The depth of Europe’s present energy predicaments both in relation to fossil fuel energy and the energy transition have a long history going back to the beginning of the 20th century. Europe’s Net Zero 2050 goal represents an attempt to break free of its long-standing foreign energy dependency problem. How can this problem be eliminated?
CENTRAL is a scientific network of five renowned Central European universities: Charles University in Prague, University of Warsaw, University of Vienna, ELTE Budapest as well as Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, which aims to promote Central Europe as a hub for academic excellence.
Following the outbreak of the Cold War, the Soviet political establishment became fascinated with visions of a universal scientific literacy to promote the progress to Communism. This task shaped the late Soviet city and, in essence, represented a response to one of the most important questions of modernity: how to use the urban environment to produce…
CENTRAL is a scientific network of five renowned Central European universities: Charles University in Prague, University of Warsaw, University of Vienna, ELTE Budapest as well as Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, which aims to promote Central Europe as a hub for academic excellence.
Was können wir aus der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung für ein mögliches Ende des russisch-ukrainischen Krieges lernen? Wie enden Kriege überhaupt und was sind die Schritte vom Ende der Kampfhandlungen bis hin zu einem nachhaltigen Frieden?
Welche Rolle kommt den Digital Humanities für Schutz und Sicherung von gefährdeten Kulturgütern zu? Wie funktioniert Kulturgutschutz zwischen politischer Willensbildung und praktischer Umsetzung? Inwieweit sollen sich Wissenschaftler:innen zu gesellschafts- und geopolitischen Fragen positionieren?
Wie finden humanitäres Engagement und Humanities zusammen, ohne sich einen „Bias“ vorwerfen lassen zu müssen? Wo ist eine Abgrenzung zwischen wissenschaftlicher Analyse und persönlicher Meinung – manchmal auch gegen die nachvollziehbaren Reflexe der Betroffenheit –nötig?
Perestroika and transformation have to be considered as part of larger histories and re-integrated into the arguments and theories developed for late socialism and theories developed for late socialism. The Transformative Seminar is going to be a very first exploration of a new research project: a history of emotions relating to a ‘long’ Perestroika.
In this second RECET History and Social Sciences Festival, high-profile voices from academia, politics, civil society, the arts and culture will discuss the multiple dimensions of and contestations surrounding (in)equality, and its many transformations over the past years and decades. These lectures, debates, and panel discussions will be accompanied by an…
In the western world and in post-communist Eastern Europe, the history of deindustrialization has mostly been written as a story of loss and decline. However, the picture changes if we apply a global history perspective.
Raum: 2R-EG-07 (Hörsaal des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte).
Adresse: Spitalgasse 2, Campus der Universität Wien, Hof 3.2
Dr. Jan Arend ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde der Universität Tübingen. Seine Forschungsgebiete als Osteuropahistoriker umfassen die jüngere russische, tschechische…
When the Von der Leyen Commission took office in December 2019, the new President, Ursula von der Leyen, pledged to put "Foresight" at the heart of her agenda for Europe. But what is Foresight, where did it come from, and how did it attain such political prominence?