Un|Covering: Visibility, Denial, and Ambiguity in the Cinematography of the Holocaust Conference of the A rbeitsgruppe Cinematographie des Holocaust , 30.11.-2.12.2026 in Łódź Filmic engagements with…

Together with the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, we invite to an international conference devoted to the evolving practices of Holocaust remembrance across individual,…

Konferenz „ Intimate Memory, Institutional Memory: Reframing Holocaust Commemorations” 15-17. 11. 2026.

A two-day workshop for scholars working on the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to present and discuss original research on the history of violence, reflect on methodology, and explore…

The representation of difficult pasts, violence, and human rights violations has predominantly been examined through singular case studies, often deeply rooted in specific national contexts. However,…

Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is causing severe damage not only to landscapes and ecosystems but also to the mental well-being of millions of people. Ecocide and PTSD (post-traumatic…

The Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Warsaw and the Mazovian Local Government Centre for…

From the mid-19th century onward, women’s associations of all nationalities began forming in the Habsburg, Prussian and Russian Empires. Polish women’s activism was particularly divided by the three…

Suicide by proxy was a novel crime that emerged in late sixteenth-century Germany: suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of “earning” their executions, as a short-cut to…

“There are decades when nothing happens, and there are days when decades happen.” These words are often attributed to Vladimir I. Lenin, although he never actually said them. Nevertheless, they…

History is currently abuzz with multiple times which owe their flourishing to the pervasive “culturalisation” of our discipline: Here nineteenth-century historicism with its anti-Revolutionary…

The Asynchronous Histories Summer School aims to explore regions and moments in history marked by the coexistence of asynchronous sociopolitical tendencies and processes. These conditions often reveal…