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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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| Lukas Nievoll: Spatialising the Camp. Representations of Space and Practices of Violence in the Narratives of Former Prisoners of Gusen Concentration Camp | |||
Wednesday, 29. June 2022, 15:00 - 17:00 Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83376658694?pwd=VXRXSXBGa1JLdFFTZ3YvSS9IY1hQQT09
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VWI invites the University of Bern
Commented by Regina Fritz Lukas Nievoll is currently a Junior Fellow at the VWI. He is a university assistant at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary History at Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he is also completing his Ph.D. dealing with Space and Violence at Gusen Concentration Camp. Since 2021, he has also been a Doctoral Fellow at the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah in Paris. From 2019 to 2021, Lukas Nievoll worked at the Center for Jewish Studies at Karl Franzens University Graz in the research project Digital Memory Landscape – Persecution and Resistance under National Socialism. Regina Fritz is a Postdoc Assistant at the Department of History, University of Bern. Her research deals with the history of Hungary and Austria in the 20th century with a particular focus on the interwar period, National Socialism, and the Holocaust. She was co-editor of the volumes Gefangen in Mauthausen (2021) and Mauthausen und die nationalsozialistische Expansions- und Verfolgungspolitik (2021) and editor of Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945, Band 15: Ungarn 1944-1945 (2021). https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83376658694?pwd=VXRXSXBGa1JLdFFTZ3YvSS9IY1hQQT09 Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gusen_I_and_II_aerial.jpg Click here to download the invitation as PDF file. In cooperation with: |
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In his Ph.D. project, Lukas Nievoll deals with the relationship between space and violence in Nazi concentration camps, using the example of Gusen concentration camp. Gusen was put into operation by the Nazis in May 1940 and existed until its liberation by American troops in May 1945. At least 71,000 people from across Europe were deported to Gusen of which around 36,000 were killed. The project’s premise is that Gusen as a space of persecution and violence should be investigated as more than its mere topographical and material features and that experiences of persecution and survival almost always have a distinct spatial quality. This project asks beyond the duality of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ – an exceedingly present demarcation that is thematised in most survivor accounts – about the socio-spatial zoning of the camp in survivors' memories. The project, therefore, explores key spaces in the quotidian experience of the camp. Spaces such as the 
