From 4th May till 9th August 2015 – Interdisciplinary Lab at Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Under the title “Cracks in the Curtain Wall – Beyond an Architecture of Cleanliness“ the Bauhaus Lab 2015 focuses on the new material culture of … Continue reading
In the course of exploring the planning and architecture of any given city, scholars are often eager to reproduce an image of its Master Plan, if one is available. Such a document immediately offers the scholar’s audience a snapshot, bird’s-eye abstraction of … Continue reading
The Black Sea in the Socialist World 6 & 7 February 2015 Birkbeck College, University of London Conference Programme Supported by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, The Wellcome Trust (Small Grant in the Humanities), The Society for the … Continue reading
ALTERNATIVE ENCOUNTERS: THE “SECOND WORLD” AND THE “GLOBAL SOUTH”, 1945-1991 Location: Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena 3–4 NOVEMBER 2014 ***A collaboration between the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; the Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig; … Continue reading
The Black Sea in the Socialist World Birkbeck College, University of London February 6-7, 2015 Sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Call for Papers In May … Continue reading
Epistemologies of In-Betweenness: East Central Europe and the World History of Social Science, 1890-1945 Workshop Institut für Ost- und Südeuropaforschung Regensburg 29-30 May, 2015 Call for Papers Convenors: Katherine Lebow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Research; Małgorzata Mazurek, Department of History, … Continue reading
See the call for papers attached below for the conference, “Cities of a New Type: New Industrial Cities in Popular Democracies after 1945,” to be held in Dunaújváros, May 21-22, 2015. The conference will explore the transnational history of new … Continue reading
We’re pleased to announce the start of our next book discussion, which will be on Katherine Lebow’s Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013). Similar to Sztálinváros in Hungary and Magnitogorsk … Continue reading
We’re pleased to begin our next book discussion of the Second World Urbanity project: an exploration of Kate Brown’s Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2013). In this richly researched book, Brown explores the … Continue reading
Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, May 2nd–3rd 2014 http://deconstructingutopia.wordpress.com/ This two-day workshop will bring together members of academic and cultural institutions from across Europe and Russia in order to discuss key concepts, individuals, organizations and turning points that comprise … Continue reading
