Book Launch
𝗘́𝘃𝗮 𝗞𝗼𝘃𝗮́𝗰𝘀, 𝗥𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗖𝗮̂𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗮́𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗴𝗿𝘆 (𝗘𝗱𝘀.):
𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲. 𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘀
Purdue University Press
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📆 Monday, 6 October 2025, 18:00
📍 Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), Rabensteig 3, 1010 Vienna
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"Ethnicizing Europe" focuses on the dynamics of interethnic violence in Europe between the two world wars. The new international system that was enshrined by the Versailles peace treaties after World War I did not bring stability to East-Central Europe. Rather, it resulted in a host of conditions like self-determination, international oversight, revolutionary political ideas, and democratic processes, which eventually gave new meaning to already established conflicts, as well as igniting new conflicts in the region. This book opens with a discussion of the theoretical scholarship on ethnicity before proceeding to specific case studies investigating the different ways in which ethnicity was enacted and contested during a period of European transformation, focusing mostly on ethnically heterogeneous locales.
Rather than concentrating on either political violence or ethnonationalism, this collection brings these two literatures together to show how ethnicization, the legal concepts of citizenship, and violence were intertwined in post-Versailles Europe, not only shaping the period between the wars, but also the Europe we know today. The book concludes with an afterword by Tara Zahra, which expands this perspective to the wider transatlantic region.
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Éva Kovács is a sociologist and deputy director of Academic Affairs at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, as well as a research professor at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest. She researches the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, memory studies, and Jewish identity in Hungary, and has authored or edited fifteen books and numerous articles.
Raul Cârstocea is assistant professor of 20th-century European history at Maynooth University. His work focuses on anti-Semitism, fascism, nationalism, the Holocaust, and state formation in modern Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. He is coeditor of the Modern History of Politics and Violence series and vice-chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe.
Gábor Egry is a historian, doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and director-general of the Institute of Political History in Budapest. He studies nationalism, identity politics, and economic history in East-Central Europe, and led the ERC project Nepostrans (2018–2023) on local and regional transitions in the post-Habsburg region.
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Discussion:
The editors will discuss the book with Dirk Rupnow, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck and dean of its Faculty of Arts and Humanities; member of the VWI Academic Advisory Board, former Visiting Professor at Stanford.
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