Seminar

This text presents a case study focused on the development of workhouses (known as "zemské donucovací pracovny" in Czech and "Zwangsarbeitsanstalten" in German) in the Bohemian lands during the first half of the 20th century.

In this chapter, we will examine the shifting meanings of the terms 'chisto' (lit. pure/clean) and 'narodna' (lit. popular/folk), used today in both expert and popular discourses in Bulgaria to refer to what is supposed to be 'folklore', ...

Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration and the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data“ Tina Magazzini kindly accepted to be our main discussant.

This article explores nostalgia for jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) as he lived and worked in Nazi-occupied France. From the 1930s, Reinhardt became Europe's most celebrated jazz musician. Nazi policy officially labelled jazz as ...

The text is a draft chapter of a forthcoming book on the social and political engagement of Roma in post-war Czechoslovakia during the first two decades of its existence as a communist state (1948-1969). Based on documents written by socially ...

The chapter is part of Vita Zalar's ongoing dissertation project, The Conceptual History of Gypsiness: Habsburg and Post-Habsburg Perspectives, 1860-1940, which presents a materialist reading of imperial and post-imperial modes of structural ...