The past, and references to it, are always present: in the monuments we walk by, the books we read and the landscapes we feel a part of. Here at the study group for Public History at the University of Vienna, we research, teach, and publish on two components of public history: how the past is or has been mobilized, by whom and to what end, and these past-related identity discourses themselves in their material, mediatized and functional manifestations.
Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies
University of Vienna
MELPAUMENE – Research Focus
Overview and Concept
Gedächtnislandschaften in diachroner Perspektive:
Die Wachau an der Donau (Arbeitstitel)
Dr. Barbara Pavlek Löbl
Erinnerungspraktiken an Kriegsgräberstätten in der Republik Österreich.
Die Gruppe 97 (Wiener Zentralfriedhof) im Fokus (Arbeitstitel)
Klara Fritz
Berufsbezogene Überzeugungen in der Holocaust Education.
Eine Interviewstudie mit KZ-Gedenkstätten-Guides (Arbeitstitel)
Michael Hollogschwandtner
Public remembrance practices in Belfast: What, where
and for whom? (Arbeitstitel)
Sarah Ritt
Our Guest Lectures
Vienna Public History Lectures #ViennaPHL
About Monument Practices
Research Data Management
Our Courses: Teaching Public History
For all researchers: Public History Oberseminar
Our Latest Videos
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Book Launch: Marvin Rees – Formation, Offer, Educational Effects: Discovery Tour ‘Ancient Greece’
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Keynote Cord Arendes, phfv-Jahrestagung 2025
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Julia Katharina Nordmann: Sterben unerwünscht. Der verdrängte Tod (2025)
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Werner Telesko: Wallfahrt in der Frühen Neuzeit. Religiöse Praxis und mediale Reflexion (2025)
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Ursula Krechel: Schlüssel, Pass, Fluchtboot. Geschichte der Migration und Remigration – ViennaPHL 3
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Norbert Fischer: Neue Schauplätze der Trauer (2024)