Museum, library and archive are only accessible with FFP2 mask.
VWI invites/goes to... | |||
+++CANCELLED+++ Katarzyna Nowak, 'Recivilising' Refugees: Displaced Eastern Europeans in The Heart of Divided Europe, 1945-1956 | |||
Wednesday, 20. October 2021, 15:00 - 17:00 Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86206212127
|
|||
VWI invites Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), University of Vienna
Commented by Claudia Kraft Katarzyna Nowak is a historian specializing in cultural and social history of Eastern Europe with a particular interest in refugee and migrant history. During her doctoral and postdoctoral research at the University of Manchester, she focused on Displaced Persons in the early Cold War period in a global perspective. She is currently completing her first monograph, entitled Kingdom of Barracks. Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-occupied Germany and Austria, 1945-1952. She has published on the history of gender, refugees, and diaspora. Claudia Kraft is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna since March 2018. She specializes in 20th century comparative European and particularly Central and Eastern European history. Her main fields of research are history of everyday life in state socialist societies after WWII, gender history, history of forced migrations after WWII, memory cultures and politics of history in Central and Eastern Europe, comparative legal history, and new approaches to area studies. Photo: Two Polish children are given soup at No.17 Displaced Persons Assembly Centre located in Hamburg Zoological Gardens, © Imperial War Museum https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86206212127 |
|||