On 22 July 2021, Ágnes Katalin Kelemen (Unlikely Refuge?) participated at an online conference Jewish Crossroads: Between Italy and Eastern Europe, organized by the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and by the Fondazione Per i Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia. She gave a talk on […]
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Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) took part in the Memory Studies Association Fifth Annual Conference in Warsaw on 6 July 2021, chairing a panel titled “Nostalgia for the Lost Jewish World.” For more information, please visit the MSA Conference Website.
Nikola Karasova and Julia Reinke (Unlikely Refuge?) participated in the online conference Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century (23-25 June 2021). In their talks, both of them focused on the Greek Civil War refugees. Humanitarian Mobilization under the Conditions of an Emerging State Socialist Regime: […]
Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) participated at a conference Between War and Mass Murder – 80 years to “Operation Barbarossa”, organized by Western Galilee College between 22-24 June 2021. She presented a paper titled “Snatched away to Siberia while standing in a line to a gas chamber” – Polish Jewish Survivors […]
The Unlikely Refuge? team organizes an online workshop titled Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century (23-25 June 2021). The event will be open to the public via Zoom. Please register at karasova@mua.cas.cz no later than 22 June to receive a link to join the workshop. […]
The Unlikely refuge? team member Ágnes Katalin Kelemen participated at the annual conference of the Hungarian Association of Canada with a paper on Hungarian Jews at German Universities in interwar Czechoslovakia. A Rarely Told Central European Story: Hungarian Jews at German Universities in Czechoslovakia (1918-38) Abstract Hungarian Jewry was shocked […]
The Unlikely refuge? (UnRef) team members contributed to the latest issue of the Czech public history journal Dějiny a současnost (The History and the Present). Under the title “Unconventional” Refugees, among others, they attempt to draw attention to the often-neglected topic of refugees to socialism, which fell out of the scope […]
The Unlikely Refuge? team member Doina Anca Cretu published an essay titled “A Regime of Immobility” in the History Workshop journal. Can refugee assistance become a way to contain? Doina Anca Cretu explores how those fleeing Austria-Hungary’s peripheries in the First World War could also be immobilised, as they were […]
The Unlikely refuge? team member Doina Anca Cretu participates in this year’s European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC 2021). She gives her presentation on Thursday 25 March 2021 as part of the panel titled Abandoned, Orphaned & Displaced: Histories of Children’s Destitution and Relief, organized by Friederike Kind-Kovács (Hannah-Arendt-Institute for […]
Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) and Katharina Friedla were invited to present their book “Syberiada Żydów polskich” by the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The meeting took place on March 11, 2021, as part of the Department of Research on Eastern Europe’s History and […]
We are pleased to invite you to a book presentation “Syberiada of Polish Jews” by Lidia Zessin-Jurek and Katharina Friedla, organized in German by the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). It will take place online on Thursday 25 February 2021 from 11.15 to 12.45 am. Please register at klodnicki@europa-uni.de. For […]
On Thursday, 11 February, the CAS SEE Weekly Seminar in cooperation with the Unlikely Refuge? ERC Project (UnRef) hosted historian Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan). After a brief introduction on the UnRef by its Principal Investigator Michal Frankl, Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan) presented her book The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the […]
On Thursday, 11 February at 3:30 pm (CET), the CAS SEE Weekly Seminar will host historian Pamela Ballinger. After a brief introduction on the ‘Unlikely refuge?’ project by Michal Frankl (principal investigator), Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan) will present her book ‘The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy’ (2020), in dialogue […]
While emigration of the bulk of German-speaking Jews merged into the paradigmatic of the refugee phenomenon, wartime refugeedom of Polish Jews is perceived as a delayed and marginal attempt to save one’s life. The possible reasons for these interpretative differences are analysed in the article by the Unlikely Refuge? member […]
On 14 January 2021, Lidia Zessin-Jurek (Unlikely Refuge?) and Katharina Friedla were invited to present their book “Syberiada Żydów polskich” at a seminar organized by the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. Literature often describes the experience of refugees as an ‘odyssey’. Lidia Zessin-Jurek and Katharina Friedla together […]
The Unlikely Refuge? member Francesca Rolandi will participate in the CAS SEE Weekly Seminar on Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 10 am. The seminar will be dedicated to the presentation of a new book titled Fiume Crisis by Dominique Kirchner Reill (University of Miami). Francesca Rolandi will be involved in […]
“Saved” in the East, or “Survivors” of the East? Even today there is still a disagreement on how we should perceive Jewish refugees from Poland, who were deported by Stalin to Siberia. Only now the memory of their experience and loss comes out of the great shadow cast by the […]
Doina Anca Cretu, the member of the Unlikely refuge? ERC research project, published a short article titled “Epidemics in Europe’s Refugee Camps: A Tale of Two Eras.” Her text was released in the last issue of the Papiers d’actualité/Current Affairs in Perspective (No. 11, December 2020), issued by the Pierre […]
The Unlikely Refuge? ERC project’s Principal Investigator Michal Frankl published his new article titled “Citizenship of No Man’s Land? Jewish Refugee Relief in Zbąszyń and East-Central Europe, 1938–1939” in the last issue of the S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation (02/2020), the open-access journal of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust […]
The Unlikely Refuge? team member Ágnes Katalin Kelemen participated at the Online Conference “Anti-Jewish Quotas in Central Europe” organized by the Nationalism Studies Program and Jewish Studies Program at Central European University (Budapest/Vienna) and the Tom Lantos Institute (Budapest) between 23-24 November 2020. She gave a presentation titled “Rebels against […]
Photo: Radek Miča, Universitas Chci vepsat uprchlíky zpátky do dějin Evropy, říká historik Michal Frankl Pro svůj ambiciózní projekt věnující se uprchlíkům ve středovýchodní Evropě ve 20. století získal před dvěma lety ERC konsolidační grant. Historik Michal Frankl z Masarykova ústavu a Archivu Akademie věd se tak stal prvním humanitněvědním badatelem na […]
Doina Anca Cretu and Maximilian Graf, members of the Unlikely refuge? ERC research project, joined the Annual ASEEES Convention, which took place virtually this year on November 5-8 and 14-15. Together with Sielke Beata Kelner (Leiden University), they formed a panel titled “Feared ‘Mobilities’: Policy, Discourse, and Experience of Migration […]
Prague, June 23-25, 2021 Organisers: Doina Anca Cretu, Michal Frankl (ERC-funded project Unlikely refuge?, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences) Humanitarianism has become one of the defining features of our contemporary world, as governments, private associations, and international organizations are increasingly responding to human suffering across […]
The talk addresses the origins of significant differences in perception of various refugee waves that occurred after the Nazis’ ascent to power. While emigration of the bulk of German-speaking Jews merged into the classic example of the refugee phenomenon, perhaps even paradigmatic of the experience, refugeedom of Polish Jews continues […]
Online Conference: Slovakia and the Holocaust. Histories and Legacies of a Model Nazi Ally | 8 September 2020 | Dokumentačné stredisko holokaustu/Fakulta sociálních věd Univerzity Karlovy https://www.facebook.com/events/dokumenta%C4%8Dn%C3%A9-stredisko-holokaustu/virtual-conference-slovakia-and-the-holocaust/1512682472237102/
Conference: Jewish-Polish-German Realms of Memory. A Triple Neighbourhood | Berlin, 4-5 September 2020 http://www.cbh.pan.pl/de/jewish-polish-german-realms-memory-triple-neighbourhood
Lidia Zessin-Jurek, the member of the ERC project Unlikely refuge?, gave a public speech at a memory event organized today by the municipality of Frankfurt (Oder) on the occasion of the European Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Stalinism and National Socialism. The title of her presentation was “European […]
During a two-day internal workshop in January 2020, the Unlikely Refuge? research team discussed the use of anthropological methods in the historical research of refugeeness and humanitarianism. Our debate developed around similarities and differences between the historical and anthropological theoretical approaches and research methods. Furthermore, we considered the applicability of […]
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, […]
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 […]
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
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/