A number of historians have linked the rise in concerns about magic and witchcraft during the early modern period to the constant state of insecurity brought about by bad weather, religious conflict,…

The past exerts an influence on present politics, making history and memory crucial to explaining the behaviour of states on the international stage. It is also a crucial resource for the state’s…

Dr. Raluca Goleșteanu-Jacobs' book "Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom. Sociocultural Development, 1866–1914,“ published in the series ”Poland: Transnational Histories," co-edited by the German…

In this lecture we discuss letters and petitions written by refugees from different backgrounds and different contexts, and addressed to a variety of governmental, non-governmental and…

Prof. Oliver Jens Schmitt. Moscow’s Western Rivals Bio: Prof. Oliver Jens Schmitt was born in Basel in 1973. Studied Byzantine Studies, Greek Philology and Eastern European History in Basel, Vienna,…

A meeting from the series ‘NIH Library: Let's Talk’. "There is a well-known saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. Is this really true, or is it just a figure of speech? A thousand words is…

W latach 90. XX wieku państwa Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej przeszły radykalną transformację – od gospodarki socjalistycznej i systemów jednopartyjnych do wolnego rynku i demokracji liberalnych. W tym…

Dainora Pociūtė-Abukevičienė:

Migration and Medicine in the Late 16th Century: Italian Heterodox Networks in Poland-Lithuania

This talk explores the migration of Italian heterodox physicians to…

Bethan Winter (University of Oxford): “Détente from Below: People-to-People Networks Across the Cold War Divide ” This talk introduces my current book project on the cultural history of détente from…

Dainora Pociūtė-Abukevičienė: Migration and Medicine in the Late 16th Century: Italian Heterodox Networks in Poland-Lithuania This talk explores the migration of Italian heterodox physicians to…

Theme: Memory 2025 ASEEES President: Adrienne Edgar, UC Santa Barbara Memory is both personal and collective, and shared ways of remembering help to define human communities. In Eastern Europe and…

A workshop organized by the Vilnius branch of the GHI Warsaw in collaboration with the project #LastSeen. Pictures of Nazi deportations and the Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum Date: 20 th -21 th November…