Event Type: Local / Community

Takes Place: 18th September 2026

Time: 00:59

Venue: Warsaw, Poland

Description: Call for Papers for the international conference Actors, Witnesses or Subjects? Children in Post-war Central and Eastern Europe, 1945–1989, taking place in Warsaw on 19–20 November 2026. The conference invites scholars to reconsider the history of post-war Central and Eastern Europe through children’s experiences and perspectives. It will explore children not only as witnesses or subjects of political and social change, but also as historical actors who interpreted, negotiated and responded to the world around them. We welcome proposals from scholars at all career stages working in history, childhood and youth studies, sociology, memory studies, literary and cultural studies, and related fields. Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches are particularly encouraged. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the ENRS book series, and the organisers will contribute towards the travel and accommodation costs of accepted participants. The full Call for Papers, including conference themes and submission details, is available at https://enrs.eu/a-child-in-the-labyrinth-of-history-2026

How to book: Key information: Conference: Warsaw, 19–20 November 2026 Abstract deadline: 18 September 2026 Language: English Paper: 20 minutes Submission: abstract of up to 350 words + short biography of up to 150 words Contact: childreninhistory@enrs.eu

Price: free of charge

Tel: 0048 501-334-885

Email: alika.swiderska@enrs.eu

Website: https://enrs.eu/a-child-in-the-labyrinth-of-history-2026

Organiser: European Network Remembrance and Solidarity and the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe

Lecturer: Keynote lectures will be delivered by Dr Friederike Kind-Kovács (Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Studies) and Prof. Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Jagiellonian University).