Mag. Till Hilmar, MA MPhil PhD
Till Hilmar

Consultation hours: Appointments are arranged via email

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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., 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












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CIDAPE: Climate, Inequality, and Democratic Action: The Force of Political Emotions

Durnová, A. (Project Lead), Hilmar, T. (Project Staff), Lind, F. (Project Staff), Schäfer, S. H. (Project Staff), Herzog, S. (Project Staff), Zeberer, Z. (Project Staff), Ebner, V. (Project Staff) & Boomgaarden, H. (Project Staff)

1/01/2431/12/27

Project: Research funding


Societalizing the energy crisis: How Germany’s and Austria’s far right delegitimized support for Ukraine after February 24, 2022

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

24 Oct 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Erinnerte Resilienz und ihre sozialen Konsequenzen. Der Umgang mit Abwertungsdynamiken in der ostdeutschen Transformation

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

3 Oct 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gedächtnis als Wissensordnung: Transitionen in Schockmomenten am Beispiel der russischen Invasion der Ukraine 2022

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

23 Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

12 Sept 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Climate Boundaries: Linking Emotional Dimensions of the Relational Foundations of Solidarity to Civil Sphere Theory

Durnová, A. (Contributor), Hilmar, T. (Contributor) & Herzog, S. (Speaker)

9 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Climate boundaries: How affective notions of “us” and “them” in the climate crisis are linked to broader narratives about the future

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

4 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

2 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Inszenierung von Krisen in der digitalen politischen Kommuni- kation: Eine Analyse österreichischer Politiker:innentweets

Schmid, J. (Speaker), Hilmar, T. (Speaker) & Herzog, S. (Speaker)

2 Jul 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The moral economy of fuel prices

Hilmar, T. (Speaker) & Westheuser, L. (Speaker)

17 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Popularity on Social Media During the EU Election 2024: A Computational Analysis of Climate-Related Policy Salience Across Platform and EU Member States

Ebner, V. (Speaker), Lind, F. (Contributor), Habelitz, N. (Contributor), Blum, S. (Contributor), Hilmar, T. (Contributor), Coufal, L. (Contributor), Gazo, P. (Contributor), Marling, R. (Contributor), Soosaar, S. (Contributor) & Zelinsky, D. (Contributor)

12 Jun 202516 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Economic devaluation and moral economies in Central Eastern Europe after 1989

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

9 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


A cultural sociology of climate justice

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

7 Feb 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

19 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

1 Dec 20244 Dec 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

15 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Who's afraid of Central Eastern Europe?

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

10 Oct 202411 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Cognitive and interpretive pathways in digital memory research

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

29 Aug 202430 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

27 Aug 202429 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

9 Aug 202413 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

27 Jun 202429 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

27 Jun 202429 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

29 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

16 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

15 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

16 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

18 Oct 202319 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Social memory and wealth mythologies

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

6 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

27 Sept 202329 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Social Memory of Economic Ruptures

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

20 Sept 202323 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

5 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

4 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

9 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

5 Oct 20227 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Leistungsgefühle und Brüche in Sozialbeziehungen post-1989

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

26 Sept 202227 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

23 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

9 Jul 202211 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker) & Sachweh, P. (Speaker)

10 Mar 202211 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

11 Nov 202114 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

31 Aug 20213 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

31 Aug 20213 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

25 Aug 202127 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

6 Aug 202110 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wealth and social memory: Convergences and contestations

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

5 Jul 20219 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

2 Jul 20215 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

20 Sept 202024 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

3 Sept 20204 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

6 Feb 20207 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


1989 als „Pionierzeit“ oder als „Verrat“?

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

19 Nov 201920 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

10 Nov 201912 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

28 Oct 201930 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

9 Aug 201913 Aug 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

26 Jun 201928 Jun 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Hilmar, T. (Speaker)

15 Mar 201918 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of Sociology

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1090 Wien
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till.hilmar@univie.ac.at