Postdoc (f/m/x) Position at the Department of Byzantine Research (full time / 40 hours per week), with a Focus on Mobility and Migration in and out of Byzantium: The Outside Perspective

The position is defined for a research focus Mobility and Migration in and out of Byzantium: The Outside Perspective. Given its geographic location at the intersection of three continents, the East Roman Empire of the Middle Ages engaged in…

Irrigation Technology and Water Management Across Eurasia Part II

Workshop series organized by Nina Mirnig, Robin Coningham, Hannes Fellner, Florian Schwarz, Yavuz Köse, Bernhard Palme, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Robert Rollinger

Remembering along the Silk Roads: Psychology, History and Conservation in Dialogue

The Silk Roads serve as a "landscape of memory", where the preservation of the past is a continuous, contested, and collaborative process. This talk bridges the disciplinary divides between cognitive psychology, historiography, and material…

Auf der Suche nach Indiens jüdischer Erinnerung by Carsten Wilke

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Im Bundesstaat Kerala erforschen Wiener Wissenschaftler hebräische Inschriften und Religionsvielfalt In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Carsten Wilke vom Department of Historical Studies der Central European…

Reconsidering Imperial Dynamics and Geographies of Power: Imperial Reach and Imperial Impact in Afro-Eurasia through the Ages

The conference is organised by the EurAsian Transformations cluster and the AWOSA Research Centre, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Vienna and CEU. The analysis of imperial dynamics is central to the cluster’s research agenda.…

Job Opportunity: Postdoc (f/m/x) Position (40 hours per week, starting as soon as possible) with a focus on “Himalayan Connectivities”

The Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading non-university research and science institution, is offering a Postdoc (f/m/x) Position (40 hours per week, starting…

Wien als Zufluchtsort für umstrittenen Politiker by Yavuz Köse

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Wie Rıza Nur, Mitbegründer der Türkei, im Jahr 1911 das Zentrum der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie erlebte. In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt Yavuz Köse, Professor für Turkologie an der Universität Wien,…

EurAsian Transformations at the General Assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

At the next general assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), an interdisciplinary team will explore the significance of Eurasian studies in Austria and the opportunities offered by the “EurAsian Transformations” excellence initiative. The…

International Conference: "Oil and Empire: Historical, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Petroleum in Galicia and Beyond (14-17 April, 2026)

The conference responds to a significant gap in petrofiction scholarship, which remains dominated by Anglophone contexts. It seeks to re-center Galicia—and similar Eurasian sites—as crucial but overlooked regions in the cultural history of oil.…

Öl, Macht und Geopolitik by Christine Frank

EurAsia-Blog in DerStandard: Technischer Fortschritt verändert die Weltordnung und wird zur kulturellen Herausforderung Im Gastblogbeitrag schreibt Komparatistin Christine Frank darüber, wie die Verflechtungen von Ölgeschäft und imperialen…

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