Workshops & Conventions
The research plans and projects of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) require continuous discussion and in-depth academic consideration and fine-tuning.
The VWI workshops provide a forum for the in-depth discussion of the core research areas of the institute. These are determined by the International Academic Advisory Board in its position paper and in its recommendations, while the VWI also independently elaborates, formulates, and executes themes, ideas, and concepts. Externals experts are also frequently involved in the conceptualisation of workshops, with their academic institutions then moreover serving as partner organisations in the concrete event.
The format employed since 2011 – the date of the first VWI workshop – of employing a range of presentations partly solicited through a Call for Papers and partly through invitations extended to renowned experts for individual panels or as keynotes has proven most productive.
Beyond this, the VWI also involves itself financially or in content and organisation with various conferences which correlate with the profile of the institute.
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Precarious Archives, Precarious Voices. Expanding Jewish Narratives from the Margins | |||
from Wednesday, 17. November 2021 - 13:00 Online Event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81513370399
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“Like belongings washed upon the seashore, testimonial objects of survivors – albums, collages, sketches, difficult to decipher manuscripts – are being collected and, because of the precariousness inherent in their message and authenticity, they are passed from one to another.” Mona Körte, Flaschenpost. Vom “Eigenleben” jüdischer Erinnerungsarchive Recent years have seen ground-breaking archival survey projects taking place across Europe, in a range of public and private archives, revealing a wealth of documents related to Jewish history and the Shoah which remained hidden or inaccessible until now. Simultaneously, scholarly definitions of archives are expanding, and methodologies used for approaching archival material are complementing this expansion. The archival turn in contemporary art, the opening of archives in Eastern Europe, the third generation’s ongoing quest to interpret fragments of familial papers, and the new digital availability of smaller archival collections suggest that our access to historical material and sources has been democratised. Expanding definitions of source material have animated researchers to implement new methodologies for reanalysing old narratives or examining narratives marginalised until now. What overlooked stories are being found in newly accessible archives and how can they be framed and presented? How can new sources be approached and what issues or hurdles arise in working with “new” material? To what extent must the history of the archival material itself be incorporated into an analysis of the same? This workshop seeks to make visible voices which have been unheard until now and discuss new methodological lenses demanded by this material. A particular emphasis is put on papers exploring gender dimensions in their work and interdisciplinary approaches. Zoomlink: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81513370399 Wednesday, 17 November 2021 13:00 Welcome Notes 13:50 Technical break Gendered Experiences of the Holocaust: Between Violence and Resistance 14:00 Hanna Abakunova (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem) 15:00 Discussion 15:15 Coffee break Methods and Materials: Digital Approaches 15:30 Ildikó Barna & Alexandra M. Szabó (Research Center for Computational Social Science, ELTE University, Budapest) 16:50 Discussion Keynote Natalia Aleksiun (Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Florida) Thursday, 18 November 2021 Gendered Experiences of the Holocaust: Women’s Voices 9:30 Lauren Cantillon (King‘s College London) 10:30 Discussion 10:45 Coffee break New Methods and Materials: Between Art And Archive 11:00 Anna Bochkova, Valerie Habsburg (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) 12:20 Discussion Hidden Heritage, Endangered Archives 14:00 Julie Dawson (Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna / Leo Baeck Institute, New York / Berlin) 15:20 Discussion 16:00 Roundtable Discussion 18:30 Dinner Friday, 19 November 2021 Gendered Experience of the Holocaust: LGBTIQ* 9:30 Julia Noah Munier, Karl-Heinz Steinle (Department of Modern History, University of Stuttgart) 10:10 Discussion Narratives Of The Marginalized: Recovering Micro-Histories 10:30 Marta Havryshko (Zentrum für Holocaust-Studien / IfZ München) 11:30 Coffee break 11:45 Michal Frankl (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the CAS, Prague) 12:25 Discussion 13:00 Closing Remarks With the support and cooperation of the: Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe
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