✨ Reflecting on recent activities:
📅 On 28 November, Grazia Sciacchitano presented “Transnational Aid for Democracy: The PSOE’s Intervention in Pinochet Chile” at the Complutense University of Madrid during the Jean Monnet Chair HISTEU workshop “Europe and Human Rights in Historical Perspective.”
🚨 Don't miss out! 🚨
Giulia Quaggio is hosting the seminar "Visual Histories of Protest: Popular Imaginaries and Democratic Transitions on Iberian Walls."
🗓 19th November at 3 PM (CET)
💻 Link to join us online: meet.google.com/ztp-bpoi-tvs
✨ Productive start of 2026
📅 Today Grazia Sciacchitano is going to present her paper “From relief to resistance: the Norske Spaniakomiteen and Spanish republican exiles.”
🧑🏭 The workshop "Nordic Labour Internationalism in the 20th Century" takes place on 15–16 January at the University of Oslo.
✊ Each December, Yugoslavia held nationwide humanitarian campaigns in support of global liberation struggles.
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
@graziasciacchitano.bsky.social has published "Turning Disaster into a Path for Development: Francoist Spain's Humanitarian Response to the 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake" in @jds-disasters.bsky.social
#disasterstudies #internationalhumanitarianism
@doratot.bsky.social has published "Challenging Socialist Solidarity: Yugoslav Perspective on Intra-Social
ist Competition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Algeria (1959-1965)" available in open access here 👇
#socialistsolidarity #globalhistory
edizioni.sns.it/prodotto/a-w...
🕊️ UN Disarmament Week, 24–30 October
🌍 Forty years ago, the Yugoslav League for Peace, Independence and Equality of Peoples issued this striking poster showing Earth as a white billiard ball - a warning that superpowers played a dangerous game with global peace.
📝 New research by Dora Tot
@giotonolo.bsky.social “Anatomy of Aid: The EEC Hospital in Mogadishu (1958–1970)”, is now available open access — check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
@conteurohistory.bsky.social
Francesca Rolandi’s article, “Between Blocs: Socialist Yugoslavia as a Pragmatic Player in the International Refugee Regime,” is now available: 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@tandfonline.bsky.social
Giovanni Tonolo has published “Try to Make a Fresh Start”: Dahomean Politicians Rethinking Oil Palm Development in the Late Colonial Period (1957–60)”👏
This publication, independent of our project, highlights the range of research in our team.
Open-access article:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
