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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 12d

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Loneliness as a Social Problem – Between Feelings and Institutions

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 12d

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!

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 13d

You can now read the @hsozkult.bsky.social conference report on our 2025 #RECETfestival on Migration & Transformation.
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RECET History and Social Sciences Festival "Migration and Transformation"

Since its foundation in 2020, the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) has been an active contributor to the research on Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. This year, ...

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 14d

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

Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 14d

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.

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15d

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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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15d

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?

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15d

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…

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15d

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!

Geschichte und Gesellschaft | Vol 50, No 3

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15d

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 …

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15d

– 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…

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 15d

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 –

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RETLAMI-SEE Project @retlami-see.bsky.social · 27d

📢 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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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · Aug 13

… 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!

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · Aug 13

… 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,”

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · Aug 6

Coming Soon: The Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social Handbook 1989 and the Great Transformation, made by RECET!
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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...

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Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · Jul 16

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

Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · Jul 16

Next stop: ➡️ Vienna to Riga - Detective work in Soviet archives 🔍🕵️‍♀️
Between feverish sessions in the #archives - scouring for clues about how the former Soviet Union built an empire by deploying its workforce across the Baltics - Daria still found time to fall for Latvia's capital on the Baltic Sea.⤵️

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...

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · Jul 18

… parts of her project on Soviet Labor Migration. 🇱🇻 Thank you to our @univienna colleagues at Rudolphina for this interview⬇️
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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...

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · Jul 18

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 …

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