Research

The Centre for Eastern European Studies promotes an interdisciplinary academic dialogue on social, cultural and political issues regarding the region of Eastern Europe. We understand Eastern Europe to be a collective term for the region of Eastern, East-Central and South-Eastern Europe and therefore a geographical area that can present itself very differently depending on the temporal focus.

The main tasks of the Centre for Eastern European Studies in the field of academic research are the (co-)organisation of academic lectures, workshops and conferences (see Events), the establishment and development of academic contacts and cooperations, the highlighting of expertise on Eastern Europe at the University of Innsbruck and the transfer of knowledge between the university and the public.

The Centre for Eastern European Studies is a place for academic networking:

Within the University through long-standing and productive cooperations with the Departments of Slavonic Studies, Translation Studies, History and European Ethnology, Contemporary History, Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Geography, Archaeologies, Political Science and Sociology
In international university networks researching the region of Eastern Europe
In academic contact and exchange with scholars in Eastern Europe

Ingeborg Ohnheiser Prize of the Austrian Society for Slavonic Studies

The Centre for Eastern European Studies supports the research activities of young academics with the Ingeborg Ohnheiser Prize, which was established by the Austrian Society for Slavonic Studies (ÖGSL) in 2019. The prize, which is named after the initiator and long-standing director of the Russian Centre in Innsbruck, em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Ohnheiser, is awarded to outstanding dissertations, master's and diploma theses written in Austria in the field of Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies as well as Subject Didactics within Slavonic Studies. Since the second award for 2019 and 2020, the prize has been co-sponsored by the Centre for Eastern European Studies.

Award winners 2023

Olja Alvir (University of Vienna, master's thesis in Literary and Cultural Studies)
Marina Dobrić (University of Klagenfurt, master's thesis in Literary Studies)
Magdalena Kaltseis (University of Innsbruck, dissertation in Linguistics)
Philipp Kaysers (University of Salzburg, dissertation in Literary Studies)
Patrick Oberstolz (University of Vienna, master's thesis in Linguistics)

For further reading: Austrian Society for Slavonic Studies | University of Innsbruck

Award winners 2021

Adisa Bašić (University of Graz, dissertation in Literary Studies)
Mariya Donska (University of Salzburg, dissertation in Literary Studies)
Marijana Milošević (University of Innsbruck, diploma thesis in Subject Didactics/Cultural Studies)
Tatsiana Nazaranka (University of Salzburg, dissertation in Linguistics)
Maria Schinko (University of Vienna, master's thesis in Linguistics)

For further reading: Austrian Society for Slavonic Studies

Award winners 2019

Mariya Donska (University of Graz, diploma thesis in Literary Studies)
Anna Dreher (University of Innsbruck, diploma thesis in Linguistics/Subject Didactics)
Ingeborg Jandl (University of Graz, dissertation in Literary Studies)

For further reading: Austrian Society for Slavonic Studies | University of Innsbruck