Welcome to our very first podcast episode! In this episode we give you a short, general introduction to Queer History in Austria and the specific court case that we will talk about in the next few episodes. The accused was the 35-year-old Hans M. who was being tried for homosexuality and fraud in Graz in 1949/50. We discuss the issue of only having sources that tell us the prosecution's side of the story.CW: transphobia, homophobia, cisgenderism, heterosexism.

In this episode you will hear more about Hans M.’s life prior to the trial and the circumstances of his arrest. We reflect about the significance of labels in the context of Queer History and why they are useful also for queer historical subjects.CW: transphobia, homophobia, cisgenderism, heterosexism.

After his arrest, Hans M. had to undergo various medical examinations. In this episode we discuss what role medical opinions and notions about norms played in the trial and what that says about heteronormativity.CW: transphobia, homophobia, cisgenderism, heterosexism

In our last episode, we tell you how Hans M.’s fight for his right to existence continued after the trial and what negative impact the sentence had on his life. We also talk about how heteronormative legislation criminalizes queer people and how the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights is still important today.CW: transphobia, homophobia, cisgenderism, heterosexism

In the Romanian region of Transylvania, ethnic Romanians and ethnic Hungarians wring with the question of who came here first. But the historians who set out to answer the question, it turns out, also have an agenda in mind...

We're not going to Transylvania. Instead, we're going to take a look at the topic of nationalism as a whole. But before we can delve into more case studies, we need to answer one question: what is nationalism?

The Dutch Revolt led to the creation of the Dutch Republic, the first independent Dutch state. But it didn't start out as a war for independence. The people who fought in it didn't want to establish a Dutch nation state. And some of the most infamous instances of the cruelty of their Spanish Habsburg overlords didn't even take place in the Netherlands. How does any of this add up? The answers lie not merely in the history of the Dutch Revolt, but in the history of its history.

476 AD: the Western Roman Empire ends, the Middle Ages begin. But… what about the Eastern Roman Empire? Were they still Roman? Why do we think of them as Byzantines? And… should we think of them as Byzantines?

When people talk about national conflicts in Austria, they usually talk about the multi-ethnic Habsburg empire and its downfall. Little is known about the situation in Austria’s southernmost federal state of Carinthia, where debates around language, ethnicity, nationality and belonging are very much alive today.

One year and one day ago, Vladimir Putin invaded his neighboring country while simultaneously decrying that that country doesn't exist. How is that possible? What is Ukraine, to Putin and Russians like him? The answer, as always, read in their history books.