27 February – 1 March 2014 Final Conference of the Project Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism

Dec
19

The historical research network on violence after Stalinism is funded by the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. The project is hosted by the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (ZZF) in cooperation with the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg and the European University Institute in Florence.

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Workshop “Biopower and Physical Violence: Embodied Experiences in Communist Europe”

Dec
17
Potsdam, 24 January 2014
 
Workshop organised by the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam (ZZF)
Funded by the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
 
Concept: Muriel Blaive, Thomas Lindenberger
 
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Project publication "Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism"

Nov
08
Jan C. Behrends has published an article on violence and the state in the 20th century in Neue Politische Literatur, 58/1 (2013).
 
See his contribution "Jan C. Behrends, Gewalt und Staatlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert. Einige Tendenzen zeithistorischer Forschung, Neue politische Literatur 58/1 (2013): 39-59.” here.
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Project publication: Contributions from Robert Lučić on zeitgeschichte-online.de

Oct
23

Two essays from Robert Lučić have been released on zeitgeschichte-online.de.

His first essay, the photo essay „Schönheit der Form im Sozialismus - Bilder einer Ausstellung jugoslawischen Produktdesigns, Belgrad 2013“, was inspired by an exhibition in Belgrade this year. See his contribution here.

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June 2013: Workshop at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest

Jun
17
Public Lecture
Prof. Dr. Alfred J. Rieber
(Central European University, Budapest)
 
“Murder and Mayhem in the Post-Stalinist Soviet Union: A Thaw?”
 
Date:       Friday, 21 June 2013, 17.00
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27 June 2013: Talk by Jan C. Behrends "Wege aus der Gewalt, Wege in die Gewalt: Die Sowjetunion und Russland 1979-2000" at the Colloquium of the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

Jun
11

For further information please refer to the website of the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam.

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Violence Summer Fellows at the ZZF

Jun
11

ZZF, photographer: Joachim Liebe

During summer the post-docs and visiting-fellows of the physical violence project took the opportunity to spend a few months at the ZZF to work in libraries and archives in and around Potsdam and Berlin.

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May 2013: Talk by Jill Massino “Crime and Punishment: Pronatalism as a form of State Violence in Ceausescu’s Romania” at the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam

Apr
24

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Publication of the Project "Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism"

Mar
04

Jan C. Behrends has published an article on Afghanistan as a `Gewaltraum´ in the web portal “Zeitgeschichte online”.

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Participation in the Annual ASEEES Convention 2012 in New Orleans (15-18 November 2012)

Nov
27
 
The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) is one of the leading organizations in the field of the former Soviet Union (including Eurasia) and Eastern and Central Europe from an interdisciplinary and international point of view.
 
After a successful year with meetings in Prague, Regensburg, Belgrade, and Kraków the physical violence project took part in ASEEES Convention 2012 with four panels.
 
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