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Date 4-5 September 2024 Location Haus der Universität Schadowplatz 14 40212 Düsseldorf Registration Please register by 23 August 2024 via E-Mail to wintgens@kgparl.de PROGRAMME 4 September 09:00 Einführung // Introduction Benedikt Wintgens (Berlin) 10:00 Panel 1:...

How can the 1970s be characterized? And, more in particular, how to define the position of national parliaments and national policy making processes in this decade of increasing global challenges and extra-parliamentary pressure? On Friday 9th June, a group of...

We are happy to inform you that the Autumn/Winter 2022 issue of EuParl.net newsletter has just been published! Newsletter  

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...

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...

We are happy to inform you that the Spring/Summer 2022 issue of EuParl.net newsletter has just been published! You can read the news from parliamentary history research here: NEWSLETTER            

We would like to draw your attention to the Call for Papers of our international conference 'Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, 1500-1700: Concepts, Methods, Approaches', which will be held at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 22-24 June 2022. The conference is...

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,...

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                                                                        ...

Programme Group for Political History Research, P6-0281 Lecture: Rory Archer (Graz/Konstanz) | Mladen Zobec (Graz) To the Northwest! Intra Yugoslav Albanian migration (1953-1989) 17. 6. 2021, 11:00 - 13:00 Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, Privoz 11, 1000 Ljubljana...

The Text Mining Parliamentary Data Seminar Comparing National Parliaments June 14, 2021 | 16.00–20.00 CET https://umu.zoom.us/s/65046542023 In the “Political Representation: Tensions between Parliament and the People from the Age of Revolutions to the 21st Century”...

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...

Dear colleagues, it is our great pleasure to announce the publication of our book "Planting Parliaments in Eurasia, 1850–1950: Concepts, Practices and Mythologies" with Routledge. It is available in open access at the database of the publisher; the print version will...

Dear colleagues, you are cordially invited to the Workshop "The Vanguard of Class and Nation: Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1920s–1990s," which will take place online on April 12–13, 2021. Here is the link to the event in heiCONF:...

Online Event | 19-28 May 2021 The Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH21 will be organized as an online hackathon. As a CLARIN and DARIAH summer school, the event will be truly international welcoming applications from all over Europe. The NewsEye project will...

CALL FOR PAPERS The 73rd conference of the ICHRPI will be held in Athens, Greece, from 20th to 23rd October 2021. It will be co-organized by the Greek Section of the ICHRPI and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Main conference theme: Post-Napoleonic...

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...

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...

Time: Dec 3, 2020 09:30 AM Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96109811984?pwd=b3JRTGE0cGcrNjdjTHArL1ZpbUxqUT09 Meeting ID: 961 0981 1984 Passcode: 236637 PROGRAMME I. REFLECTING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY 9:30 – 11:00 CHAIRED BY Jure Gašparič Ivan Sablin: Assembling...

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...

The Slovenian Institute of Contemporary History published a new issue (Vol. 60, No. 1) of Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino / Contributions to Contemporary History. It includes two articles in English, one on the illegal Yugoslav Communist Party in the 1930s, and the...

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...

An updated version of the call for papers with new workshop dates. The book workshop for the invited authors is scheduled to take place in Heidelberg on April 12–13, 2021. Focusing on the histories of one-party regimes in Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia,...

Call for papers for a volume on: Christian Democratic People’s Parties and the Rise of Populism 1900-2010 Edited by Michael Gehler and Hans Krabbendam under supervision of CIVITAS – Forum of Archives and Research on Christian Democracy https://civitas-farcd.eu/about...

Tuesday, 14 January 2020   We are happy to inform you that the Winter 2019/2020 issue of EuParl.net newsletter has just been published! You can read the news from parliamentary history research here: NEWSLETTER

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...

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...

A few photos from our two-day workshop organised in Bratislava, Slovakia:          

We are happy to inform you that the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of EuParl.net newsletter has just been published! You can read the news from parliamentary history research here: NEWSLETTER

The provisional program of the Workshop "Eurasian Parliamentary Practices and Political Mythologies: Imperial Legacies, Diversities, and Representations in the 20th and 21st Century," to take place in Heidelberg on June 17-18, 2019, is now online. The Workshop will...

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Centre 2/2019 – Call for Papers Issue Theme: Migration in the Modern History of Central Europe Deadline for submissions: June 30th, 2019 Contact: stred@mua.cas.cz Publication languages: Czech, English, German Journal Website:...

Der erste Workshop des aktuellen ERC-Forschungsprojektes betrachtete die Rolle und Transformation von Parlamenten in imperialen und post-imperialen Kontexten des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Ein besonders Augenmerk lag dabei auf der Geschichte der politischen...

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...

Although the movement for women’s suffrage communicated transnationally and was linked internationally, the common goal of introducing women’s suffrage was achieved at very different times and under unequal conditions: while the spectacular actions of the British...

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

Workshop: Parliamentarianism and Representative Democracy in Crisis of War, Revolution, and Collapse of Empires, 2 October 2018, St. Petersburg In April 2017 EuParl.net welcomed the Center for Historical Research at the National Research University Higher School of...

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...

La Chaire de recherche en études parlementaires de l’Université du Luxembourg recrute   Un(e) doctorant(e) bénéficiant d’une bourse en études parlementaires, spécialité science politique et/ou droit public   Fonctions : Réaliser un doctorat en études parlementaires,...

Please note a H-Soz-Kult review of Parlamentarismuskritik und Antiparlamentarismus, a publication that came out of a EuParl.net event! https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-29279

The Centre for Historical Research at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg as a member of EuParl.Net is organizing a two-days workshop on "Parliamentarianism and Representative Democracy in Crises of War, Revolution, and...

Symposium »Entering the parliamentary stage – Women in Parliament and Politics. An international comparison. A conference marking the centennial of women’s suffrage in Germany 1919.« To celebrate the centennial of women's suffrage in Germany, an international...

current issue of 'Contributions to Contemporary History' - Thinking About the Revolution: 100 Years After: http://ojs.inz.si/pnz/issue/view/15  

The Czech Chamber of Deputies hosted a conference organized by the Institute of Contemporary History in Prague. It dealt with the 1968 foundation of the Czech National Council, the first Czech legislature within Czechoslovakia. The conference explored the roots and...

We are happy to inform you that the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of EuParl.net newsletter has just been published! You can read the news from parliamentary history research here: http://www.usd.cas.cz/Newsletter2018.pdf

International conference Half a century of political controversies relating to social security reforms for the elderly in Europe. The Centre for Parliamentary History (CPG) of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, organizes an international conference...

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...

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...