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Dr. Ferenc Laczó is an expert on European history and the editor of the recent volume The Legacy of Division: East and West after 1989 (CEU Press 2019). He is currently assistant professor in history at the University of Maastricht where he teaches in the European Studies BA, MA and Minor programs as well as at University College Maastricht. He also acts as the academic secretary of the research group Politics and Culture in Europe and is a member of the Faculty Council.
His main research interests lie in political and intellectual history, modern and contemporary European history with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, Jewish history and the history of the Holocaust, and questions of history and memory. He is the author of Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide. An Intellectual History, 1929-1948 (Leiden: Brill, 2016) and two Hungarian-language books Német múltfeldolgozás. Beszélgetések történészekkel a huszadik század kulcskérdéseiről [The German Process of Dealing with the Past. Conversations with Historians on Key Questions of the Twentieth Century] (Budapest: Kijárat, 2016) and Felvilágosult vallás és modern katasztrófa közt. Magyar zsidó gondolkodás a Horthy-korban [Between Enlightened Religion and Modern Catastrophe. Hungarian Jewish Thought in the Horthy Era](Budapest: Osiris, 2014). Laczó is the editor or co-editor of several volumes and thematic journal issues, including (with Joachim von Puttkamer) Catastrophe and Utopia. Jewish Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), Confronting Devastation. Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors from Hungary (Toronto: Azrieli, 2019), and (with Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic) The Legacy of Division. East and West after 1989 (CEU 2019). His work has appeared on BBC World Service, in China Daily, Veja and Index.hu. His writings have also appeared in Czech, Danish, German, Hebrew, Polish, Slovene and Turkish translation. His books have been reviewed in more than twenty journals.
Many of Laczó's publications are accessible via academia.edu and so is his complete list of publications.
Read the Book:
Overview:
This volume examines the legacy of the East–West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in eastern Europe in 1989. In a series of original essays, authors from the fields of European and global history, politics and cultureaddress questions fundamental to our understanding of Europe today: How have perceptions and misperceptions between the two halves of the continent changed over the last three decades? Can one speak of a new East-West divide? If so, what characterizes it and why has it re-emerged? Conversely, how have the hopes expressed in ’89 of reunifying Europe been fulfilled?
Some Highlights:
Living through the fall of the Iron Curtain
Walls dividing people, keeping some in and keeping some out
Nationalism in Eastern Europe
The "Myth of the West"
Russia's place in Europe after 1989
The shifting of the border between "east" and "west"
China's role in European change
Rejection of the east v. west dichotomy
Gender after 1989
Immigration and the United Kingdom
What do Poland and Italy have in common? How are they different?
Project of convergence in Europe
The UEFA Champions League and what Football (Soccer) and Tennis tell us about the world
Highlights from a number of contributions to the new volume!
Suggestions:
Ferenc: Don't spend too much time online! Go into different neighborhoods, talk to people, and make observations as an intelligent tourist.
Steven: Go to sporting events when you are an traveling. Observe the sports as anthropologists, political scientists, and historians might.
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Dr. Ferenc Laczó is an expert on European history and the editor of the recent volume The Legacy of Division: East and West after 1989 (CEU Press 2019). He is currently assistant professor in history at the University of Maastricht where he teaches in the European Studies BA, MA and Minor programs as well as at University College Maastricht. He also acts as the academic secretary of the research group Politics and Culture in Europe and is a member of the Faculty Council.
His main research interests lie in political and intellectual history, modern and contemporary European history with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, Jewish history and the history of the Holocaust, and questions of history and memory. He is the author of Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide. An Intellectual History, 1929-1948 (Leiden: Brill, 2016) and two Hungarian-language books Német múltfeldolgozás. Beszélgetések történészekkel a huszadik század kulcskérdéseiről [The German Process of Dealing with the Past. Conversations with Historians on Key Questions of the Twentieth Century] (Budapest: Kijárat, 2016) and Felvilágosult vallás és modern katasztrófa közt. Magyar zsidó gondolkodás a Horthy-korban [Between Enlightened Religion and Modern Catastrophe. Hungarian Jewish Thought in the Horthy Era](Budapest: Osiris, 2014). Laczó is the editor or co-editor of several volumes and thematic journal issues, including (with Joachim von Puttkamer) Catastrophe and Utopia. Jewish Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017), Confronting Devastation. Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors from Hungary (Toronto: Azrieli, 2019), and (with Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic) The Legacy of Division. East and West after 1989 (CEU 2019). His work has appeared on BBC World Service, in China Daily, Veja and Index.hu. His writings have also appeared in Czech, Danish, German, Hebrew, Polish, Slovene and Turkish translation. His books have been reviewed in more than twenty journals.
Many of Laczó's publications are accessible via academia.edu and so is his complete list of publications.
Read the Book:
Overview:
This volume examines the legacy of the East–West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in eastern Europe in 1989. In a series of original essays, authors from the fields of European and global history, politics and cultureaddress questions fundamental to our understanding of Europe today: How have perceptions and misperceptions between the two halves of the continent changed over the last three decades? Can one speak of a new East-West divide? If so, what characterizes it and why has it re-emerged? Conversely, how have the hopes expressed in ’89 of reunifying Europe been fulfilled?
Some Highlights:
Living through the fall of the Iron Curtain
Walls dividing people, keeping some in and keeping some out
Nationalism in Eastern Europe
The "Myth of the West"
Russia's place in Europe after 1989
The shifting of the border between "east" and "west"
China's role in European change
Rejection of the east v. west dichotomy
Gender after 1989
Immigration and the United Kingdom
What do Poland and Italy have in common? How are they different?
Project of convergence in Europe
The UEFA Champions League and what Football (Soccer) and Tennis tell us about the world
Highlights from a number of contributions to the new volume!
Suggestions:
Ferenc: Don't spend too much time online! Go into different neighborhoods, talk to people, and make observations as an intelligent tourist.
Steven: Go to sporting events when you are an traveling. Observe the sports as anthropologists, political scientists, and historians might.