June 18: Máté Rigó at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar.
Máté Rigó (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) will present his book project:
SILENCED COLONIZERS: EAST EUROPEAN MERCENARIES IN INDOCHINA AND THEIR REPATRIATION (1940-1954)
June 18, 14:00-16:00 CET
Room 5061, Friedrichstraße 191-193
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Máté Rigó will present his book project, Silenced Colonizers, which uses the French Foreign Legion’s Eastern European mercenaries as a window into the era of decolonization in Indochina and Stalinism in Eastern Europe. With a focus on Vietnam, East Germany, Hungary, and Romania, Rigó will connect historiographies that have been artificially separated. Silenced Colonizers puts ordinary men, their Eastern Bloc families, and Vietnamese society in the focus as they navigated troubles caused by the deployment of the French Foreign Legion in the Indochina War – and the subsequent repatriation of these mercenaries captured by the Vietnamese and Chinese armies. Rigó's talk will also delve into why ties to Vietnam were crucial for East European states even at the height of Stalinism, most commonly associated with the Eurocentric isolationism of the Soviet Bloc.
MÁTÉ RIGÓ is a professor at the Department of History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has previously taught at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and Brandeis University in the U.S.A. and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and a fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. He is currently working on two research projects examining the connections between societies in Southeastern and East Central Europe and the Global South.
June 18: Máté Rigó at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar.
Máté Rigó (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) will present his book project:
SILENCED COLONIZERS: EAST EUROPEAN MERCENARIES IN INDOCHINA AND THEIR REPATRIATION (1940-1954)
June 18, 14:00-16:00 CET
Room 5061, Friedrichstraße 191-193
Sign up for the Zoom link by clicking here and filling out this form.
Máté Rigó will present his book project, Silenced Colonizers, which uses the French Foreign Legion’s Eastern European mercenaries as a window into the era of decolonization in Indochina and Stalinism in Eastern Europe. With a focus on Vietnam, East Germany, Hungary, and Romania, Rigó will connect historiographies that have been artificially separated. Silenced Colonizers puts ordinary men, their Eastern Bloc families, and Vietnamese society in the focus as they navigated troubles caused by the deployment of the French Foreign Legion in the Indochina War – and the subsequent repatriation of these mercenaries captured by the Vietnamese and Chinese armies. Rigó's talk will also delve into why ties to Vietnam were crucial for East European states even at the height of Stalinism, most commonly associated with the Eurocentric isolationism of the Soviet Bloc.
MÁTÉ RIGÓ is a professor at the Department of History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has previously taught at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and Brandeis University in the U.S.A. and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and a fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena. He is currently working on two research projects examining the connections between societies in Southeastern and East Central Europe and the Global South.
