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2013 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Awards

May 6, 2013

Marc Junge (University of Rurh at Bochum), Jeffrey Rossman (University of Virginia) and Lynne Viola (University of Toronto) were amongst the recipients of the 2013 Award from Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for their research on “Stalin’s Great Terror: A Documentary History of Soviet Perpetrators”

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Q&A with Randall Hansen: Major Debates and Challenges in Immigration – Canada and Europe

April 26, 2013

Interview by Loretta Ho and Harbi Natt Global Migration Research Institute Let’s first focus on Canada. What do you think are some of the major debates or challenges facing Canadian immigration today? The major debate in Canada is whether our...

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Eurasiatique: A European, Russian and Eurasian Studies Student Journal

April 9, 2013

Eurasiatique is a journal organized and managed by the students at the Centre for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto. Eurasiatique promotes interdisciplinary study of Europe, Russia, and Eurasia by combining work from graduate students from...

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In Kyiv, a long fight to save history by Marta Dyczok

April 4, 2013

In one of the Ukraine capital’s oldest neighbourhoods, a landmark has become the flashpoint in a battle pitting activists against developers. Marta Dyczok is an Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science at the Western University, and...

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Robert Johnson on Revising History

April 4, 2013

What happens when historians go searching for new evidence about the nation’s past? It can change the way its citizens think about their country as well as their identity. And it can upset both citizens and those who govern them....

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Charles Clarke on: Will Britain leave the European Union?

March 23, 2013

Read the speech given by the Rt Hon Charles Clarke at the Munk School of the University of Toronto on Friday, March 22nd, 2013.

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“Writing Travel: The Poetics and Politics of the Modern Journey” by John Zilcosky

March 14, 2013

Interest in travel writing has grown rapidly within the disciplines of postcolonial and cultural studies; however, recent scholarship has failed to place travel writing within the larger literary tradition. Writing Travel assembles a superb collection of essays that demonstrate how...

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“Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism and the Traffic of Writing” by John Zilcosky

March 14, 2013

In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron, a dime-store colonial adventure novel, ” { it } affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.” John Zilcosky...

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Book Cover of Founding A Balkan State, Written by Robert Austin

“Founding a Balkan State: Albania’s Experiment with Democracy, 1920-1925” by Robert C. Austin

February 20, 2013

Founding a Balkan State examines the pivotal period in Albanian history when the country’s fundamental goals and directions were most hotly contested. In 1920, liberal Albanian leaders – led by the US-educated Bishop Fan S. Noli – began working to introduce...

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Messages in the Media: A Year in Review of EU-member State Relations as Depicted in National Media

February 19, 2013

The European Studies Student’s Association launched its journal in April 2012. Click here to download the first issue, “Messages in the Media: A Year in Review of EU-member State Relations as Depicted in National Media”

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