Chair of History of Eastern Europe – Prof. Dr. Pavel Kolář | Research

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On the following pages you may find information on our research interests, on current publications and on our courses.

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Call for Papers: Calibrating Narratives of Violence in 20th Century Europe: Liberal, Fascist, Communist, (Post-) Colonial
Prague, 28-30 November 2024

The Chair of History of Eastern Europe at the University of Konstanz, in cooperation with the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, invites applications to a two-day conference exploring conceptual, interpretational and narrative issues connected with the historiography of violence in modern Europe.

Further information can be found here
Dr. Maria Buko was awarded in the FNP MONOGRAPHS competition.

We are pleased to announce that the Publishing Council of the Foundation for Polish Science has awarded Dr. Maria Buko an award in the FNP MONOGRAPHS competition. Dr. Buko's doctoral thesis, titled "The Second Generation of the Camps. Memory and Experience of the Descendants of Polish Prisoners of German Nazi Concentration Camps." will soon be published in the "golden" series of the FNP.

FNP monographs are a series of outstanding works in the field of humanities and social sciences, which have been selected in the competition of the Foundation for Polish Science continuously since 1994.

More about the competition on the FNP website
A comprehensive European history of violence in the 20th century

The Volkswagen Foundation provides funding for an ambitious endeavour of Pavel Kolář, professor of Eastern European history at the University of Konstanz

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Colloquium Modern History – summer semester 2024

Tuesdays, 5-6:30 pm, Room G308

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