CENTRAL Workshop: Mobility of People, Goods, and Ideas

Humans are in constant motion, and so are goods and ideas. This trilateral workshop series in Vienna and Prague brings together junior and senior scholars to examine human mobility, trade, and the circulation of ideas in Central and Eastern Europe within a global framework. Building on prior CENTRAL workshops on socialist-era mobilities (2022) and Cold War trade (2023), it explores intersections of movement and materiality while fostering transnational research collaborations.

The workshop connects to broader trends in transnational and global historiography, addressing cross-border movements and interactions of human and non-human actors. It will feature PhD students and senior scholars presenting their research, fostering interdisciplinary discussions. The event is integrated with the University of Vienna’s Doctoral School for Historical and Cultural Studies (DSHCS), the FWF doc.funds project "The Dynamics of Change and the Logics of Transformation," and the Migration Reading Group. At Charles University, it will engage researchers from the Institute of International Studies and the Ukraine in a Changing Europe Research Centre.

The Prague workshop will take place on Thursday and Friday, March 13–14, at FSV in Jinonice. Program can be found here.

This CENTRAL Workshop is a trilateral cooperation between the University of Vienna, Charles University Prague and ELTE Budapest.