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Department of History

The Department of History offers programs of considerable breadth, at both the master's and the doctoral level, challenging canons by means of thorough empirical research and cutting-edge methodological and theoretical reflection. The department seeks to train future scholars, academic and public leaders and professionals with a broad horizon.

Apr
intellectuals

Intellectuals and Political Power in the Būyid Period: Emerging Modes of Knowledge Production|Intellectuals & Empire

Nuha Alshaar
Mar
Ulrich Meurer

AstroGeneAnaLogy: How to Relate Post-Cinema to Its Pre-Histories

Ulrich Meurer
Off-campus
Mar
mladen medved

Limits of the Brenner Thesis: The French Transition to Capitalism

Mladen Medved
Off-campus
Mar
book launch

March 8 Book Launch On the occasion of International Women’s Day

Veronika Helfert, Susan Zimmermann
Mar
German Peasants War

NZD Annual Lectures - Lyndal Roper: Manhood, Revolt and Emotion: The German Peasants’ War 1524-6 - Lecture 3: Space and Movement

Lyndal Roper
Mar
German Peasants War

NZD Annual Lectures - Lyndal Roper: Manhood, Revolt and Emotion: The German Peasants’ War 1524-6 - Lecture 2: Band of Brothers

Lyndal Roper
Mar
German Peasants War

NZD Annual Lectures - Lyndal Roper: Manhood, Revolt and Emotion: The German Peasants’ War 1524-6 - Lecture 1: Emotion in the German Peasants' War

Lyndal Roper
Feb
Emese

Global Catholicism and Early Modern Ottoman Europe

Emese Muntan
Feb
Ivanyi

Exhorting the Sultan: Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī’s Dhukhr al-Mulūk in Context|Intellectuals & Empire

Katharina Ivanyi
Jan
angelika kauffmann, troilus and cressida

A 'notable foundation of hearsay': Creative Appropriations of Troy in Shakespeare, Chaucer and Chapman

Sam Gilchrist Hall
Off-campus
Jan
Wilson

Subduing the Saints: Sufism, Culture, and Nation in Modern Turkey

Brett Wilson
Dec
Book cover

Research Seminar. Katarzyna Marcol: "The Touts. Memory and Identity"

Katarzyna Marcol
Off-campus
Dec
The Archives of Political History and the Trade Unions, Budapest

Doctoral Defense of Réka Krizmanics

Réka Krizmanics
Dec
ITS

Doctoral Defense of Imogen Bayley

Imogen Bayley
Off-campus
Dec
Borekci

Challenges of a New Research Project: Mapping out Networks of Power and Patronage Relations among the Ottoman Ruling Elite(1570s-1640s)

Günhan Börekçi
Dec
Julián Casanova

Online Public Lecture: Reinterpreting political violence in Twentieth-century Europe: a comparative perspective.

Julián Casanova, Matthias Riedl, Carsten L. Wilke
Nov
Origen

Ethics in Origen’s Explanations of the Psalms

Róbert Somos
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Nov
Old photograph of Tate & Lyle sugar factory in East London

Salvaging Memories and (Re-) Connecting with Communities: Reflections on Tate Lives as a Participatory Oral History Project in North Woolwich and Silvertown, East London

Paul V. Dudman
Off-campus
Oct
Clayer-Sufism

Sufism in Transition: Bektashism in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Spaces

Nathalie Clayer
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Oct
Nikita Khrushchev

Academic exchange in the cultural cold war, 1956-1989

Matthias Duller
Off-campus
Oct
CEU Vienna

Spaces of Knowledge and Gender Regimes: From Double Marginalization to a Gendered History of Knowledge in Central and Eastern Europe  

Claudia Kraft (University of Vienna)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002 Tiered
Oct
CEU Vienna

Left out of the Left: Gender and Class in Domestic Workers’ Unionisation in India

Samita Sen (University of Cambridge) 
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002 Tiered
Oct
Krstic-Presentation

Was there an Ottoman 'Age of Confessionalization'?: Insights gained from the OTTOCONFESSION project (2015-2020)

Tijana Krstić
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | C419
Oct
OSA Budapest

History Department Research Seminar: Credibility, Authenticity and Usability of Archival Documents

Istvan Rev, Robert Parnica
Off-campus
Jun
Wiertz Prematureburial

Doctoral defense of Ádám Mézes

Ádám Mézes
Off-campus