A LONG, HAPPY LIFE. BUILDING AND THINKING THE SOVIET CITY: 1956 TO NOW October 30–31, 2015 West Gallery Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Admission free Prior registration required Сonference is focusing on Soviet Modernist architecture and urban planning. Participants include historians of … Continue reading
September 3 – 5, 2015 University of Toronto Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place | Room 108N Toronto, ON M5S 3K7 Sponsored by the Canadian Social Sciences and … Continue reading
The controversies and legacy of the last three decades of the Soviet Union prior to perestroika have not rendered a simple overarching theory. The Tallinn Summer School in Social and Cultural Studies will bring together leading scholars and PhD students who are … Continue reading
We write to inform you about “Mapping Visaginas: An International Summer School on Sources of Urbanity in Post-Industrial Cities” that we are organising in Visaginas, the satellite town of a former nuclear power plant in north-eastern Lithuania, from 20 Sept – … Continue reading
From 4th May till 9th August 2015 – Interdisciplinary Lab at Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Under the title “Cracks in the Curtain Wall – Beyond an Architecture of Cleanliness“ the Bauhaus Lab 2015 focuses on the new material culture of … Continue reading
The Black Sea in the Socialist World 6 & 7 February 2015 Birkbeck College, University of London Conference Programme Supported by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, The Wellcome Trust (Small Grant in the Humanities), The Society for the … Continue reading
The Housing Question Nomad Seminar – San Diego University of San Diego March 12-13, 2015 Keynote Talk March 12, 2015 at 6:30pm Reinhold Martin, Associate Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University, and Director, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American … Continue reading
ALTERNATIVE ENCOUNTERS: THE “SECOND WORLD” AND THE “GLOBAL SOUTH”, 1945-1991 Location: Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena 3–4 NOVEMBER 2014 ***A collaboration between the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; the Centre for Area Studies, University of Leipzig; … Continue reading
The Black Sea in the Socialist World Birkbeck College, University of London February 6-7, 2015 Sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Call for Papers In May … Continue reading
Epistemologies of In-Betweenness: East Central Europe and the World History of Social Science, 1890-1945 Workshop Institut für Ost- und Südeuropaforschung Regensburg 29-30 May, 2015 Call for Papers Convenors: Katherine Lebow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Research; Małgorzata Mazurek, Department of History, … Continue reading
