Projects

Birgitta Bader-Zaar

  • Head of project no. 16774 (Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)) at the Demokratiezentrum Wien:
    "Friedenskonzepte im Wandel. Analyse der Vergabe des Friedensnobelpreises von 1901 bis 2015"
    Collaborator: Susanne Reitmair-Juárez MA
    Duration: 01.01.2016-30.06.2017
  • Zum Rechtsstatus von Fremden: Ausländer und Grundrechte in Österreich und im internationalen Vergleich, von der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts bis 1918 (The legal status of foreigners: Foreigners and Fundamental Rights in Austria and in International Comparison, from the Mid-18th Century to 1918)
    The development of citizenship at the end of the 18th century and of the nation state in the 19th century had an impact on concepts of the "foreigner" and the legal status of foreigners in the sense of aliens. Of specific interest here are the fundamental rights that were definitively established as civil rights in the Austrian half of the Habsburg monarchy at the end of the 1860s and thus led to the question of their validity for non-nationals and the problem of the declaration of inclusion and exclusion. The results of the Austrian example will be compared with the research results of other European and North American states and embedded in the context of the legal discussion about foreigners in Europe and North America since the 17th century.
  • 2010-2013 Member of the working group "Constitutions and the Legitimisation of Power" in the research project of the European Research Council "Europe 1815-1914. Between Restoration and Revolution, National Constitutions and Global Law: An Alternative View on the European Century 1815-1914" at the University of Helsinki. Publication of the working group: Kelly L. Grotke / Markus J. Prutsch (eds.), Constitutionalism, Legitimacy, and Power: Nineteenth-Century Experiences (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Florence Klauda

  • "100 Jahre Republikgründung in Österreich: Neue Perspektiven zu Diktatur- und Demokratieerfahrungen", together with Linda Erker, Philipp Moritz and Stephan Turmalin. Project duration: January - December 2019, Partner: Projektträger: Verein zur wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung der Zeitgeschichte, Funded by the City of Vienna Department of Cultural Affairs (MA 7)
  • "Actors and Structures of European Cultural Diplomacy: A comparison of French, Austrian and Spanish Cultural Institutes since 1945" (working title)
  • "Demokratie lernen zwischen 1945 und 1971: Parteinahe Jugendzeitschriften als Spiegel des österreichischen Demokratieverständnisses" (completed in December 2018)

Sarah Knoll, BA MA

  • ÖAW-Doc Fellow at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna; fellowship awarded in May 2017 for a period of three years to work on her dissertation on Österreich und die Kommunismusflüchtlinge (1956–1989/90). Die Arbeit von NGOs und UNHCR

Börries Kuzmany

  • 2018–2023: ERC StG "Non-Territorial Autonomy. History of a Traveling Idea"

Wolfgang Schmale

  • Current research project: "Freemasons, Human Rights Leagues and Individual Citizens for Democratic "United States of Europe" (1918-1950)"

Wolfgang Schmale/Christopher Treiblmayr

  • FWF project on the history of the Austrian League for Human Rights; official duration completed, project continued, partly with small grants from the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies. Several publications. Main collaborator: Dr Christopher Treiblmayr.
  • Project "Human Rights Leagues in Europe" (together with Stilyan Deyanov), contacts with international human rights leagues and universities/research institutions, including in Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Canada, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, USA and Switzerland

Christopher Treiblmayr

  • Habilitation thesis on the history of the Austrian League for Human Rights (1926–1951)
  • "Human Rights Leagues in Europe" (together with project director Wolfgang Schmale and Stilyan Deyanov)
  • "Warme" vor Gericht.  Zu Selbst- und Fremdbildern männlicher Homosexueller in der NS-Zeit in Österreich", funded by the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria, the Science Department of the City of Vienna and the Higher Education Anniversary Fund (project management, based at: QWIEN – Centre for Gay/Lesbian Culture and History)
  • Re-establishment and opening of the archive of the Austrian League for Human Rights at the QWIEN centre, funded by the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism and the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria (project management, based at: QWIEN – Center for Gay/Lesbian Culture and History)
  • "Von Homoerotik zu Homophobie. Dekonstruktion stereotyper Sexualitäts- und Männlichkeitsbilder des 'Orients'", funded by the Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank (project management, based at: QWIEN – Center for Gay and Lesbian Culture and History)

Thomas Wallnig