Research Center for the History of Transformations
@recetvienna.bsky.social
Transformations in Central & Eastern Europe and beyond. Labor, migration, reform politics, social movements, and culture. Proud part of Uni Vienna.
If you're in Vienna, come join us next Thursday, Dec 4, 2025, for a Transformative Salon on "What Has Socialism Done for Women" with Prof. Kristen Ghodsee (University of Pennsylvania), moderated by our Magdalena Baran-Szołtys.
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
If you're in Vienna, come join us next Thursday, Dec 4, 2025, for a Transformative Salon on "What Has Socialism Done for Women" with Prof. Kristen Ghodsee (University of Pennsylvania), moderated by our Magdalena Baran-Szołtys.
It was a pleasure hosting Prof. Mats Ingulstad (NTNU) for a Seminar on "Ocean Transformations: From a Magical Space to a Mining Site."
November 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It was a pleasure hosting Prof. Mats Ingulstad (NTNU) for a Seminar on "Ocean Transformations: From a Magical Space to a Mining Site."
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💡For fresh insights into a transformative period of #Socialist Europe, watch this seminar and book launch of "Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968" with editors Aleksandra Konarzewsk, Una Blagojević und Natalia Borisova.
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Konarzewska, Blagojević, Borisova: Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
💡For fresh insights into a transformative period of #Socialist Europe, watch this seminar and book launch of "Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968" with editors Aleksandra Konarzewsk, Una Blagojević und Natalia Borisova.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_as...
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New Blog article out! Ever since the foundation of the PRC, the Communist Party of China has used the historical memory of WWII to legitimize its rule – Our blog author Markéta Bajgerová-Verly reflects on on China’s Everchanging History of WWII:
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From Triumph to Humiliation and Back: China’s Everchanging History of WWII
Chinese WWII memory has never been static but continually reshaped to meet the changing ideological and geopolitical needs of the Chinese political leadership. This post traces the main mnemonic devel...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
New Blog article out! Ever since the foundation of the PRC, the Communist Party of China has used the historical memory of WWII to legitimize its rule – Our blog author Markéta Bajgerová-Verly reflects on on China’s Everchanging History of WWII:
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Looking forward to hosting Prof. Mats Ingulstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) for a Transformative Seminar on "Ocen Transformations: From a Magical Space to a Mining Site" – Nov 27, 13:00
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Looking forward to hosting Prof. Mats Ingulstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) for a Transformative Seminar on "Ocen Transformations: From a Magical Space to a Mining Site" – Nov 27, 13:00
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Find out more about the book here: brill.com/display/titl...
Congratulations to the editors and authors, and many thanks to @recetvienna.bsky.social for hosting the event!
#SlavicStudies #lit
Congratulations to the editors and authors, and many thanks to @recetvienna.bsky.social for hosting the event!
#SlavicStudies #lit
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Find out more about the book here: brill.com/display/titl...
Congratulations to the editors and authors, and many thanks to @recetvienna.bsky.social for hosting the event!
#SlavicStudies #lit
Congratulations to the editors and authors, and many thanks to @recetvienna.bsky.social for hosting the event!
#SlavicStudies #lit
It was a pleasure hosting Aleksandra Konarzewska (@unituebingen.bsky.social), Una Blagojević (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) & Natalia Borisova (Uni Tübingen) for the book launch of their new volume "Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956–1968" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social).
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It was a pleasure hosting Aleksandra Konarzewska (@unituebingen.bsky.social), Una Blagojević (@lmumuenchen.bsky.social) & Natalia Borisova (Uni Tübingen) for the book launch of their new volume "Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956–1968" (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social).
The newest episode of our Transformative Podcast is a special one – our founding director Prof. @philippther.bsky.social talks about his newest book "Der Klang der Monarchie" (@suhrkamp.de), which tells the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the prism of the music it created …
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The newest episode of our Transformative Podcast is a special one – our founding director Prof. @philippther.bsky.social talks about his newest book "Der Klang der Monarchie" (@suhrkamp.de), which tells the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the prism of the music it created …
In case you missed last week's salon with @efinkel.bsky.social and Alexander Etkind – you can now rewatch it on our YouTube channel.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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.
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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.
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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"
October 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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!
September 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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.
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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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September 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
You can now read the @hsozkult.bsky.social conference report on our 2025 #RECETfestival on Migration & Transformation.
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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.
This August, RECET’s Managing Director Irena Remestwenski spent a week with colleagues from the University of Oslo’s Faculty of Humanities.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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.
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…
September 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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 –
Far from being immune from global tribulations, postwar, post-imperial, and “post-socialist” Europe –
September 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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 –
Far from being immune from global tribulations, postwar, post-imperial, and “post-socialist” Europe –
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📢 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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#HorizonEU
🗓️ 24 Sept | 14:10 | FPN UNIBL
➡️ Apply: forms.gle/3av7iZPVUmJE...
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#HorizonEU
September 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
📢 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
🗓️ 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.
August 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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.
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.
August 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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.
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!
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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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August 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Coming Soon: The Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social Handbook 1989 and the Great Transformation, made by RECET!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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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
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.⤵️
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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July 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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 …
July 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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.
July 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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.