Announcements
07.11.2024 - 08.11.2024 Dr. Lena Oetzel (Salzburg) / Sandra Schieweck M.A. (München) / Prof. Dr. Reinhild Kreis (Siegen)

Die „Arbeitsgruppe Internationale Geschichte“ im Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD) veranstaltet am 7.–8. November 2024 ihre 6. Jahrestagung zum Thema „Verträge als Instrumente internationaler Beziehungen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Typen, Akteure und Praktiken“ am Historischen Kolleg in München.

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Reviews
Rez. von Katherine Speth, Global and European Studies Institute, Universität Leipzig

Cold War history has long been centered around the ideological battle between East and West and their respective political and economic systems. Post-89 scholarship has steadily expanded past this reductionist interpretation of a vast period that involved far more issues and actors than are popularly remembered or recorded in mainstream history.

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Journals

Populism and Social Cohesion in Southern Africa: Insights from Scholars and Practitioners

Ed. by Constanze Blum / Ulf Engel

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Articles
Von Victoria Kravtsova, Humboldt Universität Berlin

Between the post-s

Russian theorist Madina Tlostanova describes the ex-Soviet space as a “void”[1] in the structure of global knowledge production, in which the Global South has a symbolic right to postcolonialism and the Global North, to postmodernism. For her, post-socialism or post-communism as a theoretical lens is insufficient to grasp the “postsocialist, postcolonial and post imperial overtones [that] intersect and communicate in the complex imaginary of the ex-Soviet space.”[2] Tlostanova believes that the Soviet approach to creating “its own New Woman in her metropolitan and colonial versions” implied that “the gendered subjects of the ex-colonies of Russia and the USSR are not quite postcolonial and not entirely postsocialist.”[3] However, this specificity, as well as “presocialist local genealogies of women’s struggles and resistance, tend to be erased.”[4]

Postcolonial theory becomes increasingly popular in the post-Soviet contexts as processes of decolonization continue in the former ‘periphery’ of the former USSR.

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Conference Reports
01.09.2022 - 03.09.2022 European Network for Avantgarde and Modernism Studies
Von Beata Hock, Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa, Leipzig

Seit 2008 fördern die alle zwei Jahre stattfindenden Kongresse des European Network for Avantgarde and Modernism Studies (EAM) das Studium der Avantgarde und Moderne in Europa in einem breiten zeitlichen und disziplinären Rahmen und setzten dabei Themenschwerpunkte wie „High and Low“ (Poznań, 2010), „Utopia“ (Helsinki, 2014) und "CRiSiS" in 2020.

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