Room: Marietta-Blau-Saal, Main Building of the University of Vienna
Street address: Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien

The project aims to make a significant contribution to the field of contemporary cultural history by investigating both material and immaterial cultural practices, and exploring how meanings circulate in society. It will use both qualitative and quantitative research methods and draw on concepts and methods from multiple disciplines, including literary science, sociology, anthropology, and geography. The project will seek to synthesize knowledge from various fields to address key disciplinary challenges in the study of contemporary cultural history. This project brings together a team of cultural historians for three main purposes. Firstly, it will provide an opportunity to bring in different expertise on contemporary cultural history from partner universities. By setting doctoral candidates in dialogue with each other and enabling collaborative work, the project encourages the emergence of new projects, in both teaching and in research, with a transnational scope. Secondly, it will address the implications of cultural turn in history and neighbouring disciplines in the scholarship on and in Central and Central Eastern Europe. Carrying over research results into tertiary education will make actual use of those practices. Thirdly, it will enable fostering academic publication practices and presentation skills, both crucial ways of dissemination of the scholarly knowledge towards academic peers as well as communication with wider interested public beyond academia.

 

Program:

Thursday, May 16 2024

13:00-15:00 / Opening
Welcoming by Magdalena Baran-Szołtys and Ondrej Daniel
Introduction by CENTRAL partners Ondrej Daniel, Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Imre Tarafás and Robert Kulminski, Tour de table, Discussion

15:00-15:30 / Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 / Keynote I
Sweeping Inequality – Female Domestic Cleaners in the Gig-Economy of Central Eastern Europe (Laura Wiesböck)

18:00-19:00 / City Exploration, Tour of the Museum Nordwestbahnhof

19:30 / Dinner

Friday, May 17 2024

09:00-10:15 / Follow up
Workshopping on Cultural Turn in History and Social Sciences

10:15-10:30 / Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 / Keynote II
Methods od Making Culture and History Together (Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll)

12:00-12:30 / Closing Remarks