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      <title>Polish-Ukrainian Congress of Historians</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 11:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Polish-Ukrainian Congress of Historians met in Baranuv-Sandomyrsky over three days, nine problematic-chronological panels with the participation of over a hundred historians of both countries inspired and fruitfully discussed-discussed-shared achievements, experience and plans for the future.This event has become iconic in all respects at least because the joint Polish-Ukrainian historical for]]></description>
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      <title>France-Cameroon Memorial Committee Presents Report</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[January 2025 Members of the multidisciplinary Franco-Cameroonian Joint Commission on France’s role and commitment against independence and opposition movements in Cameroon from 1945 to 1971 have presented the report of the two-year research to the President of the Republic, His Excellency Paul BIYA. French historian Karine Ramondy, co-chair of the memorial commission, solemnly handed over the scie]]></description>
      <category>Cameroon</category>
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      <title>What Will Be The Legacy Of The France-Cameroon Commission?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Macron announced the creation of the commission in July 2022, at a joint press conference with Cameroon’s long-time President Paul Biya, a move seen as part of Macron’s promises to deal with France’s colonial past. The commission was co-chaired by French historian Karine Ramondy and Cameroonian musician Blick Bassy, who dedicated one of his albums, “1958”, to assassinated anti-colonialist leader R]]></description>
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      <title>Macron says joint Franco-Haiti commission will examine &apos;painful&apos; past</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[April 17, 2025 PARIS, April 17 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron is to set up a joint Franco-Haitian commission to examine France's past with its former Caribbean colony, but he made no mention of the possibility of reparations that Haitian activists have long called for. Macron said on Thursday that once the commission's work was completed, it would propose recommendations to both gove]]></description>
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      <title>France-Algeria: First Meeting of the Commission of Historians</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 08:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Five French historians must begin work alongside five Algerian peers on the colonial period, this Wednesday, November 22, 2023. The recommendation of the (Benjamin) Stora report taken up by Emmanuel Macron is taking shape, but the relationship between the two countries remains extremely sensitive. Read further here]]></description>
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      <title>Annual Conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission to be held in Warsaw ( 10.09.2023)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Early Modern Statehood and Society in the Ukrainian Lands: Forms and Concepts The annual conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission is organized in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Warsaw. The organizational committee of the conference includes Prof. Dr. Miloš Řezník (German Historical Institute Warsaw), Prof. Dr.Yvonne Kleinmann(Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenb]]></description>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
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      <title>Mutual History Dialogue between Finland and Estonia</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Historians Without Borders (HWB) organizes the first Mutual History Dialogue between Finnish and Estonian Historians, which discusses differences, similarities, and challenges of memory politics and interpretations of history in Finland and Estonia. Read more]]></description>
      <category>Finland</category>
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      <title>A German-Israeli Historians&apos; Commission examines attack during 1972 Olympics in Munich&apos; </title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 21:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[(09/05/2022) At the memorial ceremony in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, for the victims of the Munich Olympics massacre, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser spoke of deep wounds and agonising questions. ""It’s shameful that it took so long before there was any understanding or reappraisal of the events, transparency about them, or acceptance of responsibility for them,"" Minister Faeser said to the victims]]></description>
      <category>Israel</category>
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      <title>&apos;Common History&apos; or &apos;Shared History&apos;? Progress and Lack of in Bulgarian-North Macedonian Commission, May 2022</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[After some progress in bilateral meetings was reported in April, now the Bulgarian co-chair declared the opposite to be true. One sticking point is conceptual difference over what history they are dealing with: while Bulgarians prefer"common history" whereas North Macedonians prefer "shared history." "The problem is that our colleagues are trying not to accept the term ‘common history.’When you do]]></description>
      <category>North Macedonia</category>
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      <title>An Algerian-French Historians&apos; Commission?</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2022-03-17-an-algerian-french-historians-commission</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Benjamin Stora, a leading French authority on Algerian history, was commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron in 2020 to write a “report on the memory of the colonisation of Algeria and the Algerian War”. The report was submitted in early 2021 and puts forward a series of new initiatives that France could implement to pave the way for a “reconciliation of memories”. Among other things, it calls fo]]></description>
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      <title>Georgian-Polish Commission of Historians</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2021-10-22-georgian-polish-commission-of-historians</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The bilateral group was established with regards to the 100 anniversary of Georgia’s proclamation of independence. The commission, which is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland and the University of Warsaw, will be functional until 2021 and study the history of Georgia-Poland bilateral relations. According to a press release from the Georgian Ministry of Defense after a visit by the]]></description>
      <category>Poland</category>
      <category>Georgia</category>
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      <title>2021 Annual Meeting of the German-Russian Historians Commission took place online</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[For further information as well as video recordings, see here]]></description>
      <category>Germany</category>
      <category>Russia</category>
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      <title>Russian-Lithuanian Historians&apos; Commission releases joint publication</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2021-06-08-russian-lithuanian-historians-commission-releases-joint-publication</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2021 19:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On May 11, 2021, the Russian-Lithuanian Historians' Commission released a joint publication of documents Lithuania and Russia, 1917-1920 in Moscow. For further reading in Russian click here. You may watch the presentation here.]]></description>
      <category>Lithuania</category>
      <category>Russia</category>
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      <title>Bulgaria, North Macedonia Fail to Move History Dispute Forward</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2020-11-02-bulgaria-north-macedonia-fail-to-move-history-dispute-forward</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 03:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A two-day meeting in Skopje of the joint history commission between neighboring North Macedonia and Bulgaria, failed to make much progress on their disputes over the Macedonian language, jointly claimed heroes and shared history. Read more.]]></description>
      <category>North Macedonia</category>
      <category>Bulgaria</category>
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      <title>German-Ukrainian Historians&apos; Commission (DUHK) issues Statement</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2020-09-25-german-ukrainian-historians-commission-duhk-issues-statement</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2020 21:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In reaction to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's withdrawing its symbolic patronage from the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission, the DUHK has issued a statement of position in German and English, which you'll find on its webpage http://www.duhk.org/erklaerung. A Ukrainian version will follow shortly. On September 24, DUHK organized a webinar under the title "Was Holodomor a Genocide?" featuring]]></description>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
      <category>Germany</category>
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      <title>Russian-Austrian Historians&apos; Commission publishes joint history book</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2020-08-10-russian-austrian-historians-commission-publishes-joint-history-book</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On January 16, 2020, Russian-Austrian Joint Historians' Commission (JHC) publishes Vol. 2 of a joint textbook «Россия – Австрия: вехи совместной истории» [Russia - Austria: Milestones of Shared History]. You may watch a live presentation at the Gaidar Forum here.]]></description>
      <category>Austria</category>
      <category>Russia</category>
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      <title>Bulgaria – N. Macedonia joint commission on historical and educational issues holds first meeting</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2019-11-05-bulgaria-n-macedonia-joint-commission-on-historical-and-educational-issues-holds</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On November 5, 2019, the joint commission of scholars from Bulgaria and the Republic of N. Macedonia has held its first meeting, with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva calling on participants to establish a spirit of trust “and even have arguments”. The commission is intended to come up with an objective interpretation of historical events and how they are narrated in the textbooks of]]></description>
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      <title>The Fifth Annual Conference of the German-Ukrainian Historians&apos; Commission</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2019-09-02-the-fifth-annual-conference-of-the-german-ukrainian-historians-commission</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2019 18:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Fifth Annual Conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission on "Memories of the Second World War in Germany and Ukraine since 1945" was held in Dnipro, in cooperation with "Tkuma" Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies. Check out the program!]]></description>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
      <category>Germany</category>
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      <title>22nd annual conference of Russian-German Historians&apos; Commission meets in Voronezh, Russia</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2019-07-12-22nd-annual-conference-of-russian-german-historians-commission-meets-in-voronezh</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 06:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The theme of this year's conference is economic relations between Germany and Soviet Union, 1917-1991. Over a day and a half, fourteen presentations are made by Commission members as well as by those who answered a Call-for-Papers. One session is devoted to "Nazi's Forced Labor and Germany's Historical Responsibility." For detailed program, see here. Before the Voronezh meeting, an event for the r]]></description>
      <category>Germany</category>
      <category>Russia</category>
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      <title>Fourth Annual German-Ukrainian Historians&apos; Commission meeting held in Munich</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2018-12-04-fourth-annual-german-ukrainian-historians-commission-meeting-held-in-munich</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Between October 22-24, the fourth annual conference of the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission (DUHK) met to discuss various aspects of occupation policies in Ukraine during the Second World War. For more information, click the link here.]]></description>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
      <category>Germany</category>
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      <title>21st Annual Meeting of German-Russian Historians&apos; Commission</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2018-07-10-21st-annual-meeting-of-german-russian-historians-commission</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Together with the annual meeting, a number of public events were held in Munich, July 4-5, 2018. They include a panel discussion on the 1918 Revolution in Moscow, Berlin, and Munich, a day-long symposium at the Institute for Contemporary History and the launch of Volume One of a joint history book of German-Russian relations at the Tolstoi Library.]]></description>
      <category>Germany</category>
      <category>Russia</category>
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      <title>Workshop for Young Historians from Ukraine and Germany</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2018-07-02-workshop-for-young-historians-from-ukraine-and-germany</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Organized by German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission, the workshop is devoted to "Global and transnational perspectives on Ukrainian history from early modern times to present." It takes place from July 1-5 at the Mykola Gogol State University in the central Ukrainian city of Nizhyn. .]]></description>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
      <category>Germany</category>
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      <title>German-Russian Historians&apos; Commission to Hold 21st Annual Meeting on July 5, 2018</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2018-06-20-german-russian-historians-commission-to-hold-21st-annual-meeting-on-july-5-2018</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The German-Russian Historians' Commission will hold its annual plenary session in Munich. There will be a colloquium, a panel discussion, as well as a book presentation of the latest volume of a joint schoolbook. For details, check the Commission's website under Useful Links]]></description>
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      <title>Major Study of Historians&apos; Commissions published</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2018-04-20-major-study-of-historians-commissions-published</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The first major study of historians' commissions in Europe--both internal and international commissions--has been published by the German publisher DE GRUYTER OLDENBOURG. Entitled Historikerkommissionen und historische Konfliktbewältigung [Historical Commissions and Managing Conflict Over History] it is by Christoph Cornelißen and Paolo Pezzino. Click here for the Table of Contents and Introductio]]></description>
      <category>Italy</category>
      <category>Germany</category>
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      <title>Russian–Ukrainian History Dialogue in Helsinki, Finland</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2018-03-27-russianukrainian-history-dialogue-in-helsinki-finland</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 23:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On September 4 and 5, 2017, Historians Without Borders based in Helsinki, Finland, hosted a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian historians. Click here for the program and participants.]]></description>
      <category>Europe</category>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
      <category>Russia</category>
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      <title>German-Ukrainian Historians&apos; Commission Held 3rd Annual Conference</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2017-12-21-german-ukrainian-historians-commission-held-3rd-annual-conference</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2017 04:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The annual conference of the German-Ukrainian Historians' Commission took place on 29 and 30 September in Kyiv, in cooperation with the Institute of History of Ukraine, the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The conference dealt with the topic "Rethinking the Revolution 1917: War, Revolution and Statehood in Ukraine." Unlike in the old Soviet narrative of the "Great Socialist October Revolution," the]]></description>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
      <category>Germany</category>
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      <title>Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters resumes its activities, March 2017</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2017-07-12-polish-russian-group-for-difficult-matters-resumes-its-activities-march-2017</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[“We are open to constructive cooperation and we are undertaking actions to break the impasse in which we are now,” said Minister Witold Waszczykowski at a ceremony during which he handed nominations to the Polish members of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters. Professor Mirosław Filipowicz, Director of the Institute of East Central Europe in Lublin, is the new Plenipotentiary of the Min]]></description>
      <category>Poland</category>
      <category>Russia</category>
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      <title>German-Ukrainian Historians&apos; Commission held workshop in Odessa, October 2016</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[From October 27 to 31, 2016, in Odessa, the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission, in cooperation with the National I.I. Mečnykov-University of Odesa organized a junior workshop for graduate students and advanced students. The choice of the theme was based on the great political significance of contrasting memories of the time of the Second World War for the conflicts of the past years and the cu]]></description>
      <category>Germany</category>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
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      <title>Ukraine Reacts to Polish Parliament Resolution on 1943 Volyn Tragedy</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2017-06-25-ukraine-reacts-to-polish-parliament-resolution-on-1943-volyn-tragedy</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2017 03:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[.. Mr. Viatrovych, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, hopes that despite the change in the Polish policy and owing to the efforts of the Institute of National Remembrance, the dialogue between the historians established last year at the Ukrainian-Polish Forum will continue. “This dialogue will help not only to understand the past conflict, but also to avoid the mistakes of ou]]></description>
      <category>Poland</category>
      <category>Ukraine</category>
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      <title>Ten Years of the Bulgarian-Hungarian Joint History Commission</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2016-07-02-ten-years-of-the-bulgarian-hungarian-joint-history-commission</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 17:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[An international conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Bulgarian-Hungarian Joint History Commission was held at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 31, 2016. The theme was Hungary and Bulgaria – Connected Histories in Central and Southeast Europe, 17th–21st Centuries. To see the program, click here.]]></description>
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      <title>The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Russian-Austrian Historians&apos; Commission</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[From 5 to 7 June 2016 the eighth annual meeting of the Russian-Austrian Historians' Commission took place in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The theme of the meeting was "USSR and Austria in the 1950s and 1960s." The meeting also discussed the program of the Summer School for Young Historians, which will be held at the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, 11-18 September 2016. It also d]]></description>
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      <title>Publication of the Joint Japanese-Russian Historians&apos; Group</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2016 14:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[In September 2015, the bilateral Japanese-Russian historians' commission published a collective work--a parallel history of the Japanese-Russian relations since the 18th century--in both Japanese and Russian. The bilateral group, also known in Russian as Russian-Japanese Commission on Complex Problems of Russian-Japanese Relations (российско-японской Комиссии по сложным вопросам истории российско-]]></description>
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      <title>German-Ukrainian Joint Historians&apos; Commission Met</title>
      <link>https://historycommissions.org/posts/2016-05-03-german-ukrainian-joint-historians-commission-met</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2016 14:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On January 15, 2016 Ukrainian Catholic University hosted the session of German-Ukrainian Commission of Historians. During the session historians discussed the work plan of the Commission for the period 2016 - 2018, defined the main directions of its activities including its main vector of assisting young researchers of History of Ukrainian-German relations and Holocaust. Historians negotiated rega]]></description>
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      <title>Report of the China-Japan Joint Historical Study finally published in China and Japan</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 05:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Nearly four years after its completion, the reports produced by Chinese and Japanese historians as part of the four-year China-Japan Joint Historical Study (中日共同歴史研究) have been published in book form simultaneously in China and Japan. Until now, the report is only accessible online through the Japanese Foreign Ministry website. A workshop to discuss the publication was convened in May 2015 at the ]]></description>
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      <title>Conference on History Dialogue at Columbia University (Dec. 11-14, 2012)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Next week the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability at Columbia University in New York is hosting a four-day conference Local Memory, Global Ethics, Justice: The Politics of History Dialogue in Contemporary Society. I will speak on the first day, and I hope to see you there!]]></description>
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      <title>Reports of the Japan-Korea Joint History Study released</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[On March 23, the Japan-Korea Joint History Study (Phase II) issued its final reports. Based the media accounts in Japan and Korea, there seem to have been some progress in narrowing the differences between the two sides, especially regard to ancient and medieval history. Difference over modern history, however, appear to be more difficult to bridge.]]></description>
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      <title>Reports of the China-Japan Joint History Study released</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Three years after its establishment and over a year behind schedule, the much awaited reports of the China-Japan Joint History Study 日中歴史共同研究／中日共同历史研究 project were released on January 31. Currently, the Japanese reports (in Japanese) and Chinese reports (in Chinese) are only available online in Japan.]]></description>
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      <title>Introduction</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is a forum devoted to joint historians' commission around the world. Such commissions are established to enable historians from two (or more) countries to engage in dialogue over difficult issues in their shared history.]]></description>
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