Events

This lecture is the second in a three-part lecture series "The Time Has Come: Autopsy of an Outrage" by Didier Fassin, organised by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and co-sponsored by RECET.

This lecture is the third in a three-part lecture series "The Time Has Come: Autopsy of an Outrage" by Didier Fassin, organised by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and co-sponsored by RECET.

Transformation ist kein rein techno-ökonomisches Problem. Sie stellt vielmehr eine enorme politische Herausforderung dar, deren Bewältigung von der Bereitschaft der Bevölkerung, den Wandel mitzutragen, und vom gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt abhängt. Das gilt vor allem für die Dekarbonisierung.

Building on (and critically updating) Albert O. Hirschman’s classic exit–voice–loyalty framework, the event gathers researchers who explore how migration relates to political circumstances, labour, and agency in Eastern Europe. The papers will cover contemporary and historical perspectives and engage with multiple migration routes beyond the habitual…

The characteristics and international position of socialist Yugoslavia have been the subject of intense and ongoing scholarly debate. But to date, there has been no systematic study of one of the most significant specificities of the Yugoslav state after 1945: the prominence and position of Second World War veterans.

Drawing on his recently released book, Moral Autopsy (Cambridge University Press 2025), Saygun Gökarıksel shows how the contentious trajectory of postsocialist transitional justice in Poland, especially, lustration, reveals the fundamental problems of global transitional justice including its capitalist nation-state centrism, Eurocentric liberal teleology of…

During the long nineteenth century, the transformation of Ottoman and Habsburg imperial rule made Southeastern Europe a crucial arena for debating the relationship between political freedom and national emancipation. These debates were never confined to the region itself. They were shaped by western imperial interests and by Anglo-British conceptions of…

Founded in 1946 in Prague, the International Union of Students was meant to be a universal federation representing student interests internationally. Soon after its foundation, however, the IUS aligned itself with the Eastern Bloc and started promoting socialist student internationalism.

Labour history has undergone significant renewal, moving beyond institutional and economic narratives to analyse labour as a social relation embedded in changing political, social, and spatial contexts. Periods of transformation in politics, the economy, technology, and shifting social orders have reshaped working conditions while opening new arenas of…

Drawing on Second World Approaches to International Law (SWAIL), this talk excavates Eastern Europe's complex relationship to empire, colonialism, civilization and race. In offering novel insights into how this region has shaped, and been shaped by, doctrines, ideas and practices of self-determination, great power intervention, and conditional sovereignty,…

Labour history has undergone significant renewal, moving beyond institutional and economic narratives to analyse labour as a social relation embedded in changing political, social, and spatial contexts. Periods of transformation in politics, the economy, technology, and shifting social orders have reshaped working conditions while opening new arenas of…