The Peripheral Histories? blog is a collaborative digital history project on the regions and peoples of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, which have often been perceived as geographically, politically or culturally ‘peripheral’. As our name suggests, we are interested in the shifting ways in which ‘peripherality’ has been constructed; in the changing status of and relations between ‘centres’ and ‘peripheries’ and the ways in which borderlands have been remade in particular historical circumstances. Our project is transnational and we welcome posts which engage with lives lived in ‘liminal’ zones; as well as border-crossings, mobilities and migration. Though our focus is historical, we welcome contributions from other disciplines concerned with the place of the past in contemporary life. You can see more of what we do here: https://peripheralhistories.
We are currently soliciting posts of between 800-1000 words for our 2019 schedule. We welcome any chronological and geographical perspective; from the medieval to the post-Soviet, and from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to Siberia. We invite submissions based on original archival research as well as conference/roundtable reports and discussion posts. Peripheral Histories? is particularly intended as a forum for postgraduate/early career researchers and we therefore welcome posts drawing on work-in-progress.
If you are interested in writing for Peripheral Histories? please email Siobhán Hearne – siobhan.hearne@nottingham.ac.
Best wishes from the Peripheral Histories? editorial team,
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