Conference: Between Perestroika and the War in Ukraine, Vienna
Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna, in cooperation with the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF), Potsdam; Central European University (CEU), Vienna; Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg; Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte des östlichen Europa (BKGE), Oldenburg; Nordost-Institut an der Universität Hamburg; Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf invite submissions for an international conference: Between Perestroika and the War in Ukraine: Alternative Temporalities in Eastern European and Jewish Histories, in June 29-30, 2026; Vienna.
The two-day international conference aims to bring together scholars from two fields that too often work separately: Soviet/post-Soviet history and Jewish studies. Its aim is to challenge the dominant narratives of both fields by telling the story of Jewish ‘staying’ as well as ‘leaving’ and refocus the attention of research onto communities outside the large metropoles. Building on the successful experience of the “Thinking Beyond the Soviet Jewry Narrative” Conference in Marburg (2023), this conference will explore the following interrelated questions by viewing the period between Perestroika and the War in Ukraine as a distinct chapter in the history of Eastern Europe and its Jewish communities:
Deadline for proposals: February 15, 2026 | DETAILS
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