The conference is organised jointly by the Chair of Central and Eastern European History at the University of Basel and the Department of Mediterranean, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Geneva. The conference will take place in Basel with English as a working language. The organisers will cover the participants’ travel, accommodation and meal expenses. A publication of selected papers is planned following the conference.

This call for papers is aimed at PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and senior scholars in the field of history and related disciplines. We particularly welcome submissions based on new research or the exploration of new source materials that address one or more of the questions outlined above. We welcome papers on the transnational biographies of individual actors, as well as contributions on political groups, national movements and geographical centres of political exile in Switzerland. Researchers from Central and Eastern Europe are explicitly encouraged to apply.

This conference is being organized by Prof. Dr. F. Benjamin Schenk (University of Basel), Prof. Dr. Korine Amacher (University of Geneva) and Sarah Evison (University of Basel).