Memory and the City September 11-14, 2017 – Vienna, Austria
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Vienna-Jerusalem Graduate School 2017 Memory and the City September 11-14, 2017 – Vienna, Austria Monday, September 11 (Day Chair: Ljiljana Radonić) 09:00-10:00 Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz): History takes Place – the City as a storehouse and stage for memory 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Ulrike Unterweger (University of Vienna): Remembering Jewish life in Vienna’s 13th district, Hietzing Marc Brüggemann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Munich – a city on the edge: between vision and memorial site 12:00-13:00 Lunch Break 13:00-14:30 Johanna Taufner (University of Vienna): Analysis of the planned erection of the memorial commemorating the persecution of homosexuals in Vienna in comparison to the erection of the memorial to the victims of Nazi Military Justice in Vienna Sofia Diordiev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The visibility and invisibility of Lesbians in Berlin postwar history and memory 14:30-15:00 Break 15:00-16:00 Rob Van der Laarse (University of Amsterdam): Curating ghostly spaces: campscapes and cities of loss Tuesday, September 12 (Day Chair: Heidemarie Uhl) 09:00-10:00 Ljiljana Radonić (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Post-Communist Memorial Museums in Capitals 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:30 Nichole Neuman (Kansas State University): Re/Visiting Theresienstadt Lukas Nievoll (University of Graz): Sites of „Horror“ – Memory in Vilnius Thomas Varkonyi (University of Vienna): 100 Years of Solitude? – The History of the Jews in Mohács 1848 – 1948 and their Representation in Memorials 12:30-13:30 Lunch Break 13:30-14:30 Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka): From Victim to Victor: "Hero Cities" and Collective Remembrance of Croatia‘s War for Independence 14:30-18:30 Excursion: Memorial Sites in Vienna Wednesday, September 13 (Day Chair: NN) 10:00-11:00 Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (Hebrew University): Cityscapes as Space for Resonating Memories in Claude Lanzmann's The Last of the Unjust 11:00-11:30 Break 11:30-13:00 Christoph Kolar (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): Place of Memory „Rosenhügel film studios“ Susanne Korbel (University of Graz): Viennese Popular Culture and remembrance in Austria 2nd Republic: George Tabori and the association ‘Theater in der Porzellangasse Der Kreis’ 13:00-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:00 Paul Frosh (Hebrew University): Interfaces of Witnessing: On Digital Memory 15:00-15:30 Break 15:30-16:30 Heidemarie Uhl (Austrian Academy of Sciences): The Viennese Topography of Holocaust Memorials and the Transformation of Austrian Memory Thursday, September 14 (Day Chair: Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann) 09:00-10:00 Vered Vinitzky-Saroussi (Hebrew University): Home Museums in Germany and Israel: Towards a Sociology of National Atmosphere 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Daniel Aschheim (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Marchegg 1973: Memories of a Forgotten Historical Event Ruth Peri (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): From the Ghetto to the Skyline. Negotiating identities of post-immigrant generations in Kreuzberg through traveling memory 12:00-13:00 Lunch Break 13:00-18:00 Excursion Zentralfriedhof Venue: Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2-4, Yard 1, 1010 Vienna, seminar room to be announced Organizers: Heidemarie Uhl (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Ljiljana Radonić (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) .