Are you a PhD or postdoc and would like to test out what it mean for you to be an entrepreneur? Then join the Venture Creation summer school in Vienna this year!

The summer school “Venture Creation” from the InCUbator is open for applications. Can you please disseminate it?

• Title: Venture Creation - making purposeful ideas reality
• Level: PhD candidates, postdocs, and technicians
• Date & time: 29 June - 3 July 2026 (every day from 9 to 17)
• Format: On-site teaching
• Language: English
• Theme: In this 5-day intensive programme, participants learn by doing. You will form teams, generate and shape ideas using creativity techniques, validate customer problems and solutions through discovery work, build and iterate business models, and practice storytelling and fundraising. Each day builds toward a final Demo Day, where teams deliver an investor style pitch under realistic conditions. Along the way, the course strengthens skills that matter well beyond startups: structured decision making under uncertainty, collaboration under pressure, and clear communication of complex ideas.
• ECTS: 2
• Application deadline: 22 April 2026
• Webpage: Summer School: "Venture Creation - making purposeful ideas reality" | Circle U.

The conference will be held on 10-12 June 2026 (online & in-person) at the Department of East European Studies, Faculty of Arts.

The conference explores a wide range of questions across the humanities and social sciences - history, sociology, linguistics, anthropology, law, political science, literary studies, gender studies, and area studies - in the context of a transforming public sphere, bringing together PhD candidates and selected master’s students. By creating a shared space for critical reflection, the conference aims to inspire new methodological and analytical approaches capable of addressing the contemporary challenges these fields face.

The main research areas are:

• Patriotism and National-Patriotic Version of History;
• The Ideologisation of History and Myth-Making;
• National Identity and the Politics of Belonging;
• Visual Culture and the Representational Forms of Memory;
• Post-Truth and Mechanisms of Disinformation;
• Minorities, Indigenous Studies and Transcultural Memory;
• New Perspectives on Gender and Gender Inequality;
• Media Discourse and Algorithmic Visibility;
• Decolonisation of History and the Transformation of Knowledge Frameworks.

Selected papers will be considered for publication in a collective monograph that will be prepared on the basis of the conference’s outcomes, bringing together the most significant contributions and advancing ongoing scholarly discussions in the field.

To submit an abstract (max. 300 words) please complete the online form on the http://choosingthepast.conference2026.tilda.ws or via email choosingthepast.conference2026@gmail.com no later than 10 May 2026.

For more information see this webpage: http://choosingthepast.conference2026.tilda.ws

There is no participation fee.