You are cordially invited to the seminar entitled Humanitarian Containment: Austria-Hungary and the Origins of Modern Refugee Camps in the Era of the First World War, which will be hosted by
Dr. Doinu Anca Cretu from the Warwick University,
as part of the NextGenPhDs NAWA STER project
The workshop will take place on 9 May at 14.00 at The T. Manteuffel Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences, room 32
(Rynek Starego Miasta 31, Warsaw)
The First World War generated the mass displacement of up to 2 million people across the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. State authorities responded to this displacement crisis through the making of a network of refugee camps. As the war went on, refugee encampment shifted from a temporary method of containment to a long-term scheme of state-driven humanitarian intervention and welfare policies. This talk explores the emergence and transformation of modern refugee encampment as a tool of displacement governance as seen in Austria-Hungary during the First World War. This research is part of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project “Unlikely Refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe during the Twentieth Century,” Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Doina Anca Cretu is a historian of foreign aid and migration. Her work is at the intersection between international history and modern history of central and eastern Europe. She is currently a Research Fellow within the ERC Consolidator Grant “Unlikely Refuge? Refugees and Citizens in East-Central Europe during the Twentieth Century” (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) and a Visiting Lecturer at University of Vienna. (Anca holds a PhD from Graduate Institute Geneva; she was a Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute in Florence, as well as a Visiting Fellow at University of Oxford, Graduate Center at City University of New York, and at Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.) From September 2024 she will start a new position as Assistant Professor of Modern European History at University of Warwick (UK). Her first book Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal will be out later this year with Stanford University Press.
Photo: https://www.unlikely-refuge.eu/project-team/cretu/
