POSTPONED TO 2027 EurAsia Academy Khorog: Cultural Heritage at the Mountain Crossroads of Central Asia 2026
Cultural heritage is of enormous importance throughout Central Asia. This is not only true for top-down state branding, identity building and the promotion of tourism but also for daily, affective or unspectacular encounters of local communities with…
Spätantike persische Königin als Role Model für iranische Frauen
EurAsia-Blog in der Standard: Die Figur Schirin als Beispiel dafür, wie historische Stoffe in der Moderne neu gedeutet werden können. Im Gastblogbeitrag beleuchtet die Historikerin Irene Madreiter die bedeutende historische und literarische Rolle der…
Der Schatten einer früheren Königin oder Geschichte als "Argument"
EurAsia-Blog in der Standard: Die alttestamentliche Figur Esther und ihr Wirken werden bis heute unterschiedlich gedeutet.
In seinem Gastblogbeitrag beschäftigt sich Historiker Ian Macgregor Morris von der Universität Innsbruck mit der…
Grand Decoration in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria awarded to Claudia Rapp
On 22 June 2026, the Department of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna held an academic ceremony at the Austrian Academy of Sciences to honour Claudia Rapp's scholarly achievements on the occasion of her 65th birthday.
Colleagues from…
International Summer School in the History of the Books
On 12-18 July 2026, CODEX Centre hosted an international summer school in Cluj.
Eight tutors from Budapest, Cluj, Paris, Prague and Vienna, and sixteen students from Cambridge, Cluj, Dublin, Paris, Prague, and Vienna spent a week in Cluj and Alba…
EurAsia Academy Keynote Lecture by Finnian Gerety
The division of the sacred syllable "om" into the three sounds, a, u, and m is one of the most enduring ideas in mantra culture. Originating in Vedic thought, dividing OM offers a fertile framework…
EurAsia Summer Academy: Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
This year’s Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia will introduce the participants to the subject of mantras or “potent…
EurAsia-Blog in der Standard: Im Gastblogbeitrag beschreibt der Historiker Jehan Hillen, wie die Anpassung der Motive auf Münzen abhängig vom jeweiligen Herrscher im spätantiken Ägypten funktionierte und welche Bedeutung mit diesen verbunden war.
PhD Completion Fellowships of the Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations"
The FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence (CoE) “EurAsian Transformations”—in cooperation with the Doctoral School of Historical Studies (University of Vienna), the Doctoral School of Philological and Cultural Studies (University of Vienna), and the…
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
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