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Note from the Editor Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Thomas Lorman
Published in Central Europe (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024)
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Pitfalls of Sovereignty: Romanian State Building on the Eve of Independence from the Ottoman Empire Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Irina Marin
The present article explores the trials and tribulations of the Romanian state in building viable institutions and acquiring independence in the latter half of the 19th century. Starting from a flu...
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Virtual Nationalisms? Comparative Public Uses of 20th Century History on Selected Polish and German Websites Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Robert Pyrah
This article examines the role of websites as historical sources, using a comparative case study of Germany and Poland’s respective lost territories after WWII and the border changes ordered by Sta...
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Note from the Editor Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Thomas Lorman
Published in Central Europe (Vol. 21, No. 2, 2023)
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Solitude and Despair in the Literary Oeuvre of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Stefan Halikowski-Smith
This article looks at the solitude and despair in the literary oeuvre of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, drawing on three stories constituting a ‘metaphysical direction’ rooted in Italian historiscapes,...
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Politicizing Family in Post-War Research on Family Planning: The Institute for Mother and Child in Warsaw Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Elisa-Maria Hiemer
After the massive losses experienced during World War II, political post-war narratives created the image of the Polish nation as one family to which every man and woman should contribute. The stat...
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The Nation at Stake? Ideologizing Conceptions of Family Planning in East Central Europe Since 1939 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Heidi Hein-Kircher, Denisa Nešt’aková
This introduction outlines the conceptional framework of the special issue and the current state of research as well as the main juridical, political and social milestones within the discussed time...
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Telling the Truth via Fiction: Imre Kertész, Péter Esterházy, and Hungarian Post-1989 Literary Anticommunism Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 János D. Mekis
In post-1989 Hungary, as the superstructure of a well-established censorship rapidly collapsed, a huge wave of formerly restricted information refreshed the stagnant water of literary and social cu...
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Vladimir Makanin and the Disorder of Post-Soviet Trauma Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Camelia Dinu
This study aims to demonstrate that post-Soviet Russian prose from 1991–2000 contains a critique of totalitarianism manifested as much on the level of literary problematics as on the art of the nar...
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In the Name of Helping Women: Women Against the Family Policy of the Slovak State Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Denisa Nešťáková
Fuelled by nationalism and Catholicism, the wartime Slovak state, a client state of Nazi Germany, aimed to promote population growth by forcing the return of women from public to private life and s...
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Austrian Bureaucrats and Polish Revolutionaries as Allies? Czartoryski, Galicia, and Plans for a Future Polish Uprising 1831-1846 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Oliver Zajac
ABSTRACT This article investigates the debates of the Hôtel Lambert, the constitutional monarchist wing of the Great Polish Emigration, led by Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, about the Austrian rule in Galicia, with a specific focus on the question of the position of Austrian bureaucracy in plans for the future Polish uprising. From the Hôtel Lambert’s point of view, Galicia was an integral part of a restored
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Rebels into Loyalists, or Loyalists into Rebels? Habsburg Officials and Their International Contacts during the Age of Revolutions Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Alexander Maxwell
ABSTRACT During the Age of Revolutions, the Habsburg monarchy initially opposed nationalist movements as revolutionary. While the monarchy later sought to co-opt loyal patriots, historical memory often imagines the Habsburg state as implacably opposed to both nationalism and nationalist movements. In practice, however, Habsburg officials and central European nationalisms overlapped and engaged with
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The Austrian Political Police Abroad in the Age of Revolutions, 1830–1867: A Microhistorical Approach Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Christos Aliprantis
ABSTRACT This article investigates the formation of a transnational secret police corps in the Habsburg Empire in post-Napoleonic Europe. It shows that widespread anxieties in imperigal Austria following several nineteenth-century revolutions (1830, 1848) led to the recruitment of secret police agents, who operated across Europe. These agents were used to keep track of revolutionaries and radical organizations
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Voices from Ukraine; Part 2 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Jeremy Adler
ABSTRACT This is the second part of an ongoing series that is part of this journal’s continuing commitment to our colleagues in Ukraine. In more peaceful times they could focus on publishing their work on the larger culture of central Europe in journals such as this one. Instead, they are now forced to confront the horror of war every day. The least we can do is provide another forum for their voices
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Twin Champions of the Slovak-Cause: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Robert William Seton-Watson Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Agnes Beretzky
ABSTRACT Both Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and British publicist and historian Robert William Seton-Watson have been widely recognized as champions of the rights of small nations. Owing to their tireless engagement for the Slovak cause, they are regular “guests of honour” at conferences or commemorations in Slovakia to keep the memory of among others, the Černova tragedy of 1907 alive. Bjørnson’s activity
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Hungarian Emancipation as a Model Central European Expropriation: How Discourses of Serfdom Argued for Takings Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 James Mace Ward
Due to the moral stakes involved, current scholarship on modern expropriation tends to separate nineteenth-century takings, such as emancipation, from twentieth-century ones, such as Aryanization. ...
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Voices from Ukraine; Part 1 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Jeremy Adler
ABSTRACT This journal does not normally publish articles on contemporary politics. Its focus is the history, literature and culture of central Europe. Nevertheless, we believe that the voices of our colleagues in the Ukraine, whose lives have been transformed by this terrible war, have a right to be heard. We are, therefore, determined to bring to the widest possible audience their writings, which
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‘Our Second Capital on the Banks of the Thames’: The Evolution of the Anglophilia of Czechoslovak Exiles in Britain during the Second World War Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-22 Johana Kłusek
ABSTRACT The study is the first to examine Anglo-Czechoslovak relations during the second world war from the perspective of discourse analysis. It reconstructs the evolution of the Czechoslovak exiles’ Anglophilia through articles published in three major exile newspapers – Čechoslovák, Mladé/Nové Československo and Nová svoboda – between October 1939 and May 1945. It claims that the new significant
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Family Background, Preparation and Opportunity: The Making of the Dualist-Era Hungarian Minister, Kálmán Széll Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Ádám Schwarczwölder
Abstract In getting his career in public service off the ground, the talented and ever-ready Kálmán Széll (1843–1915), was helped significantly by his influential father József Széll’s (1801–1871) social network, specifically his close relationship with Ferenc Deák. Deák, the emblematic figure of the 1867 Settlement had known the Széll boys since they were children. However, Kálmán Széll’s relationship
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Statement by the Editorial Board on the War in Ukraine Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Thomas Lorman
Published in Central Europe (Vol. 20, No. 1-2, 2022)
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East Is East? Polish Orientalisms in the Early Nineteenth Century Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-26 Simon Lewis
ABSTRACT This article explores the significance of orientalism as a cultural phenomenon in Polish literature and culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Intervening in a long-standing debate about whether orientalism in Poland was an original phenomenon or a ‘derivative and imitative’ discourse, the article offers close readings of two cultural phenomena that show that the application of
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Planning an Uprising; Remaking a Nation: The Polish Radicals’ Debates on the Army and War in 1832-1846 Revisited Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Piotr Kuligowski
ABSTRACT The primary aim of this article is to investigate the debates among those radicals who found themselves in exile after the failure of the Polish November Uprising (1830–1831) about whether a new national war was necessary. Instead of dealing with their reflections on warfare, I focus on the political dimension of these debates, and in particular on their ideas about mobilization during wartime
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The Polish Émigrés and the Eastern Question in the Nineteenth Century Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Radosław Żurawski Vel Grajewski
ABSTRACT This article examines Polish participation in the Eastern Question in the nineteenth century. In particular, it explores the intensive links between the idea of restoring independent Poland and the rivalry of the European powers as they sought to influence the Ottoman Empire. The most active Polish political group known as the Hôtel Lambert – leaded by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski – devoted
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Queer(in)g Poland in the 21st Century: How Was It at the Beginning of the Millennium? Introduction to This Special Issue on Queer Culture and the LGBTQ+ Movement in Poland Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Ula (Urszula) Chowaniec, Ewa Mazierska, Richard Mole
(2021). Queer(in)g Poland in the 21st Century: How Was It at the Beginning of the Millennium? Introduction to This Special Issue on Queer Culture and the LGBTQ+ Movement in Poland. Central Europe: Vol. 19, Queering Poland, pp. 1-13.
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‘How Does the Movement Work? Above All, Inefficiently’. Political Outcomes of the Polish LGBT* Movement Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Beata Bielska
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to analyse the political outcomes of the LGBT* movement in Poland, referring to civil unions, marriage equality, adoption, homophobic and transphobic hate crimes and Gender Recognition Act. I argue that the movement has become a recognizable political actor but has not achieved any legislative goal. It is based on an extensive qualitative research project conducted
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A Queer Construction of Identity in the Memoir of Stefan Czarniecki by Witold Gombrowicz Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-05-09 Błażej Warkocki
ABSTRACT The article presents the analysis and interpretation of Witold Gombrowicz’s short story: Memoirs of Stefan Czarniecki from the volume Pamiętnik z okresu dojrzewania [Memoirs from Time of Immaturity] 1933 (included after the Second World War in the volume Bakakaj [English translation: Bacacay]). The author interprets the story as narrative about life with the stigma that results from the social
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Idiosyncratic Ambiguities of Queer(able) Experience in Polish Film in the Early 2010s Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Rafał Morusiewicz
ABSTRACT The search for queer/queerable moments in the post-1989 Polish cinema is a frustrating feat. While increasingly featuring LGBTQ+ characters, especially in the current decade, Polish cinema films rarely break away from heteronormative and, less frequently, homonormative stereotypization, which takes on a limited range of offensive or empathetic manifestations. The former, represented by low-brow
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Gay Performance in Pre-Emancipation Times Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Grzegorz Niziołek
(2021). Gay Performance in Pre-Emancipation Times. Central Europe: Vol. 19, Queering Poland, pp. 53-64.
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Playing in the Dark with Ali: Portraiture, Race, and Remembrance in Karol Radziszewski’s Painting of August Agboola Browne Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Nicholas Boston
ABSTRACT August Agboola Browne (1895 – 1976) was a Nigerian-born jazz musician who resided in Poland from 1922 to 1956. Since the discovery and initial publicisation in 2010 of archived documents Browne submitted in 1949 for membership in a veterans’ association, on which he declared that he had been an insurgent in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 under the code name ‘Ali’, he has been heroised rhetorically
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Jožef Poklukar’s Universal Alphabet: A Utopian Project to Solve Notation of Special Slavonic Sounds Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Petra Černe Oven
ABSTRACT This article describes the utopian alphabet project of Slovenian clergyman Jožef Poklukar, in which he tried to establish a universal alphabet for the notation of the Slavic languages in the 19th century. Despite the fact that Czech diacritical marks were accepted in Slovenian orthography in the late 1840s, he wanted to start another reform due to his view that diacritics were not satisfactory
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The Origins of the Czechoslovak Oriental Languages School: The Oriental Institute in Prague during the Second World War Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Adéla Jůnová Macková
(2020). The Origins of the Czechoslovak Oriental Languages School: The Oriental Institute in Prague during the Second World War. Central Europe: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 74-88.
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A Profession in Conflict: Croatian Pharmacy between Politics and Economy in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Martin Kuhar, Stella Fatović-Ferenčić
ABSTRACT This paper will elaborate the impact of social, political and economic processes on the formation and development of the pharmaceutical profession in Croatia until the end of the Second World War. Political axes and dominant economic theories shaped a complex history of interactions between the pharmaceutical profession and state structures, dramatically polarizing the profession into interest
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The Word Read, Spoken, and Sung: Neo-Protestants and Modernity in Interwar Romania Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Iemima Ploscariu
ABSTRACT The neo-Protestants- Baptists, Brethren, Pentecostals, and Seventh-day Adventists- were rapidly growing religious minorities amidst the ethnic majority in interwar Romania. Using a combined anthropological and historical approach, the study unpacks the way these groups constructed their communities in response to internal and external pressures, changing the way they interpreted the Bible
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The Primary Education System in Imperial Austria: Vice or Virtue? A Review of Schooling under Control by Tomáš Cvrček Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Gabriele Cappelli
(2020). The Primary Education System in Imperial Austria: Vice or Virtue? A Review of Schooling under Control by Tomáš Cvrček. Central Europe: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 122-130.
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Online Decreta Regni Mediaevalis Hungariae. The Laws of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Philip Barker
(2020). Online Decreta Regni Mediaevalis Hungariae. The Laws of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary. Central Europe: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 37-38.
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Passing Illusions. Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Anna Dorothea Ludewig
(2020). Passing Illusions. Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany. Central Europe: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 38-40.
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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 David Freis
(2020). The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War. Central Europe: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 43-45.
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Marek Tuszewicki, Żaba pod językiem. Medycyna ludowa Żydów aszkenazyjskich przełomu XIX i XX wieku Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
(2020). Marek Tuszewicki, Żaba pod językiem. Medycyna ludowa Żydów aszkenazyjskich przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Central Europe: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 49-52.
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The Balkans as Europe 1821-1914 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-08-16 Ian D. Armour
(2020). The Balkans as Europe 1821-1914. Central Europe: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 40-42.
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The Balkans as Europe 1821-1914 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Elidor Mëhilli
Published in Central Europe (Vol. 20, No. 1-2, 2022)
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Times of upheaval. Four medievalists in twentieth-century Central Europe. Conversations with Jerzy Kłoczowski, János M. Bak, František Šmahel and Herwig Wolfram Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-04-29 Anna Kuznetsova
(2020). Times of upheaval. Four medievalists in twentieth-century Central Europe. Conversations with Jerzy Kłoczowski, János M. Bak, František Šmahel and Herwig Wolfram. Central Europe: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 30-36.
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The Idea of Central Europe: Geopolitics, Culture and Regional Identity Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Steven Beller
It might have been better had the title and sub-title of this book been reversed. As a study in the relationship between geopolitics, culture and regional identity, this book gives well-informed po...
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Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Elidor Mëhilli
This volume serves a reminder of the breadth and vitality of recent Cold War scholarship. As multi-archival studies have proliferated, the scope of the challenge of framing the Cold War has also ma...
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Czechoslovak-Vatican Diplomatic Relations on the Eve of World War II Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Marek Šmíd
ABSTRACT The study deals with the attitude of the Vatican towards the situation in Czechoslovakia in 1938–1939, within the context of international events on the eve of the Second World War. It describes and analyzes Czechoslovak-Vatican diplomatic relations, which underwent a rapid transformation in the second half of the 1930s. The Holy See had deep concerns about the escalating tension between Germans
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Exile and Shelter in the Work of Egon Hostovský, Vilém Flusser and Ivan Blatný Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Josef Hrdlička
ABSTRACT This study is concerned with the topology of shelter in literary texts of several Central European authors who in various times shared similar thoughts and/or experiences connected with exile in the period of the Cold War and its roots. The starting point is the word úkryt (shelter), which was employed by the writer Egon Hostovský for the title of a novel set in the period of the Second World
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The Experiences of a Polish Family from the Eastern Borderlands (1914–1921): The Protassewiczes of Borki Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Hubert Zawadzki
ABSTRACT This article examines how two generations of a large Polish landed family from the Grodno governorate in the Russian Empire were affected by the political and social upheavals brought about by World War One, the Russian Revolution, the threat of Bolshevism, and the rebirth of a Polish state. The Protassewiczes, like other landed noble families in the region, despite their Polish- Lithuanian
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Death-Agony and Birth Pangs: Inheritors of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania under German Occupation 1915–1918 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Joanna Gierowska-Kałłaur
ABSTRACT The Ober-Ost administration instated in 1915 covered a fragment of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania; a territory contested by Germany and Russia, inhabited by a nationally and religiously diverse society, with the Polish-Jewish city of Wilno as its central point. The German policies exploited the national aspirations of both the Lithuanians and the Belarusian leaders to dissolve the former
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The Forging of the Polish Army, 1918-1919 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Andrzej Suchcitz
ABSTRACT With the regaining of independence by Poland in November 1918 it was essential to create a unified homogenous army, the more so that Poland was faced by conflict from its neighbours at a time when the borders of Poland were by no means formed let alone finalised. There were at least four seperate Polish armies and a plethora of local formations springing up all over the country. From these
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Preface Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Lorman Thomas
Welcome to the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2015) held in Bertinoro, Italy, during October 26–30, 2015. Originally started as a regional (Asia-Pacific) workshop in 1998, PRIMA has become one of the leading and influential scientific conferences for research on multi-agent systems. Each year, PRIMA brings together active researchers
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Poland Restored, Reborn, Regained: One Hundred Years On Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Richard Butterwick
The many people gathered in this lecture theatre hold some very different convictions about the past, present and future. We cannot ignore the all too evident fact that the Polish, British and American nations today are all divided, polarized, riven . . . Riven to an extent I do not remember in half a century. We can no longer assume that it is normal to discuss the problems of pursuing the common
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From Empires to Nation-State: Remaking the Roman Catholic Church in an Independent Poland Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Jim Bjork
ABSTRACT Roman Catholicism is most often imagined as an element of continuity in Poland’s turbulent history: even when a Polish state was absent from the map of Europe from the late eighteenth through early twentieth centuries, a recognizably ‘Polish’ church has been presumed to provide a robust institutional anchor for the Polish nation. This article, however, argues that the creation of a ‘Polish’
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The Impact of the First World War and the Polish-Soviet War on the ‘Culture of Suffering’ in Post-1914 Polish Fiction Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Katarzyna Zechenter
ABSTRACT Using Jeffrey C. Alexander’s theory of cultural trauma, this article focuses on the three major types of narratives of suffering which appeared in Polish fiction, after Poland regained political independence in 1918, outside the strong myth-creating narrative of the Polish Legions’ role in the war for independence. It argues that Polish post-1918 fiction developed these three major paths in
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Introduction: The Jewish Body Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Cornelia Aust
The Jewish body has long caught the interest of historians and anthropologists. For both Jews and non-Jews, the body of the Jew had features which distinguished it essentially from a non-Jewish body, similar to the way a male body is conceived of as essentially different from a female body. Often, these bodily features were imagined as unchangeable. The following set of articles aims to contribute
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Covering the Female Jewish Body. Dress and Dress Regulations in Early Modern Ashkenaz Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Cornelia Aust
ABSTRACT Attempts to regulate, monitor, and sanction dress and outward appearance was a typical feature of the early modern period. Religious and secular authorities aimed at controlling its subjects’ spending as well as the upkeep of estate boundaries. This development did not leave untouched Jewish society in central and east-central Europe. Internal Jewish sumptuary laws from the late sixteenth
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Perspectives on the Human Body in the 20th-Century Book of Remedies, Rafaʾel ha-Malʾakh Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Marek Tuszewicki
ABSTRACT The book of remedies Rafaʾel ha-Malʾakh appeared in Hebrew at the beginning of the twentieth century. Its author, rabbi Yehuda Yudl Rosenberg, a man shaped by traditional Judaism and Hasidism, set himself the goal of creating a practical medical guide addressed to the poorer sections of the Jewish population in Russian Poland. In his work he included a diverse body of material representing
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Body, Place, and Knowledge: The Plica polonica in Travelogues and Experts’ Reflections around 1800 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 François Guesnet
ABSTRACT The matting of hair, understood as a medical condition since around 1600 and named Plica polonica, appears prominently in the writings of eighteenth-century authors travelling to Polish lands or in experts’ opinions about these provinces. This paper argues that integrating observations about an allegedly endemic medical condition was intimately linked to the emerging discourse on eastern Europe
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Orientalist Body Politics. Intermedia Encounters between German and Polish Jews around 1800 Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Kathrin Wittler
ABSTRACT In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the transformation of the German Jews’ appearance was often defined in terms of Europeanization and modernization, whereas the so-called Polish Jews were reproached for clinging to their outdated ‘Oriental’ caftans, beards, and head coverings. Inner-Jewish differences were moulded in the terms of a simultaneity of the non-simultaneous
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Another Hungary: The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Gábor Bátonyi
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The Gay Hussar: The Origins and Spread of Buserant in the Danube Region Central Europe (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Fabian Helmrich
ABSTRACT This papers examines how the word Buserant ‘gay’ spread in the languages of the Danube region. Further, it hypothesises in what contact situations borrowing occurred. In this, it presents a case study illustrating lexical borrowing in the proposed Danubian Sprachbund. According to the study’s findings Italian road workers introduced Buserant in Viennese German from where it spread through