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Matĕj Kotalík has successfully completed his PhD thesis "´chuligánství´ in der ČS(S)R und ´Rowdytum  in der DDR (1956–1989): Juristische Rezeptionen – alltägliche Deutungen – polizeiliche Bekämpfungen im Vergleich" on 14 February 2018.

Jennifer Rasell has successfully completed her PhD thesis „Care of the State. Relationships in and through state care in late socialist Hungary” on 19 February 2018.

During the successful three years (2011-2013) of the project "Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism - An International Reseach Network" several publications appeared in well-known journals, issues and edited volumes.

Project Publications:

Nationalities Papers has published the Special Issue "War, violence, and the military during late socialism and transition" (Volume 43, Issue 5, 2015) edited my Jan C. Behrends. It contains several contributions by the project's fellows and PhD candidates and is available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00905992.2015.1048675#.VeSI2rfwB9A

The journal European History Quarterly has published a Special Issue on "Violence in Late Socialist Public Spaces" (Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2015), which contains contributions by several of the project's fellows and was edited by Sabine Rutar. It is accessible online http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ehqb/45/2

A report (in German) on our workshop "Biopower and Physical Violence - Embodied Experiences in Communist Europe" can be found online on the website of H-Soz-u-Kult and as a pdf-file below. Credits go to the author Kai Willms and to H-Soz-u-Kult.

Tagungsbericht Biopower and Physical Violence - Embodied Experiences in Communist Europe. 24.01.2014, Potsdam, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 15.04.2014, <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=5308>.