For the Winter Semester 2019/20, the University of Salzburg appointed five new professors: Michael BLAUBERGER, Univ.-Prof. for Politics of the European Union, Political Science and Sociology (+ DZ SCEUS); Alexander SOKOLICEK, Univ.-Prof. for Classical Archeology, Classical Studies; Ulrike GREINER, Univ.-Prof. for Professional Research and Teacher Education with special reference to subject didactics, School of Education; Margit REITER, Univ.-Prof. for European Contemporary History.

The Salzburg historian, Christina Antenhofer, was recently appointed a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Historical Class).

Univ.Doz. Dr. Dr.h.c. Jasmine Dum-Tragut received the medal on 31 October at the closing event of her curated exhibition “Far from home – fates of Armenian prisoners of war in the First World War” at the Genocide Museum Institute in Yerevan, Armenia.