Interdisciplinary Workshop on Theories and Methods IX: Social Mobility

School of History K201, Schellingstr. 12, February 11, 2026, at 5:15 p.m.

Una Blagojević earned her PhD in Comparative History from Central European University, Vienna. Her dissertation explored the intellectual history of Marxist Humanism and the concept of the human in the face of crisis. She holds Master's degrees in History from Central European University and Philosophy from KU Leuven. Her research interests include the intellectual history of socialist Yugoslavia, the history of philosophy, and the intersections of socialist thought, human rights discourses, social and gender history. She is an affiliated member of the ERC project The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women's Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESSEE) at the University of Vienna and the STEPPE project (Scaling the Transnational: Entangled Political Imaginaries and Practices in East and West Europe): She is a co-editor of East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story? (Routledge, 2024).

Agata Zysiak, Ph.D., is a historical sociologist working as a researcher at RECET, and as an adjunct at the Institute of Sociology, University of Łódź in Poland. Her latest book, “Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland” (2023), examines first-generation students’ struggles with reluctant academia. Her research focuses on social mobility, modernization dreams, and state socialism. At RECET, she works on narratives of industrial collapse and the concept of socialist citizenship.

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