Our fellow Julia Reinke presented her research within the internal Masaryk Institute and Archives Seminar series. Abstract of Julia's presentation on refugees from the Greek Civil War in the German Democratic Republic can be found here: unlikely-refuge.eu/2021/04/26/jul…

We are happy to announce the final program of our workshop "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. Info on panels and registration at the link: unlikely-refuge.eu/2021/06/02/wor…

This Friday it is my turn at the Unlikely Refuge? conference. Preparations underway, humanitarianism on the table, Idyll around.

Today we are kicking off our three-day workshop on Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century. Stay tuned for our live reporting of the presentations!

Friederike Kind-Kovacs (@KindKovacs ), Marija Vulesica, Christine Schmidt (Dr Christine Schmidt ) and Dan Stone got our workshop going with their presentations on humanitarian workers from and/or acting in CEE.

The second panel included Ruth Nattermann, Kinga Frojimovics, and Luciana Jinga (Luciana Jinga ). Speakers looked at humanitarian work, its conceptualization, politicization, and/or contestation in post-revolutionary Russia, communist Hungary, and post-1989 Romania.

Wonderful first day of the Unlikely Refuge? workshop on humanitarian mobilization in Eastern and Central Europe. Distance notwithstanding, it felt as we were debating in the same (physical) room!

Great first panel on Day 2! Jo Laycock (Jo Laycock ), Sara Silverstein (@SilversteinProf ), and Kasia Nowak (Katarzyna Nowak ) looked at practices of humanitarianism and social and political implications in post-WWI South Caucasus, interwar Poland, and post-WW2 DP camps.

Panel 2 of the day explored the theme of local humanitarianism. Franciszek Zakrzewski presented on organizational mobilization in interwar Lubartów. Maren Hachmeister explored Germany-based self-organized elderly care. Laura Brade looked at relief networks in Bohemian Lands.

Lively last panel of the day with Nikola Karasová (@NiKarasova ), Sielke Kelner (@ZiliKelner ), and Cristian Capotescu discussing political, faith-based, and private humanitarianism in socialist regimes.

Big thanks from me all participants of the workshop: for staying and staying active on Zoom over three days, and even more, for leveraging the history of Central and Eastern Europe to rethink the meanings of humanitarianism as such!

Spolu s Lidia Zessin-Jurek jsme se zamysleli nad historickými paralelami země nikoho, v roce 1939 na hranicích okupovaného Polska a Sovětského svazu, dnes mezi Polskem a Běloruskem: denikn.cz/711954/zoufala…

Congratulations to Miloslav!

Our special issue of S:I.M.O.N focused on the study of Holocaust in Bohemian Lands is out. Thanks to the authors, the guest editors and to the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for their support! simon.vwi.ac.at

Speaking to Matthew Frank about minority protection and mass population transfer was a pleasure, the depressive topic notwithstanding! Listen to the podcast here: soundcloud.com/user-267970745…

On October 26, I will present my research on revocations of citizenship in Poland and Czechoslovakia (1938-39) in our Jewish history seminar. I will discuss the evaluation of loyalty and language of appeals against denationalization. Eager to get your feedback!

aktuality.sk/clanok/egnjvr8… Článek o deportacích ze Slovenska v roce 1938 a zemi nikoho. S mým drobným přispěním...

Join us today for a talk with Jana Lipman on Refugee Camps in America, the launch of our Refugees in Current Research Series. At 3PM in our Hollar building (or on Zoom).

hef.northwestern.edu/.../lessons-le…... It is a pleasure to announce that the second European Lessons and Legacies conference will be held in Prague in November 2023! Read the CfP and apply!

ehri-project.eu/podcast-episod… An EHRI project podcast with me about a photograph taken in the no man's land, and a testimony.