Department of Russian and East European Studies
News
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The newly published book Homecoming by Kateřina Králová, Professor of Contemporary History at Institute of International Studies (FSS CUNI), explores the rarely discussed history of Jewish survivors returning to post-Holocaust Greece. Released by the renowned Brandeis University Press in 2025, the book sheds light on the struggles, silences, and resilience of those who attempted to rebuild their lives in a hostile postwar environment.
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From 5 to 9 May 2025, Adrian Brisku from the Department of Russian and East European Studies at IMS took part in an Erasmus Training Mobility at the University of Montenegro, Faculty of Political Sciences in Podgorica.
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Our PhD student in Modern History, Tereza Juhászová, has published an article titled Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery (1918–1947) in the prestigious journal Contemporary European History.
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From 7 to 11 April 2025, Associate Professor Adrian Brisku visited the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo as part of the Erasmus+ programme supporting international academic exchange. During his stay, he delivered lectures to MA students and met with colleagues from the Department of History and the Center for Historical Research (CeHiS).
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June this year will bring a new publication to the book market entitled Bosnian Fluxes: Belonging, Caring and Reckoning in a Post-Cold War Semi-Periphery, which was prepared and edited by Dr Ondřej Žíla from the IMS FSV UK.
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We are pleased to announce that Maria Alina Asavei has published a new scholarly article titled “The Material World of Textiles and Its Nostalgic Renderings in Romanian Contemporary Art” in the prestigious Journal of Material Culture.
