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”
During her recent visit to the EUI, Sociobord member Professor Machteld Venken (Luxemburg University), shared her insights on the education of minors in European borderlands during the interwar period in an exciting talk that was based on her recently published and very well received book Peripheries at the Centre. Machteld Venken’s book is available […]
Sociobord member Claudine Marissal will feature as an invited speaker in FLUXUS’s lecture series on migration and borders in the Greater Region (The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, Luxemburg University). In her lecture Dr. Marissal will explore tensions and negotiations between industrialists, trade unions and associations that defended the interests of migrants and […]
For our third public talk in the Sociobord lecture series we welcome Professors Karolina Lendák-Kabók, Hanna Lindberg and John Paul Newman. Together, this multidisciplinary trio will discuss a forthcoming special issue of the European Review of History on which all three are collaborating. Co-edited by Profs Lendàk and Lindberg, this special issue explores past and […]
First lecture Borderland Stories: The Meanings of Post-Imperial State-Building in Interwar Eastern Poland on Wednesday 3 November at 17:00 (CET), Via Zoom Speaker: Kathryn Ciancia (Associate Professor – Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Friday, 5 March 2021 saw the inaugural workshop of a new ERC project, Social politics in European borderlands, 1870s–1990s: A comparative and transnational study (SOCIOBORD). EUI Professor of History Laura Lee Downs, the project’s principal investigator, previews here some of the project’s most exciting features. Continue reading
Professor Laura Lee Downs (HEC) will officially launch her ERC project “Social Politics in European Borderlands, 1870s-1990s: A comparative and transnational study” (SOCIOBORD) with a kick off workshop Friday 5 March, from 14h to 18h30 (CET). SOCIOBORD seeks to reframe the history of welfare and social care in modern Europe by restoring to view the […]
Principal Investigator, Laura L. Downs speaks at the Modern European History Seminar on Wednesday 2 December at 3 pm (London time). Her talk is titled ” A Tolmino il nostro asilo rimarrà unico de italiano”: Gender, social action and nationalist/irredentist politics in the Upper Adriatic, 1919-1950″. To join the meeting online, please click on the […]