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All day	Workshop CfP: Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century


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10. 6. 2021 to 11. 6. 2021
Workshop: „Allerunterthänigst unterfertigte Bitte“ – Inhalt, Form und Bedeutung von Bittschriften im langen 19. Jahrhundert
Workshop: „Allerunterthänigst unterfertigte Bitte“ – Inhalt, Form und Bedeutung von Bittschriften im langen 19. Jahrhundert

Workshop: „Allerunterthänigst unterfertigte Bitte“ – Inhalt, Form und Bedeutung von Bittschriften im langen 19. Jahrhundert

Datum konání:
10. 6. 2021, 12:00 to 11. 6. 2021, 16:30
Workshop von Collegium Carolinum; LMU München; Masaryk Institut und Archiv der Tschechischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Prag

Marion Dotter, Ulrike Marlow, Kristýna Kaucká

Online via ZOOM

Anmeldung: marion.dotter@collegium-carolinum.de

Programm

10. Juni 2021

12:00 – Begrüßung, Einführung

Panel: Bittschriften als Instrument im modernen Verwaltungs- und Rechtsstaat

12:30 – Plenarvortrag: Silke Marburg (Technische Universität Dresden): Bittschriften im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Eine Einführung

13:15 – Diskussion

13:45 – Pause

14:00 – Daniel Benedikt Stienen (BAdW): „…ich bitte einen loyalen und treuen Deutschen nicht schlechter behandeln zu wollen“. Die emotionale Konstruktion der Nation in Ankaufgesuchen deutscher Grundbesitzer im östlichen Preußen (1886–1914)

14:20 – Kommentar: Klaas-Hinrich Ehlers (Freie Universität Berlin)

14:30 – Diskussion

14:50 – Moritz Bauerfeind (Universität Basel): „Menschen werden immer menschlicher, wenn man sie wie Menschen behandelt.“ Die Bittschriften des Rabbiners Samson Wolf Rosenfeld an das Bayrische Parlament

15:10 – Kommentar: Martina Niedhammer (Collegium Carolinum München)

15:20 – Diskussion

15:40 – Pause

16:10 – Elisabeth Berger (Universität Salzburg): „[…] weshalb ich mich wohl bei meinem jüngsten Sohn einer kleinen Berücksichtigung für würdig erachte.“ Bitten um dauerhafte Beurlaubung Wehrpflichtiger in Österreich-Ungarn um 1900

16:30 – Kommentar: Thomas Süsler-Rohringer (LMU München)

16:40 – Diskussion

11. Juni 2021

Panel: Bittschriften aus dem adeligen Milieu

9:00 – Jan Županič (Karls Universität Prag): Nobilitierungen in der Habsburgermonarchie im 19. Jahrhundert

9:20 – Michaela Žáková (Tschechische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Prag): Das Bild der „armen“ Aristokratin in den Bittschriften der Kandidatinnen des Theresianischen Damenstiftes in Prag

9:40 – Kommentar: Marion Dotter (Collegium Carolinum München)

9:50 – Diskussion

10:20 – Pause

10:50 – Susanne Zenker (Universität Wien): Bittschriften als Teil des Begnadigungsprozesses von Gyula Graf Andrássy

11:10 – Christiane Bub (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): Bittschriften delinquenter Adliger in der preußischen Strafjustiz der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts

11:30 – Kommentar: Martin Klement (Karls Universität Prag)

11:40 – Diskussion

12:10 – Mittagspause

Panel: Bittschriften im höfischen Kontext

13:00 – Anja Bittner (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften): Bittschriften am preußischen Hof im 19. Jahrhundert

13:20 – Ulrike Marlow (LMU München): „Eure Kaiserliche, Königliche, Apostolische Majestät“ – Bittschriften an Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich (1854–1898)

13:40 – Kommentar: Mark Hengerer (LMU München)

13:50 – Diskussion

14:20 – Pause

Panel: Bittschriften an staatliche und außerstaatliche Akteure

14:40 – Robert Luft (Collegium Carolinum München): Akteure, Adressaten und Akten. Petitionen an den österreichischen Reichsrat in der späten Habsburgermonarchie

15:00 – Johannes Gleixner (Collegium Carolinum München): Der Intellektuelle als öffentliche Fürsorgeinstitution: Bittschriften an T. G. Masaryk vor 1914

15:20 – Kommentar: Jana Osterkamp (LMU München/Collegium Carolinum)

15:30 – Diskussion

16:00 – Abschlussdiskussion

16:30 – Ende

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23. 6. 2021 to 25. 6. 2021
Workshop CfP: Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century
Workshop CfP: Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century

Workshop CfP: Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century

Datum konání:
23. 6. 2021, 0:00 to 25. 6. 2021, 0:00
Venue: Prague

Organisers: Doina Anca Cretu, Michal Frankl (ERC-funded project Unlikely refuge?, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Humanitarianism has become one of the defining features of our contemporary world, as governments, private associations, and international organizations are increasingly responding to human suffering across the borders of nation states. The twentieth century saw an increased institutionalization, professionalization, and direct intervention on behalf of those in need. Yet this expansion of aid also multiplied the dilemmas of humanitarian engagements.

This workshop tackles humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century, probing the tensions stemming from engagements in nationalist and/or state socialist environments and the dilemmas or misunderstandings that arose from encounters with Western forms of providing aid. Central and Eastern Europe experienced the creation of new nation states and an escalation of nationalism. This region was moreover a site of violence and genocide during the two world wars as well as during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Centralization, political control, and persecution under state socialism also shaped but also often limited humanitarian activism through individual and social engagements. Narratives of Western humanitarianism have often treated this region as one of backwardness and of a passive reception of benevolent mobilization for those in need. However, the region was a space of amplified local action to relieve suffering at the same time as humanitarian initiatives from abroad grew in presence and capacity. Studying humanitarianism from below, against a backdrop of complex political and social contexts, is essential to understanding how solidarity was constructed and how aid was provided in this region during the twentieth century.

The workshop aims to engage with diverse facets of providing aid in Central and Eastern Europe, as this area opens up broader questions of local, national, and international scales of humanitarianism. The workshop will focus on domestic forms of humanitarianism and investigate key local actors (e.g. state institutions and their officials, formal associations, activists, and charity workers), their agendas, and practices of providing aid. It will further explore their entanglements and relationships with Western as well as non-Western actors and their relief practices in Central and Eastern Europe. It will investigate how important political, ethnic, or confessional identities were in shaping discourses and practices of solidarity. It will furthermore reflect on the ways in which humanitarians positioned and negotiated the provision of aid within local nationalist and/or state socialist frameworks. Some of the questions we aim to address are: How did local actors interpret the motivations and methods of international humanitarian organizations?How did humanitarian work operate in contexts in which aid was perceived as a tool for reconstructing nations, building a socialist society, or transitioning to democracy?

This event is organized within the ERC Consolidator Grant project “Unlikely Refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century” at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. This forms part of a series of workshops that aim to explore this project’s thematic approaches in relation to and beyond the central theme of providing assistance and protection to refugees.

We seek papers pertaining to different disciplines (history, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political science etc.) that address the following themes related to humanitarianism in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe:

Institutional and individual actors: This theme addresses humanitarian practices developed by states, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, activists, and workers on the ground. What were the humanitarians’ main motivations, agendas, and methods? How did political, national, and confessional identities shape humanitarian processes?

Discourses of humanitarianism: How did various actors rhetorically and visually transmit humanitarian agendas and practical efforts within public space? What does the study of discourse tell us about the power relationships between aid providers and recipients, or between transnational and local actors? What entities and identities emerged as a result of these discursive entanglements?

Methodological avenues: How can scholars methodologically engage with local experiences and how can they capture the recipients’ voices and perceptions in the Central and Eastern European context? How was the process of humanitarianism (i.e. the main actors, their agendas, and related practices on the ground) documented? What do archival representations tell us about the relationships between aid providers and their recipients?

The workshop will be conducted in English. Abstracts of up to 300 words along with a short CV should be directed to Nikola Karasová at karasova@mua.cas.cz by January 15, 2021. Applicants will be notified by February 15. Accommodation and travel reimbursement will be provided to active participants.

If the epidemic situation allows, the workshop will take place in person, while including the possibility of virtual participation as well. If this is not possible, it will be conducted in virtual format only.

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30. 6. 2021
Střed | Centre, 2/2021 – výzva autorům
Střed | Centre, 2/2021 – výzva autorům

Střed | Centre, 2/2021 – výzva autorům

Datum konání:
30. 6. 2021, 0:00
Téma čísla: Město – laboratoř změn

Redakční uzávěrka: 30. 6. 2021

Kontakt: stred@mua.cas.cz

Publikační jazyky: čeština, angličtina, němčina

Webová stránka časopisu: https://www.mua.cas.cz/cs/stred-casopis-pro-mezioborova-studia-stredni-evropy-19-a-20-stoleti

Plný obsah časopisu: www.ceeol.com

Abstrakty: http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl

Indexace: ERIH+, SCOPUS, CEEEOL, CEJSH, EBSCO

Dnes již ve městech žije většina světové populace, světu dominují ekonomicky i spotřebou přírodních zdrojů. Právě v urbánním prostředí se historicky začaly utvářet mnohé procesy a představy, které považujeme za součást naší civilizace ve sféře hospodářství, samosprávy, vzdělání či například rodinného života. Zároveň se zde nejzřetelněji projevovaly i nejzávažnější výzvy a hrozby.

Z perspektivy humanitních a společenských věd města představují cenný výzkumný rámec, kterým jsou prostorově vymezená a přitom historicky utvářená území se svým specifickým denním rytmem i dlouhodobými vývojovými cykly. Umožňují sledovat a zkoumat jak aktuální procesy, tak i jejich historické kořeny, proměny a reakce na ně. Města tak můžeme chápat jako „laboratoř“ výzkumu závažných problémů a otázek moderní doby.

Toto číslo časopisu „Střed/Centre“ poptává studie z oboru urbánních dějin, které na nových empirických příkladech ze střední Evropy 19. a 20. století přispějí jak k reflexi produktivnosti starých i nových témat a metod výzkumu včetně všeobecně vzývané interdisciplinarity, tak i k diskusi o aktuálnosti a potřebnosti historického výzkumu moderních měst.

Číslo časopisu zahrnuje následující tematické okruhy:

vnější i vnitřní hranice moderních měst, jejich posuny a rozostřování; sociálně-prostorové nerovnosti,

vliv architektury, urbanismu a technických oborů na mentální a komunikační mapy měst,

velké politické transformace a jejich projevy na úrovni měst,

města jako nositel specifických politických strategií; městský aktivismus,

město jako cíl expertních intervencí, plánování a sociálního inženýrství,

města čelící globálním krizím.

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30. 6. 2021
Střed | Centre, 2/2021 – Call for Papers
Střed | Centre, 2/2021 – Call for Papers

Střed | Centre, 2/2021 – Call for Papers

Datum konání:
30. 6. 2021, 0:00
Issue topic: The City – A Laboratory of Changes

Deadline for submissions: June 30th, 2021

Contact: stred@mua.cas.cz

Languages of publication: Czech, English, German

Journal website: https://www.mua.cas.cz/en/stred-centre-journal-for-interdisciplinary-studies-of-central-europe-in-the-19th-and-20th-centuries-323

Full content of the journal: www.ceeol.com

Abstracts: http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl

Indexing: ERIH+, SCOPUS, CEEEOL, CEJSH, EBSCO

Today, most of the world’s population lives in cities, which dominate the world economically as well as lead it in the consumption of natural resources. Historically, many processes and ideas that we consider to be part of our civilization – in the economy, our system of government, education, or even in our private family lives – first began to take shape in urban environments. At the same time, the most serious challenges took root in large cities.

From the perspective of the humanities and the social sciences, cities represent a valuable framework for research since they are spatially clearly defined and historically shaped areas with specific daily rhythms and long-term development cycles. They make it possible to observe and research both current processes and their historic roots and the changes and reactions to them. Cities can thus be understood as a “laboratory” where the serious problems and questions of the modern era can be analyzed.

This issue of Střed | Centre calls for papers on topics from the field of urban history. Using new empirical examples from 19th and 20th century Central Europe, they shall analyze old and new research topics and methods, including frequently called-for interdisciplinarity, and discuss the current state and need for historical research on modern cities.

The issue will include the following topics:

external and internal borders of modern cities, their shifts and blurring; social-spatial inequalities,

the influence of architecture, urbanism, and technology on urban mental and communication maps,

major political transformations and their manifestation at the city level,

cities as bearers of specific political strategies; urban activism,

the city as a target of expert interventions, planning, and social engineering,

cities facing global crises.

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8. 9. 2021 to 10. 9. 2021
Call for Conference Papers: Local Administration during the First and Second World Wars
Call for Conference Papers: Local Administration during the First and Second World Wars

Call for Conference Papers: Local Administration during the First and Second World Wars

Datum konání:
8. 9. 2021, 0:00 to 10. 9. 2021, 0:00
Venue: Vila Lanna, V sadech 1, Prague

Organization: Jan Vondráček (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, Prague)

Deadline for submission: 17. 3. 2020

The type of rational, legal administrative staff is capable of application in all kinds of situations and contexts. It is the most important mechanism for the administration of everyday affairs. For in that sphere, the exercise of authority consists precisely in administration.

Max Weber

Local administration has always played a key role in securing, implementing and stabilizing the authority of the modern state. After the outbreak of the First World War, the warring countries were confronted with a difficult supply situation, including famine, disease, refugees and labor shortages. The clerks of the local administration were responsible for implementing new policies and solving problems. They were the ones in direct contact with local populations which were often multi-ethnic and presented a broad variety of needs.

In many cases, local administrations were reorganized to deal with vast and unprecedented tasks and problems. In other cases, the German Empire and Austria-Hungary established military occupation administrations which depended on existing local administration, for example in Belgium, Serbia and Ukraine.

Not only military defeat but also the failure of overtaxed local administrations to solve substantial problems such as obtaining sufficient food supplies for the population led to revolts in the German Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy.

This drastic experience prompted Nazi Germany in particular to undertake a reorganization of local administration shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Even after large parts of Europe were under German occupation, local administrations remained largely responsible for the daily life needs of local populations, such as organizing production, distribution and rationing of food and other basic goods, such as heating fuel and clothing. Since state food allotments were often insufficient to meet basic needs, local populations reacted with the development of a variety of illegal practices. Farmers evaded compulsory levies of food and sold undocumented, illegally butchered meat. Hidden stores of products, food and ration stamps were traded for other goods as part of a comprehensive black market. Although nominally supervised by German occupiers, the actual prosecution of these new economic crimes generally fell in the responsibility of local administrations and courts. Local courts continued to hear non-political cases and disputes within local populations as well.

Recent research in Holocaust Studies have showed that local administrations not only played an important role in making the mass murder of the European Jews possible, but that it was often local administrations that took the initiative.

This conference aims to bring together scholars who work on specific aspects of local administration in the First World War and the Second World War and analyze and compare a diversity of methodologies, findings and approaches.

We are particularly interested in papers that are dealing with the following historical focuses:

The relationship between the occupying power and local administration.

Local administration and the war economy

Local courts under occupation

Continuity and change in staffing aspects of local administration under occupation

Questions of local administration and local interpretation of collaboration

Prof. Jonathan Gumz will give a keynote address on local administration and the First World War.

Prof. Dieter Pohl will give a keynote address on local administration and the Second World War.

At the moment we are able to cover accommodation and parts of the travel costs, we are still looking for funds for travel costs.

The conference language is English.

Please send your abstracts of approximately 500 words by 17 March 2020 to: Jan Vondráček, vondracek@mua.cas.cz

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Friday, 25. June 2021

10. 6. 2021 to 11. 6. 2021

Workshop: „Allerunterthänigst unterfertigte Bitte“ – Inhalt, Form und Bedeutung von Bittschriften im langen 19. Jahrhundert

Programm

10. Juni 2021

Panel: Bittschriften als Instrument im modernen Verwaltungs- und Rechtsstaat

11. Juni 2021

Panel: Bittschriften aus dem adeligen Milieu

Panel: Bittschriften im höfischen Kontext

Panel: Bittschriften an staatliche und außerstaatliche Akteure

23. 6. 2021 to 25. 6. 2021

Workshop CfP: Humanitarian Mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century

30. 6. 2021

Střed | Centre, 2/2021 – výzva autorům

Téma čísla: Město – laboratoř změn

30. 6. 2021

Střed | Centre, 2/2021 – Call for Papers

Issue topic: The City – A Laboratory of Changes

8. 9. 2021 to 10. 9. 2021

Call for Conference Papers: Local Administration during the First and Second World Wars