Social Politics in European Borderlands lecture series 1

This lecture series seeks to launch a dialogue between borderland studies and welfare studies by exploring new approaches to research on social welfare in culturally and ethnically diverse border regions. Eight young to mid-career scholars will present their own cutting-edge research alongside larger reflections on the legacies of empire in post-imperial borderlands, the role of local actors – primarily families and associations – in shaping welfare systems, how competition for local power affects the treatment of minorities, and the significance of borderlands for local, national and global histories.

Programme 

• 3 November at 5:00 PM (CET), Via Zoom
  Borderland Stories: The Meanings of Post-Imperial State-Building in Interwar Eastern Poland
  by Kathryn Ciancia, (Associate Professor – Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• 29 November at 5:00 PM (CET), Via Zoom
  Peripheries at the Centre: History of borderlands as an alternative history of Europe
  by Machteld Venken (EUI and University of Luxembourg)
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• 13 December 2021 at 10 AM (CET), Via Zoom
  Ethnic and Social Minorities in European Welfare: The Cases of Finland and Yugoslavia
  by Karolina Lendák-Kabók (University of Novi Sad), Hanna Lindberg (Tempere University), John Paul Newman (Maynooth University)
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• 17 January 2022 at 5 PM (CET), Via Zoom
  “Is there a way out from the labyrinth of identifications? Everyday ethnicity and the history of nationhood in post-Habsburg Europe”
  by Gabor Egry (Politikatörténeti Intézet)
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• 24 January 2022 at 5:30 (PM), Via Zoom
  Postwar „normalization”: the reintegration of disabled veterans to Civilian Life in Interwar Lviv
  by Oksana Vynnyk  (Concordia University of Edmonton)
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• 15 February 2022 at 5 PM (CET), Via Zoom
  Fascism as an Anti-Habsburg Revolution. Crisis of the Rule of Law, Social Unrest and Political Conflict in post-Habsburg Upper Adriatic (1918-1926)
  by Marco Bresciani (University of Florence)
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