Tag: History
Where Cold War warriors talked to one another
The power of stories untold
Between fear and hope
The colourful world of early printed works
A tale of fake plumage and immaculate cookbooks
The Cold War as a driver of civil aviation
No peace without rapprochement
Dangerous mix of facts and fiction
The corona crisis is the ideal hotbed for crude conspiracy theories. Claus Oberhauser explains what characterizes them, why change is on the horizon and where one finds parallels to the past. Historian Oberhauser is a co-initiator of an interdisciplinary research network on conspiratorial counter-narratives. Continue reading “Dangerous mix of facts and fiction”
Byzantium: new insights into marginalized groups
The dominant impression we have of the Byzantine Empire is that it was a rigid, traditional and luxurious culture. A project on marginalization funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF now shows there were also phases of tolerance towards marginalized groups. This throws a new light on the historical development of this culture in terms […] Continue reading “Byzantium: new insights into marginalized groups”