EU Exhibition: Retrospect
Key achievement of our project, WEMov was invited by MEP Sylvie Guillaume to exhibit its work at the EU Parliament from 9-12 April 2024. The opening took… Lire la suite »EU Exhibition: Retrospect
Key achievement of our project, WEMov was invited by MEP Sylvie Guillaume to exhibit its work at the EU Parliament from 9-12 April 2024. The opening took… Lire la suite »EU Exhibition: Retrospect
I. WEMov in an edition of International Science Council February, 2024 International Science Council published an edition “Protecting Science in Times of Crisis”. In the process of writing the part of this… Lire la suite »ANNOUNCEMENTS
By Nicoleta Roman (‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History-Romanian Academy & New Europe College-Institute of Advanced Study, Bucharest) Interwar period is a time of political and… Lire la suite »SHORT STORY: Maria Cebotari, an artist caught in an ideological battle
For newsletter #10, we are featuring two young colleagues actively involved in WEMov: Aiga Bērziņa-Kite from WG1, and WG4 member Maryam Ekhtiari. AigaBērziņa-Kite (WG1) is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Latvia. Her research is mostly devoted to social and political history of Interwar Latvia with a special focus on crime and policing during Latvian War of Independence. At the same time her research includes several aspects from women’s history, for example, in 2015 she defended her Master’s thesis entitled “Female inmates in the prisons of the Republic of Latvia, 1919-1921” at the University of Latvia. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation “Penitentiary System of the Republic of Latvia during Latvian War of Independence, 1919–1921”. She works as a head researcher at the National Archives of Latvia and Research assistant at theInstitute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia. List of publications: Bērziņa-Kite, A. (2023). Izbēgt no ieslodzījuma: Latvijas Republikas Tieslietu ministrijai pakļauto ieslodzījuma vietu pieredze, 1919.–1920. gads. (Escape from imprisonment: experience of prisons Under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Latvia, 1919–1920). Latvijas Arhīvi (1). P… Lire la suite »WEMov’s Talent
Zoom interview February 2024 Welcome & Acknowledgements. Presentation of the interviewers. Camelia Zavarache: Thank you so much for taking the time and for accepting to answer our questions.… Lire la suite »Archival Records, Migration and Public Service: An Interview with Anne-Charlotte Olas, The National Archives of France
Written by Co-WG3 Leader Lela Goginava (Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies, East European University of Georgia) & Lívia Prosinger (Institute of Political History, Budapest, Hungary) On October 13-14, 2024, the Transcribathon took… Lire la suite »EVENT: Transcribathon in Tbilisi, Georgia
News from WG1 By Tatjana Šarić (Croatian State Archives, Zagreb, Croatia) & Božena Miljić (University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro) Working Group 1 (WG1) has made significant progress towards achieving its deliverables and… Lire la suite »WG News – Newsletter #10
Publications and landmarks The following study, co-authored by Maria Boștenaru-Dan (WG2 member), is about a female migrant, Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu, who appears on multiple times on WEMov’s Map of Women Migrants’ Landmarks. There are streets named after here in Bucharest and Galați, among others. All this is a good example of the many ways to commemorate (or draw attention to) an existing landmark in the framework of the WEMov COST Action: Mirela-Adriana ANGHELACHE, Maria BOȘTENARU-DAN: Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu – TrailblazerforRomanianwomen in engineering and science STUDII ŞI COMUNICĂRI / DIS, Vol. XVI / 2023