Established in 2016, this lecture and workshop series is a venue to explore the key issues in current debates on the history of central and eastern Europe. Without downplaying the region’s specificities, the series aims at bringing the history of the formerly socialist countries into the broader framework of European and global history. We invite guest speakers from various academic backgrounds and with diverse geographical foci to cover a wide range of themes and approaches that include political, social, economic, cultural or intellectual history. Providing a platform for debate and dialogue, the series also strives to unravel the significance of history in the public sphere.
2020
Invisible and Visible Cities: Dystopia, Utopia and Russia's Revolutions
12 October 2020
Speaker: Mark Steinberg (University of Illinois) - 12 October 2020
2019
Ukraine’s Creative Class: Political Imagination in Turmoil
22 November 2019
Organizers: Alexander Etkind (European University Institute), Mikhail Minakov (National University of Kyiv), Bohdan Shumylovych (European University Institute)-
1991: Year of Perelom
23-25 October 2019
Organizer: Alexander Etkind (European University Institute)
2018
Political Imaginaries and Imperial Collapse: plans for the territories of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
November 2018
Speakers: Alexander Semyonov (National Research University Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg), Jeremy Smith (University of Eastern Finland and HEC Visiting Fellow) and Carolina de Stefano (University of Eastern Finland and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
Local History, Ethnicity, and Intercommunal Violence
27 September 2018
Speaker: Max Bergholz (Concordia University)
Commemorating Oblivion: Romani Holocaust, Politics of Memory and Czech Roma Struggle for Recognition
12 April 2018
Speaker: Yasar Abu Ghosh (Charles University Prague)
Polish Post(-)colonial Nationalism
15 March 2018
Speaker: Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau)
Destalinization as Decolonization
12 March 2018
Speaker: Sabine Dullin (SciencePo, Paris)
The Defence of Constitutionality: Or the Czech Question in Post-National Europe
8 March 2018
Speaker: Jiří Přibáň (Cardiff University)
Historical Debates in and on Ukraine: Case of Stepan Bandera
31 January 2018
Speaker: Yaroslav Hrycak (University of Lviv)
Poland`s Museum of the Second World War: Battlefield of History and Politics
18 January 2018
Speaker: Paweł Machcewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
2017
Making of the Socialist Man: Society and Ideology in Yugoslav Socialism
2 June 2017
Speaker: Igor Duda (University of Pula)
Scorched Earth: Stalin's Reign of Terror
15 February 2017
Speaker: Jörg Baberowski (Humboldt University Berlin)
Globalizing Southeastern Europe
23 January 2017
Speaker: Ulf Brunnbauer (University of Regensburg)
2016
Defining Public Sphere by Organic Boundaries – Syncretism in Creating National Culture in the 19th Century Habsburg Monarchy
5 December 2016
Speaker: Taku Shinohara (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
After Serfdom and Slavery: Intellectual Legacies and Cultural Memories
25 October 2016
Speaker: Irina Prokhorova (NLO Publishing House and Prokhorov Foundation, Moscow)
Europe since 1989: A History
4 October 2016
Speaker: Philipp Ther (University of Vienna)
POLIN: How to be Jewish, Polish and European?
16 June 2016
Speaker: Dariusz Stola (Director of POLIN, The Museum of Polish Jews)
From Habsburg Galicia to Cocoaland: History of Development and Polish Social Scientists from 1880s to 1960s
1 June 2016
Speakers: Malgorzata Mazurek (Chair of Polish Studies, Columbia University)
Poland – Between Anti-Imperial Traditions and Imperial Temptations. Lessons of Eastern European Geopolitics
15 April 2016
Speaker: Andrzej Nowak (Jagiellonian University)