CfP: Refugees and the (Global) Cold War

This international workshop will bring together established and emerging scholars to chart the intersection between refugee history and Cold War history. The most well-known connection between these two fields is the figure of the political refugee fleeing from the socialist East to the democratic West. As recent research in both areas has highlighted, however, forced displacement and Cold War competition were global phenomena.

CfP: Nazis and Nazi Sympathisers in South America after 1945. Careers and Networks in their Destination Countries

Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Erich Priebke: These names are exemplary of the Nazi criminals who found refuge in South America after 1945. There, they either remained untroubled or were only made accountable for their crimes many years later.

CfP: Transnational Perspectives on Music, Sound and (War) Propaganda (1914–1945)

Humboldt University (Berlin) and University of Zurich

International Conference
Transnational Perspectives on Music, Sound and (War) Propaganda (1914–1945)

21–23 October 2021 (Virtual conference)

Convened by Diego Alonso (Humboldt University, Berlin), Christian Koller (Swiss Social Archives and University of Zurich) and Steffen Just (University of Potsdam)

Keynote speakers:
Anne C. Shreffler (Harvard University)
Jens Gerrit Papenburg (University of Bonn)

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