This event is part of the RECET Festival of Historical and Social Sciences "Migration & Transformation".
Event venue: Campus of the University of Vienna („Altes AKH“), festival tent in Hof 1
Position of the tent: https://goo.gl/maps/8FjYQNtdnaUiKCcs6
Migration and transformation as topics matter deeply in the contemporary world as migration, mobility, and all forms of exchange that they cause affect not only those who migrate but societies as a whole. At RECET, scholars affiliated with the Research Group “Migration and Transformation” (funded by the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies) aim to historicize and unpack the social and historical relevance of migration, and the myriad ways through which it manifests itself. On this panel, they will provide insight into their ongoing doctoral and postdoctoral research.
Daniel Jerke is a doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna. Previously, he worked as a school assistant at a secondary school in Kiel. Jerke did his BA in European Studies with a focus on social sciences at Chemnitz University of Technology, followed by a MA in Migration and Diversity at Kiel University. As a student, Jerke spent one semester respectively at Silesian University in Katowice and Adam Mickewicz University in Poznań. Additionally, he did various placements, e.g. at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and the street paper “Hempels” in Kiel.
Philipp Moritz holds a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Leipzig. He then completed a Master's degree in Contemporary History and Media at the University of Vienna. During this time, he worked as a research assistant at the Association for the Study of Repressive Measures of the Austrian Regime 1933-1938, the Institute for Historical Social Research of the Arbeiterkammer of Vienna, and the Archive of Yad Vashem. His master's thesis focused on the interest of the state police in the interrogation of Austrian re-migrants from the USSR between 1934 and 1938. Philipp Moritz is a PhD candidate in the doc.funds project “The Dynamics of Change and Logics of Transformation: State, Society, and Economy at Critical Junctures”.
Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on the socialist entanglements between Poland and Vietnam after 1955. Linh is interested in the history of Poland, Vietnam, cultural history, decolonization, and global Cold War. She has published in scholarly journals (Cahiers du Monde Russe, History Workshop Journal, etc.) and non-scholarly outlets (Zeitgeschichte-online, TAZ, Krytyka Polityczna, The Conversation, etc.). Linh spent the academic year 2023/2024 as German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
Jannis Panagiotidis is Scientific Director of RECET. He is a historian and migration scholar specializing in East-West migration, post-Soviet migration, and the history and present of anti-East European racism. His publications include The Unchosen Ones: Diaspora, Nation, and Migration in Israel and Germany (2019), Postsowjetische Migration in Deutschland (2021), and Antiosteuropäischer Rassismus in Deutschland: Geschichte und Gegenwart (2024, with Hans-Christian Petersen).
Alexander Schneidmesser studied Eastern European Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked in Israel from 2016 to 2022 as a research assistant at the International Institute for Holocaust Studies in Yad Vashem. Since 2022 he has been a PhD student at RECET, where he works on the mutual perception between Russian Germans and post-Soviet Jews in the Federal Republic of Germany under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jannis Panagiotidis
Daria Tashkinova is currently a PhD candidate in the doc.funds project "The Dynamics of Change and Logics of Transformation: State, Society and Economy at Critical junctures" where she focuses on labour migration practices in the late Soviet Union.
Milena Błahuta is a PhD candidate at the University of Warsaw and an Associated Researcher at RECET. In her dissertation she studies migrations from Poland to the 'New' European Union.
