In antiquity, the Mediterranean area was a pre-global mega-region with a lively exchange system. Supported by the FWF, a research team from Innsbruck is reconstructing the influence that imports and innovations from coastal towns, where newly arrived Greek settlers lived, had on local power structures further inland at a cult site on Monte Iato in […] Continue reading “Looking for clues in the remnants of feasts”
With the advent of the postcard, written correspondence experienced a boost everywhere, including Lower Styria. A project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF now illustrates through postcards the coexistence and clashes between the German and Slovenian languages in the final decades of the Habsburg Monarchy. Continue reading ““Greetings” from Lower Styria”
The historian Dirk Rupnow on the political instrumentalisation of Holocaust remembrance, migration as a major theme in contemporary history and the difficulty of establishing a position vis-à-vis politics. Continue reading ““We should be vigilant””
The social scientist Marita Haas explored the interdependence of female career paths and institutional norms by melding gender, profession and biography. Leaving behind traditional role models requires an encouraging environment and structural measures, concludes the expert. Continue reading “Equality: a question of openness”
Up until now, knowledge of the Nazis’ persecution policy in Austria has lacked an essential perspective: that of the Jewish population itself. In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, hitherto unpublished sources have now been systematically explored and set in an overall Austrian context. Continue reading “Historical knowledge supplemented by Jewish perspective”
Johanna Braun is exploring the phenomenon of hysteria and its social implications. In her temporary elective hometown Los Angeles, the cultural scholar and Schrödinger fellow has seen her research topic attain an unparalleled order of magnitude and great topicality. – A travelogue about close-up research. Continue reading “Palm trees, the ocean and a fear of mass hysteria”
With the support of the FWF, social anthropologist Leonardo Schiocchet conducted a Lise-Meitner project exploring Austrian-Palestinian encounters, which are marked not so much by clear concerns and affiliations as by generations, values and experiences. Based on the results, he has developed a new research approach for the characterisation of cultural communities abroad. Continue reading “The diversity of Austro-Palestinian encounters”
In their newly conquered province, the Banat of Temeswar, the Habsburgs took first steps towards creating a “modern bureaucracy” at the beginning of the 18th century. Research funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF has now shown how their staff management developed in concrete terms. Continue reading “Courageous staff for building up a bureaucracy”
With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, economist Alyssa Schneebaum has investigated how social and biographical characteristics affect a person’s educational and work trajectory. To this end, she analysed EU and US statistics on prosperity and living conditions using a multidimensional approach from gender studies. Continue reading “Educational biographies: migrant children catch up more quickly”
The media sector is undergoing massive change. This raises new questions, especially with regard to global developments. If media companies want to operate across national borders they must take cultural aspects into account, as was shown in an international research project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Continue reading “Less global than expected”