What is it about?
- Virtual workshop and publication platform
- A complex network of researchers operating in the former territory of the Habsburg
Monarchy - Cultural studies-oriented perspective − common methodological concept for sharing
interdisciplinary contents
The Werkstatt für Ostmitteleuropäische Kulturgeschichtsforschung (East-Central European Cultural History Workshop), in short WOMEnKULT, consists of university lecturers and scholars working in the most diverse fields of social sciences and humanities in the countries of the former Habsburg Monarchy, a virtual workshop and publication platform formed by an open, constantly expanding network, as well as encompassing a cultural science methodological perspective, which seems suitable for social, mental and cultural history, media and information history, science and knowledge history, historical ethnography and cultural anthropology, women’s and emotional history to display philological and written anthropological contents. Our goal, from the 16th century to 1918, focusing spatially on the area of the former Habsburg Monarchy, is to examine the actors, scenes, and media that play a decisive role in the complex processes of the production, selection, adaptation, transformation, sharing, and archiving of local and regional cultural assets and various forms of knowledge, the reconstruction of the discursive (social, political, economic, religious, gender-specific) contexts behind the phenomena through the exploration and use of hitherto unknown or only little exposed textual, pictorial and material sources. In accordance with these objectives, we intend to use our platform and the series of publications launched by Vienna-based Praesens Publishing House to ensure that the results of research on the history of culture and knowledge in Central and Eastern Europe, which until now have only been little reflected or even considered a white spot, become an integral part of the international discourse and provide further impetus for future research.