Historian in the Age of Social Media and Disinformation
Datum/Zeit
Mai 8, 2025
19:00 - 21:00 MESZ/MEZ
Venue: Café Merkur, Florianigasse 18, 1080 Vienna
The Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna and the Research Platform „Transformations and Eastern Europe“ invite to their regular Transformative Salon on 8 May 2025 at 7 PM, this time with Franziska Davies (LMU Munich/IWM Vienna). The salon is moderated by Jannis Panagiotidis, RECET’s Scientific Director.
Do historians have a responsibility to engage in public and political discussions? How can one balance the role of a public intellectual, an activist and a scholar? How can scholars rise to the occasion in the face of a changing media world and widespread disinformation campaigns? Can their institutions protect them from attempts to silence them through SLAPP suits (Strategic lawsuits against public participation)? In the field of Eastern European History, these questions have become particularly urgent after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Some scholars have chosen to speak out; others have chosen to remain silent. But in face of the dismantling of democracy in the United States and the rise of anti-democratic parties and movements in Europe, can we afford silence?
Franziska Davies is an assistant professor of Eastern European History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and is currently a visiting fellow at the IWM in Vienna. She specialises in the modern history of Ukraine, Poland, and Russia. She is currently working on a book about the end of the Soviet Union from a Ukrainian-Polish perspective.
FREE ENTRY. No registration is needed to participate. The event language is English.
The organisers plan to record the event and publish it on the RECET YouTube channel 2-3 days later.
This event is a cooperation between RECET, the Research Platform „Transformations and Eastern Europe“ and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM).
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