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World Revolution and National Homeland: Conflicts over Jewish Liberation, 1917–1920.
Thursday, 26 March, 2026 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

This seminar analyses this conflict between revolutionary universalism and national liberation, between Communism and Zionism, and the dialectics of Jewish liberation by centring on the experiences of Jewish revolutionaries and the debates within the World Union of Poalei Tsion from the revolutions of 1917 to the split of the organisation in the summer of…

Dr. Jan Rybak CEU / Alfred Landecker Lecturer
Socialist Scandals. Corruption, Revolution and the Quest for Justice in Poland and East Germany
Thursday, 30 April, 2026 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

Imagine a world without corruption. A world in which politicians disregard private interests and are committed to a better future for the people they serve. State socialist political elites in Cold War East-Central Europe promised to build such a world. Now imagine the same elites being caught profiting from their offices, building private homes using state…

Dr. Jakub Szumski Imre Kertész Kolleg at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany / Researcher
Broken Clocks and Shadowy Transitions: The Legacy of 1989 for Our Time
Thursday, 28 May, 2026 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

This Transformative Seminar will feature Prof. Paul Betts (Oxford). Seminar abstract tbc.

Prof. Paul Betts University of Oxford, St Antony's College / Professor of Modern European History
Co-funded by the FWF Wittgenstein Award
FWF
University of Vienna

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