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Another Successful Departmental Retreat

May 13, 2025
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Faculty and staff from the department retreated to Stift Göttweig in the Wachau last week to discuss departmental matters and the upcoming academic year. Conversations focused on the new Advanced Certificate in Cultural Heritage Studies, recruitment events for the forthcoming year, and the challenges AI presents to university life. We also formalized final details concerning the merger of the former Departments of History and Medieval Studies, particularly in regards to the examination of MA theses.

Doctoral and Alumni Work Presented at Women’s and Gender History Panel at ESSHC 2025

April 9, 2025
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The Historical Studies Department’s Professor Emerita Dr. Francisca de Haan organized a panel titled Socialist Women (Re-) building Their States: An International Comparative Perspective at the European Social Science History Conference 2025, held March 26-29 and hosted by the International Institute of Social History in cooperation with Leiden University.

Winter Term Round-Up

March 31, 2025
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It's been a busy term in the Department of Historical Studies with conferences, workshops, lectures, field trips and, of course, classes. We returned in January to filming at the Wien Musuem, co-host of our MA in Museum Studies, new language teaching offered (in Beginner Syriac) and the first workshop in the EurAsian Transformations Multilingualism's series (watch the keynote).

Diversity: The History of a Wandering Value

March 18, 2025
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We were privileged last week to host Prof. Lorraine Daston from the Max Planck Institute, Berlin and the University of Chicago for our Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures.

Presentation at ACDH-DH Research Day 6

March 10, 2025
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Recently, the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH) organized an event called Research Day 6 (for young and emerging scholars). Two students from our department, PhD student Saranya Chandran and MA student Sydney Szijarto presented their projects at the event.