There is a broad public debate on the restitution of objects with colonial or imperial provenance.However, political and legal debates often disregard the normative understanding and the legal imagination of communities of origin related to these objects. The workshop addresses this issue by providing a common conceptual and disciplinary framework for understanding the embeddedness of material culture in a plurality of legal orders and normative systems.

Workshop Date: September 17 to September 19, 2024 (Prague)

We are excited to announce a call for papers for a workshop to form a collaborative and interdisciplinary team. The workshop's primary goal is to collectively prepare a panel submission for the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) conference in 2025 while concurrently working on a collective monograph for a distinguished publication thematic series.

Conference in Dresden, 03.09.2024 - 05.09.2024

The second half of the twentieth century saw a change in the concept of victimhood in post-socialist and post-conflict countries. Although victims are often perceived through the prism of their trauma and passivity, attention is currently focused also on their active role in transitional justice and their social mobilization.

On September 11-13, 2024, KU Leuven will host an international conference on the interrelated themes of imperialism and Belgian expansionism. We welcome paper proposals that explore the theoretical and methodological challenges involved in writing new global histories of imperialism between 1830, when Belgium was founded, and the Great Depression of the 1930s.