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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.

Departmental Research in Gender History

March 7, 2025
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In the context of International Women's Day on March 8, we are highlighting the research our students are currently conducting into gender history. Gender history by faculty and students in our department spans the period from late antiquity to the present day, encompassing pre-modern sexualities, intersections of science, race and gender, gender in Arab and Mediterranean studies, and women's labor activism. Below, we explore the work of three of our PhD researchers, organized chronologically.

Marianna D. Birnbaum (1934-2025)

March 5, 2025
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On 26 February, close to her 91th birthday, we lost Marianna D. Birnbaum, a former Visiting Professor, benefactor and close friend of the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU, Professor Emerita at the Department of European Languages and Cultural Studies at UCLA.