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The Simon Wiesenthal lecture series takes place regularly every six to eight weeks and aims to present the latest research findings on the Holocaust to both a professional and a broader audience. They take into account the impressive spectrum of this discipline, the numerous questions and issues from empirical-analytical historiography to topics of cultural studies and involve young scholars as well as established academics.

 

Since 2007, when the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) was still being established, the lecture series – at that time in cooperation with the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) and the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna– has developed into the flagship of the VWI's outreach activities as a supporting element in the communication of recent academic findings in the field of Holocaust research and Holocaust and genocide studies.

 

For over a decade, the Austrian State Archives generously offered shelter to the Simon Wiesenthal Lectures in the roof foyer of the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv. During the challenging years of the pandemic, the lectures were held online. From autumn 2022, in order to reach out to further audiences, a new cooperation partner was found in the Wien Museum. Until the reopening of the main location at Karlsplatz, the SWL will take place at MUSA, Felderstraße 6-8, next to the Vienna City Hall.

 

 

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Simon Wiesenthal Lecture
Tim Cole: Holocaust Landscapes: Mapping ghettoization in Hungary
   

Thursday, 16. February 2012, 18:30

Dachfoyer des Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchivs, Minoritenplatz 1, 1010 Wien

 

This lecture seeks to examine both the wartime mapping out of ghettos by local officials, and the contemporary mapping of ghettoization by the academic researcher as a way to uncover the shifting motivations and experiences of both Jews and non-Jews during the Holocaust in Hungary. In part, the lecture seeks to contribute to recent scholarship on the Hungarian Holocaust by examining the complex involvement of local officials in implementing crucial elements such as the concentration of Jews. But the lecture also seeks to ask broader methodological questions by considering the potential of the so-called ‘spatial turn’ in the ‘digital humanities’ to ask-and answer-new questions. In short, the lecture seeks to explore whether geographical approaches have the potential to contribute to the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust Studies in general and study of the ghettoization in particular.

Tim Cole teaches history at the University of Bristol in the UK. He is the author of Images of the Holocaust/Selling the Holocaust (1999), Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto (2003) and Traces of the Holocaust: Journeying in and out of the Ghettos (2011). The latter two books explore the spatiality of ghettoization in Budapest and social histories of the Holocaust in Hungary respectively. He is currently working on a new book provisionally entitled Holocaust Landscapes that explores the places and spaces where the Holocaust was enacted, experienced and evaded and has been variously remembered and forgotten in the post-war world. He is involved in co-leading an international research group that applies geographical methodologies and approaches to studying the Holocaust, and is a co-editor of a forthcoming volume on Geographies of the Holocaust.

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