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Qualestoria
Subject: CfA: Remembering Communism in the Former Soviet Bloc: Politics ans Cultures of Memory After 1989 - Triest 4/2024
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-143285
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de Gruyter
Subject: CfA: Transnational Queer Histories - Berlin 4/2024
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-143414
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From: Costanza Calabretta <costanzacalabretta@gmail.com>
Date: 06.04.2024
Subject: CfA: Remembering Communism in the Former Soviet Bloc: Politics ans Cultures of Memory After 1989 - Triest 4/2024
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Remembering Communism in the Former Soviet Bloc: Politics ans Cultures of Memory After 1989
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07.04.2024, Qualestoria, TriestAnmeldeschluss: 18.04.2024
The year 1989 constituted a caesura in the field of European and world history, which also affected the politics and cultures of memory. In South and East-Central Europe, the collapse of communist regimes brought with it a “liberation of memory”, breaking the previous official narratives that had been established after the end of the Second World War. The anti-fascist paradigm, from “founding myth” and State ideology, was eroded and undermined, replacing resistance heroism with an emphasis on victims, both of Nazism and communism. Moreover, the assertion of an anti-totalitarian paradigm led in some cases to equating Nazism and communism, especially in terms of repressive practices and the use of terror.
In the post-communist countries, albeit with different national narratives, some common trend lines were established. An exclusively negative reading of the communist period prevailed, obscuring more articulate judgements that positively evaluated certain aspects of it, such as the modernisation of the economy or forms of social protection. In the countries that had been part of the Soviet bloc, communism was predominantly described as a phenomenon imposed from outside and extraneous to national history, allowing post-communist societies to be presented exclusively as victims, and obscuring the question of consensus, such as the multifaceted phenomena of adherence, acceptance, or collaboration with the regimes. Lastly, the reinterpretation of the Second World War and the communist experience has often been declined by accentuating a reading with nationalist traits, which in the pre-eminence given to the national anti-communist struggle has sometimes led to the rehabilitation of supporters of Nazism, also responsible for anti-Jewish persecution (see the case of Marshal Antonescu in Romania).
Examining the countries of the former Soviet bloc ‒ Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, the former Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic ‒ the monographic issue of «Qualestoria» aims to investigate how, in the course of the now thirty-five years that have passed since 1989, the cultures of memory and the official memory policies promoted by the institutions have changed, questioning also the public use of the history of communism. How did the different political actors rework the experience of communism after the collapse of the regimes? Is it possible to identify periodizations within the past thirty-five years? Have different judgments been established with respect to national regimes and the USSR? Has the entry of the former communist countries into the European Union led to changes in the memory of communism?
The monographic issue of «Qualestoria» invites potential contributors to submit essay proposals that develop both analyses of individual country cases and comparative approaches. «Qualestoria» evaluates proposals focusing on one or more of the following aspects:
- Commemorations and national anniversaries;
- Places of remembrance and museums;
- School manuals;
- Historiographical disputes;
- Political conflicts related to the memory of communism;
- The memory of 1989 and the end of the communist experience.
HOW TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE
Authors may submit a proposal to participate in the monographic issue. The abstract, with a maximum length of 1500 characters (including spaces) must be sent to qualestoria@irsrecfvg.eu by 18 April 2024 (please include a short CV); acceptance or rejection of the proposal will be communicated by 21 April 2024. The deadline for submitting articles is 15 July 2024. Contributions will be published in the issue 2/2024 of the journal.
Abstracts and essays can be written in Italian and English. Essays will be subjected to an anonymous double-blind peer review; they should be between 40,000 and 60,000 characters (including notes and spaces) and comply with the editorial rules and instructions for authors that will be provided.
For any additional information, please write to: qualestoria@irsrecfvg.eu
«Qualestoria», a journal of the IRSREC FVG (Regional Institute for the History of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age in Friuli Venezia Giulia), hosts contributions by Italian and foreign authors, promoting the publication of monographic and miscellaneous issues. The journal traditionally – but not exclusively – proposes topics related to the contemporary history of the Upper Adriatic and border areas, paying particular attention to the study and historiography of the countries of Central-Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
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From: Sabrina Mittermeier <sabrina.mittermeier@uni-kassel.de>
Date: 11.04.2024
Subject: CfA: Transnational Queer Histories - Berlin 4/2024
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Transnational Queer Histories
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01.04.2024, de Gruyter, Berlin
Transnational Queer Histories is intended to platform and support scholarship from academics at all levels of their careers, and to give voice to researchers and topics that have until now been unrepresented or underrepresented in academic publishing circles. As such, it is our intention to open the doorways for innovative, new research, highlighting non-traditional approaches and subject matter.
TQH’s title is its programme; we seek work that is
transnational and/or comparative in scope, not (strictly) limited to one geographic locality;
queer in the broadest sense, encompassing not just homo- and cis-normative experiences but also a variety of gender and sexual identities, including (but not limited to) bisexuality, pansexuality, asexuality, transgender and intersex lives; and
historical, with work drawing principally from modern and early-modern history, in whichever way the contributor defines these.
In this way, we seek to encourage the creation of a body of new scholarship that moves away from the confines of (generally) white, male, homonormative, cisgender queer history that has tended to characterise the subdiscipline. While these narratives remain important to queer history, we encourage innovative approaches to them through new and hitherto-underutilised avenues of inquiry. Thus, we seek to foreground the broad and vibrant diversity of queer experiences throughout history.
TQH accepts proposals for both monographs and edited collections; work may be submitted in English or German. As noted, we seek work from scholars at all career levels. If you are unsure whether the work you have in mind would be a good fit under the TQH banner, please do not hesitate to contact us with an informal inquiry. We will do our best to advise you whether we would welcome a more formal proposal from you, as above.
Contact Series Editors:
We very much look forward to receiving your proposal, and we are excited to read and platform new and innovative work in queer history. If you have any queries or a proposal to submit, please contact us here:
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier (she/her)
sabrina.mittermeier@uni-kassel.de
Dr. Bodie A. Ashton (he/him)
bodie[dot]a[dot]ashton[at]gmail[dot]com
Contact Information
De Gruyter Editor
Rabea Rittgerodt: rabea.rittgerodt@degruyter.com
Contact Email
rabea.rittgerodt@degruyter.com
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