Talk by Carsta Langner at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Carsta Langner, in our second funding phase head of the sub-project “Voluntariness and Solidarity in the GDR in the GDR and the Post-socialist Transition (1970-2000)”, will present aspects of her current work on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

Her talk will be part of the Colloquium of Modern and Contemporary History at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Carsta is going to elaborate on initial assumptions about her research perspective on voluntariness and voluntary engagement among migrants in the GDR. Talk and discussion are entitled “Freiwillig in der DDR: Gesellschaftliches Engagement von Migrant:innen im Staatssozialismus” and will take place from 6-8 pm (c.t.) in seminar room 12, Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 26/27, Halle. Find more details on the Colloquium “Neuere und Neuste Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte” here.

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Special Issue on Voluntariness at Rethinking History

Members of our research group have compiled a special issue for the journal Rethinking History on the topic of “The Politics of Voluntariness in Modern History.” The issue is edited by Jürgen Martschukat and Alexandra Oeser and all pieces are available for download as open access articles on the journal’s website. Get the links right here.

New Conference Report and Podcast Episode online

On October 24 & 25, 2024 the international workshop „From Contested Ownership to (In)Voluntary Returns. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postcolonial Fight for Restitution and Repatriation“ took place in Erfurt. You may read the conference report on HSozKult or listen to an interview with Flower Manase, visiting Mercator Fellow to the CRC “Structural Change of Property” in 2024, on the CRC’s podcast “Appropriate”.

Conference Report on the Workshop “Voluntariness, Women, and Development”

New conference report online!
On July 4 and 5, 2024, Maria Framke, working on the research project “Hidden Histories: Women in Rural Development Programs in India, c. 1920-1966” and affiliated with our group, organized the workshop “Voluntariness, Women and Development in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Societies.” Read more here…