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Symposium : Austrian Identity and Modernity / Modernity and Austrian Identity

October 21, 2022
Modernity
How was “Austrian identity” imagined in relation to modernity and what role did modernity play in the imagining of Austrian identity? The International Symposium “Austrian Identity and Modernity /Modernity and Austrian Identity” explores the evolution of national and nationalist identifications as they were represented in- and transformed itself in culture and design over time in response to-, in opposition to, or further contributing to the political happening in the first half of the 20th century.

ZARAH Public Lecture: Talking with Men: Ethnographic Research Among Transnational Labour Migrants

September 28, 2022

Mahua Sarkar (Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto): 

Talking with Men: Ethnographic Research Among Transnational Labour Migrants

Monday, 10 October 2022, 17:40-19:10 (CEST) : CEU Auditorium and via Zoom

Book Launch: Storms over the Balkans during the Second World War by Alfred Rieber

September 28, 2022
In a new interpretation of the history of the Balkans during the Second World War, Alfred J. Rieber explores the tangled political rivalries, cultural clashes, and armed conflicts among the great powers and the indigenous people competing for influence and domination. The study takes an original approach to the region based on the geography, social conditions, and imperial rivalries that spans several centuries, culminating in three wars during the first half of the twentieth century.

Early Modern History Workshop 2022

September 1, 2022
Impressions from the Berkeley-Berlin-Freiburg-Istanbul-London-Vienna Early Modern History Exchange 2022
"The Public Sphere and Early Modernity"
CEU, Vienna, 14-18 August 2022

Professor Charles Shaw on Ukraine’s Caustic Wartime Humor in Slate

May 10, 2022

Professor Charles Shaw, in Slate, on the deep roots of humor in today's war. The Ukrainian state is consciously deploying laughter to define its position on the correct side of a just war, which is a playbook the Soviets used to great effect versus Nazi Germany.