Submission Deadline: 01/15/2021 —
This workshop tackles humanitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century, probing the tensions stemming from engagements in nationalist and/or state socialist environments and the dilemmas or misunderstandings that arose from encounters with Western forms of providing aid. The workshop will focus on domestic forms of humanitarianism and investigate key local actors, their agendas, and practices of providing aid. It will further explore their entanglements and relationships with Western as well as non-Western actors and their relief practices in the region. It will investigate how important political, ethnic, or confessional identities were in shaping discourses and practices of solidarity. It will furthermore reflect on the ways in which humanitarians positioned and negotiated the provision of aid within local nationalist and/or state socialist frameworks.
Project Contact: Send email to Doina Anca Cretu; Michal Frankl; Nikola Karasova
Project Details: https://www.unlikely-refuge.eu/2020/11/03/workshop-cfp-humanitarianism/