Officers of the Conference Group for Central European History / Central European History Society of the American Historical Association (1959–present)

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-167
Keyword(s):  
European History ◽  
Central European ◽  
American Historical Association

Memories of Central European History, 1997–2005

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-30
Author(s):  
Kees Gispen
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
European History ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Central European ◽  
American Historical Association ◽  
Executive Secretary ◽  
Association Meeting

I became involved with what was then called the Conference Group for Central European History in early 1997, when I accepted Roger Chickering's invitation to succeed him as Executive Secretary and Treasurer. This put me in charge of preparing and distributing the biannual (now defunct) Newsletter and of carrying out a variety of other duties, including keeping track of the money and organizing the annual executive meeting and the Bierabend—a cash bar and convivial get-together for historians of Central Europe—at the annual conference of the American Historical Association. The Newsletter kept members of the Conference Group informed about matters relevant to Central European history, such as upcoming events, panels on German and Austrian history at the American Historical Association meeting, scholarships, fellowships, as well as events at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, including the annual Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar. At one point, it was mailed separately to members and then, sometime later, published in Central European History.

scholarly journals Hajo Holborn, 1902–1969

1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-195
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
European History ◽  
Active Member ◽  
Central European ◽  
American Historical Association

HAJO HOLBORN died in Bonn on June 20, 1969, the day after he had received the first Inter Nationes Prize in recognition of his services in increasing understanding between Germany and America. He was a former Chairman of the Conference Group for Central European History, and an active member of the Board of Editors of Central European History from the beginning. He was also the first historian born and trained outside the United States to be elected President of the American Historical Association, in 1967.

Verschweizerung, or: Some Brief Remarks on Sovereignty, Transnationality, and “Sense-Security” in the Middle of Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Geyer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
English Translation ◽  
State Power ◽  
European History ◽  
Central European ◽  
The World ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Better Than

Even for readers of Central European History, it is easy to forget that there is more than one country in the middle of Europe and that there is more than one solution to the geopolitical problem associated with the perception of being in the “middle.” That problem is so overwhelmingly claimed by Germany and its interpreters, and it is so weighed down by reflections on the (ab)uses of state power, articulated in the long-running debate on the “primacy of foreign policy,” that it is somewhat jarring to encounter a book with the title In the Middle of Europe—André Holenstein's Mitten in Europa: Verflechtung und Abgrenzung in der Schweizer Geschichte—that is not at all concerned with Germany. It has Switzerland as its subject and Verschweizerung as its substance and subtext. I leave the term untranslated because it means nothing to most of the world and an English translation would surely not capture the partly facetious, partly scandalized, partly admiring undertones that the German conveys: “Die Welt wird entweder untergehen oder verschweizern,” in the words of Friedrich Dürenmatt. Even if not taken in jest, it still sounds better than: “Am deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen.” But if horror in the latter case makes sense when looking back at the twentieth century, why is there so much mockery in response to the former?

Habsburg History, Eastern European History … Central European History?

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-65
Author(s):  
Chad Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Balance Of Power ◽  
European History ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
Central European ◽  
East European ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of

Germany and all things German have long been the primary concern ofCentral European History(CEH), yet the journal has also been intimately tied to the lands of the former Habsburg monarchy. As the editor stated in the first issue, published in March 1968,CEHemerged “in response to a widespread demand for an American journal devoted to the history of German-speaking Central Europe,” following the demise of theJournal of Central European Affairsin 1964. The Conference Group for Central European History sponsoredCEH, as well as the recently mintedAustrian History Yearbook(AHY). Robert A. Kann, the editor ofAHY, sat on the editorial board ofCEH, whose second issue featured a trenchant review by István Deák of Arthur J. May'sThe Passing of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914–1918. The third issue contained the articles “The Defeat of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the Balance of Power” by Kann, and Gerhard Weinberg's “The Defeat of Germany in 1918 and the Balance of Power.” That same year,East European Quarterlypublished its first issue.

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