memories or their active co-creators? The multi-faceted relationship between the past and its visual representations will be the main focus of the seventh edition of the international Genealogies of Memory conference to be held in Warsaw on 6-8...

Category: Conferences, XXw, News, Social history, history of Polish culture, Memory studies, Biographies

Convention and Revolution. Life writing by women in the 1800s and 1900s: archives, critiques and methods

22 November 2017

Long hours in the archives. Raise your hand if you have never yawned over letters of journals written by women of the centuries past. (No hands go up.) The thoughts creep in: this is so boring, so conventional, so predictable – and there's another pile of pages to read…Fighting sleep, we still...

Category: Conferences, News, Middle Ages, Political history, Biographies, History of religion

"The Mission of John Capistran in Central and Eastern Europe (1451-1456). The Transfer of Ideas and the Strategy of Communication in the Late Middle Ages”, Conference in Warsaw 16-17 Nov

30 October 2017

 

The conference „The Mission of John Capistran in Central and Eastern Europe (1451-1456). The Transfer of Ideas and the Strategy of Communication in the Late Middle Ages” will be held in the Polish Historical Institute in Warsaw.

The conference is part of a research project which aim is to...

Category: Conferences, Lectures, Editorial notes, XXw, Discussion, News, Social history, Political history, Cultural history, Memory studies

"An Atomics of the Self: Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind Re-Revisited- a story of Milosz, communism and the atom bomb in poetry"

22 October 2017

 

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in New York City cordially invites you to the lecture by Prof. Christopher Caes on "An Atomics of the Self: Czeslaw Milosz's The Captive Mind Re-Revisited- a story of Milosz, communism and the atom bomb in poetry".

If you want to attend a...

Category: Conferences, Editorial notes, XXw, News, Political history, Social history, Economic history, Memory studies, Historical Policy

The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences - Call for proposals

18 October 2017

 

The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America invites presentation proposals for our 76th Annual Conference to be held at the Harriman Institute,  Columbia University in New York City, June 8-9, 2018.

Proposals are solicited for complete sessions or individual papers in any of...

Category: Conferences, Editorial notes, XXw, Polish historiography, News, Social history, Political history, Military history, Economic history, Cultural history

The Third Congress of International Researchers of Polish History

06 October 2017

 

“The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: History – Memory – Legacy” is the guiding theme of the congress, which will be held between 11–14 October in Kraków. Co-organizers of the event include the Polish History Museum.

The congress is a cyclic meeting held every five years, for researchers from...

Category: Conferences, Meeting, Research projects, Discussion, News, Political history, Social history, Economic history, Cultural history

Democracy beyond the nation?

04 August 2017

How can democracy be collectively shaped in today's Europe? How can it be observed beyond the concept of a nation? What dangers and challenges currently threaten democracy?

We invite 100 young people 18 years and older to participate in a European democracy project in Eisenach and work together to...