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NEWS
The College of Europe is seeking candidates for the newly established “EP-Geremek European Civilization Chair” created by the European Parliament in honour of the late Professor Bronisław Geremek. The Chair consists of a part-time professorship (at least 50%) for the period of 2010-2013, with a preferred starting date of 1st December 2010. The Chair will be based in Warsaw at the Natolin campus of the College of Europe.
The Chair will broadly focus on European civilization, with a special (...)
Jim McMillan died on 22 February 2010. He was the representative of the University of Edinburgh’s School of History and Classics in EURHISTXX since Edinburgh joined the network.
Jim grew up in Paisley, near Glasgow in Scotland. After a First Class Honors degree in History from the University of Glasgow in 1969, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, for his PhD, where he wrote a pioneering thesis on Women in France in the First World War, published as Housewife or Harlot: the Place of Women (...)
The 3rd Annual Summer Workshop for Holocaust Scholars The Persecution and Murder of Jews: Grassroots Perspectives Monday, 5 July – Monday, 12 July 2010 Call for Papers Submission deadline: 1 January 2010 About Yad Vashem and the International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, is located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Israel, and was established in 1953 by an act of the Knesset – the Israeli (...)
The Institut d’histoire du temps présent, the European Network for Contemporary History (EURHISTXX) and the network “Historiography and Epistemology of History” organize a series of lectures in preparation of the international conference to be held in Paris, October 2010, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the IHTP :
“The Writings of Contemporary History Today”
The seminar will compare the perspectives of contemporary history in different intellectual, scientific, and linguistic contexts. (...)
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc. (Claims Conference) is offering a limited number of fellowships for Ph.D. candidates pursuing advanced Shoah studies. The application deadline is January 25, 2010 for academic year 2010-2011 fellowships.
The Claims Conference Academic Fellowship Program for Advanced Shoah Studies strengthens Shoah studies and Shoah memory throughout the world. Our mission is to support advanced study of the fate of Jews who were (...)
For almost half a century the Cold War conflict shaped international relations and to a large extent influenced the history of individual nations. The Cold War was a global conflict, but in a particular manner was also a European conflict. The beginning and end of the Cold War (at least the beginning of its end) took place in Central Europe. For several dozen years Europeans on either side of the Iron Curtain prepared themselves for a potential apocalyptic conflict, or sought to prevent one (...)
Rapes committed during armed conflicts are often assumed to have a kind of inevitability. Even the term in French, viols de guerre, makes them seem an intrinsic part of war in any period. For a long time the victims, for the most part women and civilians, were accorded only a secondary importance. They were marginal in relation to the fighting and ranked somewhere between a form of booty and the warrior’s reward. Since they had no effect on the outcome of the war, they figured only in (...)
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