You missed this year's RECET Festival? Re-watch the panel discussions, keynotes and events on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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“The story of work is to a great extent the history of humankind,” writes historian Jan Lucassen in the introduction to his monumental Story of Work. “But wh...

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Join us tomorrow for Seminar with Prof. Alice Lovejoy (University of Minnesota) on „Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War“

What can the lens of football tell us about the transformation years in East Germany? In this episode of our Transformative Podcast, historian and journalist Jan Mohnhaupt and @jelenadj.bsky.social (RECET) reflect upon this question.

Some glimpses of yesterday's festival opening, ft. a tour-de-force through 700000 years of labor history by Prof. Jan Lucassen (IISH Amsterdam) …

🚨 If you’re in Vienna today, make sure to catch @sebastianfelten.bsky.social participating in a roundtable discussion on "Labor and Technology", organised by @recetvienna.bsky.social as part of the Festival "Transformations of Labor". 👷🏭✊📢 ⏰ 3 pm 🔗 bit.ly/laborandtech... #LaborHistory #Scarce

Labor and Technology

Roundtable Discussion RECET Festival of Historical and Social Sciences "Transformations of Labor" University of Vienna

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Join us on June 9-11 for three days of RECET Festival, this year on "Transformations of Labor"! Panels, keynotes, music and off-campus events await. More information on recet.at/festival

I really enjoyed being interviewed about my PhD research by @jelenadj.bsky.social for the @recetvienna.bsky.social Transformative Podcast! Have a listen!☀️ www.recet.at/podcast/deta...

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New Transformative Podcast out! Our researcher @jelenadj.bsky.social talks to Priska Komaromi (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) about her research on Sex Tourism in Socialist Hungary

Last month, RECET hosted Jakub Szumski (FSU Jena, IKK) for a Transformative Seminar on "Socialist Scandals. Corruption, Revolution and the Quest for Justice in Poland and East Germany". You can now re-watch it on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB0n...

Jakub Szumski: Corruption, Revolution and the Quest for Justice in Poland and East Germany

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New Trasformative Blog article out! The immigration of “Russian Germans” (Russlanddeutsche) to Germany since the late 1980s was legally and politically framed as co-ethnic migration, as the arrival not of “foreigners” but of “Germans” in Germany.

Our friend, Dr. Rosamund Johnston, has just published an article on Czechoslovakia’s Cold War arms towns as sites of military globalisation with Sage Journals! (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...) #euguns #globarms #linkingarms #unipd #dissgea #univie #recetvienna #gunhistory #armshistory

New Transformative Podcast out! Our researcher @jelenadj.bsky.social talks to Priska Komaromi (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) about her research on Sex Tourism in Socialist Hungary

Delighted to welcome Prof. Paul Betts (@ox.ac.uk) for a Transformative Seminar on "Broken Clocks and Shadowy Transitions: The Legacy of 1989 for Our Time" - Join us this Thursday on Campus

Join us next Thursday for a seminar offering a multi-dimensional reading of kiosks as both material artefacts and social infrastructures, reflecting Albania’s transition from isolation to global interconnectedness (ft. Robert Pichler @oeaw.bsky.social).

Join us on Monday for a RECET Lecture with Prof. Pun Ngai (Lingnan University) – Infrastructural Power of Labor: The Making of the Working Class

The 2026 @recetvienna.bsky.social History and Social Sciences Festival "Transformations of Labor" explores the past & present of this ubiquitous phenomenon. Over three days, voices from the academy, art, activism & society will discuss the many transformations of labor.⤵️ www.recet.at/event-news/e...

How might we capture historical events like war and revolution from street level? In this episode of the Transformative Podcast, Claire Morelon (University of Manchester) tells Rosamund Johnston (RECET) …

“The story of work is to a great extent the history of humankind,” writes historian Jan Lucassen in the introduction to his monumental Story of Work. “But what exactly do we mean by work?”

Join us this Thursday for our next Transformative Salon. This time with Prof. Besnika Pula (Virginia Tech). The digital age is conventionally narrated as a Western story, one in which liberal capitalism's institutional flexibility enabled the technological transformation that …

How have the Croats in Argentina preserved their identity, memory, and community? How have they transmitted it across generations to this day? Following the collapse of the fascist Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945), …

Last week, on March 18 and 19, we were hosted at @charlesuni.cuni.cz by our friends from Linking Arms, a project studying arms production in Austria and Czechoslovakia in the years 1954-1994 and based at @recetvienna.bsky.social.

Join us this Friday for a book presentation of the @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook of Contemporary Belarus with its editor Aliaksei Kazharski (@charlesuni.cuni.cz), @sofiebedford.bsky.social, Maria Katarzyna Prenner (Uni Graz), moderated by Wolfgang Mueller.

Unsere Partnerorganisation Verein "1989" schreibt zum zweiten Mal einen Nachwuchspreis in historischer Transformationsforschung aus!

Join us this Thursday for a Transformative Seminar with Dr. Jan Rybak (@weareceu.bsky.social) on "World Revolution and National Homeland: Conflicts over Jewish Liberation, 1917–1920."

If you happen to be in Florence, come over (@philippther.bsky.social): www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Join us today at 14:30 at Alte Kapelle (@univie.ac.at) – we will discuss the @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation with F. Bösch (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social), Kateřína Lišková (@czechacademy.bsky.social), Besnik Pula (Virginia Tech) and Angela Romano (@unibo.it)

In this newest episode of our #TransformativePodcast, Alexandra Ghiț (@LeibnizGWZO) focuses on domestic servants, social workers, and users of welfare in interwar Bucharest to argue that “histories of welfare provision are histories of work, and histories of work are histories …

Join us next Thursday for our Transformative Salon – we will try to anticipate the Hungarian general election, asking whether the country faces regime change (or not). Discussants: Péter Krekó, Alexander Etkind (@weareceu.bsky.social), Eszter Kováts (@univie.ac.at), moderation: János M. Kovács

New RECET Transformative Blog Post: Our Researcher Daniel Jerke writes about the entangled histories of Polish and Yugoslav migrants in 1980s and 1990s Vienna. www.recet.at/blog/detail/...

The Entangled Histories of Poles and Yugoslavs in Vienna in the 1980s and 1990s

In 1988, Maciej Scholz submitted his diploma thesis at Vienna University of Economics and Business for which he had conducted a survey amongst Poles living in Austria who had been granted refugee stat...

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New #TransformativePodcast out – What does the Non-Aligned Movement look like on a plate? Starting with a series of informal dinners in Rijeka and expanding into various events and workshops, Kevin Kenjar (University of Rijeka) pays homage to the Non-Aligned Movement …

Watch today's Transformative Seminar with @shekhovtsov.substack.com on "Russia against Ukraine. Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity" on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_w3...

A. Shekhovstov: Russia against Ukraine. Russian Political Mythology & the War on Ukrainian Identity

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