Aktuality

The Director of the IMS decided to postpone the deadline for submitting the final theses to 21 May 2020. The date by which those who apply for the summer term of state examination must meet all study obligations is postponed to 12 June 2020.

The bookThe Loss of Old Certainties has just been published. Authors - Ota Konrad, Miroslav Kunstat, Michal Dimitrov, Jakub Joza, Martin Landa. The book focuses on the revolutionary social and political changes that characterize the latest history of Austria. Since approximately the second half of the 1980s, the basic pillars of the Austrian Second Republic have been the subject of discussions, reinterpretations and often radical doubts.

In another contribution to the discussion of coronavirus, Jakub Eberle draws attention to the burden of a prolonged crisis and long-lasting insecurity for society: "difficult grasping anxiety could quickly turn into a very tangible hatred." On the contrary, he hopes that "the experience of belonging could be the basis for a more empathetic solution to the major political tests that we will not avoid in the near future.

Mikuláš Zvánovec from the Department of German and Austrian Studies published a new study in the prestigious American magazine Austrian History Yearbook. Congratulations!

Wounds, such as the spread of coronavirus, are known to mankind from modern history. Yet they had always forgotten them quickly. "One-time disasters such as a pandemic or earthquake rarely change the political order, but very often bring to the surface the basic characteristics of individual societies, which are much more hidden in times of calm," says historian Rudolf Kučera in an interview with HN.

Jakub Eberle, a former member and now an IMS partner, published a reflection on the risks and chances of coronavirus for the national and international community.