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Cycle of VWI Fellows’ Colloquia
The VWI fellows present their intermediary research results in the context of colloquia which are announced to a small audience and are open to a public audience with an academic and topical interest. The lectures are complemented by a response or commentary by an expert in the given field and are discussed with the other fellows.
Due to the previous lack of an appropriate space, the colloquia were held at other Viennese research and cultural institutions with a topical or regional connection to the given subject. From this circumstance was born the “VWI goes to …” format.
With the move to a new institute building at Rabensteig 3, the spatial circumstances have changed, so that the VWI is now happily able to invite other research and cultural institutions. Therefore, the VWI is now conducting its colloquia both externally and within its own building, in the framework of continued co-operation with other institutions.
The new cycle of fellows’ colloquia “VWI invites/goes to …” is not only able to reach a broader circle of interested persons, but moreover integrates the VWI further into the Viennese scholarly establishment, perhaps even crossing borders into the greater regional research landscape.
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| Lovro Kralj: Paving the Road of Death. Antisemitism in the Ustasha Movement 1929–1945 | |||
Wednesday, 15. January 2020, 15:00 - 17:00 Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, Research Lounge 1010 Vienna, Rabensteig 3, 3rd Floor
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VWI invites the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Commented by Ljiljana Radonić Lovro Kralj specialises in the fields of fascism, antisemitism, and Holocaust studies, with a geographic focus on Central and Southeastern Europe. In 2015, he started his PhD at the Central Eu-ropean University. Kralj has participated and presented at more than twenty international workshops and conferences, including Lessons & Legacies. He has received multiple fellowships, including the Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust from the Holocaust Educational Foundation and a Junior Fellowship at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. Ljiljana Radonić heads an ERC project entitled Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She wrote her habilitation on World War II in Post-Communist Memorial Museums at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Her PhD dealt with the War on Memory. Croatian Memory Politics between Revisionism and European Standards, Frankfurt 2010. Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by latest 14 January, 12.00 am and bring your ID! Click here to download the invitation as a PDF file. In cooperation with |
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This presentation reinterprets the importance of antisemitism in the fascist Croatian Ustasha movement. Given the fact that the Ustasha ideological core was initially not antisemitic, questions as to why and how they adopted antisemitism have not been adequately answered to date. In this presentation, Kralj will challenge historiographical interpretations which reduce Ustasha antisemitism to a mere imitation of Nazism as well as the arguments that the Ustashe only participated in the Holocaust because of German pressure or appeasement. Kralj argues that the Ustashe adopted antisemitism as a key tool in the fascistisation of its ideology. The adoption of anti-communism, anti-capitalism, anti-democratic, and other attitudes were so closely intertwined with antisemitism that it became one of the main tools of ideology-building in the period from 1935 to 1940. Kralj will examine the interdependence of antisemitism and fascistisation through a quantitative analysis of Croatian National Socialist, clerical, nationalist, and Ustasha press in the period from 1929 to 1945.
