Department of History and Civilization (HEC)
The Department of History and Civilization focuses primarily on the history of Europe, from the late medieval and early modern period to the present, in a transnational and global context. It takes a broad approach to the study of history that includes social and economic analysis as well as the history of cultural and intellectual transfers.
Selected collection: HEC Open Access Publications
In 2015, the Alcide de Gasperi centre was established to promote research and support young researchers in the use of primary sources in the history of European integration.
Collections in this community
-
HEC Working Papers
HEC Working Papers series (ISSN 1725-6720)
Recent Submissions
-
Title:The Union of Numbers : international statistical harmonization and the European communities 1950-1979 Author(s):WIEMAN, Guus
Date:2023Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2023Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI PhD theses; Department of History and CivilizationAbstract:This thesis analyses how ongoing European economic integration affected practices of international statistical harmonization at the level of the European Communities between the 1950s and late 1970s. This study is made up ...
-
-
Title:Transnational flows of knowledge and the legalisation of homosexuality in Interwar Poland Author(s):KARCZEWSKI, KamilDate:2022Citation:Contemporary European history, 2022, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:The article demonstrates how the transnational flows of sexual knowledge created a consensus among medical and legal experts for the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in the Polish Criminal Code of 1932. This happened ...
-
Title:Images of black faces in Italian colonialism : mobile essentialisms Author(s):PICCIONI, Lucia
Date:2022Citation:Modern Italy, 2022, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 375-396Type:ArticleAbstract:This study analyses the essential question of the role of visual and material culture in the construction of a mass racial ideology during the Fascist colonial empire. The hypothesis behind this essay is that representations ...
-
Title:“Call Me by My Name :” A “Strange and Incomprehensible” Passion in the Polish Kresy of the 1920s Author(s):KARCZEWSKI, KamilDate:2022Citation:Slavic Review, 2022, Vol. 81, No. 3, pp. 631-652Type:ArticleAbstract:The article demonstrates the presence of (homo)sexual subjectivity in rural Poland in the early 1920s using remarkable correspondence between two men who stood trial for committing homosexual acts in 1925. It argues that ...
