The Group's research seminar serves as a regular venue for a community of Vienna-based researchers and invites international guests.

A current focus of the Sammlung Frauennachlässe is on household accounts as sources for gender history, economic history, and history of economic thought.

Students and staff at the University of Vienna conduct supervised archival research at QWIEN Centre for Queer History Vienna and publish their findings in the international open-access journal Æther. What tools, sites, forms of communication, and technologies constitute the counter-knowledge that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people have developed to understand themselves and communicate to others? [more]

Verwaltete Umwelt

The volume "Verwaltete Umwelt" (managed environments) explores the history of the environmental sciences in the 20th century – between state administrations, academic research, and grassroots activism. The history of the managed environment is a history on the meso level, i.e. a history of regions and infrastructures. The project is carried out in cooperation by Nils Güttler, Mareike Vennen (Landesarchiv Berlin) and Christian Reiß and will be published in the series "cache" from winter 2023/24.

Radical Health

In contemporary times of proliferating neoliberalization, augmenting socio-economic disparity, environmental degradation, and political struggles around identities and belonging, health and well-being are becoming increasingly fragile. Not least, COVID-19 illustrates how intimately entangled economic, ecological, social, cultural, and political factors can be, and how they affect people’s living environments, health, and health care provision. The publication project will be published in the series "cache" and is based on contributions to the conference of the same name (2021), which was organized by: the Medical Anthropology Working Group (German Anthropological Association DGSKA), Association for Anthropology and Medicine (AGEM), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin.

This ERC-funded project examines the history of resource management to gain a new understanding of capitalist development models, technoscientific innovation and the emergence of modern sustainability thinking.

What is the role of units and metrics in navigating the challenges of the Anthropocene? We cooperate with three international networks, and run an online-seminar on “Anthropocene History” (cf. the video documentation).

This working group on administrative knowledge production (2017-2020) underpins some of the work carried out at the Key Research Area.

Early Central European contributions to the sociology of knowledge helped to build our discipline – and keeps doing so as HPS CESEE, a lively cooperation with Prague and Erfurt aptly demonstrates.

The Viennese working group focusses on a history of social data in light of the new modes in which AI describes society. 

The working group for the comprehensive history of science (Arbeitsgruppe allgemeine Wissenschaftsgeschichte) is one of five working groups comprising the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) Commission for History and Philosophy of Sciences (Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften). Research regarding the so-called "Wiener Moderne" ca. 1900 has long been a point of intense scientific interest, but there has been as yet little investigation into infrastructures of knowledge during the late Habsburg monarchy. [more]

Formed at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2019, this research group examines (popular) scientific societies in Vienna during the 19th century until the 1920s. Johannes Mattes and his team investigate the unusual size of these associations in Vienna, the scope of their contributions to science and the reliable role they played in society. It was only after the First World War that the tides turned and more radical thoughts were voiced. [more]

The Pez correspondence for the years 1719 to 1763 is being edited and, simultaneously, the edition will be recast in digital form and merged with the digitized Pez papers and other materials in a virtual research environment. [more]