The challenges at our borders aren’t new. That’s why OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the ECR Consolidator Grant Project Unlikely Refuge? have brought together historians and human rights defenders to discuss refugee protection in Central and Eastern Europe, past and present. To respond wisely in […]
Conferences and workshops
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Migrants and Refugees at Work in the 20th-Century East Central Europe Prague, 19-20 November 2025 The workshop is organized by the project “Migration and Us: Mobility, Refugeedom and Border from the Humanities Perspective (MyGRACE)“, registration number CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008741, supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic […]
Participation, Knowledge Production and Collaboration Prague, December 1-2, 2025 Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in cooperation with the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Innsbruck University Venue: Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na […]
To register, please write to unref-public@mua.cas.cz by 15 June at the latest. For download, click here
A report on the workshop “Petitioning on the Move”, written by Emilia Henkel (Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität-Jena), was published on H-Soz-Kult. The workshop was organized by Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences; in cooperation with the ERC-funded projects “NEPOSTRANS – Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilization to nation-state consolidation. A […]
Prague, June 18-20, 2025 Organised by the ERC Consolidator project Unlikely Refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences In the decades following the Second World War, the image of refugee protection became increasingly associated with the […]
Exploratory workshop Warsaw, February 3-4, 2025 Organised by ERC Consolidator project Unlikely Refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The interdisciplinary […]
On 11-12 April 2024, the “Making Refuge: Place and Space in Refugee Studies” Workshop took place in Villa Lanna, Prague, organized by the Unlikely Refuge? ERC project (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS) and the Refugees in Europe 1914–1923 Research Group (Faculty of History, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, supported […]
Prague, April 11–12, 2024 The refugee experience is inevitably spatial. It involves movement between different places and imagination of locations as spaces of protection or danger, of mobility or immobility. It is no coincidence that terms like refuge, displacement, andasylum express the spatial dimension. Being uprooted often results in a […]
International workshop “Petitioning on the Move” will take place on 19-20 September at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. The workshop is organized in cooperation with the Unlikely refuge? and Nepostrans ERC-funded projects.
The Unlikely Refuge? team members participated at the “Remaking the World in the Shadow of the Cold War. Migrants, Workers, Soldiers, Spies in Post-1945 Reconstruction” workshop that took place at Central European University in Vienna on 1-2 June 2023. Apart from acting as chairs, two our researchers presented their own […]
The Unlikely Refuge? team will coorganize and participate at the “Remaking the World in the Shadow of the Cold War. Migrants, Workers, Soldiers, Spies in Post-1945 Reconstruction” conference at the Central European University, Vienna, on 1-2 June 2023. For more details please visit this webpage.
Workshop Call for Papers Prague, September 19-20, 2023 Petitions and addresses to higher authorities offer a unique look into people whose voice is hard to find in the material historians mostly use. Wishes or complaints addressed to places and representatives of power or appeals against decisions from the above was […]
Deadline: March 1, 2023 Date: June 1-2, 2023 Venue: Central European University (Vienna, Austria) Conference organized by the CEU Jewish Studies Program in cooperation with the CEU Nationalism Studies Program and the ERC Consolidator project ‘Unlikely refuge? Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century’. “The new world […]
Exploratory workshop Among the multifaceted transformations of East-Central Europe in the 1990s, mobility and open borders turned into one of the symbols of the new attachment to the “West”, in both the physical and symbolical way. The quick adoption of the 1951 refugee convention, the introduction of national asylum procedures […]
Exploratory workshop Among the multifaceted transformations of East-Central Europe in the 1990s, mobility and open borders turned into one of the symbols of the new attachment to the “West”, in both the physical and symbolical way. The quick adoption of the 1951 refugee convention, the introduction of national asylum procedures […]
By Doina Anca Cretu / Francesca Rolandi, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences Scholarship has increasingly dealt with Central and Eastern Europe as a space of local, national, and transnational humanitarian mobilization in response to the human costs of abrupt political ruptures. In this context, the […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]