Auf Spurensuche: So entsteht Geschichte by Raphael Szeider

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Über den Einfluss von Quellen und deren Interpretation der Forschenden In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Geschichtswissenschaftler Raphael Szeider, wie weit zurückliegende historische Begebenheiten ermittelt…

Greet One Another with a Holy Kiss’: Sermons on Greeting and Apologetics for the Holy Kiss in Pre-Modern Armenian Ecclesial Literature

Pre-modern inter-confessional relations in the Ottoman and Safavid realms were often tense among Eastern Christians, shaped by the presence of Muslims and by Catholic influences. From the late seventeenth century onward, some ‘reform-minded’…

We are now on YouTube!

We have just published our very first video - and many more stories, insights, and research perspectives are on the way. Our channel explores connections, histories and transformations across Europe and Asia through the lens of cutting-edge research

JEARN Book Club: The West - A New History in Fourteen Lives, by Naoíse Mac Sweeney

Our first session of the new year will be on Thursday 22. January @ 17:30-19:00, at the ÖAW Site at Georg-Coch Platz! We will be meeting in Besprechungsräume 1 & 2, and we are very happy to be joined by the University of Vienna's Professor Naoíse Mac…

Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop IV Working with Texts

Organized by Calahan Morse and Dominik Haas, the workshop will address the challenges that we encounter when working with texts. We invite early-career researchers from all institutions of the Cluster to explore text-related research problems on the…

Job Opportunity: PostDoc Position (F/M/X, full time/40 h per week), at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Research Focus Mobility and Migration in and out of Byzantium: the Outside Perspective

Ein Gebäude der Macht: Die komplexe Identität der Hagia Sophia by Jehan Hillen

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Die Chronik der berühmten Kirche spiegelt die lange und komplizierte Geschichte Konstantinopels bis zum heutigen modernen Istanbul wider Im Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt der Historiker Jehan Hillen die Bedeutung und…

The Materiality of Knowledge

JEARN Workshop III

Call for Paper: JEARN Workshop III: The Materiality of Knowledge

This workshop invites early-career researchers from the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, CEU, and the University of Innsbruck to explore these questions by selecting either a short passage of text or an image of an artifact,…

Das persische Herz der Dubai-Schokolade by Milad Abedi

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Auf den Spuren des kulturellen Erbes der Pistazie, die zum Ausgangspunkt einer süßen Revolution geworden ist Im Gastblogbeitrag befasst sich Milad Abedi, Postdoktorand am Institut für Alte Geschichte und…

The four partner institutions collaborate in offering training to students and early career scholars in Austria and internationally. For this purpose, the Austrian Consortium for the Study of EurAsia (ACE) was initiated.

Through courses, summer schools, workshops, and training sessions, both in person and online, we aim to equip new generations with the following skills: 

  • Competence in reading original language sources as a basis for cultural literacy
  • Global methodology and outlook
  • Competence in the use of digital methods
  • A set of transferable skills