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News
4 December 2024
Ghosts of Old Vienna
I have published a new article in the journal Central Europe, entitled “Ghosts of Old Vienna: Romanticising a Vanishing Heimat in the Face of Modern Urban Redevelopment from the 1920s to the 1960s”. This is part of a special volume edited by Christian Karner and Laura Morowitz entitled Contradictory Modernities and Neo-Romanticism across Central Europe and represents the first publication of the research group Contradictory Modernities that convened for the first time in PoznaÅ„, Poland, in January 2023.
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Read the article through Taylor & Frances
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17 November 2024
New Video: Discussing Hate Speech
On 23 October 2024, I was invited to Wagner College Holocaust Center in New York to hold a guest lecture entitled “Discussing Hate Speech in the Digital Age: Jewish Perspectives on the Politics of Antisemitism in Contemporary Austria”.
You can watch a video recording of this lecture here.
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Events
26 March 2025
Lecture: Discussing Hate Speech
On 26 March 2025, I will be holding a lecture at the Department of Languages and Cultures at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, entitled “Discussing Hate Speech in the Digital Age: Jewish Perspectives on the Politics of Antisemitism in Contemporary Austria”.
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Details to follow.
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27-30 March 2025
Presentation: Dedicated to Austria
On 27-30 March 2025, I will be holding a presentation entitled “Dedicated to Austria from Near or Far, or: What Makes a True Austrian?” at the Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association, which will take place at Gettysburg College.
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Details to follow.
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June 2025
Presentation: Occult Vienna
In June 2025 (dates to be confirmed), I will be holding a presentation entitled “Occult Vienna: Unveiling the Necrogeography of the Austrian Capital Past and Present” at the symposium “From Glory to the Grave? Dead Cities Beyond Time and Space”, which will take place at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. The symposium will serve to present working papers for an edited collection to be published in the subsequent months.
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Details to follow.
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29-30 September 2025
Presentation: Gulasch, Schinkenfleckerl und Eiernockerl
On 29-30 September 2025, I will be holding a presentation entitled “Gulasch, Schinkenfleckerl und Eiernockerl: Exploring the Transatlanticisation of Habsburg Austrian Cultures through the Culinary Memories of (Jewish) Austrian Emigrants in the United States” at the conference “Food, Migration, and Belonging in 20th Century European History”, which will be held at the University of California–Berkeley.
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Details to follow.
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12-14 October 2025
Workshop: Laboratory Central Europe
On 12-14 October 2025, I will be holding a presentation at the workshop “Laboratory Central Europe: Groupism, Statism, and Identity Politics – Central Europe Before and After the Nation-State”, which I have co-organised with Béla Rásky and Julia Secklehner. The workshop, which is being fully funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Culture, constitutes the second meeting of the international research group “Contradictory Modernities”, which convened for the first time in PoznaÅ„ in January 2023. The closed-door meeting will take place in the historic boardroom of the Vorwärts-Haus in Vienna.
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Details to follow.
Archived News and Events
23 October 2024
Lecture: Discussing Hate Speech
On 23 October 2024, I will be holding a lecture at the Holocaust Center of Wagner College in New York entitled “Discussing Hate Speech in the Digital Age: Jewish Perspectives on the Politics of Antisemitism in Contemporary Austria”.
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You can view the fall programme of the Holocaust Center here.
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14 October 2024
Presentation: Antisemitismus Digital
On 14 October 2024, I will be presenting the findings of the project “Antisemitic Discourses in Online Media and their Reception among Jews in Austria” together with my colleague Ariane Sadjed at a workshop of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna entitled “Der 7. Oktober 2023 und Österreich”.
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You can view the programme of the event here.​​​
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22 March 2024
New Article: Jewish and Muslim Histories in Austria
Together with Omar T. Nasr (London School of Economics), I have published a new article entitled “Diversifying Modern Austrian History: Exploring Parallels and Intersections between Jewish and Muslim Histories in Austria”. This is part of a special issue of Pardes: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany, for which I served as guest editor, entitled Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies, 201 pp.
You can read the full volume here.
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22 March 2024
New Volume: Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies
A new special issue of Pardes: Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany has just been published, for which I served as guest editor, entitled Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies, 201 pp.
You can read the full volume here.
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7 February 2024
New Volume: Interdisciplinarity and Diversity in Austrian Studies
A new special issue of the Journal of Austrian Studies has just been published, the second of two volumes dedicated to “New Directions in Austrian Studies” in which I served as the guest editor: Journal of Austrian Studies 56/4 (Winter2023), Special Issue: Interdisciplinarity and Diversity in Austrian Studies, 160 pp.
You can view the full table of contents including abstracts of the individual articles here. The full volume is available on Muse.
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