East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth Century: A Never-Ending Story?

This project is in dialogue with a number of recent transnational attempts to rethink political and intellectual history with regard to the recurrent epistemological frames that structure the political and cultural debate.

Balázs Trencsényi is a professor at the Central European University History Department and the director of the CEU Institute for Advanced Study. He is one of the authors of a two-volume History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe (2016, 2018), alongside numerous other publications on East Central European intellectual history.

Lucija Balikic is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, Central European University. Her research interests include intellectual and social history of late Austria-Hungary and interwar Yugoslavia. She published several research articles on history of knowledge production and body-politics in regional and international journals.

Una Blagojevic is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, Central European University and a research assistant at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj. Her doctoral research focuses on the intellectual history of Marxist Humanism in socialist Yugoslavia, and she is broadly interested in the social, cultural, and gender histories of East Central Europe. She is a member of the ERC project The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESEE), hosted at the University of Vienna.

Isidora Grubački is a historian focusing on contemporary European history, specializing in the fields of transnational women’s history and intellectual history of feminism in the interwar period. She works as research assistant at the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana and is currently a member of the ERC project The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESSEE), hosted at the University of Vienna.