Partners:

History Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Polish American Historical Association, City of Gdynia, Visegrad Fund.

PhDr. Slavomír Michalek, DrSc. (Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava); Doc. PhDr. Francis D. Raska, PhD. (Department of American Studies, Charles University, Prague); Dr. Magdolna Barath (Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security, Budapest)

Call: We seek papers, reports, works-in progress on issues related to any of the following themes:
- Migration theories, patterns, typologies; emigration, re-emigration, secondary emigration;
- Historiography of East European transatlantic migrations;
- East-Central European emigration case-studies; individual and state organized emigration, institutions and groups assisting emigrants; travel conditions and assistance.
- East-Central European artistic, literary and cultural presence in the Americas;
- Cooperation among East European émigrés and its motivations (religious, political, economic, cultural etc.);
- Exiles, refugees and East European ethnic communities in the U.S. in a comparative perspective;
- Acculturation routes: special focus on Polish-Americans and Americans.
- Emigration as an act of political protest;
- Exile links to the home country
- Sending and receiving states' policies towards the East-Central European Diasporas;
- Transatlantic implications of East European forced migration cases
- Exit ports with a special attention to Gdynia, Poland

Please see the complete CFP at the University of Gdansk web page.