Austrian government employees and conduct of life: Project blog
Guest blogging: Research Network for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies
Julia Köstenberger has kindly invited me to write a text for the Research Network for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies' weblog. It tells about the remigration of former Habsburg government employees from the successor states to (German-)Austria in 1918 - 1921.
At last: Conference Report of “The Great Transformation”
Elisabeth Haid has kindly written a comprehensive report of our Workshop "The Great Transformation" (Nov 29 - 30, 2018 in Vienna). Due to some internal restructuring at the platform H/SOZ/KULT there has been some delay in the publication of it. But here it is now!...
Next stop: Wroclaw
Tomorrow and on Friday, the conference "The end of the empires. Formation of post-war order in Central and Eastern Europe in 1918-1923" will take place in Wroclaw. I will give a paper on "The Austrian state apparatus after 1918". The next week will bring another...
Bureaucratic Encounters: now on H-SOZ-KULT!
Here is the announcement.
Workshop “Bureaucratic Encounters”: the programme folder
This lovely programme folder has been created by the graphic design service department of the University of Vienna. Since the picture I had intended was not of sufficient resolution, the gentleman from the graphic design service went to another Viennese Amtshaus (13....
Bureaucratic Encounters: the workshop programme!
Yesterday in a month, a fantastic workshop on all kinds of bureaucratic encounters will begin. The programme is enticing, and I much look forward to it: Bureaucratic Encounters Workshop at the University of Vienna (Lecture Hall 6, Lower Ground floor), Universitätsring...
Call for papers: Bureaucratic Encounters
On June, 15, a workshop about all sorts of bureaucratic encounters and interaction will take place in Vienna. Here is the call for papers. I look forward to your contributions! Bureaucracy is all around us and has a tendency to expand. Contrary to David Graeber’s...
We’re hiring!
The project The Great Transformation. State and Municipal Civil Service in Vienna, 1918 to 1920 deals with the profound changes to civil service that took place in the years immediately after the end of the Habsburg Monarchy at the levels of both federal...
You lose some, you win some …
Sometimes you submit papers, panels, applications etc. and you meet with refusal. That is what happened to the panel I submitted to the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC). But then, there are times when you succeed, as in the case of a little project...
Now, this is nice
It is great anyway when a volume you have contributed to finally gets published. In this case the Handbook Global History of Work edited by Marcel van der Linden and Karin Hofmeester is concerned. I wrote an article about administrative personnel over five centuries...
Conduct of life of Austrian government employees in the interwar period is the focus of this research project.
