Master History (803 [3] - Version 2019)

PM1 Introduction to Topics, Eras and Regions (25 ECTS)

• 070344 VO [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Introduction to the Medieval Concentration - Themes in the Historiography
• 070243 UE Reading Course Medieval History
• 070314 VO Introduction to European Studies
• 070315 UE Reading Course Introduction in European Studies
• 070033 VO Introductory Lecture Specialisation Contemporary History
• 070305 UE Reading Course Contemporary History - Schwerpunkt-Einführung
• 070130 UE Reading Course Contemporary History - Ex Austria - The Habsburg empire in comparison
• 070113 VO Introductory Lecture Specialisation - Preparation for the focus on East European History
• 070138 UE Reading Course Introduction to East European History
• 070096 VO [ en ] Introduction to Digital Humanities (Lecture series)
• 070263 UE [ en ] Reading course Digital Humanities - Theory and Concepts in the Digital Humanities
• 070245 VO Focus Introduction on Women's and Gender History
• 070108 UE Reading course Women's and Gender History
• 070222 VO Focus area history of science - Data and Datacolonialism
• 070244 UE Reading course History of science - Other ways of thinking - On the history of ethno-psychology
• 070214 VO Medieval Austrian Constitutional History and History of Administration
• 070252 VO Modern Austrian Constitutional History and History of Administration
• 070131 UE Reading course Austrian History - Current Research Perspectives on the History of the Habsburg Monarchy (1526-1918)
• 070139 VO Introduction to Economic and Social History
• 070140 UE Reading Course Economic and Social History
• 070247 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) Introduction to Global History and Global Studies
• 070292 UE [ en ] ( MIXED ) Reading Course Global History and Global Studies
• 070237 UE [ en ] ( MIXED ) Reading Course Global History and Global Studies - To better understand my favorite Global History and Global Studies book
• 070172 UE [ de en ] Methodological course - Data Structures and Data Management in the Humanities
• 070266 UE [ de en ] Methodological course - Digital Annotation in the context of historical studies - Methods, Techniques, Standards, and Tools
• 070269 UE [ de en ] Methodological course - Digital Approaches to Medieval Manuscripts
• 070128 UE [ de en ] Methodological course - Analyzing Central Europe's Intellectual Heritage - Digital Humanities Research with Data from the Austrian National Library
• 070174 UE Methodological course - Qualitative and quantitative methods in historical studies
• 070183 UE [ de en ] Methodological course - Digital Humanities Skills: GIS for Historians
• 070312 UE Methodological course - Theoretical Approaches to History
• 070137 UE Methodological Course - Situated Disciplines. Gender and Women's Studies in Archives - (USA and Austria since 1970) Part I: Approaches, Materials, Methods
• 070285 UE Course on Methodology Contemporary History and Media

PM2 Design and Implementation of Independent Research Projects (15 ECTS)

• 070035 UE Workshop on Methodology - Camps: Everyday Life, Re-use, Reappraisal.
• 070068 UE Methodological Workshop - Identity?!? Methods for analyzing historical concepts of the person
• 070230 UE Workshop on Methods
• 070097 UE Methodological workshop History of Science - Colonial Statistics and History of Data
• 070123 UE [ en ] Methodological workshop - Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models in Humanities Research
• 070104 UE [ en ] Methodological Workshop - Digital Video Storytelling
• 070105 UE Methodological workshop - Analysis of divorce settlements from the 17th to the 19th century
• 070143 UE Workshop on Methodology - The programming historians
• 070034 SE Research Seminar - South Slavic diasporic spaces in Vienna: social and cultural practices of localisation and dissolution of boundaries
• 070249 SE Research Seminar - Doing Debt. Public Debt as social practice during the 'long' 18th century
• 070205 SE Research Seminar - Histories of houses
• 070047 SE Research Seminar Public History - On the Rhythm of Remembering - Commemoration days and anniversaries
• 070037 SE Research Seminar - History of the Vienna Secession
• 070253 SE [ en ] arch Seminar Global History and Global Studies - Insular Studies - Problems of Insularity
• 070231 SE [ es ] Research Seminar Applied Global History - Spain - A Global Empire in Early Modern Times
• 070246 SE [ en ] Research Seminar Public History: Landscapes of Memory: The Wachau
• 070173 SE Research Seminar - The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans

PM3 Realisation of an Independent Research Project (20 ECTS)

• 070105 UE Methodological workshop - Analysis of divorce settlements from the 17th to the 19th century
• 070143 UE Workshop on Methodology - The programming historians
• 070123 UE [ en ] Methodological workshop - Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models in Humanities Research
• 070230 UE Workshop on Methods
• 070097 UE Methodological workshop History of Science - Colonial Statistics and History of Data
• 070104 UE [ en ] Methodological Workshop - Digital Video Storytelling
• 070035 UE Workshop on Methodology - Camps: Everyday Life, Re-use, Reappraisal.
• 070068 UE Methodological Workshop - Identity?!? Methods for analyzing historical concepts of the person
• 070034 SE Research Seminar - South Slavic diasporic spaces in Vienna: social and cultural practices of localisation and dissolution of boundaries
• 070037 SE Research Seminar - History of the Vienna Secession
• 070047 SE Research Seminar Public History - On the Rhythm of Remembering - Commemoration days and anniversaries
• 070249 SE Research Seminar - Doing Debt. Public Debt as social practice during the 'long' 18th century
• 070205 SE Research Seminar - Histories of houses
• 070246 SE [ en ] Research Seminar Public History: Landscapes of Memory: The Wachau
• 070231 SE [ es ] Research Seminar Applied Global History - Spain - A Global Empire in Early Modern Times
• 070173 SE Research Seminar - The Ottoman Conquest of the Balkans
• 070253 SE [ en ] arch Seminar Global History and Global Studies - Insular Studies - Problems of Insularity
• 070250 UE [ en ] Proposal Workshop Global History and Global Studies - Graduate College 1
• 070265 UE Proposalworkshop
• 070045 UE Proposal-Workshop
• 070040 UE Proposal-Workshop

PM4 Individual Specialisation (30 ECTS)

• 070189 SE Seminar Historical Sources and Critique - Photos of the Crime - Photos of the Crime. Coming to Terms with Nazism in the Mirror of Its Guiding Medium
• 070318 SE [ en ] Seminar - Eastern Europe - Major Concepts and Historical Experiences
• 070133 SE [ en ] Seminar Historical sources and critique - Economic ideas and public policies - Economists as a source for economic history
• 070286 SE Seminar Historical sources and critique - Cybernetic Revolution from a Global Perspective
• 070363 SE Seminar Public History - Potentials and Practices of Counterfactual History
• 070120 SE Seminar - Narration and Narrativity in Early Modern History - Narrativität in der Geschichtswissenschaft (Schwerpunkt Frühe Neuzeit)
• 070273 SE [ en ] Seminar Historical Sources and Critique - Feminist political thought - in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe
• 070289 SE Seminar - The Reflection of the Past in the Sources - From Ignorance to Instrumentalization
• 070142 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Anthropocene - a new period of human history? - Eine neue Epoche der Menschheitsgeschichte?
• 070127 SE Seminar Historical Sources and Critique - History of the Nuclear Age
• 070313 VO Lecture - Human Rights from the beginning to present - With a special focus on Austria
• 070101 VO Lecture - Global Eurasia - Topcis, Methods, Theories
• 070060 VO Further Historical Approaches - Between Festival and Competition. New Body Practices - A History of Sports in Modern Times
• 070039 EX Field Trip - Red-Black-Brown - The History and Histories of Vienna in Longitudinal Sections of Contemporary History (1920s-1950s)
• 070290 EX Field Trip - Viennese fortifications - Excursion and dérive between centre and periphery, analogue and digital
• 070119 EX Field Trip - The Early Modern Period in Vienna
• 070331 VU Manuscript Studies and History of the Book
• 070200 UE Auxiliary Sciences: Heraldry, Sigillography and Genealogy
• 070036 SE [ en ] Historical Cultural Competence - Past meets Present - National Socialism, Colonialism, and Identity in four Viennese Historical Museums
• 070169 SE M2 Material Colloquium (History of Science) - Akten-Berge: Bodenschätze als bürokratisches Wissensobjekt
• 030393 SE Seminar of Legal History - Austrian History of International Law - The k. u. k. Monarchy and the First Republic
• 010014 VO ( ON-SITE ) Basic Course Church History I
• 010015 VO ( ON-SITE ) Advanced Course Church History I - Status, social life and mentalities
• 010111 VO Climate Justice and Religion - The contribution of ethics and religions to issues of climate, sustainability and creation
• 010094 VO Church History - Orthodox Church
• 010031 VO [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Religions of Greek and Roman Antiquity
• 010081 VU The Religions of the Germanic Peoples and the Celts
• 010120 VU [ en ] Introduction to the History and Religions of Mongolia
• 010112 SE Canonical Issues of Consecrated Life - The Law of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life according to the Code of Canon Law
• 010063 SE ( ON-SITE ) Skills and research methods in Church History
• 010089 SE Eastern Churches in the Habsburg Empire. History, Culture, Continuance
• 010057 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Monks, Monasteries and Orders. Religious life in the medieval and early modern periods
• 010119 SE "Querdenker", Science Deniers, Enemies of Democracy- a political-ethical challenge. - Reading and socio-ethical discussion of the book "Gekränkte Freiheit - Aspekte des libertären Autoritarismus
• 010104 SE The Role of "Aryan" Concepts for Religion and Nationalism
• 010058 FS [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Text and Interpretation. Reading and understanding pre-modern theology
• 010090 FS Current topics of Eastern Church theology
• 040049 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Philosophy and Economics (MA) - Histories of Economic Ideas and Theories of Scientific Progress
• 060029 SE [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Antisemitism in the Arab World
• 060032 SE ( REMOTE ) Images of Antisemitism
• 060070 SE Visual identities: Costumes of Prehistoric to Medieval societies as manifested in popular media - (Historienfilme, Comics und Spiele)
• 080020 VO [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Life and Death in Art and Cultural Heritage
• 080015 UE Course: Ukraine's cultural heritage and the quest to 'decolonize' knowledge
• 090017 VO Byzantium and the Antiquity
• 090103 VO ( MIXED ) Im/Perceptions: Texts and Images of Migration
• 090104 VO [ en ] Modern Greek Poetry: Comparative and Political Contexts
• 090018 VO The Byzantine Reception of the Philosophy of Proclus
• 090061 VO Byzantine Coinage. Imperial Iconography, Politics and religious Symbolism
• 090098 VU Perception: Vision. Theory and Practice in Byzantium
• 090099 VU Byzantine Diplomatics
• 090124 UE [ en ] Digital Resources for Classicists and Byzantinists
• 090107 UE [ en ] Cold War at the Borders: Civil War, Reconstruction and Dictatorship in Greece, 1945-1974
• 090010 VU Ancient History and Classical Studies - Archäologen, Superhelden und anderes aus der Antike in modernem Setting
• 090100 UE Herbert Hunger, Hans-Georg Beck and the Study of Byzantium
• 090101 PS Historiography in Byzantium
• 090102 SE Photius's Library
• 090109 SE ( MIXED ) Europe: Foundation - Fable - Fortress
• 143119 VO The Empire of the Black Pharaohs - Topography and Archaeology of Ancient Sudan
• 141074 VO Africa A Centre of the Ancient World: History of Northeast Africa 1
• 141077 VO On the History of Pan-Africanism and African Nationalisms
• 143237 VO African Societies in the Age of Empire and under Colonial Rule
• 143127 VO At the Crossroads of the Continents: The Early History of Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Aksum
• 141075 VO Central African History 1: Sociocultural Traditions and Developments to the Early Modern Age
• 141076 VO Southern Africa 1: Historiographical Themes from the 1960s to the 1980s
• 290209 VO [ en ] Climate Change and Climate Crisis: Science, Activism and Policy in the Climate Emergency
• 141086 KU Debates on Cultures of Memory - Focus on Den Schmerz der Anderen Begreifen (2022) by Charlotte Wiedemann
• 141087 KU Workshop: Debates on Decolonization and Racisms from an African Studies Perspective
• 141092 SE Red Sea and Indian Ocean - Maritime Interaction between the Continents and Regional African Developments
• 240148 SE [ en ] VM1 / VM7 - Gender, Conflict, Security. Feminist contributions to Peace and Conflict Studies
• 240147 SE [ en ] VM7 / VM2 - Sex, lies and economics
• 480098 KO ( ON-SITE ) Colloquium on Literature and Cultural Studies - Comedy & Performance
• 070196 SE Seminar Historical sources and critique - Global encounters, 1500-1700

PM5 Master's Module (5 ECTS)

• 070025 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070038 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070208 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070215 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070276 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070277 SE Master Thesis Seminar
• 070297 SE Master's Thesis Seminar - Language - Script - Style
• 070334 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070365 SE Master's Thesis Seminar - Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften

Additional Courses

• 070193 UE Coaching: Finding my Topic - Preparing a MA Thesis in History - Extracurriculares Angebot