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 […]
Conferences and workshops
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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 […]
The team members of the “Unlikely Refuge?” ERC Project will participate at this year’s convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). The event will take place in Chicago, USA, between 10-13 November 2022. Chaired by Michal Frankl (Principal Investigator), the panel entitled Humanitarianism and Refugee […]
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 […]