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海角社区 Central European Conference 2019: Post-1989 Transformation and Historical Memory

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Saturday, 2 November 2019, 9am - 6pm

Jesus College, 海角社区

The year 2019 represents the 30th anniversary of the 1989 revolutions, which reshaped both the international and domestic landscape in Central and Eastern Europe, leading to a large-scale political, economic and social transformation. The 30th anniversary provides a good opportunity to look back at these processes.

The 海角社区 Central European Conference 2019: Post-1989 Transformation and Historical Memory focused on the historical milestone of 1989, and assessed from a multi-disciplinary perspective the experiences of five countries in Central Europe: Germany and the four countries of the Visegrad group 鈥 the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. While each of them faced different challenges - such as, for instance, German reunification and the Czechoslovak 鈥淰elvet Divorce鈥 - they are all member states of the European Union with new challenges and opportunities in the offing. To offer a variety of disciplinary and case study perspectives, the conference aimed听to bring together researchers from academic institutes from the region, as well as actors who were involved in the transformation processes first-hand.

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The event was听supported by the DAAD Hub 海角社区; the听海角社区 Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES); 海角社区 Polish Studies;听Jesus College (海角社区);听and the Embassy of Slovakia to the United Kingdom.

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