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New Podcast Announcement
Jonathan Conlin invites Samuel Foster to explain the rationale behind his new module on “Europe in the Era of the Great War” and report on how students have engaged with imagology and uncomfortable analogies with their own times. This podcast is part of The Lausanne Project, which provides a forum for scholars to share research…
2025 Best First Book Proposal Prize: Winner announced
[Winner] Dr Andrea Gritti (Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan and Central Asian Studies (CETOBaC), EHESS, Paris) The Epitome of All That is Modern: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Trading Houses in the Late Ottoman Balkans Andrea Gritti’s proposal represents a significant contribution to both the study of European Jewish history and the economic development…
CfP: Life under the Red Banner: Minorities in Socialist Europe, 11-12 September 2025, University of Basel, Switzerland
The Study Group for Minority History is pleased to invite interested scholars to submit their abstracts for the international conference “Life under the Red Banner: Minorities in Socialist Europe”, to be held on 11-12 September 2025 at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Deadline for applications is 1 April 2025. About the conference Socialist regimes have…
Prize for Best First Book Proposal: deadline extended
The Deadline for the Study Group’s Prize for Best First Book Proposal has been extended to 31 January. The Prize for Best First Book Proposal in Minority History was launched by the BASEES Study Group for Minority History (SGMH) in September 2022 to recognise scholarly excellence among early career academics seeking to publish their original research with a major…
Publication Announcement: ‘Minorities at War (Part 2): Minority Agency in Times of Conflict’
The SGMH’s latest publication, ‘Minorities at War (Part 1): State Policies in Times of Conflict’, has now been published as a special issue of the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE), Vol. 23 No. 3 (2024). Thank you to all of our contributing authors for their patience over the last three years. Alongside a thematic…
Publication Announcement: ‘Minorities at War (Part 1): State Policies in Times of Conflict’
The SGMH’s latest publication, ‘Minorities at War (Part 1): State Policies in Times of Conflict’, has now been published as a special issue of the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE), Vol. 23 No. 2 (2024). Thank you to all of our contributing authors for their patience over the last three years. Alongside a thematic…
Publication Announcement: ‘Being a Minority in Times of Crisis’
The SGMH’s latest publication, ‘Being a Minority in Times of Crisis’, has now been published as a special issue of the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (‘East European History’), Vol.71, No.3 (December 2023). Thank you to all of our contributing authors for their patience over the last three years. Alongside a thematic introduction co-authored by Olena Palko and Samuel Foster, the…
Muslims in Ukraine. Old History – New Challenges
Workshop Report Organizers: Olena Palko (Basel), Mykhaylo Yakubovych (Freiburg) Sponsored by: URIS Ukrainian Research in Switzerland, BASEES Study Group for Minority History (SGMH), University of Basel, 14th of September 2023 Report by Micha Steiner The URIS-Workshop: “Muslims in Ukraine. Old History – New Challenges” took place on the 14th of September 2023 at the University…
New SGMH Publication: Ukraine’s Many Faces Land, People, and Culture Revisited
We are happy to announce the publication of our new edited volume on Ukraine, entitled “Ukraine’s Many Faces Land, People, and Culture Revisited”. The book is the first title in the new book series of the University of New Europe, and can be downloaded for free from the publisher’s website. Print version is forthcoming at the end of July.
Conference Report: Minorities at War from Napoleon to Putin, 11-12 May 2023, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
Conference Report Organizers: Costantin Ardeleanu, Raul Cârstocea, Samuel Foster, Olena Palko Report by: Julia Elena Grieder, SGMH Subscription Officer; Department of History, University of Basel The third biennial symposium of the BASEES Study Group for Minority History (SGMH) took place on 11.-12. May 2023 in the New Europe College, Bucharest. It was supported by the…
2023 Best First Book Proposal Prize: Winner announced
[Winner] Vita Zalar (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana): The Political Economy of Antigypsyism: Habsburg and Post-Habsburg Perspectives Vita Zalar’s forthcoming monograph, The Political Economy of Antigypsyism: Habsburg and Post-Habsburg Perspectives, breaks new ground by offering a historical materialist reading of the imperial and post-imperial forms of structural racism against…
CFP: The war in Ukraine and its impact on ethno-religious minorities in the region
2023-01-30 Russia’s war against Ukraine, which began in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and the war in the Donbas, and escalated into a full-scale attack in February 2022, was a challenge to the entire system of international relations that has developed since the end of World War II. Researchers and politicians are analyzing the…
New Publication Alert
Olena Palko (2022) Between Moscow, Warsaw and the Holy See: The Case of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz Amidst the Early Soviet Anti-Catholic Campaign, Revolutionary Russia. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2136353 This article offers a micro-history of Soviet anti-religious actions during the mid-1920s through a reconstruction of the investigation of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz and his forced collaboration with the Soviet secret…
Episode 33. Ronald G. Suny: Armenia, Soviet Studies and the Future of Minority History
In our final episode (for now), we talk to Ronald Grigor Suny, the William H. Sewell Junior. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. Besides a long-standing reputation for having been an early exponent…
Episode 32. Petre Matei: Localizing the history of the ‘forgotten victims’: The Roma in Romania
In this week’s episode, Petre Matei (Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania) talks to Raul Cârstocea (Maynooth University) about the history of the Roma in Romania, from the late 19th century to the present. Petre Matei argues for a more nuanced history of the Roma, questioning dominant narratives of…
Twenty-seventh international conference on Jewish studies to be held in Moscow, July 11-13, 2021. Deadline: April 2, 2021.
The conference program is expected to include sections reflecting traditional areas of Judaism (biblical and Talmudic studies, Jewish thought, Jewish history of different periods, Judeo-Christian relations, the Holocaust, Israeli studies, languages and literature, art, Ethnology, demography, genealogy, museums and archives, etc.). Topics that allow for an interdisciplinary approach to research are welcome. Reports of graduate students and young researchers, as shown by the positive experience of the past few years, are included in the youth panels of the conference with the participation of specially invited debaters.
CfP The End(s) of Communism: Paths to De-Communization in the Former Eastern Bloc (09.07.2021 – 10.07.2021). Deadline 31.03.2021
This conference will contribute to that effort by bringing together scholars of Central and Eastern Europe to explore the contested legacies of communism in the former Soviet bloc, with a focus on those countries where debates over the communist past have become entwined with broader developments in contemporary politics.
CALL FOR PAPERS/WORKS IN PROGRESS SIXTH HISTORIANS OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE WORKSHOP University of Illinois at Chicago via Zoom APRIL 8-9, 2021
Polish Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago is pleased to announce the Sixth Workshop for Historians of East Central Europe to be held virtually through UIC on April 8-9, 2021. The workshop is open to faculty and graduate students in history and related disciplines.
ICCEES 10th World Congress: Bridging National and Global Perspectives
ICCEES, the International Council for Central and East European Studies, is a global consortium of national scholarly associations dedicated to multi-disciplinary research into Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. The Organising Committee of the 10th ICCEES World Congress (August 3-8, 2021) is delighted to reopen the Call for Submissions portal. The deadline is February 1, 2021.
ASEEES 53rd Annual Convention: Diversity, Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity
The 2021 ASEEES convention invites a diversity of approaches to diverse topics in the field and celebrates our various backgrounds, disciplines, and ways we create and propagate knowledge. Deadline for ALL Submissions (panels, papers, roundtables, lightning rounds) is March 1, 2021.
Polish American Historical Association Webinar Series: Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz and Iwona Flis
The Polish American Historical Association invites you all to join us at a webinar that features talks by Dr. Anna Mazurkiewicz and Iwona Flis, who will both present their ongoing research projects. The virtual event will take place on Saturday, February 13, 11:00 AM EST/17:00 Warsaw.
Polish American Historical Association Webinar Series: Dr. Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska and Dr. Katarzyna Nowak
The Polish American Historical Association presents its first webinar of 2021. The webinar features two talks, by Dr. Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska and Dr. Katarzyna Nowak, that each highlights an aspect of the experience of women in Polish diaspora. The virtual event will take place on Saturday, January 16, 11:00 AM EST/ 17:00 Warsaw.
Die XVI. Internationale Slavistische Konferenz: Junge Slavistik im Dialog
Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Russischen, Polnischen und Tschechischen in den Bereichen der Literatur-, Kultur- und Sprachwissenschaft. Herzlich willkommen sind aber auch andere Slavinen und benachbarte Fächer wie z.B. Geschichts-, Politik- oder Sozialwissenschaften, die sich mit slavischen Themen befassen.
The Piotr S. Wandycz Fellowships
A sum, not to exceed $1000.00, to be awarded each year to an applicant from Poland wishing to come to the United States to pursue research on a topic related to Polish history and politics broadly understood.
Winter 2020 Central Slavic Conference CFP
The Central Slavic Conference was held at the historic Missouri Athletic Club and Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Friday, Feb. 28th-Sunday, March 1st, 2020. To view the Winter 2020 CSC Conference program, click here.
Die XVI. Internationale Slavistische Konferenz: Junge Slavistik im Dialog
Die Konferenz findet online statt und bietet vor allem Studierenden und Promovierenden eine Gelegenheit, ihre Forschungsprojekte vorzustellen.
23.04. bis 24.04.2021 in online, Deutschland
CfP: Anti-fascism and Ethnic Minorities: Political and Cultural Forms of Resistance in Central and Eastern Europe, ca 1920–1950
Conference workshop, November 11–12, 2021, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in Zeitgeschichte Polens
Die Stelle ist im Teilprojekt “Eigentumskonzepte und Eigentumskonflikte in der Privatisierung. Kommunale Selbstverwaltung und kommunales Eigentum im östlichen Europa seit 1990” angesiedelt.
Study Group for Minority History 