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

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

and reflects on how dominant wartime narratives seek to shape — and police — masculine identities in contemporary Ukraine. Together, they explore the implications of these tensions for postwar reintegration, gender norms, and Ukraine’s social fabric.

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

In this episode of the Transformative Podcast, Irena Remestwenski (RECET) speaks with Sofie Rose (University of Southern Denmark), who unpacks the emotional and moral complexities of male flight

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

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.

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, Anna, for the timely talk and discussion, and thank you, Prof. Dorothee Bohle (@univie.ac.at) for moderating!

Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 5d

Prof. @evrop-anka.bsky.social discussed the focus of her upcoming ERC Advanced Grant project “LONERS - Loneliness, Emotions and Regulation: Understanding Institutions through Privacy”.

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 5d

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

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

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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 · 19d

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 · 20d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 22d

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.

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Research Center for the History of Transformations @recetvienna.bsky.social · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 22d

– 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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · Sep 11

📢 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.

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