Research Focus Areas

• History of anthropology
• History of catholic church and nazism
• History of african and oriental studies

Short Biography

Peter Rohrbacher is a researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), focusing on the academic history within the disciplines of cultural and social anthropology, African studies, archaeology and Oriental studies. He is the author of the book "Die Geschichte des Hamiten-Mythos" (The History of the Hamite Myth; PhD, Vienna, 2002). In 2013, he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, working under Veronika Lipphardt. As part of the "Pius XI and Austria" project, led by Rupert Klieber in Vienna, he was investigating the influential role of Father Wilhelm Schmidt SVD in the Roman Curia, using files from the Vatican Secret Archives. He is also the co-editor (with Andre Gingrich) of the three-volume edition "Socio-cultural Anthropology during the Nazi Era from Vienna" (1938–1945) (Vienna, 2021). His current research projects examine the academic history of Viennese Caucasus and "Turkestan" research during the Nazi era (funded by OeAW), as well as the ecclesiastical and political networks of socio-cultural Anthropology in Austria during the interwar period (funded by FWF P33427). From May 2026 to 2030, he will be the Principal Investigator of the research project "Austrian Socio-Cultural Anthropology 1945–1965" (funded by FWF PAT3135524). This project will examine the subject in the post-war period, as well as its numerous interdisciplinary connections (e.g. with archaeology) and international networks (e.g. with UNESCO and the Wenner-Gren Foundation).

Publications

Monograph

2002 Rohrbacher, Peter. Die Geschichte des Hamiten-Mythos. Veröffentlichungen der Institute für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie der Universität Wien 96; Beiträge zur Afrikanistik 71. Vienna: Afro-Pub, 322 pp.

Book, co-edited

2021 Gingrich, Andre, and Peter Rohrbacher, eds. Ethnology during the Nazi Period in Vienna (1938–1945): Institutions, Biographies, and Practices in Networks. Philological-Historical Class, Proceedings of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 913; Publications in Social Anthropology 27, vols. 1–3. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW86700 https://austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0x003cddfc.pdf (04.10.2021).

Articles and book chapters, co-authored

in prep Scheid, Bernhard, and Peter Rohrbacher. The Significance of Wilhelm Schmidt in Ethnology and Religious Studies. Working paper for the Japanese book translation of Wilhelm Schmidt, Ursprung der Gottesidee, vol. 6 (1935), edited by Tsuruoka Yoshio. Tokyo: University of Tokyo. In preparation.

in press Gingrich, Andre, and Peter Rohrbacher. “Socio-Cultural Anthropology in German-Speaking Countries.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In press (November 2026). https://oxfordre.com/anthropology.

in press Scheid, Bernhard, and Peter Rohrbacher. “Ein Memorandum zur Gründung eines Japan-Institutes in Wien, 1934.” MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies 91 (2026): 45–51. In press.

2023 Immervoll, Victoria, and Peter Rohrbacher. “Diffusionismus trifft Prähistorie: Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) und sein archäologisches und ethnologisches Netzwerk in Wien.” Archaeologia Austriaca 107 (2023): 241–276. https://doi.org/10.1553/archaeologia107s241. Published December 13, 2023.

2022 Gingrich, Andre, and Peter Rohrbacher. “Socio-Cultural Anthropology under Hitler: An Introduction to Four Case Studies from Vienna.” History of Anthropology Review 46 (2022). Accessed April 6, 2022. https://histanthro.org/notes/socio-cultural-anthropology-under-hitler/.

2021 Gingrich, Andre, and Peter Rohrbacher. “Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien: Einleitung der Herausgeber.” In Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien (1938–1945): Institutionen, Biographien und Praktiken in Netzwerken, edited by Andre Gingrich and Peter Rohrbacher, 15–32. Philological-Historical Class, Proceedings of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 913; Publications in Social Anthropology 27, vols. 1–3. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW86700. Published October 4, 2021.

2014 Brechenmacher, Thomas, and Peter Rohrbacher. “Römische Kurie und ‘Rassendebatte’ in der Zwischenkriegszeit: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung.” Römische Quartalschrift für Christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte 109, nos. 1–2 (2014): 1–6.

Articles and book chapters, single authored

in prep Rohrbacher, Peter. “Philipp Paulitschke—An Almost Forgotten Austrian Pioneer of the Ethnography of North-East Africa.” Bérose – Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie. Paris. In preparation.

in prep Rohrbacher, Peter. Wiener Völkerkunde im autoritären „Ständestaat“: Interaktionen zwischen Kirche und Politik. In preparation.

in prep Rohrbacher, Peter. “Hauptströmungen der Völkerkunde im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit.” In Hauptströmungen und zentrale Themen der deutschsprachigen Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit, vol. 4, edited by Karl Acham and Stephan Moebius. In preparation.

in prep Rohrbacher, Peter. “Sons of Ham and the Races of the Old.” In Testament Global Orientalist – Life and Times of Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933), edited by Silvia Alaura, Marco Bonechi, and Thomas L. Gertzen. Submitted January 7, 2026.

in press Rohrbacher, Peter. “Wilhelm Schmidt (1868–1954).” In Evangelisches Lexikon für Theologie und Gemeinde, vol. 4, 2nd ed. In press November 2026.

in press Rohrbacher, Peter. “Walter Ferber—Redakteur, Publizist und Schriftsteller.” In Handbuch zum literarischen Katholizismus im deutschsprachigen Raum des 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Thomas Pittrof. Münster: Aschendorff. In press (May 2026).

in press Rohrbacher, Peter. “Albert Drexel—Priester, Sprachwissenschafter, Völkerkundler und Mystiker.” In Handbuch zum literarischen Katholizismus im deutschsprachigen Raum des 20. Jahrhunderts, edited by Thomas Pittrof. Münster: Aschendorff. In press (May 2026).

in press Rohrbacher, Peter. “Die Koppers-Pittioni-Kontroverse: Internationalisierung als Konfliktlösung in Österreichs Anthropologie der 1950er Jahre.” In Forschungsgeschichte der Archäologie in Österreich: Eine Standortbestimmung, edited by Martin Gamon, Florian M. Müller, and Florian Ostrowski. Submitted for peer review November 3, 2025.

in press Rohrbacher, Peter. “The Japan Institute at the University of Vienna, 1939–1945: An Institutional and Political Analysis.” Anthropos. Submitted for peer review October 20, 2025.

2025 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Gusinde, Martin, 1886–1969. Ethnologe, katholischer Theologe, Missionar,“ Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB-online). https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/dbo059520.html#dbocontent. Published October 10, 2025.

2025 Rohrbacher, Peter. “The Vienna ‘Kulturkreislehre’: Significant Early Attempts to Combine Ethnology and Prehistory for a Universal Historiography.” In The Seasonal and the Material: Anthropology of Seasonal Practices, edited by Sabina Cveček and Barbara Horejs, 183–202. Anthropos, Special Issue 4 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5771/9783985721894-183. Published October 31, 2024.

2025 Rohrbacher, Peter. “‘White Africa’: A Counter Concept to the ‘Aryan Northern Thesis’ during the Nazi Era.” In „Semitische Wissenschaften“? Ägyptologie und Altorientalistik im „Dritten Reich“, edited by Heike Behlmer, Andreas Effland, Thomas L. Gertzen, Orell Witthuhn, and Annette Zgoll, 1–22. Göttinger Orientforschungen IV: Reihe Ägypten 70. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2025. Published January 22, 2025.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Thurnwalds Beitrag zu Theorien ethnischer Schichtung und Staatsbildung.” Sociologus: Journal for Social Anthropology 74, no. 1 (2024): 39–70. https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.2024.1469199. Published December 19, 2025.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Politisches Chamäleon: Richard Thurnwald und seine kolonialethnologischen Ansätze in der NS-Zeit.” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie / Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 149, no. 2 (2024): 313–340. https://doi.org/10.60827/zfe/jsca.v149i2.1927. Published November 19, 2024.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Applied Anthropology in a Colonial Context: The Life and Work of Hugo Adolf Bernatzik.” Bérose – Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie. Paris, 2024. https://www.berose.fr/article3790.html?lang=en. Published October 24, 2024.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “A Priest Ethnologist in South America and Central India: Life and Work of Wilhelm Koppers.” Bérose – Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie. Paris, 2024. https://www.berose.fr/article3739.html?lang=fr. Published October 2, 2024.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Bernatzik, Hugo Adolf (1897–1953), Ethnologe, Fotograf und Fachschriftsteller.” Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon Online-Edition, Lieferung 12. 2024. doi.org/10.1553/0x003f39b4. Published July 15, 2024.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Bleichsteiner, Robert Josef August (1891–1954), Ethnologe und Orientalist.” Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon Online-Edition, Lieferung 12. 2024. doi.org/10.1553/0x003f39d6. Published July 15, 2024.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Richard Thurnwald’s Position in the Nazi Period: Some Methodological Reflections on the History of Anthropology.” History of Anthropology Review 48 (2024). https://histanthro.org/notes/richard-thurnwald/. Published March 1, 2024.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Baumann, Hermann, 1902–1972, Ethnologe.” Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB-online). 2024. https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/119264218.html#dbocontent. Published January 1, 2024.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Koppers, Wilhelm, 1886–1961, Ethnologe, Indologe.” Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB-online). 2024. https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/116339012.html#dbocontent. Published January 1, 2024.

2023 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Die Archäologie Altägyptens und die Hamiten-Hypothese: Ausgewählte ethnologische Fallbeispiele aus der Zwischenkriegszeit Österreichs.” In Archäologie und Republik: Reflexionen zur Archäologie in Österreich in der Ersten und in der Zweiten Republik, edited by Michaela Zavadil, 539–561. Oriental and European Archaeology 28. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW93166. Published December 28, 2023.

2022 Rohrbacher, Peter. “The Vienna School of Ethnology and the Vatican, 1923–1945: Selected Chapters.” Антропологии / Anthropologies 2 (2022): 42–86. https://doi.org/10.33876/2782-3423/2022-2. Published December 20, 2022.

2022 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Das Ringen um Kolonialexpertise: Richard Thurnwalds Mitarbeit an kolonialen Handbüchern über Afrika während des Zweiten Weltkriegs.” cultura & psyché – Journal of Cultural Psychology 3 (2022): 115–129. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43638-022-00045-z. Published November 28, 2022.

2022 Rohrbacher, Peter. “A Priest in the Resistance: Father Wilhelm Schmidt and His Alliances in World War II.” History of Anthropology Review 46 (2022). https://histanthro.org/notes/a-priest-in-the-resistance/. Published April 6, 2022.

2021 Rohrbacher, Peter. “‘Verschollene Kulturzusammenhänge’: Der Altorientalist und Altamerikanist Friedrich Röck und seine Stellung in der NS-Zeit.” In Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien (1938–1945): Institutionen, Biographien und Praktiken in Netzwerken, edited by Andre Gingrich and Peter Rohrbacher, 585–666. Philological-Historical Class, Proceedings of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 913; Publications in Social Anthropology 27/2. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW86700. Published October 4, 2021. https://austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0x003cddfc.pdf.

2021 Rohrbacher, Peter. “’Wissenschaftsförderung ohne Antrag‘: Dominik Josef Wölfel und die Kanarier-Forschung, 1938–1945.” In Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien (1938–1945): Institutionen, Biographien und Praktiken in Netzwerken, edited by Andre Gingrich and Peter Rohrbacher, 851–926. Philological-Historical Class, Proceedings of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 913; Publications in Social Anthropology 27/2. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW86700. Published October 4, 2021. https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576_0x003cddca.pdf.

2021 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Zwischen NS-Regime und Ordenszensur: Martin Gusinde SVD und sein Verhältnis zum Nationalsozialismus, 1938–1945.” In Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien, edited by Andre Gingrich and Peter Rohrbacher, 1113–1158. Philological-Historical Class, Proceedings of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 913; Publications in Social Anthropology 27/3. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW86700. Published October 4, 2021. https://austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0x003cddfc.pdf.

2021 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Pater Wilhelm Koppers im Exil, 1938–1945.” In Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien, edited by Andre Gingrich and Peter Rohrbacher, 1489–1528. Philological-Historical Class, Proceedings of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 913; Publications in Social Anthropology 27/3. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW86700. Published October 4, 2021. https://austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0x003cddfc.pdf.

2021 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Pater Wilhelm Schmidt im Schweizer Exil: Interaktionen mit Wehrmachtsdeserteuren und Nachrichtendiensten, 1943–1945.” In Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien, edited by Andre Gingrich and Peter Rohrbacher, 1611–1642. Philological-Historical Class, Proceedings of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 913; Publications in Social Anthropology 27/3. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW86700. Published October 4, 2021. https://austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0x003cddfc.pdf.

2021 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Das Porträt des Kissilerobo: Von der ethnografischen Feldaufnahme zur hamitischen „Rassen“-Ikone.” In Überleben im Bild: „Rettungsanthropologie“ in der fotografischen Sammlung Emma und Felix von Luschan, edited by Katarina Matiasek, 127–143. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Fotografie in Österreich 21. Salzburg: Fotohof edition, 2021. Published 2021.

2020 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Österreichische Missionsexperten und das Ringen um den vatikanischen Standpunkt im ‘Rassendiskurs’ der Zwischenkriegszeit,“ Römische Historische Mitteilungen 62: 221–248. https://doi.org/10.1553/rhm62s221.

2020 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Pater Wilhelm Schmidt und Sigmund Freud: Gesellschaftliche Kontexte einer religionsethnologischen Kontroverse in der Zwischenkriegszeit.” cultura & psyché – Journal of Cultural Psychology 1 (2020): 53–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43638-020-00009-1.

2020 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Il dibattito sulla razza nella Curia Romana.” In La svolta del 1938. Fascismo, cattolicesimo e antisemitismo, edited by Andrea Riccardi and Gabriele Rigano, 92–112. Milano: Guerini e Associati, 2020.

2020 Rohrbacher, Peter. “’Wüstenwanderer‘ gegen ‚Wolkenpolitiker‘ – Die Pressefehde zwischen Eduard Glaser und Theodor Herzl [erweiterte Version].” In Grenzgänger: Jüdische Wissenschaftler, Träumer, Abenteurer und Agenten zwischen Orient und Okzident, edited by Thomas Gertzen and Julius H. Schoeps, 157–180. Berlin–Leipzig: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2020.

2019 Rohrbacher, Peter. “’Encrypted Astronomy’ – Astral Mythologies, and Ancient Mexican Studies in Austria, 1910–1945 (Special Number – German and German-speaking Anthropologists in Brazil) (Universidade de São Paulo).” Revista de Antropologia 62, no. 1 (2019): 140–161. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2019.157035.

2018 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Deutsche Missionsinitiativen am Campo Santo Teutonico: Die Missionsbenediktiner in Deutsch-Ostafrika und die Nordischen Missionen.” In Päpstlichkeit & Patriotismus. Der Campo Santo Teutonico: Ort der Deutschen in Rom zwischen Risorgimento und Erstem Weltkrieg (1870–1918), edited by Stefan Heid and Karl-Joseph Hummel, 613–643. Römische Quartalschrift..., Supplementband 65. Freiburg–Basel–Wien: Herder, 2018.

2017 Rohrbacher, Peter. “‘Hellhäutige Hamiten’: Hermann Junker und die neuorientierte Hamitistik in Wien (1920 bis 1945).” In Hermann Junker: Eine Spurensuche im Schatten der österreichischen Ägyptologie und Afrikanistik, edited by Clemens Gütl, 103–130. Göttingen: Cuvillier, 2017.

2017 Rohrbacher, Peter. “’Hamitische Wanderungen‘ – Die Prähistorie Afrikas zwischen Fiktion und Realität.” In „Vom Wandern der Völker“. Zur Verknüpfung von Raum und Identität in Migrationserzählungen, edited by Felix Wiedemann, Hans-Joachim Gehrke, and Kerstin P. Hofmann, 249–282. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 41. Berlin: edition Topoi, 2017. doi.org/10.17171/3-41-9. https://www.topoi.org/publication/42131/.

2016 Rohrbacher, Peter. “The Race Debate in the Curia in the Context of ‘Mit brennender Sorge’.” In Un pape contre le nazisme? L’encyclique “Mit brennender Sorge“ du pape Pie XI. (14 mars 1937). Actes du colloque international de Brest, 4–6 juin 2015, edited by Fabrice Bouthillon and Marie Levant, 93–108. Brest: Editions Dialogues, 2016.

2016 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Pater Wilhelm Schmidt im Schweizer Exil: Interaktionen mit Wehrmachtsdeserteuren und Nachrichtendiensten, 1943–1945.” Paideuma. Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde 62 (2016): 203–221.

2015 Rohrbacher, Peter. “‘Habent sua fata libelli’: Das „Rassenproblem“ im Spiegel der nachgelassenen Privatbibliothek Bischof Alois Hudals.” Römische Historische Mitteilungen 57 (2015): 325–364. https://doi.org/10.1553/rhm57s325.

2015 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Werner Vycichl (1909–1999). Ein Pionier der Komparatistik.” In Christlicher Orient im Porträt – Wissenschaftsgeschichte des Christlichen Orients: Kongreßakten der 1. Tagung der RVO (4. Dezember 2010, Tübingen), edited by Predag Budovec, 899–948. Religionen im Vorderen Orient 3,2. Hamburg: Kovač, 2015.

2015 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Logwit-lo-Ladú (1848–1866): Seine Bedeutung als afrikanische Gewährsperson in der Frühphase der österreichischen Afrikanistik.” In Afrikanische Deutschland-Studien und deutsche Afrikanistik – ein Spiegelbild, edited by Michel Espagne, Pascale Rabault, and David Simo, 49–72. Saarbrücker Beiträge zur vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft 72. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015.

2014 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Die Enzyklika ‚Mit brennender Sorge‘, Zollschan, Pacelli und die Steyler Missionare.” Römische Quartalschrift für Christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte 109, nos. 3–4 (2014): 198–225.

2012 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Völkerkunde und Afrikanistik für den Papst. Missionsexperten und der Vatikan 1922–1939.” Römische Historische Mitteilungen 54 (2012): 583–610. https://doi.org/10.1553/rhm54s583.

2010 Rohrbacher, Peter. Bericht über die Recherchen in römischen Archiven zum Thema: „Katholische Missionsexperten und die zeitgenössische Rassendiskussion für das Projekt Pius XI. und Österreich“ durchgeführt zwischen 25. Jänner und 13. Februar 2010. Universität Wien, Institut für Kirchengeschichte, 2010. http://piusxi.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_piusxi/Archivbericht-Peter-Rohrbacher.pdf.

2010 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Albert Drexel (18.6.1889–9.3.1977): Priester, Sprachwissenschafter und Völkerkundler – eine gesamtbiografische Würdigung.” Anthropos 105, no. 2 (2010): 555–566. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25734820.

2010 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Johannes Lukas (1901–1980).” In Entwicklungsgeschichte der Afrikanistik in Österreich, 1–11. 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20160325054034/http://www.afrikanistik.at/pdf/personen/lukas_johannes.pdf.

2010 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Werner Vycichl (1909–1999).” In Entwicklungsgeschichte der Afrikanistik in Österreich, 1–11. 2010. http://www.afrikanistik.at/pdf/personen/vycichl_werner.pdf.

2010 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Dominik Josef Wölfel (1888–1963).” In Entwicklungsgeschichte der Afrikanistik in Österreich, 1–11. 2010. http://www.afrikanistik.at/pdf/personen/wölfel_dominik_josef.pdf.

2010 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Albert Drexel (1889–1977).” In Entwicklungsgeschichte der Afrikanistik in Österreich, 1–11. 2010. http://www.afrikanistik.at/pdf/personen/drexel_albert.pdf.

2006 Rohrbacher, Peter. “’Wüstenwanderer‘ gegen ‚Wolkenpolitiker‘ – Die Pressefehde zwischen Eduard Glaser und Theodor Herzl.” Anzeiger der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 142 (2006): 103–116. https://doi.org/10.1553/anzeiger141_2s103.

2001 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Österreichische Forscher, Sammler, Abenteurer.” Neues Museum. Die österreichische Museumszeitschrift 3 (2001): 13–19.

1995 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Bedeutende Alchemisten.” Der Alchemist in Oberstockstall 1 (1995): 16–21. Kirchberg am Wagram.

Book reviews

2025 Rohrbacher, Peter. Review of Robert Obermair, Oswald Menghin. Science and Politics and the Age of Extremes. Oldenburg: De Gruyter, 2023. Anthropos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde 120, no. 1 (2025): 291–294. doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2025-1-291.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. Review of Robert Obermair, Oswald Menghin. Science and Politics and the Age of Extremes. Oldenburg: De Gruyter, 2023. Tiroler Heimat. Zeitschrift für Regional- und Kulturgeschichte Nord-, Ost- und Südtirols 88 (2024): 301–304.

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. Review of Stanisław Grodź, Sebastian M. Michael, and Roger Schroeder (eds.), Giants’ Footprints. 90th Anniversary of Anthropos Institute (1931–2021). Baden-Baden: Academia, 2021. Anthropos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde 119, no. 1 (2024): 264–265. https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2024-1-264.

2018 Rohrbacher, Peter. Review of Karl Josef Rivinius, Bildungsoffensive. P. Wilhelm Schmidt SVD in Ostasien (1935). Siegburg: Franz Schmitt, 2016. Anthropos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde 113, no. 2 (2018): 754–756. https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2018-2-754.

2016 Rohrbacher, Peter. Review of Hélène Ivanoff, Jean-Louis Georget, and Richard Kuba (eds.), Kulturkreise – Leo Frobenius und seine Zeit/Cercles culturels – Leo Frobenius et son temps (= Studien zur Kulturkunde 129). Berlin: Reimer, 2016. Sociologus. Journal for Social Anthropology 66, no. 2 (2016): 219–221.

Newspaper / Magazine articles

2024 Rohrbacher, Peter. “La risposta cattolica al freudismo nell'Austria degli anni 1930.” In Cultura & Identità. Revista di studi conservatori XVI, 46, 14–21. 2024. https://www.culturaeidentita.org/C&I_ns_46_2024.pdf.

2022 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Leitartikel zu ‚Pius XII. und der Zweite Weltkrieg‘.” Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung 190, no. 3 (2022). https://www.kirchenzeitung.ch/article/papst-pius-xii-und-der-zweite-weltkrieg-23429.

2021 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Missionare auf besonderer Forschungsmission.” In Niederösterreichische Nachrichten Edition Geschichte: Die Entdecker Forscher, Abenteurer und Reisende aus Niederösterreich, 68–73. St. Pölten, 2021.

2018 Rohrbacher, Peter. “Vertriebener Pionier der Wiener Ethnologie: Robert Heine-Geldern.” DerStandard, 24. Oktober 2018. https://derstandard.at/2000089914455/Vertriebener-Pionier-der-Wiener-Ethnologie-Robert-Heine-Geldern-v.

All Publications

Book Project

Völkerkunde (Ethnology) from Vienna during the Nazi Period (1938–1945): Institutions, biographies, practices in networks
by Andre Gingrich and Peter Rohrbacher (editors)
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press (Vienna 2021)

This publication of 1739 pages in three volumes with 42 contributions is focused on anthropology from Vienna during the Nazi years, inside the „Third Reich“ and in exile. Institutional and biographic networks as well as aspects of intellectual history are at the core of these investigations. They systematically present the history of an academic discipline within the general socio-political Central European and wider international contexts of those times. Beyond “Völkerkunde”/socio-cultural anthropology at the centre of investigation here, its wider range also includes important neighboring fields such as physical anthropology, archeological prehistory, folklore studies and African as well as Japanese studies. The present publication’s crucial research questions pursue the varieties of anthropological projects in and from Vienna, and their intersections with corresponding political interests. In these ways the extent of involvement in criminal Nazi activities is highlighted, while participation in the anti-Nazi resistance also is outlined. Special attention is given to the fine nuances between adaptation and resistance. – These contributions by 28 authors required documents’ assessments from more than one hundred archives in ten different countries. These were supplemented by published or initiated interviews with eye witnesses and family members wherever still possible. These three volumes are enriched by a helpful index in several parts and by more than 250 visual source materials, many of them publicly accessible here for the first time.

With contributions by Gabriele Anderl, Margit Berner, Reinhard Blumauer, Ildikó Cazan, Anita Dick, Christian F. Feest, Katja Geisenhainer, Andre Gingrich, Julia Gohm-Lezuo, Lisa M. Gottschall, Gabriele Habinger, Reinhard Johler, Johannes Koll, Britta Lange, Verena Loidl-Baldwin, Mirja Marquardt, Katrin Matczak, Reinhold Mittersakschmöller, Florian Mühlfried, Verena Neller, Barbara Plankensteiner, Peter Rohrbacher, Bernhard Scheid, Peter Schweitzer, Veronika Stachel, Holger Stoecker, Veronika Tillian, Otto H. Urban
Preface by Mitchell G. Ash

Lectures

2026
Attempts to Decipher Ancient Mexican Codices in Austria (1910–1945).
Panel: Archaeological Decipherment: Discovery, Conviction.
Conference: European Society for the History of Science – History of Science Society Joint Meeting.
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Dates: July 13–16, 2026 (presentation on July 16, 2026).

2026
Oka Masao and German-Speaking Volkskunde, 1935–1940.
Symposium: Who Is the Volk? A German Concept and Its Japanese Trajectories.
Location: Kyushu University, Japan.
Dates: February 14–15, 2026.

2025
New Insights into Childe’s Diffusionist Approach to Prehistory.
Symposium celebrating the centenary of Childe’s The Dawn (Vere Gordon Childe Centre).
Location: University of Sydney, Australia.
Dates: December 5–6, 2025.

2025
Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna, 1939–1945.
International workshop: Oka Masao, a “Missing Link” in Anthropological and Folklore Studies: Bridging Prewar Fascism and Postwar Democracy in Japan and Europe.
Location: IKGA / Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Date: September 23, 2025.
Link: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranstaltungen/event-detail/oka-masao-a-missing-link-in-anthropological-and-folklore-studies

2025
The Road to Internationalization: The Conflictual Relationship between Prehistoric Archaeology and Sociocultural Anthropology in Austria in the 1950s.
Conference: Research History of Archaeology in Austria: An Assessment of the Current Situation.
Location: University of Innsbruck, Institute of Archaeology, Austria.
Dates: February 26–28, 2025 (presentation on February 28, 2025).
Link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/archaeologien/aktuelles/2024/2025_forschungsgeschichte_archaeologie_programm.pdf

2024
Philipp Paulitschke—An Austrian Pioneer of the Ethnography of Northeast Africa.
Conference: Exploring the Ethnographic Archive: Early Ethnographers in the Long Nineteenth Century.
Organized by: HOAN, HAR, and BEROSE.
Location: Online.
Dates: December 5–6, 2024.
Link: https://histanthro.org/news/announcements/exploring-the-ethnographic-archiveonline-conference/

2024
P. Wilhelm Koppers in Central India: Theoretical Reflections on His Collecting Activities in 1938–39.
Transdisciplinary international conference: A Laboratory for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue? Missionary Collections at the Interface of Religion, Science, and Global Society.
Organizers: University of Bonn and the Steyler Missionaries (Societas Verbi Divini).
Location: St. Augustin (Bonn), Germany.
Dates: September 10–12, 2024 (presentation on September 12, 2024).
Link: https://globalheritagelab.org/project/a-laboratory-for-intercultural-and-interreligious-dialogue/

2024
The Reception of Blumentritt by the Filipino Anthropologist Marcelino N. Maceda (1925–2006).
Roundtable: Blumentritt Beyond Rizal: Revisiting the Scholarship and Politics of a European Filipinist.
13th Conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS).
Location: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Dates: July 23–25, 2024 (presentation on July 25, 2024).
Link: https://euroseas2024.org/

2023
“White Africa” and the Institute of Egyptology and African Studies in Vienna.
Guest lecture for the course African Studies Research since the 19th Century at the Interfaces of Language, Culture, and Society (Instructor: Arno Sonderegger).
Location: University of Vienna, Institute for African Studies, Austria.
Date: January 11, 2023.
Link: ufind.univie.ac.at/de/course.html

2022
Main Currents of Ethnology in Austria during the Interwar Period.
4th International Symposium: Main Currents and Central Themes of German-Speaking Sociology in the Interwar Period.
Organizer: Commission for the History and Philosophy of Sciences, Working Group History of Sociology (Karl Acham, Stephan Moebius).
Location: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Date: December 3, 2022.

2022
The Vienna School of Ethnology and Fu Jen University in Beijing, 1933–1949.
Guest lecture at Peking University (PKU).
Location: Beijing, China (online).
Date: November 23, 2022.

2022
History of German-Speaking Anthropology: An Overview.
Guest lecture at Peking University (PKU).
Location: Beijing, China (online).
Date: November 16, 2022.

2022
Moderator, Panel 1: Historical Disciplines and Politics.
Conference: Daily Life – Memory – Reappraisal at the University of Vienna: Historical Sciences, Institutes, Structures, and Actors in Austrofascism, National Socialism, and the Postwar Era.
Location: University of Vienna, Austria.
Dates: November 10–11, 2022.

2022
Introduction to the ISA Online Guest Lecture: Sophie Schasiepen, Colonial Extraction and the Foundation of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography at the University of Vienna.
Location: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Social Anthropology, Vienna, Austria.
Date: October 20, 2022.

2022
Diffusionism Meets Prehistory: Vere Gordon Childe and His Archaeological and Anthropological Network in Vienna.
Seminar at the Royal Anthropological Institute (with Maxime Brami, Victoria Immervoll, Kathi Meheux, and David Shankland).
Location: London, United Kingdom (online).
Date: October 10, 2022.
Link: www.therai.org.uk/events-calendar/eventdetail/

2022
Father Wilhelm Schmidt: Selected Interactions with the Church and Politics during the Nazi Era.
Lecture on the occasion of the 147th anniversary of the founding of the Steyl Missionaries.
Location: St. Gabriel Mission House, Austria.
Date: September 8, 2022.

2022
University and Resistance? Opposition Using the Example of Ethnology.
Symposium: Dictatorship and Resistance.
Organized by: House of the European Union; Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Fundamental and Human Rights; Vienna Regional Criminal Court; Juridicum, University of Vienna.
Location: University of Vienna, Austria.
Date: July 1, 2022.

2022
“The Aryan Orient”: The Research Institute for East and Orient in Vienna, 1916–1923.
Workshop: Oriental Societies and Societal Self-Assertion: Associations, Funds, and Societies for the Archaeological Exploration of the “Ancient Near East”.
Organized by Thomas L. Gertzen (Berlin) and Olaf Matthes (Hamburg).
Location: Free University of Berlin, Germany (online).
Dates: February 23–25, 2022.

2022
(with Andre Gingrich) Book Launch: Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien (Vienna, 2021).
Royal Anthropological Institute.
Location: London, United Kingdom (online).
Date: February 22, 2022.

2021
“White Africa”: A Counterproposal to the Indo-European North and East Thesis.
Workshop: “Semitic Sciences”? Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the “Third Reich”.
Organized by Heike Behlmer, Annette Zgoll, Andreas Effland, Orell Witthuhn, and Thomas L. Gertzen.
Location: University of Göttingen, Germany (online).
Dates: November 26–28, 2021 (presentation on November 27, 2021).

2021
(with Andre Gingrich) Book Presentation: Ethnology in the Nazi Era from Vienna.
Organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
Contributors: Thomas Jentzsch, Oliver Jens Schmitt, Johannes Feichtinger.
Location: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria (online).
Date: November 3, 2021.

2021
The Portrait of Kissilerobo: On the Reception of a Colonial Photograph from German East Africa.
Location: Bonartes Photo Institute Vienna, Austria.
Date: October 7, 2021.

2021
The Portrait of Kissilerobo: Public Engagement with “Racial” Icons.
Workshop 6 (Working Group Museum and Working Group History of Anthropology).
Workshop theme: Colonialism and Racism, Salvage Anthropology, Cultural Heritage Protection, and Decolonization.
GAA Conference: Worlds. Zones. Atmospheres. Seismographies of the Anthropocene.
Location: University of Bremen, Germany (online).
Date: September 30, 2021.

2021
“Semi-Civilized or Uprooted”: Thurnwald’s Colonial-Ethnological Approaches during the Second World War.
International colloquium Changing Fields: Hilde and Richard Thurnwald’s Ethnology.
Organized by Laurent Dedryvère (Université de Paris), Roselyne Malpel (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), and Céline Trautmann-Waller (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle / IUF), in association with Bérose – International Encyclopedia of the Histories of Anthropology.
Location: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France (online).
Dates: July 8–9, 2021 (presentation on July 8, 2021).

2021
Southeast Asia and Anthropologists from Vienna during the Nazi Years (SEAINDO Group).
(with Andre Gingrich).
ISA Online Guest Lecture.
Location: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Date: May 27, 2021.

2020
Ethnology during Austria’s Interwar Period: Academic Interactions with Church and Politics.
ISA Online Research Forum, Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA/OeAW).
Location: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Date: September 10, 2020.

2020
Folklore Studies for the Waffen-SS: Caucasus and “Turkestan” Research from Vienna at the End of the Second World War.
Conference: EASA2020 – New Anthropological Horizons in and beyond Europe.
Panel P049: Uncomfortable Ancestors: Anthropology (Not) Dealing with Totalitarian Regimes.
Location: University of Lisbon, Portugal (online).
Dates: July 21–24, 2020.

2019
Field Research among the “Bambuti Pygmies”: The Debate on “Mixed Race” and “Blood Purity” between Paul J. Schebesta and Martin Gusinde.
GAA Conference.
Location: University of Konstanz, Germany.
Date: September 30, 2019.

2019
History of Caucasus and “Turkestan” Research in Vienna during the Nazi Period.
Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Location: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Date: May 22, 2019 (Tullnerbach retreat).

2019
The Influence of the Hamitic Hypothesis on the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt.
Research history platform: Archaeology and Republic: Reflections on Archaeology in Austria in the First and Second Republics.
Location: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria (OREA).
Dates: January 31–February 1, 2019 (presentation on February 1, 2019).

2018
The Racial Debate in the Roman Curia: New Research on the Planned Encyclical against Racism.
International congress: Church, Fascism, and Jews: The Turning Point of 1938.
Location: Rome, Italy.
Dates: November 19–20, 2018 (presentation on November 20, 2018).

2018
The Role of the Hamitic Thesis in Prehistoric Egypt.
International workshop: Prehistory and History—Reflections on German Prehistoric Research in Egypt in the 20th Century.
Location: German Archaeological Institute, Cairo, Egypt.
Dates: November 16–18, 2018 (presentation on November 16, 2018).

2018
Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis from the Perspective of Father Wilhelm Schmidt: New Insights into a Longstanding Ethnological Debate on Religion.
GAA Conference: Religion and Culture: Historical Perspectives.
Location: University of Halle/Saale, Germany.
Dates: November 1–2, 2018 (presentation on November 2, 2018).

2018
Robert von Heine-Geldern, Egon von Eickstedt, and the “Aryan Question,” 1935–1938.
Symposium: Lived Interdisciplinarity: Robert von Heine-Geldern—Life and Work.
Location: Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria.
Date: October 25, 2018.

2018
“Personnel Changes”: Vienna Völkerkunde and the “Anschluss,” 1938.
Wednesday Seminar, commemorative year 1938/2018.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: March 14, 2018.

2018
Seligman, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Race Debate, 1930–1945.
RAI Research Seminar.
Location: Royal Anthropological Institute, London, United Kingdom.
Date: April 25, 2018.
Link: https://therai.org.uk/events/rai-research-seminar-peter-rohrbacher/

2017
German Missionary Initiatives in Rome: The Campo Santo Teutonico as a German Place in Rome, 1870–1918.
Conference: Papacy and Patriotism, marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Anton de Waal.
Location: Vatican City, Campo Santo Teutonico.
Dates: November 22–25, 2017 (presentation on November 23, 2017).

2017
The Beginnings of Old Mexican Studies in Austria, 1910–1945.
GAA Conference 2017.
Location: Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Date: October 5, 2017.

2017
Vienna Ethnology in the Nazi Era: Father Wilhelm Koppers, 1938–1945.
Wednesday Lectures.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: May 3, 2017.

2016
“Funding without Application”: Dominik Josef Wölfel and Canary Islands Research, 1938–1945.
GAA Interim Conference, Working Group History of Anthropology.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: December 9, 2016.

2016
Diffusionism in the Context of National Socialism.
Guest lecture, Introduction to the History of Anthropology (Course 240010; Instructor: Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger).
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: June 16, 2016.

2016
Father Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD, in Exile: Wehrmacht Deserters and Intelligence Services, 1943–1945.
Research colloquium organized by Bettina Beer.
Location: University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
Date: May 18, 2016.

2016
Father Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD, in Swiss Exile: Interactions with Wehrmacht Deserters and Intelligence Services during the Second World War (1943–1945).
Organized by the Anthropological Society in Vienna.
Location: Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria.
Date: March 16, 2016.
Link: http://ag-wien.org/

2015
“Anthropos”: The Personal Network of Fr. Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD, in Swiss Exile.
GAA Conference, Workshop 52: Teaching, Research, and Survival in Exile: The Emigration of German and Austrian Ethnologists Forced by National Socialism from 1933 Onward.
Location: University of Marburg, Germany.
Date: October 2, 2015.

2015
Scientific Racism—Historical Overview: Origins and Discourses.
Guest lecture, Introduction to Colonialism, Racism, and Ethnicity (Course 240008; Instructor: Ulrike Davis-Sulikowski).
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: June 8, 2015.

2015
The “Race Debate” at the Curia in the Context of Mit brennender Sorge.
International conference: Catholicism, Racisms, and Totalitarianisms: The Encyclical “Mit brennender Sorge”.
Location: Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.
Date: June 4, 2015.

2015
“Swastika Research”: New Insights from the Papers of Friedrich Röck.
10th Days of Social and Cultural Anthropology 2015, Workshop 16: Vienna Ethnology in the Nazi Era.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: April 23, 2015.

2015
Diffusionism.
Guest lecture, Introduction to the History of Anthropology (Course 240015; Instructor: Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger).
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: April 20, 2015.

2014
Ignaz Zollschan’s “Race Inquiry” (Vienna, 1934): An International Network to Combat Nazi Racial Doctrine.
9th Days of Social and Cultural Anthropology 2014, Workshop 8: Vienna Anthropologies.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: May 15, 2014.

2014
The Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, Pacelli, and the Steyl Missionaries.
International conference: The Vatican and the “Race Debate” in the Interwar Period.
Location: Vatican City, Campo Santo Teutonico.
Date: February 22, 2014.

2013
The Changing Concepts of Human Diversity in Africa during the 20th Century.
Location: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany.
Date: February 21, 2013.

2012
Austrian Missionary Experts as Curial Advisors in the “Race Debate.”
Final conference of the research project Pius XI and Austria.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Historical Theology, Austria.
Date: November 22, 2012.

2012
“Hamitic Migrations”: The Prehistory of Africa between Fiction and Reality.
Workshop: On the Migration of Peoples: Representations and Narratives of Migrations in Ancient Studies.
Cluster of Excellence TOPOI, Cross-Sectional Group V.
Location: Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Date: October 12, 2012.

2012
“Light-Skinned Hamites”: Hermann Junker and the Reorientation of Hamitic Studies in Vienna, 1919–1945.
Egypt and Austria Lecture Series.
Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria.
Date: April 26, 2012.

2011
The Contribution of African Intermediaries in the Early Phase of Austrian African Studies.
Conference: Histoire interculturelle de l’Africanisme Allemand.
Organized by UMR 8547 Pays germaniques – transferts culturels (ANR-DFG Transnat).
Location: German Historical Institute Paris, France.
Date: March 18, 2011.

2010
Dominik Josef Wölfel (1888–1963): A Vienna Linguist and Ethnologist between Resistance and Adaptation in the Nazi Era.
6th Days of Social and Cultural Anthropology: Fieldwork in the Archives—Historical-Anthropological Research in Vienna.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: April 22, 2010.

2009
(with Clemens Gütl) Research on the Development of Austrian African Studies: An Interim Assessment.
Workshop: University in the 20th Century—History of Science in Context.
Forum Contemporary History of the University of Vienna.
Workshop II: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches.
Location: University of Vienna, Aula at the Campus, Austria.
Date: December 4, 2009.

2009
(with Clemens Gütl and Birgit Pack) Creating Knowledge in the Context of Colonialism and the Totalitarian State: Methodological Reflections on Biographical Research in Austrian African Studies (Albert Drexel, Robert Stigler, Hermann Junker).
5th Days of Social and Cultural Anthropology: Biographical Research—An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Methods and Practice.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Date: April 23, 2009.

Organized academic conferences and workshops

2023
(with Katja Geisenhainer, Oliver Loeb, and Karoline Noack)
Workshop: Historical and Current Knowledge Production and Knowledge Transfer in Anthropology.
Working Group Museum and Working Group History of Anthropology.
GAA Conference: Contested Knowledge: Ethnological Perspectives.
Location: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany (hybrid).
Dates: July 25–28, 2023.

2022
(with Katja Geisenhainer)
Prevention and Rejection: Historical Authority Structures in Anthropology and Their Influence on Internal and Public Discourses.
GAA Interim Conference, Working Group History of Anthropology.
Location: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany (hybrid).
Date: September 8, 2022.

2021
(with Katja Geisenhainer, Oliver Loeb, and Karoline Noack)
Workshop 6: Colonialism and Racism, Salvage Anthropology, Cultural Property Protection, and Decolonization.
Working Group Museum and Working Group History of Anthropology.
GAA Conference: Worlds. Zones. Atmospheres. Seismographies of the Anthropocene.
Location: University of Bremen, Germany (online).
Dates: September 27–30, 2021.

2021
(with Katja Geisenhainer)
Workshop: The Interdisciplinary Orientation of German-Language Anthropology in the First Half of the 20th Century.
GAA Working Group History of Anthropology.
Location: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Social Anthropology, Vienna, Austria (online).
Date: March 19, 2021.

2016
(with Peter Schweitzer and Marie-France Chevron)
Workshop: Why the History of Anthropology—and Who Should Write It? Social and Cultural Anthropology and Its Relationship to Its Own History and to the Historical Sciences.
GAA Working Group History of Anthropology.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Dates: December 9–10, 2016.

2015
Workshop: History of Anthropology: Vienna Ethnology under National Socialism—Problems in the Interpretation of Nazi Sources.
Location: University of Vienna, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Austria.
Dates: April 23–25, 2015.

2014
Conference: The Vatican and the “Race Debate” in the Interwar Period (Pontificate of Pius XI, 1922–1939).
Organized with Thomas Brechenmacher (Professor of Modern History, German-Jewish History, University of Potsdam) in cooperation with the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (RIGG).
Location: Vatican City, Campo Santo Teutonico.
Dates: February 21–22, 2014.