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Roundtable discussion with RECET scholars Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Anna Calori, Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ & Sheng Peng. Moderation: Frank Bösch (ZZF Potsdam)
How is inequality encoded in technologies, human bodies, literary canons, and economic systems? And what transformations have the concepts of equality and inequality undergone in East Central Europe and beyond over the past half century? At this roundtable, researchers from RECET share insights from their research into migration, economic thinking, post-socialist literature, and more. They therefore explain how equality and inequality can shed light on social, economic, and cultural transformations in the wake of deep historical caesuras on a European and global scale.
Magdalena Baran-Szołtys is a scholar of literature and culture with a background in German and Slavic Studies working as a postdoctoral researcher (Hertha-Firnberg-fellow, FWF) within the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) and at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Her research interests include German, Polish, and Ukrainian literature; narratives of inequality and transformation; travels; memory cultures; postsocialism; Austrian Galicia; and the social and cultural history of East Central Europe. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, taught German and literature at the University of Sydney, and has worked at the Institute of 20th and 21st Century Literature at the University of Warsaw. Baran-Szołtys was a board member of the Frauen*Volksbegehren (Austrian Women Referendum) and is chairwoman of the Foundation Advisory Board of the Common Good Foundation COMÚN. She is co-editor of the book “ÜberForderungen: Wie feministscher Aktivismus gelingt” (“About Demands: How feminist activism succeeds”, Kremayr&Scheriau, 2020).
Anna Calori is REWIRE post-doctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, where she leads a project on economic cooperation between Italy, Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned world. Her research interests cover labour and social history, economic history, and global history. For her doctoral studies at the University of Exeter, she researched economic reforms and deindustrialization in the former Yugoslavia. Before coming to Vienna, she worked at the University of Leipzig and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. Outside academia, she has worked in the NGO-sector in the Western Balkans and at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva.
Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna. She earned her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2019 and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Practices of Togetherness: Jacek Kuroń, Communities of Care and Political Opposition in Late Socialist Poland (1955-1982). Her second project focuses on the connected histories between Poland and Vietnam after 1955. 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 will spend the academic year of 2023/2024 as German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
Sheng Peng is a post-doc fellow at RECET, Vienna University. His research focuses include the history of the Cold War in Asia, the evolution of market thought in post-Cultural revolution China, and the influence of European ideas in China's long 20th century. Dr. Peng holds a PhD in history from the University of Oxford where he researched the history of technology transfer from the West to China during the late 1970s Cold War.
Frank Bösch, geboren 1969 in Lübeck, ist ein deutscher Historiker und Professor für Europäische Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts an der Universität Potsdam. Seit 2011 ist er Direktor des Leibniz Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) in Potsdam. Zuvor forschte er an der Universität Göttingen und war Professor an den Universitäten Bochum und Gießen. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind deutsche Zeitgeschichte in globaler Perspektive, Mediengeschichte und die Geschichte des geteilten und vereinten Deutschlands. Er ist Autor von sechs Monografien, darunter Mediengeschichte. Vom asiatischen Buchdruck zum Fernsehen (auch übersetzt ins Englische und Polnische). Zuletzt erschien von ihm Zeitenwende 1979. Als die Welt von heute begann (2019), das es auf die deutschen Bestsellerlisten schaffte. Aktuell schließt er ein Buchprojekt ab, das den bundesdeutschen Umgang mit weltweiten Diktaturen zwischen 1950 und 2000 untersucht. Er ist Herausgeber der Zeitschrift “Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History” und Herausgeber mehrerer Bücher, darunter A History Shared and Divided. East and West Germany since the 1970s (2018).
