Study Group for Minority History
The Study Group for Minority History (SGMH) is a forum devoted to the study of minority groups in the national and regional histories of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe from the Napoleonic Wars to the contemporary past. Its key aim is to assist scholars, currently working in this area of inquiry by fostering international networks to help promote and share their research. It also seeks to encourage collaborative forms of scholarship across different aspects of minority history such as the evolution of identity, diaspora-formation, inter-communal engagements, the development of cultural institutions, relations with states and state actors and the impact of regional conflicts. In addition, the SGMH aims to encourage the use of new methodologies, interdisciplinary scholarly approaches and theoretical frameworks in the study of minority groups.
The group's current organisers are Olena Palko (University of Basel, Switzerland), Samuel Foster (University of East Anglia, UK), and Raul Cârstocea (Maynooth University).
2023 Symposium: Minorities at War from Napoleon to Putin (New Europe College, Bucharest)
2021 Symposium: Being a Minority in Times of Catastrophe (Birkbeck College, London)
2019 Conference: Contested Minorities in the New Europe (Birkbeck College, London)
- Olena Palko and Samuel Foster (eds.) Being a Minority in Times of Crisis, forthcoming in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
- Olena Palko and Manuel Férez Gil (eds.) Ukraine’s Many Faces. Land, People, and Culture Revisited. With a foreword by Olesya Khromeychuk (Bielfield: Transcipt Verlag, 2023) (Book series New Europes)
- Olena Palko, and Samuel Foster (eds). ‘Contested Minorities in the ‘New Europe’: National Identities from the Baltics to the Balkans, 1918–1939’, National Identities, Vol.23, No.4 (2021)
Here you can find the Study Group for Minority History website. There you can find more information on the SGMH project, current events, and access to the SGMH Blog.
Here you can find the Study Group for Minority History annual report for the year 2023.