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CfP: Parliament contested?

Parliament contested? Rethinking the relationship between national politics, global crises, and pressure from below in the 1970s Conference organized by the Centre for Parliamentary History, RU Nijmegen, 9 June 2023 Introduction on the topic How can the 1970s be...

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EU Eastern Enlargement, or an All-European Transformation?

International workshop acoompanying the Czech Republic's EU presidency and titled Eastern Enlargement, or an All-European Transformation? The 1990s in European Politics is organized by the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academcy of Sciences, the...

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Latest books on parliamentary cultures revisited

The Czech Journal of Contemporary History has just published a review article of several recent publications dealing with the history of parliamentary cultures. Adéla Gjuričová has argued in it that this perspective, which includes the rhetorical, procedural, social,...

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Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2021

We are happy to inform you that the Autumn/Winter 2021 issue of EuParl.net newsletter has just been published! http://www.usd.cas.cz/Newsletter_server_2021.pdf                                                                        ...

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Conference: 100 Years since the Founding of KSČ

On the relation of Czechoslovak Communism to Parliamentary Institutions On 19-20 May, a major international event marking the 100th anniversary of the 1921 foundation of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia will take place. The conference organized by the Institute...

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Report: The 1990 Elections in East-Central Europe

On 3 December 2020, EuParl.net held an online seminar organized by the Institutes of Contemporary History in Prague and Ljubljana. It brought together several research reports on topics related to elections in new political regimes, be it Central and Eastern Europe in...

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Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2020

We are happy to inform you that the Autumn/Winter 2020 issue of EuParl.net newsletter has just been published. You can read the news from parliamentary history research in this difficult year...

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ParlaCLARIN II went virtual, yet produced real work

The second workshop of the ParlaCLARIN project, dealing with parliamentary records and the methods of their digital analysis, took place on May 11, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the main conference was postponed, and the workshop was held online. Yet, the...

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Launching the KGParl Newsletter

The German Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties (KGParl) published the first issue of its newsletter. It seeks to inform about latest books and events, its ongoing projects - and one neglected anniversary: in the spring of 1990, the East...

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Report: Finally Alone.

Two-day workshop Finally Alone: The Nation State, Representation, and Sovereignty in Central Europe after 1989 was held in Bratislava on 25-26 September, 2019. Its concept sought to tell an non-triumphalist story of the peaceful revolutions that brought Communist...

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Prague Board Meeting of EuParl.net

The EuParl.net Board of Directors held its meeting in Prague on 11 October, 2019. The board members discussed news from member organizations, the plans for coming years as well as the network's publishing strategies. The meeting took place in the former Federal...

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Women Entering Parliamentary Stage

Futuristic buildings of the German Bundestag in Berlin hosted the conference „Entering the Parliamentary Stage: Women in Parliament and Politics in International Comparison“ on 6-8 March 2019. The three days brought together a community of scholars, students and...

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Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2018 is out!

We are happy to inform you that the Autumn/Winter 2018 issue of EuParl.net newsletter has just been published. Do enjoy the Holiday season! You can read the news from parliamentary history research here: http://www.usd.cas.cz/Newsletter2018_2.pdf

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Brief report: Conference “Century of Women MPs”

On 5-7 September, London's University of Westminster and the History of Parliament hosted the "Century of Women MPs" conference. What seemed to be an event commemorating the extension of electoral rights of 1918 in the UK, turned out be a fascinating picture of...

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CfP: Parliaments and the Politicization of the EU

4th TRACE Symposium will be held on May 31st to June 1st, 2018 at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. The call for papers is open now. EU scholarship has tended to underplay the role of national and European parliaments in European politics. Specialists in parliamentary...

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CLARIN workshop ‘Working with Parliamentary Records’

CLARIN is a research infrastructure that was initiated from the vision that all digital language resources and tools  from all over Europe and beyond should be accessible through an online environment for the support of researchers in the humanities and social...

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