Master History (803 [3] - Version 2019)

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

• 070344 VO [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Introduction to the Historiography of the Middle Ages
• 070112 UE Reading Course Medieval History
• 070010 VO Introduction to Contemporary History
• 070264 UE Introduction to the focus on Contemporary History (Reading Course) - Artistic Responses to Genocide and Crimes against humanity in the 20th century
• 070009 UE Reading Course Contemporary History
• 070051 VO [ en ] Introduction to Historical and Cultural European Studies / Modern History
• 070130 UE [ en ] Reading Course Introduction in Historical and Cultural European Studies / Modern History
• 070139 VO Introduction to Economic and Social History
• 070140 UE Reading Course Economic and Social History
• 070268 VO Introduction on Women's and Gender History (Lecture series)
• 070275 UE Reading Course Women's and Gender History
• 070048 VO Introduction to East European History
• 070047 UE Reading Course Introduction to East European History
• 070013 VO [ en ] Introduction to Global History and Global Studies
• 070290 UE [ en ] Reading Course Global History and Global Studies - Workers, Refugees, Citizens: The People's Cold War in the Making
• 070014 UE [ en ] Reading Course Global History and Global Studies
• 070314 VO Introduction to History of Science - History of Quantification
• 070315 UE Reading Course History of Science - Reproductive Bodies
• 070214 VO Medieval Austrian Constitutional History and History of Administration
• 070252 VO Modern Austrian Constitutional History and History of Administration
• 070243 UE Reading Course Austrian History - zur Militärgeschichte des mitteleuropäischen Raumes
• 070222 VO [ en ] Introduction to Digital Humanities
• 070049 UE [ en ] Reading Course Digital Humanities - Theory and Concepts in the Digital Humanities
• 070085 UE [ en ] Course on Methodology - Data Structures and Data Management in the Humanities
• 070266 UE Course on Methodology - Letters and Correspondences in the Digital Humanities
• 070312 UE Course on Methodology - Spatial Histories: A GIS Approach to Understanding the Past
• 070151 UE [ en ] Methodological Course - Global History and Global Studies - Researching interactions in different structures: regional-global, global-regional
• 070323 UE Course on Methodology

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

• 070170 UE Workshop on Methodology - Close Reading. Private law contracts. 17th to 19th century
• 070113 UE [ en ] Workshop on Methodology - Introduction to Computational Palaeography
• 070172 UE [ en ] Workshop on Methodology - Digital Storytelling through Podcasting
• 070012 UE Workshop on Methodology - Biographical Methods
• 070027 UE Workshop on Methodology - Nazis on the run. Post-war careers after 1945
• 070068 UE [ en ] Workshop on Methodology - Geographies of Power. Studying and Comparing Court Records from Eurasia
• 070205 SE Research Seminar - Austria's Nationalized Industry, 1946-2020
• 070024 SE Research Seminar - Transnational Women's Activism in the 20th Century
• 070074 SE Research Seminar - Doing and Undoing of a Marriage. Norms and practices. 17. to 19. Century
• 070169 SE Research Seminar - Names and Numbers: Addressing Space & People
• 070043 SE Research Seminar - Cultural diversity in ethno-confessional mixed regions
• 070175 SE [ en ] Research Seminar - Early Modern Resource Cultures
• 070117 SE Research Seminar - Duke Leopold VI. (1194-1230) and his reign
• 070144 SE [ en ] Research Seminar - The Spanish Monarchy - The First Global Empire?
• 070126 SE Research Seminar Public History - Landscapes, Stories and Identity Constructions
• 070253 SE [ en ] Research Seminar Global History and Global Studies - International Courts - (Permanent Court of Arbitration, International Court of Justice, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, etc.) and the Problem of Making Peace. Historical and Actual Interpretations
• 070201 SE [ en ] Research Seminar Applied Global History - Global History in Ethnographic Collections: Conservation and Restitution

PM3 Realisation of an Independent Research Project (20 ECTS)

• 070068 UE [ en ] Workshop on Methodology - Geographies of Power. Studying and Comparing Court Records from Eurasia
• 070012 UE Workshop on Methodology - Biographical Methods
• 070027 UE Workshop on Methodology - Nazis on the run. Post-war careers after 1945
• 070170 UE Workshop on Methodology - Close Reading. Private law contracts. 17th to 19th century
• 070113 UE [ en ] Workshop on Methodology - Introduction to Computational Palaeography
• 070172 UE [ en ] Workshop on Methodology - Digital Storytelling through Podcasting
• 070074 SE Research Seminar - Doing and Undoing of a Marriage. Norms and practices. 17. to 19. Century
• 070169 SE Research Seminar - Names and Numbers: Addressing Space & People
• 070205 SE Research Seminar - Austria's Nationalized Industry, 1946-2020
• 070043 SE Research Seminar - Cultural diversity in ethno-confessional mixed regions
• 070024 SE Research Seminar - Transnational Women's Activism in the 20th Century
• 070175 SE [ en ] Research Seminar - Early Modern Resource Cultures
• 070126 SE Research Seminar Public History - Landscapes, Stories and Identity Constructions
• 070144 SE [ en ] Research Seminar - The Spanish Monarchy - The First Global Empire?
• 070253 SE [ en ] Research Seminar Global History and Global Studies - International Courts - (Permanent Court of Arbitration, International Court of Justice, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, etc.) and the Problem of Making Peace. Historical and Actual Interpretations
• 070201 SE [ en ] Research Seminar Applied Global History - Global History in Ethnographic Collections: Conservation and Restitution
• 070250 UE [ en ] Proposal Workshop Global History and Global Studies - Graduate College 1
• 070023 UE Proposal-Workshop
• 070123 UE Proposal-Workshop
• 070107 UE Proposal-Workshop - Writing workshop for the master's thesis - Schreibwerkstatt zur Masterarbeit
• 070045 UE Proposal-Workshop

PM4 Individual Specialisation (30 ECTS)

• 010057 SE The Catholic Church during the Third Reich
• 010119 SE Artificial intelligence and democracy - ethical perspectives
• 010017 SE Delve into Orthodox Church History - Christianity and the Church in the Caucasus with a focus on Georgia
• 010094 SE ( MIXED ) Discover Romania: denominational diversity, communist heritage and religious life today - (Compulsory preparatory seminar for the excursion to Romania in SS 2025)
• 010058 FS Faith, Church and Heretical Popes - William of Occam's 'Dialogus'
• 010018 UE ( REMOTE ) Eastern Church spirituality and its social challenges. Mount Athos
• 010038 VO Structure and current development of the Orthodox Church(es)
• 010065 VO Introduction to the Eastern Churches - Focus on Orthodox Churches
• 010009 VO Early Church theology and its relevance today
• 010031 VO [ en ] Basic course in Orthodox liturgical theology
• 010015 VO Advanced Course Church History I - The Relationship between Church and State
• 030393 SE Seminar of Legal History - Africa in the League of Nations era
• 030349 VO Climate law in intra- and interdisciplinary dialog
• 030269 KU [ en ] Introduction to Chinese Legal History
• 030335 KU Centralist or federal? State formation in Austria-Hungary 1867-1879
• 040049 SE [ en ] ( ON-SITE ) Philosophy and Economics (MA) - Social Sciences and the Philosophy of the Vienna Circle: Selected Readings
• 060022 SE Images of Horror - the presentation of the Shoah in international feature films
• 060029 SE ( REMOTE ) Jew-hatred - Palestine - Israel: Opportunities and Risks of Co-Existences
• 060027 VO From Caligari to Hitler - Propaganda as Entertainment
• 060026 SE ( REMOTE ) The Antisemitism of Christianity in Antiquity and Late Antiquity and its Contemporary Impact
• 060005 SE Again at Sinai: History of the Jewish Women’s Movement from its Beginnings to the Present Day
• 060046 SE The Golem in tradition and popular culture
• 060007 VO ( REMOTE ) The Ideology of Jew-Hatred - Antisemitism Then and Now
• 070127 SE Seminar - Austrian Identity and the Academic Discipline of History
• 070297 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Forms of solidarity of women* in (post)state-socialist Europe in a comparative perspective (Poland, GDR, Belarus, with a focus on Belarus).
• 070119 SE Seminar on History - The Parish - religious, socio-economic and political aspects of local church administration
• 070142 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Anthropocene - a new period of human history? - Eine neue Epoche der Menschheitsgeschichte?
• 070037 SE Seminar - Medieval Biographical Sources
• 070286 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Migrations and mobilities in rural areas - 19th to 20th centuries
• 070121 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Minutes of the Council of Ministers, a Versatile Source
• 070184 SE Seminar - Historical sources and critique - The Political Culture of the United States of America
• 070318 SE Seminar Historical sources and critique - Border and Nation - Ukraine in global perspective
• 070178 SE [ en ] Seminar - Historical Sources and Critique - Political Crime since the French Revolution
• 070133 SE [ en ] Seminar - Historical sources and critique - Economic ideas and public policies - Economists as a source for economic history
• 070272 SE M2 Material Colloquium (History of Science)
• 070020 SE Political polarization in the USA in history and present
• 070261 SE Seminar Historical sources and critique - Visualizing the State: Architecture in Eastern Europe
• 070280 SE Seminar - Putin's Imperial Fantasies - Historical Continuities
• 070177 EX Field Trip - Berlin - Media of Urbanity
• 070046 EX Field Trip - Czech Modernism und Leoš Janácek: An Excursion to Brno and Zlín - Exkursion nach Brünn/Brno und Zlin
• 070195 VU Manuscript Studies and History of the Book
• 070026 EX ( PH-NÖ ) Field Trip - Knowledge - Remembrance - Telling - Commemoration - Theresienstadt - Prague - Krakow - Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial
• 070019 VO Political education in times of political polarization
• 070188 UE Auxiliary Sciences: Heraldry, Sigillography and Genealogy
• 070034 UE [ de yi ] Foreign Languages in Historical Studies - Yiddish for Historians
• 090097 EX Study Trip to Munich: Visit of the "38th Greek Film Week"
• 090083 VU Greek Paleography
• 090010 VU Ancient History and Classical Studies
• 090026 VO Between Heaven and Earth - An introduction to the environmental and climate history of the Byzantine Empire
• 090017 VO Outlines of the Byzantine Theory of Soul
• 090095 SE Punishment of Sins and Reward for Good Deeds - The Significance of the Particular Judgement for Byzantine Ethics and Theology
• 090027 VO [ de en ] Modern Greek History II: 1821-1923
• 090024 VO Byzantine history until the end of the Macedonian dynasty (1025)
• 090025 VO Overview of the Historical Geography of the Eastern Mediterranean in Byzantine Times - (4th-15th Centuries)
• 090021 VO Between crisis and innovation. Byzantine coinage from Heraclius to Iconoclasm - Representing power and thinking about image
• 090086 UE Reading Archives: Karl Dieterich
• 090090 UE [ de en ] The language of Greek journalism - also as Reading Modern Greek Texts
• 090091 UE Migration in contemporary Greek literature - also as Reading Modern Greek Texts
• 090087 UE [ de en ] Introduction to Textual Criticism: From Manuscript to Print Edition
• 090089 UE Byzantine/Modern Greek Studies research of the 19th/20th and research possibilities of the 21st c.
• 090093 PS [ en ] Cyprus: from colonialism to independence (19th - 20th c.)
• 090092 PS Subject history(ies) of Byzantine studies: topics, trends and institutions
• 133342 PS Proseminar: Literary borders of the Baltic Sea Region
• 143075 VO History of East Africa 1
• 143119 VO The Empire of the Black Pharaohs - Deities and Temples of the Meroites
• 143127 VO Resistance and protest in the 20th and 21st century - Case studies from Africa and diasporic contexts
• 143074 VO VO History of North Africa 1: A Center of the Ancient World
• 143077 VO Pioneers of African and Atlantic History - From Melville Herskovits to Philip D. Curtin
• 143087 KU KU Photo Session - Working with Photographs and Historical Images in the Context of Colonialism, Museum Exhibitions and Commercialisation
• 160136 PS 60 years of the Austrian-Turkish labor recruitment agreement - interdisciplinary perspectives
• 240043 PS Feminist Anti/politics in historical perspective - Wahllehrveranstaltung

PM5 Master's Module (5 ECTS)

• 070018 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070087 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070109 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070179 SE Master's Thesis Seminar - geeignet für Arbeiten in den Fachwissenschaften und der Fachdidaktik
• 070207 SE Master's Thesis Seminar - Seminar for the preparation of a final thesis in History of Medicine, - the Sciences and Health Care.
• 070208 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070213 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070276 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070277 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070293 SE Master's Thesis Seminar
• 070325 SE Master's Thesis Seminar - Recent work and research on medieval history, women's history and in the field of Digital Humanities

Additional Courses

• 070294 UE Coaching: Finding my Topic - Preparing a MA Thesis in History - Extracurriculares Angebot