Simon Wiesenthal Lectures
The Simon Wiesenthal lecture series takes place regularly every six to eight weeks and aims to present the latest research findings on the Holocaust to both a professional and a broader audience. They take into account the impressive spectrum of this discipline, the numerous questions and issues from empirical-analytical historiography to topics of cultural studies and involve young scholars as well as established academics.
Since 2007, when the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) was still being established, the lecture series – at that time in cooperation with the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) and the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna– has developed into the flagship of the VWI's outreach activities as a supporting element in the communication of recent academic findings in the field of Holocaust research and Holocaust and genocide studies.
For over a decade, the Austrian State Archives generously offered shelter to the Simon Wiesenthal Lectures in the roof foyer of the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv. During the challenging years of the pandemic, the lectures were held online. From autumn 2022, in order to reach out to further audiences, a new cooperation partner was found in the Wien Museum. Until the reopening of the main location at Karlsplatz, the SWL will take place at MUSA, Felderstraße 6-8, next to the Vienna City Hall.
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| Thomas Chopard: Images and Voices from the 1941 Lviv Pogrom | |||
Thursday, 22. June 2023, 18:30 - 20:00 Wien Museum MUSA 1010 Wien, Felderstraße 6–8
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Of the around one hundred pogroms of the summer of 1941, the Lviv pogrom is probably the most pictured. This talk intends to use the various photographs of this moment as an entry point to analyse anti-Jewish violence in Western Ukraine on the early days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. While historians’ debates usually revolve around the question of the political responsibility of the different actors at stake (German army, Einsatzgruppen, Ukrainian nationalists and militia, etc.), these photographs offer the rare opportunity to shift our gaze to the streets of the multi-ethnic city of Lviv, which was turned upside down by anti-Jewish violence. What role did the armed forces that captured the city play in the propagation and radicalisation of the crowd? How do you turn neighbours into perpetrators or accomplices of anti-Jewish violence? By confronting the pictures with the testimonies of victims and witnesses, this presentation will also consider closely the reaction, engagement, and evolution of the crowd in the images. By approaching these events of June-July 1941 through photographs, this talk also intends to advocate for a comprehensive reading of pictures to offer a better comprehension of the Holocaust. Thomas Chopard is an assistant professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris and currently a visiting researcher at the Institute for International Studies at Prague University. His research broadly deals with the history of Ukraine and the history of anti-Jewish violence and Jewish migration in Central-Eastern Europe. Für eine Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung registrieren Sie sich bitte hier. Mit der Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung stimmen Sie der Veröffentlichung von Fotos, Video- und Audioaufzeichnungen zu, die im Rahmen der Veranstaltung entstehen.
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