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Episode 27. Catherine Wanner & Julia Buyskykh: Religious Minorities in Ukraine and Poland In this episode, Catherine Wanner, Professor of History, Anthropology and Religious Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, and Julia Buyskykh, Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and co-founder of the Centre for AppliedContinue reading “Episode 27. Catherine Wanner & Julia Buyskykh: Religious Minorities in Ukraine and Poland”

In this episode, Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust History at Brandeis University talks to Jan Rybak, Early Career Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism. For several decades, Professor Polonsky has been at the forefront of Polish Jewish historiography. Having grown up in Apartheid South Africa, he came to Poland toContinue reading “Episode 26. Antony Polonsky: From Apartheid South Africa to Jewish History in Poland”

Roundtable participants: Anca Filipovici (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, in Cluj, Romania), Christopher Wendt (European University Institute in Florence), Giuseppe Motta (Sapienza University of Rome) and Petru Negură (IOS). Among the many challenges facing the new, or enlarged, nation-states that arouse on the territories of the former empires of Central, Eastern and SoutheasternContinue reading “Episode 25. Roundtable: Contested Minorities in the ‘New Europe’”

BASEES 2023 Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, 31 March – 2 April 2023  The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) invites proposals for panels and roundtables, and papers for its 2023 annual conference. We plan to hold BASEES 2023 in-person from the 31st of March to the 2nd of April, which willContinue reading “Call for Papers“

Join us at the Institute of Historical Researchat Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU on 15 July 2022, 2:00PM – 7:30PM for The IHR Centenary Festival ‘History Past, Present & Future’, where we will present our Podcast Series ‘Eastern Europe’s Minorities in a Century of Change‘. https://www.history.ac.uk/events/history-past-present-future-ihr-centenary-festival

Episode 24. Rok Stergar and Samuel Foster: Persecution and Public Administration in Post-Habsburg Slovenia In this episode, we’re joined by Rok Stergar, Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana and historian of the First World War, Nationalism and the Habsburg Empire in the long nineteenth century, to discuss the repercussions of Austria-Hungary’s collapse in theContinue reading “New Episode Release: Rok Stergar. Persecution and Public Administration in Post-Habsburg Slovenia”

Episode 23. Morgane Labbé and Olena Palko: Minority Statistics and Nation-Building in East-Central Europe In this episode, Morgane Labbé, Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, discusses the role of statistics and maps within Eastern and Central European nation-building. She emphasizes the need to consider the historical rise of statisticsContinue reading “New Podcast Alert: Morgane Labbé: Minority Statistics and Nation-Building in East-Central Europe”

Olena, Palko and Fabian Baumann, eds. “Revisiting Soviet Modernity in the Non-Russian Periphery”. Euxeinos – Culture and Governance in the Black Sea Region, Vol. 12, No. 34 (2022). Editorial by Olena Palko and Fabian Baumann Constructing Identities, Ascribing Nationalities: The Polish Minority in Ukraine During Late-imperial and Early-Soviet Rule by Olena Palko Soviet “Modernizing” Strategies towards Jews inContinue reading “New Publication Alert”

In this episode, Barbara Warnock, Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library, and Elise Bath, the Library’s International Tracing Service (ITS) Archive Team Manager, discuss the marginalization and persecution of Roma and Sinti people before and during the Nazi period. Informed by archival resources held by the Library, including the firstContinue reading “New Podcast Alert: Barbara Warnock and Elise Bath: Persecution of Roma and Sinti in the Nazi era and after”

Our podcast series ‘Eastern Europe’s Minorities in a Century of Change’ is back! In the first episode, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History at Northwestern University) talks to Oleksii Chebotarov (New Europe College) about Jewish communities in the late Russian Empire and the Soviet Union and the challengesContinue reading “New podcast release: Episode 21. Yohannan Petrovsky-Shtern: Ukraine and the Framing of East European Jewish History”