Workshop: Teaching with Texts and Contexts across Disciplines, about East Central Europe
Friday, 06 December, 2024 10:00 - 12:30 CEST
What is the potential of the new book "Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights. East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century" to change perceptions and approaches to Central, East Central and Southeast Europe? How can this book fit into the ways experts in the field think about gender and women’s history in Central,…
Ungarische Planwirtschaft in der Weltwirtschaft: Einbettung ungarischer Wirtschaftsentwicklung in den Globalisierungsprozessen
Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 13:00 - 14:45 CEST
Der Vortrag untersucht die relative Bedeutung der Beziehungen des sozialistischen Ungarn zum Globalen Süden und zum Westen. Was erwarteten sich die ungarischen Eliten von diesen Beziehungen? Welche Strategien verfolgten sie? Wie nahmen sie die globale Position Ungarns wahr?
CENTRAL Workshop "Mobility of People, Goods, and Ideas" (Part I)
Thursday, 12 December, 2024 10:00 - 13 Dec, 15:00 CEST
This first half of a two-part CENTRAL 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.
In Search of the Good Life: Post-Soviet Communities in Osnabrück
Thursday, 12 December, 2024 13:00 - 14:30 CEST
This seminar examines the lifeworlds of people from the former USSR in a Osnabrück, Germany. The focus of the analysis is on the reconstitution of community and the shaping of individual lives after emigration. In which local, translocal and transnational networks are they embedded? How do these people conceive of a “good life” in their new place?
The Concept of the “Civilizing mission” as a Cultural Transfer in the 19th-Century: the Case of Austria and Galicia
Thursday, 23 January, 2025 13:00 - 14:30 CEST
The aim of this seminar is to show how the concept of the civilizing mission – once used in the colonial politics of Western empires – was transferred in various ways to another geographical area, namely in East-Central Europe: both as an intellectual idea and as a tool for legitimizing political power.
10 Years of War in Europe: Russian Threat to the European Union and Austria
Friday, 24 January, 2025 16:30 - 20:00 CEST
Discussion examining Russia's expansionist ideology and its increasing threat to European stability, with a particular emphasis on Ukraine and Austria's strategic position in a potential global conflict.
From bourgeoisie to intelligentsia: The evolution of the identity of the Polish Jewish elite over the “long 20th century” in the context of geo-economic changes
Thursday, 30 January, 2025 13:00 - 14:30 CEST
The talk will attempt to interpret the evolution of the Polish Jewish elite, with particular emphasis on the elite circles of Warsaw, over the course of the “long 20th century”. The key point of reference for the analysis will be the changing political, cultural, and, above all, economic relations in the Polish lands and the resulting changes in the…
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.
CENTRAL Workshop "Mobility of People, Goods, and Ideas" (Part II)
Thursday, 13 March, 2025 10:00 - 14 Mar, 15:00 CEST
This first 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…