Past Events

Producing clear and engaging visual communication is key to standing out as a professional scientist and effectively sharing your research process and findings. It is a skill set that is increasingly valuable in academia and industry. Roman Doroshenko's workshop covers essential tools and principles that with practice, will significantly enhance your visual…

We are thrilled to announce that starting September 2024 we will host a new doctoral network under the FWF doc.funds scheme. RECET will be welcoming 7 new PhD students who will work under the umbrella topic "Dynamics of Change and Logics of Transformation".

This workshop aims to explore the structure and effects of military patronage of the arts across all times and places. It seeks to go beyond the time-honored theme of “the artist in uniform” to ask how relationships between militaries and artists are formed and how they influence artistic styles, themes, and tastes.

This seminar will examine how governments, social actors, multilateral institutions, and NGOs worked to bridge the goals of broad regional mobility and deep social protection as free movement was implemented in the 1960s.

In order to better understand the industrialisation spurt and later the (financial) crisis and collapse of the command economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) as well as the applied economic policy mix before and during their transition to market economies, including the decisive role of initial conditions, we will digitise and publish online…

In seinem Buch Wie wir uns die Zukunft zurückholen (Brandstätter Verlag, 2024) entwirft Rudi Anschober eine optimistische Vision der nahen Zukunft: Der Autor wird in diesem Vortrag die Thesen seines Buches präsentieren und diskutieren. 

Can there be “too much” activism? Will climate activists start their “long march through the institutions”? This panel brings together scholars, activists and journalists to discuss these and other issues.

In this panel we look at past and future utopias, the solutions for regeneration that they promise, the challenges that they envision and ask if the time of the grand utopia is over. Shall we reconsider the very premises of utopian thinking and find new ways to deal with the unruliness of nature? 

Vom burgenländischen Neusiedler See bis in die Hochtäler der Tiroler Alpen: Längst machen zunehmende Wetteranomalien deutlich, dass die globale Erwärmung Österreichs vielfältige Lebensräume gravierend verändert und damit auch seine Wirtschaft maßgeblich beeinflusst – von der Industrie bis zum Gastgewerbe.

Climate change and environmental degradation are problems that affect all of Europe, yet the continent seems divided over the nature of the issue and the necessary instruments to mitigate and adapt. This panel brings together experts from the social sciences, from policymaking, and from civil society, to discuss this question and its implications for the…

What role can nuclear energy play in green transformation, if any? In this roundtable discussion, the panelists analyze the paradoxes that emerged from the roll-out of nuclear energy production on the one hand, and its governance on the other.