Workshop: The State-Owned Enterprise as Site of Solidarity and Conflict
Thursday, 13 February, 2025 08:30 - 14 Feb, 18:00 CEST

The workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in international, national, and local histories, seeking to reorient our understanding of Cold War economies and labour regimes away from a picture of division.

Online Training: Digging through the Scraps. An Introduction to Archival Research on Labour and Migrationin Southeast Europe
Thursday, 20 February, 2025 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

As part of the activities of the project RETLAMI-SEE at the University of Banja Luka, the project consortium invites interested researchers to participate in an online training aimed at preparing early career scholars for archival research on labour and migration in Southeastern Europe.

MUGA – Make us great again. Wie die radikale Rechte durch internationale Zusammenarbeit immer stärker wird
Thursday, 06 March, 2025 19:00 - 21:00 CEST

Radikal rechte, nationalistische Bewegungen vernetzen sich zunehmend auch international – das gilt für gewalttätige Akteure und die Vernetzung im Internet, aber auch für parlamentarisch aktive politische Akteure wie Parteien und Vorfeldorganisationen.

Believing Globally: Islamist Internationalism Between the Cold War and Decolonization
Wednesday, 12 March, 2025 16:15 - 17:45 CEST

How did Shi'a Islamist actors come to hold such grand ambitions for themselves? In this talk, Prof. Dr. Timothy Nunan draws on

research in new Persian- and Arabic-language materials to show how decolonization and the Cold War shaped the trajectory of Shi'a Islamism.

CENTRAL Workshop "Mobility of People, Goods, and Ideas" (Part II)
Thursday, 13 March, 2025 10:00 - 14 Mar, 15:00 CEST

This second half of a two-part workshop in Vienna and Prague will bring together junior and senior scholars working on human movement & migration and on the circulation of goods and ideas to explore the development of new transnational perspectives on the history of Central and Eastern Europe in its global context. They will link up and deepen existing…

History Doesn’t Travel in One Direction: Real Existing Postsocialism in Eastern Europe
Thursday, 20 March, 2025 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

How have ordinary people been affected by, responded to, and made sense of the manifold changes in Eastern Europe over the past three decades? How have dominant narratives of transition obscured everyday experiences of this period and how have people, in turn, challenged these narratives?

Book Discussion: Monuments and Territory
Thursday, 27 March, 2025 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

From the very first days of their large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian invaders have made exceptional efforts to interact with the war memorial landscape of the newly occupied territories. This landscape consists of tens of thousands of monuments, mostly in small towns and villages, commemorating the Second World War and other…

Dismantling Authoritarian Rule in Poland
Thursday, 03 April, 2025 19:00 - 21:00 CEST

In our regular Transformative Salon format Polish-American historian Jan T. Gross and Magda Szcześniak reflect on how authoritarian rule can be dismantled in Poland.

Habsburg Bosnia-Herzegovina as a Legal Laboratory for the State of Emergency
Thursday, 12 June, 2025 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

The seminar abstract is to be announced.