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CENTRAL is a Network of Excellence between five renowned Central European universities. Providing a vivid platform for scientific discussion and exchange, we facilitate a diversity of research and outreach activities.

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14.06.2022

Thinking the Border with Fink and Nishida (working title) - October 2023

Borders de-fine by establishing differences between the inner and the outer. As the place of...

14.06.2022

Queer Readings: Queer Theory in Transit and Literary Studies (May 2023, tbc)

Queer has emerged as a

critical force that undermines normative structures and explores and...

01.04.2023

Commodities, Trade, and Materiality in the Global Cold War (April 19-20, 2023)

This workshop will explore how the history of the Cold War and its aftermath can be told through the...

01.04.2023

Towards a Central European Doctoral School in Modern History (April 2023)

The workshop will explore topics related to comparative and transnational approaches, and combine...

09.11.2022

Funktional Translatology in Regional Context II (9-11 November 2022)

Within the framework of individual curricula, a cross-language translation-scientific approach is...

01.02.2023

Notion and construction of victimhood in Central East and Southeast Europe (Feb 2023)

The workshop is dedicated to the persistent conflict potential stemming from the notion of...

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Initiatives and statements by the CENTRAL universities

Our Mission

CENTRAL is striving to be the Network of Excellence for Central Europe, approaching and propelling multifaceted issues – cultural, societal, economic. Read more

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central-network@univie.ac.at

CENTRAL stands with Ukraine

The invasion of Ukraine by the armed forces of the Russian Federation is a brutal breach of international law, which the universities united in CENTRAL condemn in the strongest possible terms. Central Europe has been the scene of such aggression by totalitarian states several times in the 20th century, both by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The memory of the associated crimes is alive in Central Europe. We have all the more respect for the unshakeable will of the Ukrainian people to establish a democratic constitutional state in their country on the basis of the values we all share and profess.

Ukrainians and their country are an integral part of Europe. We declare our solidarity with the Ukrainian people in their struggle for freedom and democracy. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues and the students of Ukraine and will take measures to support them.