ERC Consolidator Grant 2019-2024

Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Attrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals

Since September 2019 I head a five-year-project funded by an European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant on Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals. Senior Research Associate/Group Leader at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre Histroy, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
[Abstract & short description of the project]

Habilitation project

World War Two in Post-Communist Memorial Museums. Memory Politics between an "Invocation of Europe" and the Focus on "Our" Suffering

Habilitation project submitted at the Department of Political Science, research conducted at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Sciences
2013-2017 APART fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
8/2018-7/2019 funded by the Elise Richter Program of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
[Abstract] [Interview about the project] [The Austrian Standard about the project]

Analyzed Museums

• Museum of Occupations, Tallinn
• Museum of Occupation of Latvia, Riga
• Museum der Genocide Victims, Vilnius
• Warsaw Rising Museum
• Terezín (Small Fortress and Ghetto Museum)
• Museum of the Slovak National Uprising, Banská Bystrica
• House of Terror, Budapest
• Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest
• Museum of Contemporary History, Ljubljana
• Jasenovac Memorial Museum