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15/03/2024
New Panel and Presentation: Internationalism during the Cold War. German and Polish Perspectives
Jakub Szumski, Research Assistant at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg organized a panel during the Sixth Kongress Polenforschung and presented the paper „Krzysztof Skubiszewski and Personal History of Internationalism“. The Kongress Polenforschung, the biggest gathering of Poland-experts in the German-speaking world, was held this year at the Technische Universität Dresden. https://www.polenforschung.de/ The presentation took place on…
13/03/2024
Talk with Dr. Ned Richardson-Little
Dr. Ned Richardson-Little gives a talk in the Seminar „Modern German History“ on 13 March 2024, 5:30PM – 7:00PM, online- via Teams at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study University of London. More Details here.
03/11/2023
Presentation: The “democracy paradox” and its historical roots in the Peaceful Revolution of 1989
Sophie Lange presents her research at the Dezim-Institute in Berlin.
„ … the evolution of a distinctive illiberal constitutionalism in some East Central European EU member states represents a significant political challenge with potentially far-reaching consequences for European integration.”
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15/03/2024
New Panel and Presentation: Internationalism during the Cold War. German and Polish Perspectives
Jakub Szumski, Research Assistant at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg organized a panel during the Sixth Kongress Polenforschung and presented the paper „Krzysztof Skubiszewski and Personal History of Internationalism“. The Kongress Polenforschung, the biggest gathering of Poland-experts in the German-speaking world, was held this year at the Technische Universität Dresden. https://www.polenforschung.de/ The presentation took place on…
13/03/2024
Talk with Dr. Ned Richardson-Little
Dr. Ned Richardson-Little gives a talk in the Seminar „Modern German History“ on 13 March 2024, 5:30PM – 7:00PM, online- via Teams at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study University of London. More Details here.
03/11/2023
Presentation: The “democracy paradox” and its historical roots in the Peaceful Revolution of 1989
Sophie Lange presents her research at the Dezim-Institute in Berlin.
03/11/2023
Presentation: The process of import of liberal constitutionalism into the post-1989 East Central Europe as a promotional strategy of transnational and national expert actors
Matěj Slavík presented his research in Halle-Wittenberg.
25/10/2023
Gleaning: Conference „Law, power, pluralisms. Revisiting Stanisław Ehrlich“
See some pictures by Rafał Mańko taken at the Conference „Law, Power, Pluralisms“ in Warsaw in October 2023
20/10/2023
Presentation: Den inneren Frieden wahren. Ehemalige DDR-Bürgerrechtler als Transmitter einer wiedervereinigten Gesellschaft?
Sophie Lange presented her research at the workshop „Work in Progress“ at the AKHF.
06/10/2023
Conference: Precarious Constitutionalism – The Ambiguities of Liberal Orders and the Rise of Illiberalism in Central Europe and Latin America
The Conference „Precarious Constitutionalism – The Ambiguities of Liberal Orders and the Rise of Illiberalism in Central Europe and Latin America“ takes place at the Vila Lanna at the Czech Acedemy of Sciences in Prague from 12 to 13th of October 2023.
28/09/2023
Conference: The Rule of Law. Bridging or Sanctioning Differences?
September, 28 and 29 2023 in Leipzig, Germany Several team members of our project are taking part at the Leipzig Rule of Law Conference titled „The Rule of Law – Bridging or Sanctioning Differences?“ which aims at discussing the extent of the national differences in rule of law structures, the political and legal situation in…
16/10/2023
Conference: Law, power, pluralisms. Revisiting Stanisław Ehrlich
Across the world, issues of law, legality, and legitimacy have recently emerged as increasingly important foci of democratic debates and political confrontations. The Conference on Stanislaw Ehrlich takes place in Warsaw from 16 to 17 October 2023.
28/08/2023
Presentation: Eastern Blocs’ International Law: Poznań School and the Integration of Liberal Internationalism into Socialist Doctrines
Jakub Szumski, Research Assistant at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg presented his research at the Global Justice Cluster, Erasmus Law School, Erasmus University of Rotterdam. The presentation takes place on Monday, August 28 2023 at 12 p.m. in Rotterdam.
12/07/2023
Conference Report: Revisiting the Dark Legacies of Illiberalism, Jena, December 2nd-3rd 2022
Wojciech Zomerski has written a report for the leading Polish legal history journal “Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne” about our Conference „Revisiting the Dark Legacies of Illiberalism“ which took place on December, 2-3 2022 in Jena.
06/06/2023
Call for Papers | Law, power, pluralisms. Revisiting Stanisław Ehrlich
Apply for a Workshop in Warsaw on the Work and Reception of Stanisław Ehrlich until 10 July 2023!
25/04/2023
Presentation: Historicizing Constitutional Illiberalism in Poland: The Ehrlich–Kaczynski Link
Naum Trajanovski, Assistant at the Faculty of Sociology (University of Warsaw), is currently a Visegrad-Fellow at the Open Society Archive (OSA) in Budapest, Hungary. There he presents his research at the OSA lecture series. The presentation takes place on Tuesday, April 25 2023 at 2 p.m. in Budapest.
29/09/2022
Listen to the Warsaw Expert Forum
Listen to the first Expert Forum in Warsaw from September 2022 with Michal Kaczmarczyk, Renáta Uitz, Michal Kopeček, Edit Zgut-Przybylska, and Adam Bodnar.
15/03/2023
Gleaning: Workshop and Expert Forum in Budapest
A short report about the Budapest Workshop in March 2023 and the included Expert Forum.
13/03/2023
Hearing the Nation’s Heartbeat: Reproductive Rights in an Illiberal Age
This Public Discussion takes place at the Central European University in Budapest on March 13 2023 and focuses on the war on gender ideology which centers on human reproduction.
20/02/2023
Call for Papers | Precarious Constitutionalism: The Ambiguities of Liberal Orders and the Rise of Illiberalism in Central Europe and Latin America
The Conference will take place in Prague from October 12-13, 2023. Apply until March, 20, 2023!
13/02/2023
Conference Report: Revisiting the Dark Legacies of Illiberalism, Jena, December 2nd-3rd 2022
Simon Mensing has written the conference report for H-Soz-Kult about our Conference „Revisiting the Dark Legacies of Illiberalism“ which took place on December, 2-3 2022 in Jena.
09/12/2022
Presentation: The German Far-Right, Constitutional Rights and Memory Politics since Reunification.
Ned Richardson-Little helds a presentation at the EuroStorie Research Seminar (Center of Excellence in Law, Identity and and the European Narratives) at Helsinki University, Finland. The Seminar takes place on Friday, 9 December 2022 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm (UTC+3) online via Zoom. For more information visit the EuroStorie’s Website.
02/12/2022
Revisiting the Dark Legacies of Illiberalism: Varieties of Constitutionalism and Legal-Political Practices in Post-Authoritarian Europe
Until recently, the model of “constitutional tolerance” that allowed for a plurality of constitutional traditions within EU was understood as a strength. Not anymore. The constitutional transformation of Hungary and Poland towards authoritarian regimes in recent years has undermined the belief that despite the plurality there is a constitutional core shared by all member states…
30/09/2022
Project Workshop, University of Warsaw
On 30 September 2022, the team of the „Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives“ project held a closed workshop in Warsaw, at the site of one of the project partners: the Institute of Sociology of the University of Warsaw. At the workshop, the team members presented their…
06/10/2022
Conference Report: Constitutional Imaginaries in Europe, University of Copenhagen
October 6-7, 2022 Michal Kopeček and Matěj Slavík of the Prague team attended a conference held at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law between 6th and 7th of October. Titled Constitutional Imaginaries in Europe, the conference gathered a group of European scholars mostly composed of constitutional lawyers who tried to explore how Europe is…
29/09/2022
Warsaw Expert Forum
The Warsaw Expert Forum, which will take place on 29 September at Dom Spotkań z Historią, is the first in the series of forums of the „Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives“ project. The Forum aims at bringing together historians, legal scholars, justice practitioners and political stakeholders to discuss…
16/11/2022
Presentation: Warfare and Lawfare. Borders, International Crimes, and the Polish Experience in the 20th Century
Jakub Szumski, Research Assistant at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg, together with Professor Agata Fijalkowski (Leeds Law School), presented his research at the Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The presentation takes place on Wednesday, November 16 2022 at 3.30 p.m. in Madison, Wisconsin.
15/09/2022
Presentation: Accommodation Game. Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Krzysztof Skubiszewski and the Field of Polish International Law in State Socialist Poland
Jakub Szumski, Research Assistant at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg, presented his research at the conference “Socialisms and International Law in the Contemporary World”, held at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest The presentation takes place on Thursday, September 15 at 3.30 p.m. in Bucharest.