This seminar approaches the region between the Baltic, the Adriatic and the Black Sea, whose designation as East Central Europe is controversial. We use the approaches of transnationalisation research. The focus is laid on the period between WWI and WWII, which would rather suggest using the national lens, as independent nation-states (r)emerged throughout the region succeeding the empires that collapsed after 1918. However, their sovereignty was already pulverised between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the 1930s and they were incorporated into the socialist bloc after 1945 as a result of the agreement reached between the great powers on the post-war order.
The aim of the seminar is to use this kind of regional history to familiarize participants with the tools of transnational historiography, which focuses on interconnections through migratory movements, trade, investment and transnational value chains, cultural exchange and transnationally rooted minorities, and attempts to push back methodological nationalism as far as possible.
The seminar will be organized as online discussion, the respective Zoom link can be found here:
https://uni-leipzig.zoom.us/j/64915448355?pwd=Q1lySWU1bmFPZnRhOUJvSlpaYWpJZz09
Meeting-ID: 649 1544 8355
Kenncode: 027006
- Trainer/in: europast europast
- Trainer/in: Frank Hadler
- Trainer/in: Matthias Middell