Dr James Koranyi

Dr James Koranyi

Contact Details

E-mail -jtk21
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462928
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462927

 

 

 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaches modern European history, with a focus on central and east-central European history. His research focuses on Romanian, Hungarian, and German history, the discovery of rural Europe in the 19th century, as well as representations of history in Europe. He is also interested in conceptual issues around identity, conservation, discourse, memory and history. He is currently working on a monograph emerging from his doctoral thesis on Romanian German memory cultures in the 20th century. His current projects are two special issues on German minorities in east-central Europe, a text book on east-central European history, and the discovery of the Carpathians in the 19th century.

 

Articles and Reviews

  • ‘Reinventing the Banat: Cosmopolitanism as a German Cultural Export’, German Politics and Society, Vol. 29, No. 3 (2011), pp. 96-112.
  • ‘From Diaspora to Diaspora: The Case of Transylvanian Saxons’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2011), pp. 96-115 (with Ruth Wittlinger).
  • ‘From Diaspora to Diaspora: The Case of Transylvanian Saxons’, in Claire Sutherland and Elena Barabantseva (eds), Diaspora and Migration (London: Routledge, 2011)
  • ‘Byzantium 330-1453: A Commentary on Europe’, Transylvanian Review, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2009), pp. 98-105
  • ‘Review: Vom Faschismus zum Stalinismus: Deutsche und andere Minderheiten in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa 1941-1953’, Transylvanian Review, Vol. 19, No. 3 (2010), pp. 153-155.
  • ‘Rezension: Der Einfluss des Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus auf Minderheiten in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa’, Spiegelungen, Vol. 1,  No. 4 (2006), pp. 76-77.
  • ‘Review: Zwischen Pruth und Jordan: Lebenserinnerungen Czernowitzer Juden’, Transylvanian Review, Vol. XV, No. 3, (2006), pp. 155-158.
  • ‘Rezension: Deutsche und Rumänen in der Erinnerungsliteratur: Memorialistik als Geschichtsquelle’, Zeitschrift für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 238-239.
  • ‘Review: “Bitte um baldige Nachricht”: Alltag, Politik und Kultur im Spiegel südosteuropäischer Korrespondenz’, Transylvanian Review, Vol. XIV, No. 4 (2005), pp. 156-158.
  • ‘Review: After the Expulsion: West Germany and Eastern Europe 1945 – 1990’, Südostdeutsche Viertelsjahresblätter, Vol. 54, No. 4 (2005), pp. 419-420.

 

Recent Papers

  • Cambridge, November 2011: ‘Romania, Serbia, and Contemporary Memories of German Victims’, Memory at War Series.
  • Nottingham, October 2011: ‘‘The only Ethnic Victims in Romania’: Ethnic Germans and the Legacy of Deportations’, The Representation of the Flight and Expulsion of Germans in Contemporary German Culture.
  • St Andrews: September 2011, ‘The Thirteen Martyrs of Arad: A Monumental History, Imperial Sites of Memory
  • Cambridge: April 2011/New York: April 2011, ‘Different legacies borne out of history? A comparison between the Romanian and Serbian Banat’, BASEES / ASN.
  • Istanbul: March 2011, ‘Searching for the Banat: The legacy of cosmopolitanism in Romania and Serbia’, International Praxis Conference on Cultural Memory and coexistence.
  • Manchester: January 2010, ‘From Diaspora to Diaspora: The Case of Transylvanian Saxons in Romania and Germany’
  • Cluj, Romania: November 2008, ‘Sibiu / Hermannstadt 2007 and Notions of Europeanness’, Identitate românească în contextul identităţii europene – Romanian Identity in the Wider European Context.
  • Nottingham (Trent): September 2007, ‘The ‘West Europeanisation’ of Memory: The Case of Romanian German Émigrés’, The Dynamics of Memory in the New Europe: National Memories and the European Project.
  • Nottingham (Trent): January 2007, ‘“The Whole Book is a Lie”: Romanian Germans and the Memory of Complicity’, Remembering by Dissolving? Memory Work and the Blurring of Genre Boundaries.
  • Tartu, Estonia: January 2007, ‘Between Romania and Germany: Romanian German Memories of World War Two’, Memory from Transdisciplinary Perspectives: Agency, Practices, and Mediations.

 

 

Admin Duties

Co-Organiser, Seminar series for Late Modern History

He coordinates the Modern History Research Seminar, the MLitt programme in Central and Eastern European Studies and is deputy director of the Centre for Transnational and Comparative History.

 

Teaching Duties

MLitt:

Honours:

Sub-honours:

 

Main Publications