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The chronological frame of the conference extends from the first Serbian uprising(1804) to the Young Turk Revolution (1908). During these hundred years, the map of Southeastern Europe was reshaped through a series of revolutionary movements,mainly national and liberal. Besides, this part of Europe, mostly under Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman rule, experienced the echo of the European revolutions in 1830 and 1848, and of the unification of Italy and of Germany. We may claim that the "Age of Revolutions" in the Balkans expanded until the early twentieth century.

Der Wiener Kongress gilt als eines der wichtigsten historischen Ereignisse im Übergang vom Ancien Régime zur modernen europäischen Staatenwelt. Die im Zeitraum von wenigen Monaten in Wien vereinbarte politische und territoriale Neuordnung Europas stellte zum einen die Grundlage einer neuen internationalen Friedensordnung dar, die für ein halbes Jahrhundert Bestand hatte. Die in Wien versammelten Staatsmänner entwickelten zum anderen aber auch eine zukunftsweisende Form von politischer Kultur.

National defence is essential for a nation's survival. The Baltic States, who regained independence during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, found themselves in a situation with no plans, means or capabilities for military defence. There were deficiencies in knowledge and experience, there were no examples to follow – national defence had to be re-invented. By today, this has become history, which allows us to study former events, alternatives and choices from the perspective of military history.

The birthplace of western civilization, the Mediterranean region has seen the rise and fall of empires, numerous conflicts and wars, and over three thousand years of intelligence operations. Today the Mediterranean and Balkan regions are undergoing profound regional transformations, in the aftermaths of the 1990s Balkan wars and the more recent "Arab Spring" revolutions.

The Great War could neither have been fought nor won without scientific knowledge. Academic expertise in various fields, from history and law to chemistry and medicine, proved crucial to its prosecution. New links were forged with government that would alter forever the ways in which universities functioned and their relationship with the state.

Forschungen zu den Erfahrungswelten von deutschen Soldaten im Zweiten Weltkrieg haben derzeit Konjunktur. Dabei steht aus guten Gründen die Gewalt im östlichen Europa im Zentrum. Unser Wissen über die Wehrmacht im besetzten Nordwesteuropa ist hingegen viel begrenzter, wo der soldatische Besatzungsalltag weniger von offener Gewalt, sondern von vielerlei (hierarchischen) Interaktionen mit der Zivilbevölkerung geprägt war. Der Workshop wird die Wahrnehmungen und Erfahrungen deutscher Soldaten im Westen näher in den Blick nehmen, wobei ein besonderes Augenmerk auf den Niederlanden liegt.

On the night of September 29-30, 1938, Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy agreed in Munich to order a sovereign state, Czechoslovakia, to cede at very short notice significant parts of its territory to Germany. Czechoslovakia was not invited to the negotiations, which were therefore perceived as a dictate and a national disaster, which resulted in the collapse of the democratic multi-party system that had characterized the country since its creation in 1918.

Das Jahr 1983 stellte mit Ronald Reagans Ausspruch, die Sowjetunion sei ein "Reich des Bösen", seiner Ankündigung der Strategic Defense Initiative und dem Abschuss eines koreanischen Passagierflugzeugs durch die sowjetische Luftabwehr eine dramatische Zuspitzung im "Zweiten Kalten Krieg" dar. Die sowjetisch-amerikanischen Spannungen eskalierten im November im Umfeld der NATO-Kommandoübung Able Archer 83.

With the centenary of the First World War approaching, German Studies scholars are busy reconsidering the impact of the Great War on the modern world. Not since the Fischer Controversy has the drive to re-evaluate this war among scholars of modern Germany been so great.