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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 researchContinue reading “New Podcast Announcement”

[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 developmentContinue reading “2025 Best First Book Proposal Prize: Winner announced”

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 haveContinue reading “CfP: Life under the Red Banner: Minorities in Socialist Europe, 11-12 September 2025, University of Basel, Switzerland”

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 majorContinue reading “Prize for Best First Book Proposal: deadline extended”

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 thematicContinue reading “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. 2 (2024). Thank you to all of our contributing authors for their patience over the last three years. Alongside a thematicContinue reading “Publication Announcement: ‘Minorities at War (Part 1): State Policies in Times of Conflict’”

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, theContinue reading “Publication Announcement: ‘Being a Minority in Times of Crisis’”

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 UniversityContinue reading “Muslims in Ukraine. Old History – New Challenges”

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 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 theContinue reading “Conference Report: Minorities at War from Napoleon to Putin, 11-12 May 2023, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania”