CfP: Conference on War and the Contemporary World

Conference on War and the Contemporary World

April 1, 2022

University of St. Thomas School of Law

Call for Papers

 

The contemporary world has become an arena for emerging new types of international conflict. In recent years, we have seen hybrid forms of war, as in Russia’s use of a spectrum of weapons – military, cyber, and informational – in its 2014 takeover of the Crimean Peninsula; or more recently, in Belarus’ weaponization of refugees and immigrants at the Polish border.

CfP: Between Trade and Aid: Theories, Practices, and Results of Attempts of Exporting State-Socialist Development Models for the Third World

International Workshop, Leipzig 29 June – 1 July 2022

Organized by Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (Leipzig) and Research Project B03 „Socialist Development Models for the ‚Third World‘“, and Research Project A07 „‚Free Radicals‘? Political Mobilities and Post-Colonial Processes of Respatialization in the Second Half of the 20th Century“ of the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 „Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition“ (Leipzig)

CfP: Recasting subjects and subjectivities in the writing of history: strategies, spaces and conflicts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

The Workshop “Recasting subjects and subjectivities in the writing of history: strategies, spaces and conflicts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” is organized by the PhD in Global History and Governance of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, a programme based on a multi-disciplinary approach centred on history and law and focused on the comparisons, connections and processes of globalization that have characterized different areas of the planet since the 15th century.

On the liquidation of International Memorial

International Memorial Board Statement

On 28 December 2021 Russia's Supreme Court ruled to close International Memorial.

The lawsuit, filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, referred to a missing 'foreign agent' designation on some of the materials produced by International Memorial. This is only a formal pretext, though, and the court hearings showed that these allegations were groundless.

CfP: Recasting subjects and subjectivities in the writing of history: strategies, spaces and conflicts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

The Workshop “Recasting subjects and subjectivities in the writing of history: strategies, spaces and conflicts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” is organized by the PhD in Global History and Governance of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, a programme based on a multi-disciplinary approach centred on history and law and focused on the comparisons, connections and processes of globalization that have characterized different areas of the planet since the 15th century.

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