The archaeologist Barbara Horejs on the vagaries of history, on why migrants from the Orient brought crop cultivation to Europe and why one should never assume that one’s own civilisation will last forever. Continue reading ““The cradle of civilisation is found in the Orient””
The Vienna State Opera is an institution, an icon of high culture, far removed from everyday concerns. Or is it? With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research team from Vienna examined the interaction between prevailing political contexts and the opera house’s programme. Continue reading “Opera and politics”
The First World War in Eastern Europe entailed completely different wartime experiences than those seen on the Western or Italian Front. This had a major impact on the images of the “East” discussed in the interwar period. This is the finding of a project carried out at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the […] Continue reading “Nothing quiet on the Eastern Front”