“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Academic Honors: Contemporary History and Law in Discussion”
In December 2015, the University of Salzburg renounced the honorary doctorates of Konrad Lorenz and Wolfgang Hefermehl, awarded to these two scientists in 1983. In particular, the recognition of the academic honor of the Nobel Prize winner, Konrad Lorenz, triggered a controversy in which both the legal foundations of the revocation and the Nazi past of the prominent moralist Lorenz were widely discussed in the media.
Nomination of Prof. Hoff as “Berater der Glaubenskommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz”
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gregor Maria Hoff has been nominated as “Berater der Glaubenskommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz” for the period of 2016-2021.
17 November: Lecture Series “Politics, History & Culture”
In the Winter Semester 2016/17, the Department of History has organized a series of lectures on “Politics, History & Culture: Austria in the 20th and 21st Centuries”. Next lecture: Thursday, 17 November, 17:00, HS 381, GESWI, Rudolfskai 42, with George Stöger. Topic: “Environmental Issues and Green Politics”. All who are interested are welcome!
