The editors welcome theoretical contributions, comparative studies as well as case studies providing a broad range of perspectives on historical narratives and memory politics in North America, Europe, and Eurasia in the 20th and 21st centuries. … More CfA: Troubled Pasts and Memory Politics: Contesting Hegemonic Narratives in North America, Europe and Eurasia
The workshop aims to explore the potential of the past as a resource in a business environment characterized by historical discontinuities. … More CFP: Uses of the Past by Enterprises in Central-Eastern Europe (Lviv, 23–24 Oct 2020)
The workshop aims to zoom in on the history of industrial towns in Western and Eastern Europe to improve our understanding of how the people who lived in these industrial territories made sense of the boom and bust cycles of the iron and steel industry. The organisers are interested in the narratives and counter-narratives of these industrial towns and cities. … More CFP: Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of Industrial Cities (Esch-Belval, Luxembourg, 10–11 Dec 2020)
This special issue to appear in 2021 will problematize the often-uncritical use of images in publications and displays about communism. … More CFP: Visual Ethics after Communism
The editors invite papers dedicated to the characteristic aspects of architecture and public art in socialist Yugoslavia. … More CFP: Thick Description: Socialist Yugoslavia in Construction. Histories of Postwar Architecture, Issue n. 6 (Deadline: 15 December 2019)
This conference will focus on the challenges of socialist urbanization in the RSFSR and other USSR republics, as well as socialist countries of Eastern Europe. … More CFP: Cities in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc. Urbanization, Ecology and the Municipal Economy (1917–1991) (Erlangen, 20–21 Feb 2020)
This symposium will explore the agency of art exhibitions during the Cold War (1958–1989) in establishing transnational collaborations across the Iron Curtain, revealing the complexity of interrelations between art, society, and politics. … More CFP: Exhibitions as Sites of Artistic Contact during the Cold War (Iasi, 8–9 Nov 2019)
WHAT TO FORGET? WHAT TO PRESERVE? Politics of Digital Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe Roundtable In the last decade, there has been increasing interest in digital technologies and their influence on the production of memory, history and heritage not only within academic research, but also in politics, especially in Eastern Europe and Russia. The … More Roundtable on politics of Digital Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe
urbanHIST welcomes abstracts on the main theme of its second conference: Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism. … More CFP: Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism (Stockholm, 21–23 Oct 2019)
This workshop will explore political uses of ancient pasts and archaeology in east-central Europe in the states during the Cold War and post-communist period. … More CFP: Digging Politics: The Ancient Past and Political Present in East-Central Europe (Durham, 12–13 June 2019)
Heritage and Socialism 