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…
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.
In this public Workshop RECET scholars meet VWI fellows – four keynote presentations are commented and discussed and you are welcome to join us!
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…
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.
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…
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.
Fabian Baumann will present his book "Dynasty Divided. A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism" published with Cornell University Press (2023).
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…
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.
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.
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,…