Dear all,

Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Marburg, Germany) and the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden) are pleased to invite you to an early career scholars conference "Negotiating Modern Ways of Life: Life-Reform Movements in Central and Eastern Europe since 1900."

Date: 18–19 September 2023

Venue: Herder-Institute, Marburg (Germany)

For more details: see the attachment

Teaser:

Since the late 19th century, a wave of issue-oriented life-reform movements has developed across Europe and America, particularly in nutrition, clothing, consumption, housing, healthcare and moral reform.

Such movements became a corollary and a critique of industrialisation, urbanisation, mass communication, and societal change. The dynamically emerging modern ways of life, particularly in big cities, were frequently perceived as misdevelopments, so life reform movements aimed to construct alternative responses to these modern lifestyle trends. Animal welfare and temperance movements, tobacco abstention and vegetarianism had counter-cultural ambitions and a social reformist spirit. Abolitionist movements criticised bourgeois double standards and human trafficking and prostitution as the outcomes of poverty and social ills. As a reaction to the environmental problems associated with industrialisation, life reform movements searched for answers in return to nature.

Deadline for CfP: 28 February 2023

Don't hesitate to contact Julia Malitska, Research leader at CBEES, Södertörn university, for more details.

Med vänliga hälsningar / With kind regards,

VÍT KYSILKA  ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)

+46 (0)8 608 5143

SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY | STOCKHOLM
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