Claudia Kraft (Vienna)

! Time change: The session starts at 6 p.m. sharp.

Historicum Room K302, Schellingstr. 12, Munich

Colloquium “Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism”

The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, May 20th, with a lecture by Senior Fellow Claudia Kraft on "Mexiko-Stadt 1975: Menschenrechtsdiskurse und Wissensproduktion über Geschlechtergleichheit im Spannungsfeld von Kaltem Krieg und Dekolonisierung".

Claudia Kraft is a Professor at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna since March 2018. She specializes in 20th century comparative European and particularly Central and Eastern European History. Her main fields of research are gender history, history of everyday life in state socialist societies after World War II, history of forced migrations after World War II, memory cultures and politics of history in Central and Eastern Europe, comparative legal history, and new approaches to area studies (as developed for instance in the concept of “phantom borders”). She has recently published a special issue (together with her Viennese colleague Tim Neu) about “Social Struggles and the Entanglement of Political Participation and Fundamental Rights” with Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 36/1 (2025).

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