The colloquium consisted of three intense days of doctoral fellows presenting papers from their respective projects and receiving feedback from an appointed discussant as well as other participants. This year the colloquium took place in Vienna. The programme included a keynote presentation from CfU’s Professor Mette Buchardt about social housing in Denmark based on her project “Educating newcomers to the welfare state. Organizational responses to migration 1960s-2010s and their influence on Danish central policy”. The keynote presentation had the following abstract:

"How did the modernist 1960s and 1970s social housing meet newcomers, be newly arrived guest workers or other people displaced from the old working-class area in Copenhagen that was demolished from the late 1960s? What could newcomers learn about being part of the welfare-state population in the new suburban cities that formed part of mid-20th century welfare state planning? What was the hidden curriculum of the social suburban housing – when planned and when practiced? The lecture sheds light to the history of social housing as a history of education and of the educational welfare state."

There was also a keynote by Associate Professor Ethan Hutt (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) titled “Testing the Exception: The Curious Case of America’s Obsession with International Test Score Comparisons”. The programme concluded with a guided tour about the entangled Ottoman-Austrian history.

The colloquium is a great opportunity for doctoral fellows to receive feedback and inspiration for their ongoing work and gaining experience in academic discussions in an international community. Next year the colloquium will take place at University of Melbourne for the first time, arranged by Professor Julie Mcleod.

CfU thanks the Vienna University team, Professor Daniel Tröhler and Doctoral Fellows Sophie Pia Stieger and Kevser Muratovic, for an excellent colloquium and phenomenal programme.

Learn more about the research from Buchardt, Li, Filikci, Hansen and Enemark by pressing here.