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Tag: Social History

Projects

17 October 2022

Civil servants: serving and supporting the state

No matter how many things are changing: civil servants have remained part of the state in every form of government over the past 200 years. The historian Therese Garstenauer is exploring the civil service in Austria during a time of enormous upheavals, between the Monarchy and National Socialism, and she addresses the question of how […] Continue reading “Civil servants: serving and supporting the state”
Historian Stephanie Weismann at a courtyard in Lublin.

Projects

7 September 2020

How a smell may evolve into a stink

A research project devoted to the Polish city of Lublin shows how odours and the way they are perceived provide new insights into everyday history and beyond. Social and political change is often, quite literally, “in the air”. Continue reading “How a smell may evolve into a stink”

Projects

6 April 2020

History of pain between religion and medicine

Research teams in Innsbruck and Antwerp are exploring a still rather neglected subject – the phenomenon of pain from the perspective of 19th century Catholicism. At that time, religious traditions were supposedly at odds with medical developments in pain therapy – but the research results provide a different picture. Continue reading “History of pain between religion and medicine”

Portrait

7 August 2019

Children as model citizens

By Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

The historian and slavist Machteld Venken examines nationalising efforts during the interwar and post-war years in Polish-German and Belgian-German border regions. The focus of study is on children. Continue reading “Children as model citizens”

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