Research Lab (Forschungswerkstatt) at the Department of Contemporary History

The Research Lab has been taking place at the Department of Contemporary History for several semesters and offers contemporary historians the opportunity to discuss and debate their research. It is an open and informal format that takes place four to five times a semester and is aimed exclusively at mid-level researchers. The goal is to discuss projects with peers in a constructive and friendly environment and to exchange ideas.

The Lab offers space for:

• Rehearsing presentations
• discussing draft articles (circulated one week in advance)
• discussing draft chapters (circulated one week in advance)
• and testing other academic formats

Each session provides space for 1-2 people to present and discuss their projects.

Team:

We, Franziska Lamp-Miechowiecki, Lena Christoph and Konstantin Schischka, are doctoral students at the Department of Contemporary History. We are looking forward to continuing the format as of winter semester 2024, which was previously organised by Paula Lange and Max Brockhaus.

If you are interested, please contact us: forschungswerkstatt.zeitgeschichte@univie.ac.at

Dates this semester:

• 9 October 11:30-13:00:
  Raphaela Bollwein: With love, understanding and individual treatment: Family Separations and Rehabilitation Journeys of Unaccompanied Children from the American Zone of Occupation in Germany, 1945-1952
  Sarah Grandke: Former concentration camp sites as spaces for action for the present and future: Displaced Persons as memory activists in Flossenbürg and Ebensee (1945-1951).
• 6 November 11:30-13:00: TBA
• 4 December 11:30-13:00:
  Moran Pearl-Harpaz: Memorial Monuments in Israel, Austria, and Germany
• 15 January 11:30-13:00: TBA

Place: Seminarraum 2, Department for Contemporary History, 1090 Wien, Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 1.