Cultures of History Forum

Dear SHERAns,
Apologies from cross-posting from the SEELANGS listserv, to which, I'm
sure, many of you are subscribed, but I'm sharing for those who may not be
-- seems like a broadly useful resource for people in our field.
Ksenya Gurshtein
SHERA Web News Editor

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Cultures of History Forum: Trends and Developments from East Central and
Southeastern Europe

http://www.cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/home/

On its new website, the "Cultures of History Forum," the Imre Kertész
Kolleg Jena offers a wide range of views on the cultures of history in East
Central and Southeastern Europe. In two sections, "Debating 20th Century
History" and "Exhibiting 20th Century History," the Forum focuses on the
ways these countries are coming to terms with their past. The focus is less
on scholarly discourse, than on public debates and processes of
interpreting history and on the way history is exhibited in museums.

Debates on history in East Central and Southeastern Europe are generally
conducted in their respective national languages, rarely cross borders or
cross paths with conversations in other countries of the region. The
Cultures of History Forum aims to document the specificity of these
discussions in English, thus making them accessible to a wider audience. It
also provides an overview on the strategies and practices of exhibiting the
20th century past in these countries.

The content is accessible either through countries or themes. In addition
to case studies, the Forum provides background information to the cultures
of history in the region. All articles are accessible with a topic-related
search option on issues such as "Nationalism," "Cold War," or "Holocaust."

All articles on the Forum are reviewed by the editorial board. Thanks to
the cooperation with the Herder Institut in Marburg, all articles are
marked by a DOI-Number and can thus easily be located on the web. The
articles will additionally be listed in the HeBis Catalogue so that they
are accessible for users in libraries.

The „"Cultures of History Forum" is an ongoing project aiming at
documenting changes in the cultures of history in East Central and
Southeastern Europe. We are constantly looking for contributions from all
countries in the region for both sections. If you are interested in
submitting a proposal, please contact Juliane Tomann at
[email protected].


Juliane Tomann
Imre Kertész Kolleg
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Research Associate
Geschichte und Öffentlichkeit / History in the Public Sphere
Leutragraben 1
07743 Jena

E-Mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.cultures-of-history.uni-jena.de/home/

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