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 […]
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Greek Refugees in Socialist Czechoslovakia: The State of the Art and Future Research Opportunities by Nikola Tohma The paper analyzes the existing research on Greek Civil War refugees, particularly in the Czechoslovak context, and discusses possible new research trajectories. Highlighting the available archival sources, oral history interviews, and memoirs, the […]
At the invitation of the EuMePo (European Memory Politics) Jean Monnet Network, Lidia Zessin-Jurek participated in a conference organized in Budapest (June 14-16, 2023), where she presented a paper in the panel “Intergenerational Trauma after Violence: Memory, Narrative, and Agency across Vulnerable Populations” led by Laura Kromják and Oliver Schmidtke. […]
Michal Frankl and Lidia Zessin-Jurek participated in the workshop “Memory, Migration and Populism: The Post-Imperial Historical Legacy and Heritage of Central and Eastern Europe”, organized by the Department of Mobility and Migration, Institute of Ethnology, CAS, 13th – 14th October 2022. For the event’s full program please click here or […]
The UnRef’s PI Michal Frankl was interviewed by a Czech-language online magazine Reportér. In the article, published on 2 March 2022, he reminds of WWI refugees from the territory of today’s Ukraine arriving in Austria-Hungary (including the Czech lands) during the First World War. Not only the Volhynian Czechs but […]
On November 6, 2021, Lidia Zessin-Jurek (UnRef) gave a public talk at the scientific session during the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the post-war transfer of population from Polesie to Western Poland. She presented a comparative text (in Polish): Inpatriation? Postwar homeward migrations in European collective memory – the […]
Michal Frankl (Unlikely Refuge?) will give a lecture titled Languages of loyalty. Revocation of Jewish citizenship in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939 (in English). The event is organized by the Masaryk Institute and Archive and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Prague […]