Research Center for the History of Transformations

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Come and join us for the first #TransformativeSalon of the coming semester – Prof. Anna Durnová (@univie.ac.at) will talk about "Loneliness as a Social Problem," commented by Éva Kovács (VWI). Free entry, no registration needed!

You can now read the @hsozkult.bsky.social conference report on our 2025 #RECETfestival on Migration & Transformation.
www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...

Irena thanks her wonderful hosts at Oslo U and @univie.ac.at for supporting her in exploring new perspectives and meetings peers abroad.

During her Erasmus+ Staff Mobility week, Irena got to experience Norwegian best practices in university administration, bringing home new insights on improving the onboarding process of new employees and fellows and on what can be done to reach external audiences.

Belated greetings from Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴!

This August, RECET’s Managing Director Irena Remestwenski spent a week with colleagues from the University of Oslo’s Faculty of Humanities.

In the episode, the authors highlight how border-making was contested, negotiated, and experienced on the ground in one of the former Empire’s most multiethnic and multilingual regions.

You can find the episode on our website or on all of your favorite podcast players.
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in Western Hungary/Burgenland after World War I" (with Ibolya Murber, published with Berghahn).

In the aftermath of World War I, what used to be the Habsburg Empire split up into several nation states. But where to draw a border between the new Austrian Republic and the Hungarian nation state?

New #TransformativePodcast out! This time we're bringing you a conversation between Hannes Grandits (@humboldtuni.bsky.social), Katharina Tyran (U Helsinki) and Leonid Motz (RECET) about Hannes's and Katharina's new edited volume "The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border: Agendas, Actors, and Practices…

Geschichte und Gesellschaft | Vol 50, No 3

while challenging ingrained notions of “non-racialized” Europe that emerged in opposition to the racist atrocities of the era of European colonialism and National Socialism.
See www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/50/3 for the whole issue!

and Poland, asking how racialized thinking is constructed, encoded, normalized, and put to work, and showing how antiracist actions have exposed and contested these discourses and practices. Taken together, the articles in this special issue retrieve local and national histories …

– with its legacy of colonialism, genocide, total war, socialism, and the transformation of 1989 – serves as a point of departure for this special issue. It provides historical depth to current debates by examining the history of racism and antiracism in the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland…

as a continent home to competing political projects – has its own history of racism that is both connected to global developments and particular in being shaped by national contexts. This multi-faceted positionality of Europe

Have you already taken a glimpse into the new special issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft (ed. by RECET's Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ and U Zurich's Catherine Davies) on "Racism and Anti-Racism"?
Far from being immune from global tribulations, postwar, post-imperial, and “post-socialist” Europe –

📢 Call for applications: Workshop on Publishing strategies for PhDs & Postdocs at University of Banja Luka w/ Rory Archer (@univie.ac.at / @recetvienna.bsky.social).
🗓️ 24 Sept | 14:10 | FPN UNIBL
➡️ Apply: forms.gle/3av7iZPVUmJE...

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In addition to archival research on the topic of her dissertation ("A socio-economic history of illegalized logging in Bukovina"), she conducts walks to see the restructuring of the forests that had its roots in the Habsburg administration first hand.

Our @fwf-at.bsky.social doc.funds PhD researcher Laura Plochberger (@dshcs.bsky.social) is sending greetings and photos from her research trip to Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania.

… we might better understand, Massino suggests, the frustrations harnessed by populists today.

Listen now through www.recet.at/podcast or wherever you get your pods!

… Massino reflects upon the “complexity of experience” of this period, concluding, therefore, that history does not move in one direction. By foregrounding the perspectives of non-elites whose complaints about the present are sometimes dismissed as “nostalgic,”

Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn’t Travel in One Direction (Purdue University Press, 2024). From white-collar workers whose fates diverged, to sexual minorities who enjoyed some years of unprecedented openness and recognition before policy reversals wiped out perceived gains

New #TransformativePodcast out –
What is #postsocialism and how has it been experienced around Eastern Europe? Ambiguously, according to Jill Massino (UNC Charlotte), the editor, with Marcus Wien, of a new volume on the topic.

The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation This cutting-edge collection of essays analyses the pivotal year of 1989 and the transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a p...

Coming Soon: The Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social Handbook 1989 and the Great Transformation, made by RECET!
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Our #RudolphinaRoadtrip summer series continues w/ Daria Tashkinova @ #Riga! How do historians work with archives? What is she looking for in the Latvian State Archive of Personnel Files 📦🔎? Follow this @recetvienna.bsky.social PhD & 👂to the latest Doctor it! Podcast on archival research #Rudolphina

Archival research abroad: Daria Tashkinova in Riga For this next stop on the Rudolphina Roadtrip, historian Daria Tashkinova reports from Riga. Between feverish sessions in the archives — scouring for clues about how the former Soviet Union built an e...

… parts of her project on Soviet Labor Migration. 🇱🇻 Thank you to our @univienna colleagues at Rudolphina for this interview⬇️
rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/archival-...

During academic summer breaks – when RECET offices may seem eerily quiet – our researchers embark on archival trips on the quest for primary sources for their work. Join our @FWF_at funded doctoral researcher Daria Tashkinova on her trip to Rīga, where she carries out …

RECET History and Social Sciences Festival 2025 "Migration and Transformation" - YouTube Migration is an integral feature of human societies in the past and present. At the same time, it has been the subject of controversial discussions and polit...

If you’ve made it to campus, thank you for coming! In case you couldn’t be there, we are now delighted to make (nearly all of) this year’s festival events available as recordings on our YouTube channel.
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RECET looks back to a successful festival – this year’s topic “Migration & Transformation” attracted an interested crowd to our festival tent in Hof 1. We listened to fascinating panels, exciting keynotes and had lively discussions with our speakers.

Einmal Schengen und zurück? Europäische Einigung, nationale Souveränität und das Ringen um eine funktionale Migrationspolitik Von Territorialfragen und Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zu Menschenrechten im Mittelmeerraum – Grenzfragen prägen Europas Gegenwart und Zukunft. Wie sie dies tun, liegt auch daran, wie man sich ihre Vergange

… und das Audio kann als Podcast (danke an unsere Partner von der BWBS!) abgerufen werden. soundcloud.com/zeitgeschich...

YouTube video by RECET Vienna Europäische Einigung, nationale Souveränität und das Ringen um eine funktionale Migrationspolitik

… Grenzfragen in Europas Gegenwart und Zukunft. Für diejenigen, die es nicht zu unserem Festival geschafft haben – die Videoaufnahme des Panels ist nun auf unserem YouTube-Kanal zu finden …
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S69m...

…in Kooperation mit der Bundesstiftung-Willy-Brandt veranstalten. Anuscheh Farahat (@univie.ac.at), Sabine Hess (Uni Göttingen), Dirk Rupnow (@uniinnsbruck.bsky.social), Frank Wolff (BWBS) diskutierten – moderiert von Cathrin Kahlweit (@falter.at) – vor dem Hintergrund des 30. Schengen-Jahrestages…