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Mag. Till Hilmar, MA MPhil PhD
Till Hilmar
T: +43-1-4277-49227
https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/personen/personalverzeichnis/detailansicht-personalverzeichnis/user/tillh22/inum/1125/backpid/83313/

Consultation hours: Appointments are arranged via email

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Paolillo, R., Hilmar, T., & Sachweh, P. (2025). Contingencies of Solidarity: Comparing Twitter\X Discourses in Italy and Germany during the COVID-19 Crisis. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804241306383
Abramowski, R., & Hilmar, T. (2025). #moralischverletzt – Berufsethische Ansprüche und die Artikulation kollektiver Ungerechtigkeitserfahrungen von Pflegekräften während der Coronapandemie. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 54(1), 29-46. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2025-2005
Hilmar, T. (2024). The Turncoat as a Social Form: Tracing Everyday Moral Grammars of Justice in Post-1989 East Germany and Czechia. In Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction Purdue University Press. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/ces/9/
Hilmar, T. (2024). Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany. Journal of Social Policy, Article 2400009. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279424000096
Hilmar, T., Kesane, I., Margies, N., & Verbalyte, M. (2024). Deep Transformations: Lived Experiences and Emotions in Social Change Narratives. Cultural Sociology, 18(2), 181-198. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755241233619
Ulinskaite, J., Hilmar, T., & Verbalyte, M. (2024). Emotions in a Time of Radical Change: Untangling Narratives of Pride and Achievements in Post-1989/1991 Lithuania and East Germany. Cultural Sociology, 18(2), 258-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755241231059
Haag, H., & Hilmar, T. (Eds.) (2024). Erinnerung des Umbruchs, Umbruch der Erinnerung: Die Nachwendezeit im deutschen und ostmitteleuropäischen Gedächtnis. Springer VS. Soziales Gedächtnis, Erinnern und Vergessen – Memory Studies https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42651-4
Hilmar, T. (2024). Technik und Moral statt Politik: Ostdeutsche und tschechische Ingenieur:innen erinnern die Nachwendezeit. In T. Hilmar, & H. Haag (Eds.), Erinnerung des Umbruchs, Umbruch der Erinnerung Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42651-4_8
Haag, H., & Hilmar, T. (2024). Einleitung – Introduction: Erinnerung der Transformation. Transformation der Erinnerung – Memories of Transformation, Transformations of Memory. In Soziales Gedächtnis, Erinnern und Vergessen – Memory Studies https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42651-4_1
Hilmar, T. (2023). Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain. Columbia University Press.
Hilmar, T. (2023). Restoring economic pride? How right-wing populists moralize economic change. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 31(2), 291-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2056729
Hilmar, T., & Sachweh, P. (2022). Poison to the economy.” (Un-)taxing the wealthy in the German federal parliament from 1996 to 2016. Social Justice Research, 35(4), 462–489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-021-00383-y
Hilmar, T. (2022). Book Review: Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson. Acta Sociologica. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221136028
Hilmar, T., Paolillo, R., & Sachweh, P. (2022). Contagious economic failure? Discourses around “zombie firms” in Covid-19 ridden Germany and Italy. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/wypmf
Hilmar, T. (2022). Fragile bonds of recognition: Exploring the social underpinnings of sentiments of exclusion in post-1989 East Germany. European Journal of Sociology, 63(2), 247-278. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975622000236
Hilmar, T. (2021). Culture in network breaks: Tie dissolution as a vehicle of justice. Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts, 87, Article 101528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101528
Hilmar, T. (2021). Class and Memory Activism. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/sb3n7
Hilmar, T. (2021). “Economic Memories” of the Aftermath of the 1989 Revolutions in East Germany and the Czech Republic. East European politics and societies and cultures : EEPS, 35(1), 89-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325420902248
Hilmar, T. (2021). Sich treu geblieben? Symbolische Grenzziehungen in inner-ostdeutschen Sozialgefügen vor dem Hintergrund des Nachwendeschocks. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 50(2), 131-152. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2021-0010
Hilmar, T., & Sachweh, P. (2020). Moral economy: moral forces in economic activity. In M. Zafirowski (Ed.), A Modern Guide to Economic Sociology Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789901313.00013
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Climate boundaries: How affective notions of “us” and “them” in the climate crisis are linked to broader narratives about the future

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

4 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Climate Boundaries: Wie affektive Vorstellungen von „wir“ und „die anderen“ in der Klimakrise mit Ungleichheitsemotionen verknüpft sind

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

2 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The moral economy of fuel prices

Till Hilmar (Speaker) & Linus Westheuser (Speaker)

17 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Economic devaluation and moral economies in Central Eastern Europe after 1989

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

9 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

A cultural sociology of climate justice

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

7 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Who is “Us” and “Them” in the Climate Crisis? A Comparative Sociological View on Austria and Slovakia

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

19 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Economic memories and the far right’s discourse on climate change

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

1 Dec 2024 → 4 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Ökonomische Narrative: Ein sozial-semiotischer Ansatz zur Analyse der wahrgenommenen sozialen Auswirkungen wirtschaftlicher Prozesse

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

15 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Who's afraid of Central Eastern Europe?

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

10 Oct 2024 → 11 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Cognitive and interpretive pathways in digital memory research

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

29 Aug 2024 → 30 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Climate Boundaries: Tracing the Social Bases Behind Climate "Culture Wars"

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

27 Aug 2024 → 29 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Economic Narratives: A social semiotics approach to understanding the perceived social outcomes of economic processes

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

9 Aug 2024 → 13 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Climate policies and frameworks of social risk: Target group constructions around "green policies" in the US and Europe

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

27 Jun 2024 → 29 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

27 Jun 2024 → 29 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

29 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Economic Change, skills, and the shifting horizons of social recognition: East German and Czech care workers remember the disruptive 1990s

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

16 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Signifying the Present in Links to the Past: How Memory Networks React to the February 24, 2022 Russian Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

15 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Deserved. Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain (Author-Meets-Critics)

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

16 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Exploring Shifts in European Memory After the 2022 Russian attack on Ukraine

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

18 Oct 2023 → 19 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Social memory and wealth mythologies

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

6 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Die soziale Erinnerung an wirtschaftliche Brüche: Kleine und große Erzählungen über die post-1989 Periode in Ostdeutschland und der Tschechischen Republik

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

27 Sept 2023 → 29 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Social Memory of Economic Ruptures

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

20 Sept 2023 → 23 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Economic change, skills and the shifting horizons of social recognition: East German and Czech care workers remember the disruptive 1990s

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

5 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Die Wahrnehmung und Deutung ökonomischer Transformationen im Kontext der Klimakrise – affektive und erinnerungsspezifische Dimensionen

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

4 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

„Climate Boundaries“ – eine Konzeptionalisierung und Analyse symbolischer Grenzziehungen in deutschsprachigen Twitter-Debatten rund um die Klimakrise

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

3 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Meaning from Relationships. Analyzing claim-making around pandemic economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed on German Twitter

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

9 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

“Poison to the economy.” (Un-)taxing the wealthy in the German federal parliament from 1996 to 2016

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

5 Oct 2022 → 7 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Leistungsgefühle und Brüche in Sozialbeziehungen post-1989

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

26 Sept 2022 → 27 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Organization and introduction to the panel, “Fragmentierte Erinnerungen – Fragmentierte Gesellschaften? Polarisierte Gedächtnisse der postsozialistischen Transformation in Ostdeutschland und Osteuropa“

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

26 Sept 2022 → 30 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

“Productive labor” after 1989? Health care worker’s economic memories of deindustrializing East Germany and the Czech Republic

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

23 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Productive Labor’ after 1989? A View from Health Care Workers in Deindustrializing East Germany

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

9 Jul 2022 → 11 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Contagious economic failure? Discourses around ‘zombie firms’ in Covid-19 ridden Germany and Italy

Till Hilmar (Speaker) & Patrick Sachweh (Speaker)

10 Mar 2022 → 11 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Crisis Tropes: What cultural ideas about economic change in post-1989 Central Eastern Europe can teach us about the global rupture of 2020

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

11 Nov 2021 → 14 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Layers of Exclusion. Tracing Sentiments of Social Misrecognition in Biographical Narratives of the Post-1989 Period

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

31 Aug 2021 → 3 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Post-1989 narratives of loss and resilience among East German and Czech care workers

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

31 Aug 2021 → 3 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Wer ‚verdient‘ Corona-Hilfen? Eine mixed-methods Analyse von Twitterdaten in der deutschen und US-amerikanischen Debatte über staatliche Rettungsmaßnahmen

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

25 Aug 2021 → 27 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Moral economy and the social semiotics of the Covid-19 crisis

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

6 Aug 2021 → 10 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Wealth and social memory: Convergences and contestations

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

5 Jul 2021 → 9 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

From moral economy to a social semiotics of rupture: Temporal apprehensions of the Covid-19 crisis

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

2 Jul 2021 → 5 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Verletzungen der ‚ökonomischen Identität‘: Ostdeutsche und tschechische Transformationserfahrungen post-1989 im Vergleich

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

20 Sept 2020 → 24 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Economic Memories of the Aftermath of the 1989 Revolutions in East Germany and the Czech Republic

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

3 Sept 2020 → 4 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Reevaluating Tie Dissolution: Evidence from the East German Transformation post-1989

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

6 Feb 2020 → 7 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

1989 als „Pionierzeit“ oder als „Verrat“?

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

19 Nov 2019 → 20 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Die moralisch-ökonomische Last der Nachwendezeit: Freundschaftsbeziehungen als Prisma der Erinnerung

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

10 Nov 2019 → 12 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Drawing Moral Lessons from Economic Transformations: Economic Memory, Deservingness and Social Relations in post-1989 (East) Germany and the Czech Republic

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

28 Oct 2019 → 30 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Deserved Economic Outcomes, Deserved Social Ties: Culture, Inequality and Friendship in Post-socialist East German after 1989

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

9 Aug 2019 → 13 Aug 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Populism, Memory and ‘Market Justice’ after 1989: East Germany and the Czech Republic Compared

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

26 Jun 2019 → 28 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Social Ties, Friendship and Moral Views of Market Society: Evidence from East Germany post-1989

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

15 Mar 2019 → 18 Mar 2019

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Department of Sociology

Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.234

T: +43-1-4277-49227

till.hilmar@univie.ac.at