Announcements
23.10.2025 - 24.10.2025 Ruth Nattermann, PI “Transnational Humanitarianism and Refugee Policy in the Age of World Wars” (DFG), Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe), University of Leipzig

This workshop invites contributions that investigate displacement, migration, and refugee relief in Southern European countries, the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa during the Twentieth Century. The main temporal focus lies on (but is not limited to) the period between the early 1920s and the late 1960s, discussing the effects of continued or renewed conflicts on refugees in the Mediterranean from the first postwar period to the aftermath of the Second World War and the first decades of the State of Israel.

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Reviews
Rev. by Jakub Szumski, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena

This book is an attempt to reinterpret the history of the region by including the impact of global forces. Written concisely by political scientists, it covers a wide range of countries over three centuries. Rather than retelling the region’s history as a whole, the authors aim to reflect on long-term trends, patterns, and mechanisms.

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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
 
01.08.2025 - 30.04.2026, Fort Hays State University, Department of History and Philosophy