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Serbian parliamentary declaration condemning WWII acts against Hungarian civilians
BELGRADE – Members of the Serbian parliament adopted Friday a Declaration condemning acts against Hungarian civilians in Vojvodina, committed during the Second World War, in 1944 and 1945. A total of 128 MPs voted in favor of the document, 10 were against, and seven did not vote. The declaration was put forward by MPs of…
US Congressmen Demand Romania Returns Church Properties And Ends “Persecution”
BUCHAREST/BUDAPEST (BosNewsLife) — Twenty U.S. congressmen have urged Secretary of State John Kerry to pressure Romania’s government to end “persecution” and “fully restitute” properties that were “illegally confiscated” from churches and other religious groups under Communism after 1945. In a letter obtained by BosNewsLife Saturday, June 15, the American legislators also express concern about three members…
Call for Papers – 80th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association
80th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association Atlanta, Georgia – November 13-16, 2014 The European History Section of the Southern Historical Association invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels for presentation at its annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, November 13-16, 2014. Papers on any aspect of European history, covering any time period, are welcome….
St Albans Magna Carta Festival to commemorate 800th anniversary
Magna Carta festival in St Albans for 800th anniversary (From St Albans & Harpenden Review).
Call for Papers: Central and Eastern Europe in World Politics after Versailles
Call for Papers: Central and Eastern Europe in World Politics after Versailles: Towards a New International History Dates: October 4-5, 2013 Location: Oxford University, Faculty of History The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian Empires at the end of the First World War brought to existence a curious geopolitical construction, usually known as ‘Central…
Draft Bill for Szekler Autonomy Submitted to Romanian Parliament
RMDSZ submits draft bill on regional autonomy for Transylvania Kelemen Hunor, President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ), said after his party’s congress in Csíkszereda that the Alliance has submitted a draft bill to the Romanian parliament on regional autonomy for Transylvania. In the document adopted at the congress, the RMDSZ has…
Cologne-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium
The Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) at the University of Toronto is soliciting abstracts (one page) from CMS students for papers dealing with any aspect of medieval studies. Submissions for papers on any topic are welcome: history, literature (Latin and/or vernacular), art history, philosophy, music, medicine etc. The colloquium will be sponsored jointly by the…
Call for Papers – Past Imperfect, University of Alberta
Past Imperfect is currently welcoming submissions from graduate students in all areas of history and classics for publication in its nineteenth annual edition. This open access journal provides an opportunity for developing scholars to gain experience with peer-reviewed academic publishing. Past Imperfect welcomes both original research articles and book reviews covering a broad range of…
CRRS 50th Anniversary Annual Conference
“Rethinking Early Modernity: Methodological and Critical Innovation since the Ritual Turn” Toronto, Ontario, June 26-27, 2014 The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a conference in honor of Edward Muir, whose innovative studies of Venetian politics and culture helped to establish cultural anthropology and ritual as major analytical frameworks…
Munk Debates – Economic Inequality
The Munk Debates will be returning on May 20, 2013 with an excellent debate on economic inequality. The lineup of speakers this year will be George Papandreou (former Prime Minister of Greece) , Newt Gingrich (former Speaker of the US House of Representatives and presidential candidate), Robert Reich (economist), and Arthur B. Laffer (economist) will be tackling…
CBC Ideas – Revising History, Part I
What happens when historians go searching for new evidence about the nation’s past? It can change the way its citizens think about their country as well as their identity. And it can upset both citizens and those who govern them. In Part 1 of this 2-part series, historian Robert Johnson looks at what happens when Russians begin…
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