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Please join us this afternoon in Foster 103 at 5:00 as we welcome Professor Nicholas Stargardt of Oxford University. He will be presenting a talk titled, “What were they fighting for? German mentalities in the Second World War” from his … Continue reading →

Please join the Central Europe Workshop on Thursday, Feburary 25 at 5:00 in Cobb #205 for a discussion of Antje Postema’s paper entitled “Trauma Market: Transmissions and Transactions of Trauma in Postwar Bosnian Commemorative Landscapes.” The paper is available in … Continue reading →

Please join us on Wednesday, Feburary 3 at 5:00 in the John Hope Franklin Room (#224) of the Social Sciences Building as we join the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop for a presentation by Míša Appeltová. Her paper, “Obesity … Continue reading →

Please join us this Thursday, January 7 at 4:30 as we welcome Nick Hudac from Charles University in Prague for his presentation, “From Jánošík to Štefánik : The National Hero in Slovak Visual Culture.” Our meeting will be held in the … Continue reading →

Please join us this Thursday at 4:30 in Foster 408 for Cheryl Stephenson’s screening and discussion, “The Puppet and the Individual in Jiří Trnka’s 1952 Staré pověsti české (Old Czech Legends).” There will be no pre-circulated paper for this presentation, … Continue reading →

Dear Central Europeanists, Please join us this Thursday, November 19 at 4:00 for a special session at the Smart Museum of Art, where we will be viewing two exhibitions of German and Central European art. More information about the exhibits … Continue reading →

Please join the Central Europe Workshop Thursday, November 5 at 4:30 in Foster 408 for our discussion session on research and archive challenges. This session will focus on the technical, linguistic, and other practical issues of research in an on … Continue reading →

Please join us next Wednesday for our next meeting, A Roundtable Discussion on the 2015 Migration Crisis in Europe and the Middle East in collaboration with the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop, Middle Eastern History and Theory, the Center … Continue reading →

Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces:Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe 1960-1990 Friday, Oct 23, 7pm             Dating from the postwar period to the last decades of Communism in Eastern Europe, this screening on collectives and art communities features film shorts … Continue reading →

Wednesday, October 28 5:00-6:30 Social Sciences Building Room 224 (John Hope Franklin Room) Roundtable on the European Refugee Crisis Thursday, November 5 4:30-6:00 Location TBA Discussion Session on Research and Archive Challenges This session will focus on the technical, linguistic, … Continue reading →