Announcements
28.05.2025 - 30.05.2025 Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid; University of Wroclaw

This conference seeks to explore how different aspects of courtiers and ceremonies, diplomacy, images, objects, and visual culture contributed to the political integration between the Polish-Lithuanian courts and the rest of the continent. Traditionally, court studies have focused on singular cases to argue that the competition between courts was a driving force behind court culture.

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Reviews
Rev. by Sabine Jagodzinski, Abteilung Handschriften und Sondersammlungen, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

Noch eine Monografie über Transkulturalität[1], handelnde Dinge[2] und den Orientalismus des frühneuzeitlichen Polen-Litauens[3]? Auf den ersten Blick erscheinen diese Themen – zumindest aus Sicht einer Kunsthistorikerin mit Schwerpunkt Vormoderne und östliches Mitteleuropa – bereits recht erschöpfend behandelt.

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Journals

Uncovering Non-Official Expectations of Independence in Africa
Ed. by Ngozi Edeagu and Dmitri van den Bersselaar

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Articles
By Jens Jäger, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln

Interpol – or rather the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) [1], as it was known until 1956 – was the only international organization to fall entirely into German hands after 1933. In contrast to the Nazi policy towards international organizations, which was generally ambivalent if not hostile [2], the new leaders of the German police took a keen interest in the ICPC.

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Conference Reports
12.10.2023 - 14.10.2023 Cristian Cercel, Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen; Dietmar Müller, Leipzig University
By David Borchin, Institut für Interdisziplinäre Studien und Forschungen, Lucian-Blaga-Universität-Sibiu
 
01.10.2025 - 30.09.2029, Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Leipzig University
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