Europe in the Concentration Camps. The Expanded Camp System 1944
2-5 February 2025, Berlin
Victims, Their Organisations and the Struggle over the Memory of Suffering
The Czech Journal of Contemporary History (Soudobé dějiny) invites authors to submit articles for a special issue on victim associations in post-socialist and post-conflict countries after 1989.
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour. Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution
London, 7-9 January 2026
This conference is planned as a follow-up to the seven successful conferences, which took place at Imperial War Museum London in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018 and 2023. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated and open up new fields of academic enquiry.
Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities
by Claudia Bernardi, Viola F. Müller, Biljana Stojić, Vilhelm Vilhelmsson
This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobility studies, it investigates moving workers through the lens of coercion.
Le travail forcé des républicains espagnols pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (French)
Après l’exode massif du début de l’année 1939 qui mène vers la France plusieurs centaines de milliers de républicains espagnols, ces derniers connaissent tout au long de
"Dissent in World History" | World History Bulletin | Fall/Winter 2024
World History Bulletin is seeking quality research essays, experiential learning case studies, and classroom activities for inclusion in its upcoming Fall/Winter 2024 issue, “Dissent in World History.”
Trauma, Hope, and Illusion. Cities at the End of World War II and in Post-War Transformation
Prague, 5-6 May 2025
International Conference held on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the End of World War II
This international conference aims at the issue of post-war transformation in a wider European context. The focus here is on cities not only as places, but also as actors of social, cultural, economic and political processes.
Main conference organiser: Prague City Museum
Der Umgang mit Behinderung nach 1945. Die DDR und Westdeutschland in internationaler Perspektive (German)
Wir fragen: Wie lebten Menschen mit Behinderungen in den beiden deutschen Staaten nach 1945? Welche Konzepte von Behinderung gab es während des Kalten Krieges in Ost und West? Wo steht die Forschung dazu?
Children and Childhood in the Holocaust in Eastern occupied territories
The research field of childhood experience in Eastern Europe under German occupation faces complex questions and moral dilemmas concerning the capacity of children to act and their liability. Approaches in Holocaust research with a socio-historical perspective therefore require an in-depth analysis of the society in the territories in which the Holocaust took place.