In December 2019, the Unlikely Refuge? team met at Polin Museum in Warsaw to discuss various aspects of space and border in refugee studies. Forced migration is intrinsically connected to space as it entails displacement, leaving home, the challenges of traversing long distances and arriving somewhere else. This new place, […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
The Unlikely Refuge? ERC project members Michal Frankl and Nikola Karasová participated in a workshop titled “Citizenship until further notice? Refugees and revocation of nationality,” that took place in Villa Lanna in Prague, Czech Republic (19-20 November 2019). For a full program in pdf please click here Michal Frankl: “Appalling […]
Refugees and historians. Local, national and transnational research on unexpected countries of refuge Prague, June 24-25, 2020 Workshop – Call for Papers It has been widely recognized that refugees often remain outside or on the very margin of the history writing, both in general, international or global histories, as well […]
International Holocaust Conference: Silence, Speech, Memory, Message, Understanding – After 75 Years | Halle (14-16 November 2019) http://wcms.itz.uni-halle.de/download.php?down=53681&elem=3253118
November 18, 2019 Discussion at the French Institute in Prague with François Héran, Claire Zalc, Michal Frankl and Antoine Marès.
Special Lessons & Legacies Conference Munich | November 4-7, 2019 The Holocaust in Europe Research Trends, Pedagogical Approaches, and Political Challenges https://www.ifz-muenchen.de/zentrum-fuer-holocaust-studien/lessons-legacies/
Frankl, Michal. ‘Země nikoho 1938. Deportace za hranice občanství’. Forum Historiae 13, no. 1 (2019): 92–115. https://doi.org/10.31577/forhist.2019.13.1.7Output of the Czech Science Foundation project No. GA18-16793S. In November 1938, following the First Vienna Award and the loss of Southern Slovakia, the leadership of the autonomous Slovakia triggered the deportations of thousands […]
Prague, November 19-20, 2019 Venue: Villa Lanna, Prague Claire Zalc, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris Michal Frankl, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague Deadline for the submission of abstracts extended until July 20, 2019! Statelessness has been recognized as one of the major […]
The last issue of S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. DocumentatiON (2018/2), the open-access journal published by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, includes a section on refugees in East-Central Europe prepared by guest editors Michal Frankl and Wolfgang Schellenbacher. The articles, listed below, originate from the workshop “Refugees and […]
The ERC Consolidator project “Unlikely refuge? Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century”, led by the principal investigator Dr. Michal Frankl and hosted at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, welcomes applications for research positions starting with September 1, 2019. Deadline for […]