Knowledgeable Youth: Open Forum with Martin Gumiela
Thursday, 30 November, 2023 15:30 - 29 Nov, 17:00 CEST

Together with Eurozine and Radio Orange, RECET is realizing its very first youth project: reaching out to Ukrainian refugee youngsters living in Vienna and introducing them to the world of academic research.

Knowledgeable Youth: Open Forum with Olena Yermakova
Wednesday, 29 November, 2023 15:30 - 17:00 CEST

Together with Eurozine and Radio Orange, RECET is realizing its very first youth project: reaching out to Ukrainian refugee youngsters living in Vienna and introducing them to the world of academic research.

Book Discussion: "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper
Tuesday, 28 November, 2023 16:00 - 18:00 CEST

A panel discusses "Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia" (Princeton University Press, 2023) with its authors Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper

Book Presentation and Discussion: Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
Monday, 27 November, 2023 18:00 - 19:30 CEST

Presentation and Discussion of Till Hilmar's book "Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain". Drawing on in-depth interviews with as well as historical and comparative analysis of the breakdown of communism in Eastern Europe, "Deserved" sheds new light on the moral imagination of capitalism and the experience of economic change.

Migration – Rechtspopulismus – Autoritarismus: Herausforderungen für die offene Gesellschaft
Thursday, 23 November, 2023 18:00 - 24 Nov, 19:00 CEST

In dieser Tagung wollen wir uns an verschiedene Facetten des Nexus von Migration und Autoritarismus annähern – verbunden mit der Frage, ob es nicht restriktive Migrationspolitiken selbst sind, die autoritäre Tendenzen auch im Inland begünstigen.

Keynote: Hinter Mauern. Geschlossene Grenzen als Gefahr für die offene Gesellschaft
Thursday, 23 November, 2023 18:00 - 19:30 CEST

Grenzen sind nicht nur Hindernisse für Menschen, die sie von außerhalb überwinden wollen. Sie verändern auch die Gesellschaften, die sich abzuschotten versuchen.

Öffentlicher Teil der Konferenz "Migration – Rechtspopulismus – Autoritarismus: Herausforderungen für die offene Gesellschaft".

“Our Native Cinderella”: Balkan Bees within Global Economies of Breeding and Racialization
Thursday, 16 November, 2023 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

This lecture explores how fin-de-siècle beekeepers in the Yugoslav region imagined and attempted to carry out the racial reclamation of their local honeybees. It is ultimately part of a larger labor and environmental history of the post-Ottoman Balkans, which examines how transnational capital and new national states reshaped the relationship between local…

Book Launch: Kingdom of Barracks. Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria
Wednesday, 15 November, 2023 18:30 - 20:00 CEST

Book Launch of "Kingdom of Barracks. Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria" with Dr. Katarzyna Nowak – hosted at the Library of Contemporary History.

What’s next for Ukrainian refugees?: Lived experiences between state „welcome infrastructures“ and self-help ecosystems
Thursday, 09 November, 2023 19:00 - 21:00 CEST

The Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna and the Research Platform "Transformations and Eastern Europe" invite to their regular Transformative Salon, Thursday, 9 November 2023, with Tanja Maier, Ruslana Koziienko and Jenia Yudytska.

Ukraine's Altered Landscapes: Losing and Recovering Alterity in the Face of War
Thursday, 09 November, 2023 09:45 - 10 Nov, 20:00 CEST

An interdisciplinary conference organized by the Ukraine in European Dialogue program at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) will be held at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna on 8-10 November 2023

Knowledgeable Youth: Open Forum with Lukas Becht
Tuesday, 07 November, 2023 15:30 - 17:00 CEST

Together with Eurozine and Radio Orange, RECET is realizing its very first youth project: reaching out to Ukrainian refugee youngsters living in Vienna and introducing them to the world of academic research.

Book Presentation: From Solidarność to Shock Therapy. How Capitalism Came to Poland
Monday, 06 November, 2023 14:00 - 15:30 CEST

Poland’s post-socialist transformation started way before the fall of communism. But how did the home of the unprecedented Solidarność movement turn into the pioneer of neoliberal shock therapy in Eastern Europe?