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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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Thomas Chopard: A Jewish Family from Poland to America. Exploring Persecution Trajectories in Their Collective and Social Dimensions
   

Wednesday, 8. May 2019, 15:00 - 17:00

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

 

VWI invites the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

RetrieveAssetaspx 7Focussing on one specific family as an example, this presentation will mobilise every source available (produced by persecution, migration, administration, and relief) in order to combine the dense approach of microhistory with a transnational history of migrations. Encompassing the whole period before, during, and after the Holocaust and situating individual behaviours in their social environment, this research aims at identifying the dynamics at work and the turning points in collective and individual trajectories and in the spaces of possibilities of Jewish survivors migrating from Poland to the rest of the world. As a conclusion, this paper will also plead for a different approach to testimonies in the light of previous approaches and will try to determine the extent to which testimonies of survivors from the same place depict or disregard the decisive elements previously emphasised.

Commented by Börries Kuzmany

Thomas Chopard holds a PhD from the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). He is currently a research fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. After dealing with anti-Jewish violence in Central and Eastern Europe between 1914 and 1924, his research now focusses on post-Holocaust migrations.

Börries Kuzmany is a historian and Slavic studies scholar at the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Historical Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research interests cover Central and East European history from the mid-eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on the Habsburg Monarchy, Poland, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union. Thematic focal points of his research include nationalism, urban history, border spaces, and Jewish history. Since 2018, he is heading an ERC Starting Grant project on non-territorial forms of national autonomy.

Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by latest Tuesday, 7 May, 12.00 am and bring your ID.

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