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In this episode, Tamara Scheer, Lecturer in East European and Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, talks to us about ethnic and linguistic diversity in the Habsburg military in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Following Austria-Hungary’s political formation in 1867, its broad ethnic diversity was recognised as key to its legal and institutional cohesion.Continue reading “Episode 13, Tamara Scheer: Diversity and Language in the Austro-Hungarian Army”

In this episode, Alexander Maxwell, Associate Professor in History at Victoria University of Wellington, discusses his research on Habsburg Pan-Slavism, a form of minority linguistic nationalism. While Panslavism is often conflated with Russian expansionism, linguistic Panslavism, as originally propounded in the Habsburg lands in the 1830s and 1840s, emphasised linguistic commonality between speakers of differentContinue reading “Episode 12. Alexander Maxwell: Pan-Slavism as ‘Minority Nationalism’ on the Habsburg Monarchy”

Welcome to the second season of the SGMH’s Podcast Series ‘Eastern Europe’s Minorities in a Century of Change’. We are honoured to welcome Pieter Judson, Professor of 19th and 20th Century History at the European University Institute in Florence, talking to Jan Rybak at Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism about the relation betweenContinue reading “Second Season of our Podcast Series ‘Eastern Europe’s Minorities in a Century of Change’”

Yugoslavs, Czechoslovaks and the Limits of ‘Popular Internationalism’, 1906-1921. A SSEES Study of Central Europe Seminar with Dr Samuel Foster (University of East Anglia)

This Rountable further explores the themes of the Study Group’s prelude conference “Contested Minorities in the ‘New Europe’: National Identity from the Baltics to the Balkans, 1918-1939”. Bringing together a range of scholars who attended the event, and subsequently contributed to its post-conference publication, it re-considers some of the key issues and debates. This eventContinue reading “Roundtable: “Contested Minorities in the ‘New Europe’, 1918-1939” 3 February 2022″

Episode 10. Orlando Figes: The ‘Nationalities Dilemma’ in the Russian Empire In this episode, Orlando Figes, Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, discusses ethnic and religious diversity in the late Russian Empire and its impact on the outcome of the 1917 revolutions in the broader historical sense. Orlando also highlights important, andContinue reading “Episode 10 in the podcast series ‘National Minorities in a Century of Change’ has been released”

In this episode, John Paul Newman, Associate Professor in Twentieth-century European History at Maynooth, National University of Ireland, discusses his ongoing research into the lives and experiences of physically disabled military veterans in the Former Yugoslavia during the inter-war and Cold War eras. Despite receiving official and public praise for their sacrifices in the First andContinue reading “Episode 9 of the podcast series ‘Eastern Europe’s Minorities in a Century of Change’ has been released”

In this episode, Boerries Kuzmany, assistant professor for Habsburg and East European History at the University of Vienna, talks to us about ethnic and religious diversity in the Habsburg province of Galicia, specifically the city of Brody located today near Ukraine’s border with Poland. Boerries is also the principal investigator for the “Non-Territorial Autonomy asContinue reading “New Episode Released: Boerries Kuzmany (Vienna) on Non-Territorial Autonomy and Minority Protection”

Polish Studies Group invites scholars and publishers to submit original research articles or book chapters for the first edition of the annual Polish Studies Article Prize. The prize honours the best English-language article or book chapter in Polish studies published in a peer-reviewed journal or an edited collection with an imprint of 2021. The prize is open toContinue reading “Polish Studies Article Prize”

In this episode, Andrii Portnov, Professor of Entangled History of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), talks to us about the historiographical challenges of Ukraine’s ethnic and confessional diversity. Once the borderland of three different empires, the territory that forms modern-day Ukraine had failed to secure its independence in the aftermath of the FirstContinue reading “Episode 7. Andrii Portnov: The entangled history of Ukraine’s minorities:”