Reopening on 8 February
From 8 February 2021, the VWI's archive and library are accessible again. Registration via telephone or e-mail is required since the reading room allows only one person at the same time.
The museum can be accessed by a maximum of two people at the same time. In all cases a FFP2-mask is mandatory and also the minimum distance of two metres has to be guaranteed.
Events
The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) organises academic events in order to provide the broader public as well as an expert audience with regular insights into the most recent research results in the fields of Holocaust, genocide, and racism research. These events, some of which extend beyond academia in the stricter sense, take on different formats ranging from small lectures to the larger Simon Wiesenthal Lectures and from workshops addressing an expert audience to larger international conferences and the Simon Wiesenthal Conferences. This reflects the institute’s wide range of activities.
The range of events further extends to the presentation of selected new publications on the institute’s topics of interest, interventions in the public space, the film series VWI Visuals, and the fellows’ expert colloquia.
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Call for Papers: The Forensic Turn in Holocaust Studies? (Re-) Thinking the Past Through Materiality | |||
From Friday, 13. March 2015 - 00:00
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International workshop organised by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) Vienna, 25-26 June 2015 Click here to download the Call for Papers as a PDF file.
Centred on material traces of genocidal violence, such as spatial structures, physical remnants, mass graves and human remains, the 'forensic turn' could be seen as a response to the gradual passing away of Holocaust victims. At the same time, it reflects broader changes in practical and conceptual approaches to legacies of (genocidal) violence across cultures and geographies brought about by the urge for historiographical, historical, ancestral and personal clarifications, quests for justice or processes of reconciliation in its aftermath. Facilitating exchange between archaeological methods, historiographical research, political interventions, and commemorative practices at the places marked by difficult pasts, the development of genocide and Holocaust archaeologies also necessitates transdisciplinary research on the intersections between their material, spatial, narrative and political dimensions. The interest in materialities and spatialities of genocidal violence opens, therefore, space for new theoretical and ethical questions, methodological perspectives and research topics. Taking as a vantage point debates surrounding archaeological research at post-Holocaust landscapes, the workshop aims to provide a comparative view of Holocaust archaeologies within a broader framework of the 'forensic turn' in Europe and beyond. The reflection on former Yugoslavian, Spanish or Greek examples, as well as on the outcomes of the excavations undertaken, for instance, in Cambodia or in Stalinist sites of mass murder, could possibly contribute to the critical elaboration of the questions arising in the face of these newly investigated sites.
The workshop organisers are inviting suggestions for discussion contributions on the subject of the questions cited above, contributions that intervene in the existing mind-sets and practices and create an awareness of existing logics and routines in order to open these up, or new perspectives and reformulations.
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