Eröffnung der Ringvorlesung "Nordic Perspectives on Russia"
Thursday, 14 March, 2024 18:00 - 19:30 CEST

Die Ringvorlesung widmet sich den langen Linien der Geschichte der Nachbarschaft der nordischen Völker und Nationen und Russlands zwischen Konflikt und Koexistenz. Im Laufe des Semesters präsentieren führende Vertreterinnen und Vertreter der Geschichts- und Politikwissenschaften aus Norwegen, Schweden, Finnland und Estland ihre aktuellen Forschungen zur…

Everyday World Governance: Soviet Citizens and International Organizations During the Cold War
Thursday, 14 March, 2024 13:15 - 14:45 CEST

Highlighting the forgotten stories of Soviet citizens who contributed to the nuts-and-bolts operations and lesser-known activities of world governance, the talk will illustrate the UN’s importance for a group of Soviet "one-worlders," who used the world body to imagine and work for a better world amidst the realities of the Cold War.

Workshop: VWI invites RECET. Discourses on Fascism and Nazism
Tuesday, 12 March, 2024 14:00 - 18:00 CEST

In this public Workshop RECET scholars meet VWI fellows – four keynote presentations are commented and discussed and you are welcome to join us!

Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia
Thursday, 07 March, 2024 19:00 - 21:00 CEST

In socialist Yugoslavia, there was a vast production of monuments dedicated to the antifascist People’s Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution. Since the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, these monuments have been subject to various fates, from neglect and physical destruction to global fame generated by the high-modernist…

Post-Nazism – Postcolonialism – Post-Migration: The Current Debate on Holocaust Memory
Thursday, 15 February, 2024 17:00 - 19:00 CEST

Questions of historical politics and cultures of remembrance are once again in the focus of public attention. After the phase of its globalization and institutionalization, Holocaust memory seems to be subject to a far-reaching process of change.

Brotherly Strangers: Kenya’s & Zambia’s Relations with China 1949-2019
Wednesday, 31 January, 2024 18:00 - 19:30 CEST

Africa has become a major platform from which to analyse and understand China's growing influence in the global South. Yet, the impact of their historical relationship has been largely overlooked. Through the triangulation of the global Cold War, African history, and Chinese history, this study provides a detailed analysis of China-Africa relations in the…

Knowledgeable Youth: Open Forum with Dr. Zsófia Lóránd
Monday, 29 January, 2024 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: Dynasty Divided. A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism
Friday, 26 January, 2024 13:00 - 15:00 CEST

Fabian Baumann will present his book "Dynasty Divided. A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism" published with Cornell University Press (2023).

Creolizing Transylvania. Between European Interimperiality and Global Coloniality
Thursday, 25 January, 2024 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

The talk counteracts the notion of Europe as a geographically, culturally, religiously, and racially coherent entity by focusing on one of Europe's subaltern formations, Transylvania. Its location on the European continent, yet in the rural periphery of several of Europe's imperial powers, renders it a unique candidate for the larger decolonial project of…

Knowledgeable Youth: Open Forum with Dominik Stegmayr
Tuesday, 23 January, 2024 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.

Psychiatry of the ‘in-between’ world: Revolution and re-imagining the psyche in socialist Yugoslavia
Thursday, 18 January, 2024 13:00 - 14:30 CEST

This seminar explores the relationship between psychiatry and political ideology in the context of the Cold War and non-alignment. It focuses on the importance of revolution and ideas of radical reform for the development of socialist psychiatry in Yugoslavia.

„Ostöffnung“ als Chiffre von Mobilisierung
Wednesday, 10 January, 2024 12:00 - 14:00 CEST

Die „Ostöffnung“ bindet die Diskussion intensivierter Finanz- und Warenströme sowie die Mobilisierung von Menschen an einen Wendepunkt europäischer Geschichte und spannt diesen in einen selbstbezogenen Diskurs der österreichischen Nation ein: Die imperiale Projektion österreichischen Kapitals und österreichischer Eliten nach außen trug zu ihrer Erhöhung bei,…