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Racism against East Europeans constitutes a major gap in racism research and anti-racism debates. Yet there is a long tradition of treating the region and its inhabitants as inferior, with devastating consequences throughout history. We present the first comprehensive study of racism in the entangled histories of Germany and Eastern Europe — a racism that is not based on skin colour and affects people despite their mostly phenotypical whiteness. Embedded in colonial imaginations of Eastern Europe, anti-East European racism took its most radical and brutal shape during Nazism. But racist knowledge persisted across the rupture of 1945 and the Cold War and took on new shapes after the fall of communism in 1989, when East-West migration once again became an important feature of European and German reality. We make the case for the long overdue eastward expansion of the contemporary racism debate.
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The “Prague Lectures” provide an opportunity for Czech and German scholars to meet and discuss topics related to history and the humanities. These events provide information on ongoing research projects and recent publications, encourage theoretical and methodological reflections, and promote transnational collaboration. The lectures and walks are open to students and the public.
Information on participating / attending:
Registration for online participation: https://tinyurl.com/PV20260521
Date:
05/21/2026 17:00 - 05/21/2026 18:30
Event venue:
Academic Conference Centre (AKC),
Husova 4a, Prague 1
Praha 1
Czech Republic
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
History / archaeology, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
03/04/2026
Sender/author:
Virginie Michaels
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event81103
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