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Presenter: Witnessing the Now: Challenges for Emergency Archiving and Oral History following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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‘We Remain What We Are’ ‘Wir bleiben was wir sind?:North Schleswig German Identities in Children's Education After 1945
Full text link‘We Remain What We Are’ ‘Wir bleiben was wir sind?:North Schleswig German Identities in Children's Education After 1945
Full text linkOrganiser: Workshop 'Digitising, Georeferencing and Modeling Administrative Historical Data'
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No full textAssociation for Borderlands Studies 2nd World Conference. Border-Making and its Consequences: Interpreting Evidence from the 'post-Colonial' and 'post-Imperial' 20th Century
Full text linkBorderland Studies Meets Child Studies. A European Encounter
Full text linkWith the demise of four multinational empires at the end of the First World War (Russian, German, Habsburg and Ottoman), nationalist forces all over Europe claimed the right to a territory for what they considered to be their own people. The peace treaties resulting from the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 caused a major redrawing of the map of Europe. As a result of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany handed over a considerable amount of its territory at its Western, Northern and, most significantly, Eastern borders, to neighbouring states. This edited volume focuses on the regions lying in what one could call a ring around Germany lost by Germany after the First World War. The European border regions of an-nexation, as I call them, switched their sovereignty as follows: Alsace-Lorraine became French, Eupen-Malmedy Belgian, North Schleswig Danish, various former Prussian Eastern provinces became Polish, the Hlučin region Czechoslovakian, and the Memel region Lithuanian. By set-ting up a historical comparison of the living conditions of children in European borderlands of annexation throughout the 20th Century, this edited volume provided the context for an encounter of a new combination of categories from different disciplines: Borderland Studies meets Child Studies
Digitally Reconstructing Mental Maps from L'viv during the Transformation, 1989–1995
Full text linkWith Ukraine’s independence in 1991, mental maps about Ukraine have re-emerged with the processes of post-communist nation-building and state-building. In the post-Cold War period, these mental maps have been shaped by a variety of foreign and national actors, propagating simplistic narratives that imply spatial fragmentations of Ukraine based on history, political orientation, ethnicity, language, and socio-economic differences – unfolding in spatial terms such as Malorossiya, Novorossiya, Galicia, Transcarpathia, Bukovina, and the East-West divide. Particularly, mental maps about Ukraine’s western regions, with L’viv at its centre, have been shaped by the region’s historical spatial fragmentation from Galicia under Austro-Hungarian rule to Soviet incorporation. The perception of these regions varies significantly based on historical perspectives, often characterized as patriotic, nationalist, Catholic, Ukrainian-speaking, pro-European, or as fascist, anti-Polish, anti-Soviet, and anti-Russian. This doctoral thesis tells a local and historical story of mental maps by centralizing the perspective of young borderland inhabitants from the western Ukrainian city L’viv during 1989 to 1995. Focusing on the borderland city of L’viv during the transformation years of 1989 to 1995, this thesis digitally reconstructs two mental maps of young borderland inhabitants through a digital analysis of two youth newspapers, Postup and Leninska Molod’ / Moloda Halychyna. The study critically examines the spatial meanings young L’vivians attributed to locations during the transformation and their evolution over time to reconstruct their mental maps. The findings show how both groups navigated the socio-political and socio-economic transformations of Ukraine, attributing diverse meanings to locations like L’viv, Russia, the Baltics, and the USA, which evolved into complex mental maps. These maps are visualized in conceptual representations, illustrating how these places were perceived beyond mere geographic entities. The analysis reveals that young borderland inhabitants framed their spatial perceptions within national and regional narratives while emphasizing Ukraine’s place within Europe. This study contributes to the interdisciplinary field of border studies and the social dimension of historical transformation research
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