The call for the Young Investigators Award 2022 is extended. We invite all doctoral candidates and all PostDocs who have recently completed their PhD to apply by 8 July 2022. We ask dissertation supervisors, heads of departments or DSP colleagues to encourage dissertation candidates to get involved!

28 June 2022 | in presence: The University Library Salzburg will restitute a book to the Workers’ and Employees’ Chamber (AK) Library of Social Sciences in Vienna. The collection belonging to Victor Adler, one of the founding personalities of Austrian Social Democracy and the 1st Republic, came to the AK’s Social Science Study Library in Vienna in 1924. In 1938 the books were taken to Berlin by the National Socialist Party. After the war, one of these books came into the possession of the University Library Salzburg through a collection point for looted National Socialist items and will now be restituted.

20 June 2022 | online: The Master in Religious Studies offers the basics and competences to analyze religions of the world and spiritualities of the present in cultural contexts. With the Crossculture Religious Studies Project this is possible with study visits to Seoul, Yogykarta, Haifa, Nairobi and Munich. The program leads to a wide range of professional opportunities and combines well with other study programs.