Political Science & International Affairs

About the Event: Not content with watching World War I silently from the sidelines, a large number of Armenian volunteers joined the French Foreign Legion. They were trained in Cyprus and fought extensively in Palestine and Cilicia. Using illustrations from the more than 150 photographs in The Armenian Legionnaires, Susan Pattie will discuss the motivations […]

About the Event: Among the 8.82 mln. people inhabiting Austria, every fifth Austrian has a so-called migration background, and 15.8% of the total population are foreign-born residents. Austria’s population is thus divided into “native Austrians” representing the majority, the traditional ethnic minorities and new ethnic minorities with migration-background (Turks, people from former Yugoslavia) having already […]

About the Event: The last decade witnessed a conservative turn on the global scale. There has been a strong rise in the political and social mobilization of the groups who were opposing the liberal universalist values. The Russian case fits well to this global conservative turn. The political elite has consolidated under a conservative agenda […]