Region - State - Europe
Regional Identities under dictatorship and democracy in East Central Europe
Interdisciplinary conference in Berlin, 18-20th April 2012
Call for Papers
Organizer: European Network Remembrance and Solidarity in collaboration with the Nation´s Memory Institute (Bratislava), Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe (Oldenburg), German Association for East European Studies (Berlin), Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council (Marburg)
The conference will focus on particular cultural and historical factors for the formation of identities and on the current identity discourses with their regional codes since 1945. For an analysis it seems to be appropriate to compare regions still present in memory as well as suppressed ones and nowadays rediscovered historical regions such as Galicia, Prussia, Silesia, Zips, Transylvania and Banat. The demarcation of borders and the divisions that these regions experienced in the 20th century stimulate a transnationally orientated view on differing national historical narratives.
Conference languages are English and German.