Kolloquium „À la recherche d'une patrie européenne. Cent ans de représentation de l'Europe dans la revue „Europe“. An diesem 105. Jahrestag des Waffenstillstandes von Compiègne/Rethondes, überblickte Peter de Bourgraaf mit dem oben stehenden Titel diese brandaktuelle Linie der Zeitgeschichte.
„Vom Hundertsten ins Tausendste kommen“
Am 6. und 7. Oktober fand in Bonn die Jubiläumsveranstaltung der Zeitschrift Wissenschaft und Friede statt. Für den Samstag stand de Bourgraafs Vortrag „Vom 💯-sten ins Tausendste kommen“ im Programm.
Als sich am 15. September 1923 die Berliner Regierung zur belgisch-französischen Rheinlandbesetzung äußerte, standen Truppen aus 🇧🇪s und Frankreichs Kolonien seit acht Monaten an der Ruhr. Ihr drohte der Verlust des industriellen Herzes. Ein Abbruch des passiven Widerstandes könne bei der in Bayern, insbesondere in München, herrschenden Stimmung...
Britain's alleged balancing
British collective insecurity provoking DIVIDE ET IMPERA
In Osteuropa wird der postsowjetische, Vierteljahrhundert alte Ost-West-Konflikt mit Waffengewalt ausgetragen. Scholarly and non-academic authors are brought together in a bilingual survey that lives up to our mission: the memory culture and historiography of the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century.
East meets west by forceful revision
Turkey's Versailles undone on the battlefield and sealed in Lausanne 🇨🇭. The Treaty of Sèvres was overruled by the application of armed resistance. What did this mean to Weimar Germany's Versailles?
Aidelaide, 🇦🇺 "Best of Enemies" conference. January 1919: Considering the Paris peace conference's opening stage and the first themes of its shuffled agenda, which delegates took centre stage?
Western Hubris from Colonial to Postcolonial
A remote detail? While the British and the Empire took the Entente and would-be League in their Winter-1919 endeavour in Paris to put themselves altogether on moral high ground, the facts on the ground in both Asia and Africa told a different story. Here's the case of Afghanistan 1923.
Sub-imperialism exposed
Postcolonial? Decolonised? Both Australia and the United States are missing out on essential components of the debate. Read our comment to Clinton Fernandes's analysis of an originally British imperialism. A hundred years after David Lloyd George's invention, these three states founded AUKUS Dreibund.
Inflation of Guilt Culture
On March 30th, 2023, an article titled ‘1923 Toxic Papers’ appeared in Germany's weekly magazine Der Freitag. A highly simplified portrayal and interpretation of the unilateral restoration of peace in the course of the mutually agreed ceasefire after an increasingly exhausting global war is offered by historian Rudolf Walther.
Above, it says in Dutch: "Newer blog ⎟ "older blog". Don't miss it!
Below: Aufa💯's academic prehistory, i.e. Centenaire 2018 and 2019 lectures held by our founder.