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In this episode, Ágoston Berecz, Research Fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, is in conversation with Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University of Wellington) on the increasingly fraught relationship between language, education and nation-building in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Kingdom of Hungary. Having gained extensive political autonomy within Austria-Hungary since its formation in 1867, in theContinue reading “Episode 18. Ágoston Berecz: Language and Identity in Late-Habsburg Hungary”

The first lecture in our virtual lecture series Discover Ukraine: History, Culture and its People, will take place on 13 April (15:00 Chile; 20:00 London; 21:00 Berlin; 22:00 Kyiv). Our first speaker is Dr Fabian Baumann, the University of Chicago “Between Empires: Ukraine in the Nineteenth Century” During the nineteenth century, the territory of UkraineContinue reading “Discover Ukraine. The course begins today (13 April)”

A date for your diaries at the start of next term: 18:00 Friday 29 April 2022, Birkbeck Cinema: BIMI presents a screening of Alim (1926) with an introduction by Olena Palko A newly restored silent film from 1926 featuring original music by the Crimean Tatar folk and jazz guitarist Enver Izmaylov. Introduction: Dr Olena PalkoContinue reading “Film Screening: ALIM (1926)”

In this episode, Ulf Brunnbauer, Professor of History at the University of Regensburg and director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, discusses the categories of perception, as well as strategies for the inclusion and exclusion of interwar Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia’s Muslim minorities. The historic “othering” of these minorities was broadlyContinue reading “New Episode Release: Ulf Brunnbauer: Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the Balkans”

In this episode, Ulrich Schmid, Professor of Russian Culture and Society at the University of St Gallen, talks to us about Russian nationalist ideology and its place in contemporary Eastern European and international politics. Prof Schmid discusses how popular understanding of the Russian nation has evolved since imperial times, and what being Russian means inContinue reading “New Podcast Episode: Ulrich Schmid, “Minorities, Federalism and Nation in Russia””

How did Ukraine come into being? Who and when ‘created’ Ukraine and its people? Dr Olena Palko speaks about “a revolution in perception” of Ukraine in the wake of the First World War and the role of experts in thinking Ukraine into being. The presentation is based on the collective volume “Making Ukraine. Negotiating, Contesting,Continue reading “Did Lenin and Stalin create Ukraine? (lecture by Dr Olena Palko)”

In this episode, Andrei Cușco, researcher at the “A.D. Xenopol” Institute of History in Iași, Romania, talks to Anca Filipovici at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, about the history of Bessarabia and its various minority communities, from the 19th century to the dissolution of the Russian Empire, and during the interwar period.Continue reading “Episode 15: Bessarabia, a Contested Borderland and its Peoples”

Fundraising event for Razom Emergency Response: https://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response/ Registration link https://forms.gle/rpp6i6MTH427mxRo6 Lecture Series organised by the BASEES Study Group for Minority History, Oriente Medio News, Universidad Internacional de Cuernavaca, URIS Ukrainian Research in Switzerland. In recent weeks, Ukraine has become the focus of world media covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Behind those headlines, remain theContinue reading “Discover Ukraine: history, culture, and its people (ONLINE lecture series)”

In this episode, Maciej Górny, Professor of History at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, talks to us about the legacies of the First World War in East, Central and Southeast Europe. Górny draws our attention to the experiences of war along the Eastern Front, an area of study that hasContinue reading “Episode 14: Maciej Górny. Nation-States and the Minorities Question after the World War One”

We are pleased to share the call for papers for the workshop “Poland, Ukraine and Operation Vistula” to be held on 20th June 2022 at the University of Cambridge. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Vistula (Akcja Wisła, Операція Вісла): the forced re-settlement of the Ukrainian, Lemko and Boyko communities from south-eastern Poland. This wasContinue reading “CfP: Poland, Ukraine, and Operation Vistula, Forced Migrations in Research, Culture, and Politics (20.06.2022, U of Cambridge)”