In case you missed last week's salon with @efinkel.bsky.social and Alexander Etkind – you can now rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

Join us next week (Nov 13) for the book launch of "Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968. Ideas in Flux" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2025) with its editors Aleksandra Konarzewska, Una Blagojević, and Natalia Borisova, followed by a discussion.

Our next Transformative Salon is coming up already next week – Prof. Eugene Finkel (@johnshopkinssais.bsky.social) will be presenting his new book "Intent to Destroy", commented by Prof. Alexander Etkind (@weareceu.bsky.social), moderated by Cathrin Kahlweit.

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainian men of fighting age have been subject to a wartime draft. Yet many have chosen to flee the country, often risking perilous border crossings in search of safety.

Yesterday, we held an exciting semester opening with a very relevant Salon on "Loneliness as a Social Problem – Between Feelings and Institutions"

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...

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.

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…

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... More info: retlami-see.fpn.unibl.org/eng/retlami-... #HorizonEU

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.

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.

Coming Soon: The Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social Handbook 1989 and the Great Transformation, made by RECET! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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

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 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?” – Am letzten Tag unseres RECET-Festivals durften wir auf unserer Festivalbühne eine Podiumsdiskussion zu “Europäischer Einigung, nationaler Souveränität und dem Ringen um eine funktionale Migrationspolitik” …

Greetings from China 🇨🇳 A delegation of RECET researchers is currently on a field trip to Shanghai, the Yangtze delta and other cities in China, strengthening our partnership and exchange with our Chinese colleagues.

Bei unserem diesjährigen RECET Festival durften wir unsere Partner von der UWB Krems begrüßen, die bei einer Podiumsdiskussion zu ihrem Projekt "Europäische Un/Ordnungen, politische und kulturelle Auswirkungen von Grenzziehungen, …

Join us next week for the last #TransformativeSeminar of the semester – Filip Balunović will talk about his recent book (Routledge) "The Revival of the Left in the Balkans: Counter-Hegemonic Activism and Ideas that Fueled It"

Bei unserem diesjährigen RECET Festival der Geschichts- und Sozialwissenschaften sprach Prof. Julia Mourão Permoser (Universität für Weiterbildung Krems) über Migration und Menschenrechte, die gängigen Mythen, die sich um diesen Themenkomplex ranken …

"The development of migration processes and the related debates over migration have become key issues in contemporary social transformation" – You can now re-watch Attila Melegh's (Corvinus University) keynote on our YouTube channel.

Some impressions from Universität Wien @ Expo2025 in Ōsaka – Internationally renowned experts from the University of Vienna gathered at the "Building Futures" to highlight the range of innovative research and our joint effort of designing future society. (Photo Credit: Daniel Schenz)

In the newest episode of our #TransformativePodcast we bring you a glimpse of our last Salon – the beginning of a conversation between RECET Scientific Director @japvie81.bsky.social and historian @efdavies.bsky.social on how to be a historian in the age of Social Media and disinformation.

Tomorrow, we will host John Deak (@notredame.bsky.social) for a #TransformativeSeminar on Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina as a Legal Laboratory for the State of Emergency. We will explore how military leadership in the Habsburg Empire increasingly turned their attention to the legal and …

🎪 Heute beim @recetvienna.bsky.social Festival: "Europäische Un/Ordnungen" 🕔 17:50 | 📍 Altes AKH, Wien Was passiert, wenn Ordnungen brüchig werden? Zwischen Grenzziehung, Entgrenzung und neuen Perspektiven. #Migration #Transformation #Diskussion #Grenzen #RECETFestival

Finally out! The paper studies Yugoslav medical assistance to the FLN as stemming from the WW2 experience of the People‘s Liberation War, part of the forthcoming special issue edited by @doravargha.bsky.social, @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue. brill.com/view/journal...

🗓️ Save the dates! Join us this June for a series of expert discussions and lectures: 👉 Panel discussion: “Europäische Un/Ordnungen, die Politik der Grenzen und die Rolle von Bildern und kulturellen Narrativen” (05.06.2025). @recetvienna.bsky.social, UWK Krems. (1/3)

You can now rewatch Prof. Chenggang Xu's book talk on "Institutional Genes. The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism" (@cambridgeup.bsky.social) on our YouTube-channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiWW...

Nächste Woche in Wien: Festival "Migration & Transformation" @recetvienna.bsky.social. Mit Stadtspaziergängen, spannden Voträgen und Diskussionen über #MigHist, Rassismus und Widerstand: www.recet.at/event-news/e...

New #TransformativePodcast out! Our researcher Radka Šustrová talks to Steven L B Jensen of the Danish Institute for Human Rights (@menneskeretdk.bsky.social) about Social Rights as a Global Lens on Justice and Human Rights. Listen now on www.recet.at/podcast or wherever you get your podcsts.

Join us tomorrow for a #TransformativeSeminar with Dr. Michael Zok (GHI Warsaw) on "Reproductive Rights in Times of Transformation. Ireland and Poland, 1980s-1990s". Find out more on: www.recet.at/event-news/e...

Wir freuen uns auf kontroverse, aber faktenbasierte Diskussion. Kommet alle!

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 will be the opening day of our #RECETFestival of Historical and Social Sciences "Migration & Transformation". This will be Tuesday's festival line-up ↓

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 will be Day 2 of our #RECETFestival of Historical and Social Sciences "Migration & Transformation". This will be Wednesday's festival line-up ↓

Thursday, June 5, 2025 will be Day 3 of our #RECETFestival of Historical and Social Sciences "Migration & Transformation". This will be Thursday's festival line-up ↓

If research methods could be movie protagonists, the "memoir competition" would make a great drama, maybe even an action movie …

Join us on May 25, 18:00, for a panel discussion with Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak (@nowkasia.bsky.social) and Lauren Banko – the authors of "Refugee Voices in Modern Global History (Oxford University Press).

There is an online event coming up commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second Indochina War! Our Researcher Dr. Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ will be presenting on the Vietnamese diaspora in Poland. You can join via Zoom on May 30, 2025, GST 15:00–18:00 (CEST+02:00).

Join us for a book talk with Prof. Chenggang Xu on his new book "Institutional Genes. The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism" (Cambridge University Press). Next Monday, May 19! More Information: www.recet.at/event-news/e...

Tolle Podcasts auch! www.recet.at/podcast

You can now rewatch our last #TransformativeSalon on "Historian in the Age of Social Media and Disinformation" with @efdavies.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWuV...

New #TransformativePodcast out! What does social justice mean in a European context—and how has that meaning evolved through dictatorship, democracy, and division?

Historian in the Age of #SocialMedia and #Disinformation Do historians have a responsibility to engage in public and political discussions? How can one balance the role of a public intellectual, an activist and a scholar? Join Transformative Salon @recetvienna.bsky.social 📅 8 May 2025, 7 PM More: ⤵️

This year's #RECETFestival on "Migration & Transformation" is coming up. We are ready and excited to welcome you in our festival tent on June 3-June 5, 2025. Visit www.recet.at/festival to find out more about the Festival line-up.

Vienna crowd! Join us on May 8 for an exciting #TransformativeSalon with @efdavies.bsky.social. We will discuss whether historians have a responsibility to engage in public and political discussions – moderated by @japvie81.bsky.social. Free Entry!

In case you missed our last Transformative Salon on what it takes to dismantle authoritarian rule in Poland, you can now watch it on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsqv...

Was, wenn es zu einem Diktatfrieden zu den Bedingungen Russlands kommt? RECET Gründungsdirektor Philipp Ther blickt mit Sorge auf die historischen Parallelen zur aktuellen Ukraine-Situation & analysiert die Russland-Bilder in Österreich & Osteuropa. rudolphina.univie.ac.at/krieg-gegen-...

🧭 UNIBL researchers visited @recetvienna.bsky.social univie.ac.at for a week of workshops, fieldwork, and exchange on labour and migration research. A great step in strengthening our collaboration and developing joint research! 🔗 More info: retlami-see.fpn.unibl.org/eng/study-vi... #HorizonEU