Mag. Till Hilmar, MA MPhil PhD
Till Hilmar

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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

Hilmar, T. (2020). Links to the Past, Bridges for the Present? Recognition Among Memory Organizations in a European Network. In A. Sierp, & J. Wüstenberg (Eds.), Agency in European Memory (pp. 241-260). Berghahn Books.

Hilmar, T. (2019). Bringing the 'East' back in? Relational Historiography at the House of European History in Brussels. In M. Wakounig, & F. Kühnel (Eds.), Approaching East-Central Europe over the Centuries LIT Verlag. Europa Orientalis Vol. 19


Hilmar, T. (2018). Fremdheit als Vertrauensfrage. Soziologische Perspektiven. In G. Tidona (Ed.), Fremdheit: Xenologische Ansätze und ihre Relevanz für die Bildungsfrage (pp. 93-102). Mattes Verlag. Diskurs Bildung : Schriftenreihe der Pädagogischen Hochschule Heidelberg Vol. 61




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Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

16 Mar 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Till Hilmar (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)

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

18 Oct 202319 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Social memory and wealth mythologies

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

27 Sep 202329 Sep 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Social Memory of Economic Ruptures

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

20 Sep 202323 Sep 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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

5 Oct 20227 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Leistungsgefühle und Brüche in Sozialbeziehungen post-1989

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

26 Sep 202227 Sep 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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

23 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (Speaker) & Patrick Sachweh (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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

31 Aug 20213 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

31 Aug 20213 Sep 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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

6 Aug 202110 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Wealth and social memory: Convergences and contestations

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

20 Sep 202024 Sep 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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

3 Sep 20204 Sep 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

6 Feb 20207 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


1989 als „Pionierzeit“ oder als „Verrat“?

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

15 Mar 201918 Mar 2019

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

Till Hilmar (Speaker)

15 Feb 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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