Part 1: Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest
Part 2: Bucharest, Krakow, Ljubljana, Prague
Part 3: Moscow, Sarajevo, Sofia, Zagreb
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3 cool CEE travel tips 4 the summer
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Krakow, Ljubljana, Moscow, Prague, Sarajevo, Sofia, Travel tips, Zagreb on 31 July 2011 by delclemNeglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust?
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Communism, Holocaust, Lithuania, National Socialism, Second World War, Timothy Snyder on 31 July 2011 by delclem
An article by the historian Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
who published the controversial & thought-provoking book Bloodlands recently
(c) NYR, 2011
Freud’s Cocaine Years
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, London, Lucian Freud, Sigmund Freud, Vienna on 24 July 2011 by delclem
> On April 21, 1884, a 28-year-old researcher in the field now called neuroscience sat down at the cluttered desk of his cramped room in Vienna General Hospital and composed a letter to his fiancée, Martha Bernays, telling her of his recent studies: “I have been reading about cocaine, the effective ingredient of coca leaves,” Sigmund Freud wrote, “which some Indian tribes chew in order to make themselves resistant to privation and fatigue.” < . READ MORE >
PS. On 20 July 2011, Freud´s grandson Lucian, a prominent British painter,
died at the age of 88 > OBITUARY > SLIDESHOW
“Srebrenica Health Spa”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Hercegovcina, cultures of memory, genocide, Potočari, Ratko Mladić, Srebrenica, yugoslavia on 18 July 2011 by delclem
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Dead
There are many crime scenes where the idea of Europe was murdered in the “short” 20th century. One of them certainly is Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, the place where the largest massacre after the Second World War executed by military personnel took its course.
“Un cadavre”: Otto Von is Dead
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, obituary, Otto von Habsburg on 4 July 2011 by delclem
Obituary by Gavin Plumley and Entartete Musik, 2011
So Austria’s Posthabsburg Stress Disorder syndrome is over…?
Eyewitness: 20th century Hungarian photography
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Brassai, Capa, Hungary, Kertész, London, photography on 2 July 2011 by delclemBrassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi
exhibition @ Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Sackler Wing of Galleries
30 June—2 October 2011
>> read more
National(istic) Carnival in Lviv
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1941, genocide, Lviv, Second World War, Ukraine on 30 June 2011 by delclem“Lviv re-enacts the June 30, 1941 Ukrainian National revolution (and the German invasion). Parents dress their children in ethnic outfits to applaud the men in SS uniforms. The driver of the sidecar MC even grew a little Hitler mustache. No re-enactment of the pogroms, it seems,” says Dr Per Rudling (more photos on zaxid.net).
How tasteless is this sort of national(istic) Carneval?
It does not really come over as the re-enactment of a trauma…
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Read the interview with Dr Rudling on SS recruitment in the Ukraine, the country’s contested past and the creation of false myths
in the blog Hitler’s Foreign Executioners
Or the article by Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe on The Act of 30 June 1941 and its Commemoration in Ukraine in the blog Defending History
Shadow of a Gunman: Gavril Princip´s afterlife
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, bosnia-hercegovina, Gavril Princip, Sarajevo, World War One on 28 June 2011 by delclemThe frail-looking student who on 28 June 1914 shot the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand and his Czech wife Sophie does not rest in peace: Gavril Princip is one of the many ghosts that rumble in the cultural memory of Central Europe like a nocturnal flatulence.
20 year ago, the death of Yugoslavia began…
Posted in Uncategorized with tags death of Yugoslavia, Slovenia, song, Đorđe Balašević on 25 June 2011 by delclemRekvijum, by one of the most prominent songwriters of the country
English translation of the lyrics available here
Acoustic Postcards from the Edges of Europe
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Central Europe, Michael Beckerman, Music on 17 June 2011 by delclemOn 16 – 17 June the Royal Historical Society (RHS) Symposium Edges of Europe: Frontiers in Context was held at Lancaster University.
The Plenary Lecture entitled Acoustic Postcards from the Edges of Europe was given by Professor Michael Beckerman, Head of Music at New York University.
His research interests include Czech and Eastern European music, Janacek, Dvorak, Martinu, nationalism, Gypsies, Mozart, Brahms, Gilbert and Sullivan, Schubert, and film music.
He received the Janacek Medal from the Czech Republic and is a Laureate of the Czech Music Council. He lectures widely and writes regularly for the New York Times.
Here you can view a video of his talk.
delirium clemens 