Infrastructural Power of Labor: The Making of the Working Class
Monday, 18 May, 2026 15:00 - 17:00 CEST
In Europe, discussions about China often revolve around state power, geopolitical rivalry, and economic strength. But who built China’s rise? Drawing on the concept of infrastructural power of labor, hundreds of millions of Chinese workers whose labour has powered one of the most profound economic transformations of our time.
Researching the Collecting, Preserving, Analysing and Disclosing of Ukrainian Testimonies of the War
Monday, 04 May, 2026 15:00 - 16:30 CEST
It is a usual practice to place an embargo on the disclosure of testimonies of individuals at risk, such as during an ongoing military conflict, following an act of violence or of those dissenting an authoritarian regime. This lecture shows how to safely disclose testimonies while at the same time protecting individuals at risk. We present a secure…
The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
Monday, 03 November, 2025 15:00 - 17:00 CEST
China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world—and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun.
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.
„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,…
The Relationship Between Europe's East and West: How Racist and How Colonial?
Tuesday, 12 December, 2023 16:00 - 17:30 CEST
Why call prejudice and discrimination against White Eastern Europeans racist? Would it not be better described just as xenophobia or regional intolerance? And what can be colonial about a region that belongs to the European Union, the historic heir of colonial privilege?
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.
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".
Keynote Lecture: Russia's rule on the newly occupied territories of Ukraine and the challenge of de-occupation
Thursday, 19 October, 2023 17:00 - 18:30 CEST
This keynote is part of the International Conference "600 Days of the All-Out War. Fighting for Freedom, Fighting for Democracy". The lecture is open to the public.
Stress und die Transformation in der Tschechoslowakei/Tschechien 1960-2010
Wednesday, 21 June, 2023 18:00 - 19:30 CEST
Es ist zu einer verbreiteten Sichtweise geworden, dass "Stress" eine Herausforderung für unser aller Lebensführung darstellt. Wie konnte "Stress" - ein lange Zeit ausschließlich in medizinischen und psychologischen Fachkreisen verwendeter Begriff - eine solche Bedeutung erlangen? Anhand des Beispiels der sozialistischen Tschechoslowakei und der…
Menschenrechte hinter Gittern. Russland und Memorial im zweiten Jahr des Russischen Angriffskrieges
Friday, 28 April, 2023 14:00 - 16:00 CEST
Lecture format: on site + online.
Room: 2R-EG-07 (lecture hall of the Institute for Eastern European History).
Street address: Spitalgasse 2, Campus of the University of Vienna, Hof 3.
Irina Scherbakowa, der Mitgründerin der Menschenrechtsorganisation Memorial (Friedensnobelpreis 2022), gelang es vor ihrer erwartbaren Verhaftung aus Russland zu fliehen.…
Institutionalizing Indoctrination: Insights from the Romanian Case under Communism
Wednesday, 08 March, 2023 12:15 - 13:45 CEST
How should we think methodically—in theoretically and historically informed ways—about the institutionalization of indoctrination and propaganda? How should we conceptualize and theorize the social organization of ideology?
