The Osteuropa-Institut and the Berliner Kolleg für vergleichende Geschichte Europas (BKVGE) organize the Conference [.pdf; .html] (Post-)Yugoslav Migrations. State of Research, New Approaches and Comparative Perspectives (08-10 December 2006, BKVGE, Koserstr. 20, D-14195 Berlin):

Migration from and within the territory of the former Yugoslavia has played and continues to play a salient role for the social, economic, political and cultural developments of both the domestic societies of the former Yugoslavia and its successor states as well as the destination countries. From seasonal migration patterns under Ottoman rule and overseas emigration in the late 19th and early 20th century to labor migration ("Gastarbeiter") during the socialist era – this area constituted a dense and multifaceted social and geographic space of migration activity. Recent emigration to Western Europe and Northern America as a result of the wars of the 1990s and the economic crises after the breakdown of socialism added new practical and discursive dimensions to the migration from this area as a European and transatlantic migration process.

Joachim Bahlcke (Hg.): Historische Schlesienforschung. Methoden, Themen und Perspektiven zwischen traditioneller Landesgeschichtsschreibung und moderner Kulturwissenschaft. Köln: Böhlau 2005 (Neue Forschungen zur schlesischen Geschichte 11), 740 pp.
[ISBN 3-412-20105-7; EUR 69,90,-]

Jörg Deventer (GWZO Leipzig) hat dazu eine zwar kritische, dennoch durchgehend positiv ausgfallende Rezension verfasst.

Die rumänische Botschaft in Wien lädt gemeinsam mit dem Collegium Hungaricum für den 2. November 2006 (18.00 Uhr, CH, Hollandstrasse 4, 1020 Wien) zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung

DONAUKOMMISSION 1856 - 1948

Die Ausstellung des Kreismuseums Galaţi zeigt die Donau als Kommunikationsweg in Europa und die Arbeiten der Donaukommission im genannten Zeitraum.