Lecture | Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
CANCELLED | From Peripheral Whiteness to White Supremacy: Histories of Race in Eastern Europe 1945-present day
- Date
- Wednesday 4 December 2019
- Time
- Series
- Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS) year 2019-2020
- Location
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Matthias de Vrieshof
Matthias de Vrieshof 2
2311 BZ Leiden - Room
- 0.04
This lecture has been cancelled.
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James Mark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe (2010), which was nominated for the Longman History Today Book Prize 2011 and selected as one of the ‘best books of 2011’ by Foreign Affairs. He is co-author of Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt (2013) and 1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe (2019), and co-editor of Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe (2017) and Alternative Encounters: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World (2020). He is Principal Investigator on three research projects: '1989 after 1989: Rethinking the Fall of State Socialism in Global Perspective' (2014-19); 'Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Connections Between the 'Second' and 'Third Worlds'' (2015-20); and Criminalization of Dictatorial Pasts in Europe and Latin America in Global Perspective (2016-20).