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”
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”
With the support of the FWF, a team of archaeologists from the Czech Republic and Austria evaluated early medieval finds from the region around the modern-day border between the two countries. As it turns out, the regions of Weinviertel and Moravia enjoyed close exchanges for centuries and benefited from being at the periphery of regional […] Continue reading “The border area as a space for innovation”