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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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+++ Cancelled +++ Rasa Baločkaitė: Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Perpetrators in Lithuania. Dealing With Family Pasts
   

Thursday, 19. March 2020, 15:00 - 16:30

1010 Vienna, Rabensteig 3, Research Lounge, 3rd Floor

 

VWI invites Marcus J. Carney.

BalockaiteIn Western Europe, there is a large body of research on how the Holocaust affected several generations, not only the families of survivors, but families of the perpetrators as well. In Lithuania, the issue remained taboo for many years. Following the Second World War, the Holocaust perpetrators were sentenced by the occupying Soviet forces, the defendants were framed as traitors to the Soviet Union and as enemies of the Soviet people, and their families were often subjected to poverty and insecurity. Haunted by the threat of further stigmatisation, families either chose to remain silent or defended themselves from pain by developing different kinds of myths where the guilty remained innocent. After the declaration of Lithuanian independence in 1990, many Holocaust perpetrators were rehabilitated in a hurry as “sentenced unjustly by the occupational regime” only later, when their crimes came to daylight, to be de-rehabilitated again, leaving families in confusion. How did ancestors of Holocaust perpetrators deal with their family past? The question was opened recently by Arkadijus Vinokuras in We Did not Murder (2017) and to some extent by Rūta Vanagaitė in Our People (2016). The materials presented in both volumes, plus extra material such as children and grandchildren’s letters to the Supreme Court and the stories narrated during interviews, reveal how families coped with uneasy pasts either through silence or self-deception, how families decided to accept the truth, and what happens when they do.

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Rasa Baločkaitė is Associate Professor of Sociology at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. Her scholarly interests include Soviet and post-Soviet societies and societies in transition. Baločkaitė has published in leading scholarly journals such as Problems of Post Communism (2009), the Journal of Baltic Studies (2011), Language Policy (2014), and the European History Quarterly (2015), among others. Her research paper Between Mimesis and Non Existence (2008) was made into the film Syndromes of Mimicry by Anastasia Pirozhenko (2016).

Marcus J. Carney is a US-Austrian writer-director (Mag. art., MDW University), researcher and SySt® certified practitioner. His feature-length film The End of the Neubacher Project was invited to numerous film festivals, broadcast throughout Europe and presented at the Museum of Modern Art (NY). In 2017, he held a teaching assignment at Witten/Herdecke University. Publications: Representative Perception and Related Phenomena in the Modeling Methodology ‘Systemic Structural Constellations’, conference contribution, Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies – 3rd Avant Conference – Understanding Social Cognition, Lublin, 2017. Letting Show.... Transverbal Migrations between Theorizing & Practice, conference contribution, IS4IS Summit, DTMD stream, Technical University of Vienna, 2015. The End of the Neubacher Project, feature-length film, 74 min., 35mm, Dolby Digital, 2006.Photo: © Rūta Stepanovaitė

After the lecture, we will screen the movie The End of the Neubacher Project by Marcus J. Carney.

Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by latest 18 March, 12.00 am and bring your ID.

Click here to download the invitation as a PDF file.

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