This semester I teach a Yiddish course for historians. Students should achieve basic reading skills in order to study original Yiddish sources of the Twentieth century.
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Project presentation at the University of Ljubljana
Together with my colleague Oskar Mulej we presented our NTAutonomy-ERC-Project at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts. I presented the project in its entirety and he lectured on the Sudeten German approaches to non-territorial autonomy.
For the announcement of the talk click here.
Workshop Human Rights and Autonomy Rights
On 14 November 2020, the ERC project Non-Territorial Autonomy together with the University of Vienna’s research group “History of Democracy and Human Rights” co-organised the international workshop Human Rights and Autonomy Rights in European Perspective. We presented the NTAutonomy project and commented on draft papers of colleagues from Geneva.
Please click here for the programme.
Recently published: Ukrainian translation of my book on the city of Brody
The Lviv based Litopys publishing house just published the Ukrainian translation of my monograph on the Galician border city of Brody.
In mid-September the book was presented in Brody, Lviv and Tshernivtsi.
Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna
Starting in September 2019, I am an assistant professor (tenure track) for “Modern History of Central- and Eastern Europe and the Habsburg Monarchy” at the Department for East European History of the University of Vienna.
Recently published: Survey article on refugee crises in Austria over the last three centuries
This survey article analyses refugee crises that Austria has experienced since the eighteen century until the recent past.
Free download: Börries Kuzamy, “Changes and Continuities in Austria’s Coping with Refugee Crises over Three Centuries,” Journal of Austrian-American History, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2018), pp. 116-141.
ABSTRACT By bringing together the most important refugee crises that struck first the Habsburg Empire and later the Republic of Austria during the last three hundred years, this paper analyzes the longue durée experiences this country has had in dealing with such situations. It explores the driving factors behind societal and governmental responses and conceives four topics that are recurrent, if in different forms: 1) the socioeconomic disruption and the ethical imperative to provide relief; 2) the legal authorities and their power to determine a legal settlement and the ultimate right to belong; 3) their quest to maintain sovereignty and control; and 4) the question of the legitimacy of refugees as perceived by authorities but also by a (fickle) public opinion.
Short-term fellowships for studying non-territorial autonomy
The COST network for studying non-territorial autonomy in Europe (ENTAN) published a call for short-time research fellowships.
You can find the call here.
Project presentation at the Masaryk Institute Prague
Together with my colleague Oskar Mulej we presented our NTAutonomy-ERC-Project at the Masaryk-Institut of the Czech Academy of Sciences. I presented the project in its entirety and he lectured on the Sudeten German approaches to non-territorial autonomy.
Meeting of the COST action European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network
I participated in the second meeting of the management committee of the European Union sponsored COST Action “European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network” (ENTAN) in Skopje in early June.
Birkbeck University, Paper on minority ministries in Ukraine
I presented at the conference „Contested Minorities: A Transnational History of the Polish-Soviet Borderlands“ that was organised in early June at Birkbeck University London. My paper was entitled The minority Ministries for Poles, Jews and Russians in the Ukrainian people’s Republic and their Efforts to Establish National-Personal Autonomy.