Ass. Prof. Mag. Dr. Christoph Augustynowicz
Studied history and Russian philology. Since 1994 he has been a lecturer at the Austrian Institute of East and Southeast European Studies. Dissertation: The Candidates and Interests of the House of Habsburg in Poland-Lithuania During the Second Interregnum 1574-1576. Habilitation: Border(s) and the Life and Times in the Lesser Polish City of Sandomierz 1772-1844.
Contact: christoph.augustynowicz@univie.ac.at
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Bauer
Since 1993 full professor for Communication Science with a specialization in Journalism and Media Culture in audio-visual media at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna. Developed and directed international and intercultural teaching programs in journalism, among others in cooperation with universities in the US, several EU countries, Latin America, especially Brazil, and Turkey.
Contact: thomas.bauer@univie.ac.at
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andre Gingrich
Full professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, chairman of the Social Anthropology Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Current research interests: The history of anthropological theory development and methodology in English, French and German, paradoxes of globalization, praxis and experiences of the ethnographic field research.
Contact: andre.gingrich@univie.ac.at
Dr. Husnija Kamberović
Director of the Institute for History at the University of Sarajevo. 2001 dissertation on Land in Bosnia and Hercegovina Owned by Bays in the Period 1878-1918. Research interests: Urbanisation and agriculture in Bosnia-Herzegovina, historical myths in the Balkans.
Contact: husnijak@bih.net.ba
Prof. Dr. Christina Lutter
Since 01.10.2008 professor for History at the University of Vienna. She studied history and romance language and literature; she is a member of the Austrian Institute for Historiography; editor of the series Cultural Studies, author (together with Markus Reisenleitner) of the handbook with the same title (Turia+Kant); co-editor of Journal for Cultural Studies (Transcript). 2006 she was awarded with the Michael Mitterauer Award and with the Award of the Ass. of Historiographers in Germany (VHHD). Since 2003 vice director, from March to September 2007 interimistic director of the Dept. for Social Sciences of the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research, as well as coordinator of the research programmes Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Sciences. Research interests: Cultural and Gender History of the MA and the Early Modern; Cultural Studies and Gender Studies.
Contact: christina.lutter@bmwf.gc.at
Univ.-Doz. Dr. Siegfried Mattl
Co-director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society, lecturer at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Board member of the Austrian Society for Contemporary History. Research interests: Viennese Modernism, media and media technology, urban studies, cultural studies.
Contact: siegfried.mattl@univie.ac.at
Mag. Dr. Peter Plener
1993-2006 lecturer at the Institute for German language and literature studies at the University of Vienna and ELTE Budapest. 1999/2000 project manager at debis Systemhaus, 2000-2003 Associate at the Arthur Schnitzler Society, 2001-2003 involved in the FWF-Project 14727 (Ruling Power, Ethnic Differentiation and Literaricity). 2004 managed various projects for the Vienna Centre for Urban Knowledge. 2004-2006 scientific member of the Austrian Parliament, 2007/2008 member of the Austrian Defence Ministry cabinet, since March 2008 member of the Federal Press service at the Austrian Chancellery. 2000/01 Concept and application for the interdisciplinary project of the platform "Kakanien revisited" for CE/SEE studies. 2001-2007 director of this platform.
Contact: senior_editor@kakanien.ac.at
Mag. Dr. Béla Rásky
Freelance historian, longtime director of the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office in Budapest, last guest professor at the German language and literature institute ELTE. Author and translator of several books and contributions on Central European history and on European political culture, last editor of the report of the European Council on cultural diversity in East and Central Europe.
Contact: bela.rasky@univie.ac.at
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Rohrwasser
Literary scholar and author. Professor for recent German literature at the University of Vienna since 2005. Research interests: Ratios of exchange of literature, psychoanalysis, and Film, cultural-historical developments after 1933, the transformation of the role of writers since the 18th century, exile literature, Stalinism/Communism and literature.
Contact: michael.rohrwasser@univie.ac.at
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carola Sachse
Historian, received her habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin on the subject of Der Hausarbeitstag. Gerechtigkeit und Gleichberechtigung in Ost und West 1939-1994 (The House-Keeping Day. Fairness and Equality in East and West 1939-1994) Göttingen 2002. Since 2004, professor for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and directs the working group "Wissen, Macht, Geschlecht. Zeitgeschichte in transnationaler Perspektive" (Knowledge, power, Gender. Contemporary History in transnational perspective). Research interests: Women's and gender history in the 20th century, historical labor market research in the 19th and 20th centuries, the social history of social politics, business history, history of science.
Contact: carola.sachse@univie.ac.at
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler † (1942-2008)
Studied Classical Philology and German Literature in Vienna, Habilitation with the publication Genius. On the History of the Impact of Ancient Mythologems in the Times of Goethe. Head of the Institute of German Literature at the University of Vienna. Director of the Austrian Literature Archives at the Austrian National Library.
An obituary is to be found here. Kakanien revisited thanks him for constant support and positive critique during the last eight years.
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Simonek
Studies of Slavic philology and Comparative Literature in Vienna. Since 1992 he has worked at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna.
Research interests: Literary modernity, interactions between the Slavic literatures, Austrian-Slavic literary contacts with a focus on Viennese Modernism.
Contact: stefan.simonek@univie.ac.at
Prof. Dr. Džemal Sokolović
Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Director of the Institute for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia and Hercegovina (Konjic), prior to the Bosnian war, professor of Sociology at the University of Sarajevo, between 1992 and 1994 researcher and lecturer in Ljubljana, Heidelberg and Graz. Author of several books and articles on multi-ethnicity, democracy building and peace work in Bosnia and the Balkans. Main organizer of the yearly conference Democracy and Human Rights in Multi-ethnic Societies.
Contact: dzemal.sokolovic@rokkan.uib.no
Univ. Doz. Dr. Peter Stachel
Studied history, European Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of Graz, doctorate conferred in 1999, habilitation in Modern History in 2005. Involved in the Special Research Program Modernity - Vienna and Central Europe around 1900 in Graz from 1995-2004, since 1999 has worked for the Commission for Culture Studies and History of Theatre of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Research interests: Austrian/Central European history of the 18th to the 20th centuries, history of science and education, cultural studies aspects of historical research, Memory and Knowledge. Studies, political and national symbols and rituals.
Contact: peter.stachel@oeaw.ac.at
Prof. Dr. Ugo Vlaisavljević
Philosopher and essayist. Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo. Editor of the newspaper Dialog (Sarajevo) and Transeuropéennes (Paris). Research interests: Ontology, phenomenology, political epistemology.
Contact: ugovlais@epn.ba
Prof. Dr. Jindřich Vybíral
Prorector of the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design Prague. Pusobil v Národní galerii v Praze, naposledy jako vedoucí sbírky architektury. Research Interests: Architectural history around 1900, methodology in the history of art, 19th and 20th centuries; publications: Zrození velkomesta (1997, German 2001), Století dedicu a zakladatelu (1999), Mladí mistri (2003).
Contact: vybiral@vsup.cz
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Wagner
Studied Romance languages and German Language and Literature in Vienna and Paris. Guest professor at the University of Passau and the EHESS, Paris. Member of the working group Kulturwissenschaften/ Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna and editorial staff member of the Journal for Cultural Studies. Since 1998, professor for Romance Literary Studies at the University of Vienna. Research interests: Gender and knowledge in the early modern times, avant-garde theory and history of Romance avant-garde movements, literature and natural science, literary history and history of technology, cultural studies.
Contact: birgit.wagner@univie.ac.at
Ass. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gertraude Zand
Dissertation on Czech underground-literature from1948-1953. Since 2003, assistant professor at the Institute for Slavic studies at the University of Vienna. Research interests: Marginal literary forms, Czech contemporary literature, Czech-Austrian literary relations in the 20th Century.
Contact: getraude.zand@univie.ac.at
Mag. Gisela Zieger
Representative of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BM.W_F), is responsible for bi- and multilateral as well as regional research co-operation with Central-, Eastern- and South-Eastern European countries. Her profession is business administration, professional experience stems from her work in the ministry since 1989, where she has supported the ministry’s strategy, e.g. the internationalisation of research in Austria through instruments like Science and Research Liaison Offices, bilateral agreements of scientific-technological co-operation, membership in international research institutions, research projects, conferences, workshops or participation of experts in international (expert-/working-) groups.
Kontakt: gisela.zieger@bmwf.gv.at
