National Socialism and Regional Identity in Eastern Europe. Ideology, Expansion of Power, Persistence
International and interdisciplinary conference
TThe European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (Warsaw) in collaboration with their partners Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (Oldenburg, Germany), the Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ, Germany), and the Slovak Nations Memory Institute (UPN, Slovakia) are organizing an international and interdisciplinary conference National Socialism and Regional Identity in Eastern Europe. Ideology, Expansion of Power, Persistence.
This conference aims to examine the strategies of National Socialist non-military exertion of influence and expansion of power in Eastern Europe. The conference will consider such questions as the relationship between National Socialist territorial policy and ethnic policy on the one hand, and the reason of state and the regional identities in the countries of Eastern Europe on the other hand. There will also be a comparison of the different regions with regard to political instrumentalisation and the cultural impact of ideologies.
Conference will take place at Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Berlin on October 24-25, 2013. Official languages of the conference will be English and German.
Proposals should be sent until 30th April 2013 to the following address: ns-regions@enrs.eu