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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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Round Table: Holocaust Distortion. Contested Memory in Europe
   

Monday, 5. June 2023, 18:30 - 20:00

Jewish Museum Vienna 1010 Vienna, Dorotheergasse 11

 

RT Holocaust DistortionThe Holocaust serves as the political, cultural and moral anchor for addressing forms of exclusionary nationalism, antisemitism, racism, and genocide after 1945. Yet, the meaning of the Holocaust in the collective memory of many nation states is changing and has become subject to contestation or distortion.

Distortion of the Holocaust means rhetoric, written work or other media that excuse, minimise or misrepresent the known historical record. However, any distortion, whether intentional or not, feeds into antisemitic narratives and can lead to more violent forms of antisemitism. In this sense, as Historian and International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Honorary Chairman, Yehuda Bauer notes, “a half truth is worse than a full lie.”

This Round Table, organised by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, the Jewish Museum Vienna and the Jean Monnet Network “European Memory Politics” at the University of Victoria, Canada, will address the contested memory of the Holocaust, Holocaust distortion and its meaning in contemporary debates in various national contexts. Experts will focus on Austria, Hungary, the post-Yugoslav space and Poland.

Welcome:
Barbara Staudinger, Director of the Jewish Museum Vienna
Moritz Wein, Austrian Federal Ministery for Education, Science and Research

Experts on the Panel:
Jochen Böhler on the case of Poland, Historian, Director of the VWI
Helga Embacher on the case of Austria, Historian, Professor at the University of Salzburg
Éva Kovács on the case of Hungary, Sociologist, Deputy Director for Academic Affairs at the VWI
Ljiljana Radonić on the case of the post-Yugoslav space, Political Scientist, Vice-Director of the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Chair:
Matt James, Political Scientist, Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada

Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by latest 2 June, 12.00 am.

By participating in this event, you consent to the publication of photos, video and audio recordings that are made during the event.

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