Research and Holdings in the National Archives Kew, London – An archival trip to the U.K. – by Raphaela Bollwein and Lena Christoph The National Archives (TNA) of the United Kingdom are located in Kew, London and their collection is one of the largest in the world, with over 11 million historical and governmental records. …
Event Report: Book Presentation of Katarazyna Nowaks “Kingdom of Barracks. Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria” On the 15th of November Katarzyna Nowak presented her academic monograph titled “Kingdom of Barracks. Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-occupied Germany and Austria” at the Fachbereichsbibliothek Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna. The book was published at …
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On 21 September 2023, Lena Christoph and Raphaela Bollwein took part in the PhD workshop of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e.V. at the University of Osnabrück. Interdisciplinary presentations by doctoral students on the topic of “Migration, Flight and Exile” were at the center of attention. The workshop was led by Kristina Schulz, Andrea Hammel and Wiebke von Bernstoff. Both doctoral students put their focus on marginalized groups of displaced persons, whose resettlement proved particularly difficult after the end of the Second World War. The invisibility of the migration paths of unaccompanied children and persons who went to and through the Philippines were discussed.
Between 29th June and 1st July 2023, the Seventh European Congress on World and Global History took place in The Hague, Netherlands. Under the title “Conflict and Inequity, Peace and Justice: Local, Regional and International Perspectives” this international conference provided the space to promote interdisciplinary exchange and spark discussions on a diverse spectrum of topics.
Four years after the end of World War II, a letter from a refugee named Massimiliano reached Vatican City. Massimiliano wrote a dramatic appeal to the Pope, seeking assistance for himself and his wife, Anna, as they hoped to emigrate to Australia in search of a better life. This refugee from Venezia Giulia, classified as Volksdeutsche and therefore excluded from the main refugee assistance programmes, saw the Holy See as a last resort.[1] The correspondence related to his case has been preserved in the Vatican Apostolic Archive, alongside thousands of other files concerning refugees who sought the Vatican’s assistance during the tumultuous years of the war’s aftermath.
The inter-project workshop “Introduction to GIS (ArcGisPRO) for Historical Studies offered historians from the projects GLORE and Negotiating Migration Regimes conceptual, theoretical and practical insights into working with geoinformation systems. The focus was on the one hand on the presentation of examples from research practice and on the other hand on the practical application based on exercise examples.
Kerstin von Lingen about the ERC-Project “GLORE” On 23 June 2023, the kick-off event of the ERC project “GLORE” took place in the Great Festival Hall of the University of Vienna. In addition to a presentation by Kerstin von Lingen on the project design, there was also a keynote by Jessica Reinisch on the development …
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