A Child in a Divided World

Reminder: the Call for Papers is still open!

Were children in post-war Central and Eastern Europe merely witnesses to history, or active participants in shaping it?

There is still time to submit your proposal for our international conference:

‘Actors, Witnesses or Subjects? Children in Post-war Central and Eastern Europe, 1945–1989’

Warsaw, Poland

19–20 November 2026

Organised by the European Network for Remembrance and Solidarity and the BKGE Oldenburg, as part of the long-term project ‘A Child in the Labyrinth of 20th-Century History’.

We welcome contributions from historians of childhood and youth, scholars in the field of memory studies, and researchers working on the social and cultural history of state socialism or transgenerational trauma.

Abstract deadline: 18 September 2026

Full Call for Papers and submission details: enrs.eu/a-child-in-the-labyrinth-of-history-2026