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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.

 

 

Workshop
Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe
   

Thursday, 30. March 2023, 09:00 - 17:00

Sobieski Saal, Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften – Wissenschaftliches Zentrum, Boerhaavegasse 25, 1030 Wien

 

The 20th century was a period of evacuation, escape, expulsion, wandering and planned resettlement of the population, all due to wars, economic crises, and political changes, such as the collapse of empires. It was also the period when the legal foundations establishing international war refugee status were laid (Geneva Convention, 1951). Previously, refugee issues were governed by common law, precedent, and ad hoc legal solutions. In recent years, there have been numerous migration crises in Europe (2011, 2015, 2021). The war in Ukraine, which has been going on since February 2022, had yet again brought to the forefront the challenge connected with refugee reception (e.g., securing provisions, providing accommodation and medical assistance, cultural integration, access to the labour market and social services).

The aim of the conference is to compare refugee crises that have occurred in the past, especially analyze ways of managing and solving these crises such as organizing institutionalized assistance and integrating of refugees with the societies of the host countries. The organizers have invited experts representing various research centres in Europe to participate in the debate. The conference will be opened by an introductory lecture by Philipp Thera, discussing the exile of yesterday and today, with particular emphasis on the contemporary situation. The lecture will be followed by three thematic panels: 1) discussing migration during both world wars in Europe; 2) presenting the Ukrainian experience of refugeedom, both in the past and present; 3) presenting projects documenting contemporary wars and refugeedom.

09:00–09:30 Opening Session & Keynote
Philipp Ther (University of Vienna): The Multiple Flight of Millions from and in Ukraine. Old Experiences and New Perspectives for a European Refugee and Migration History

09:30–11:00 Panel I: Flight and Migration in Two World Wars
Piotr Szlanta (Polish Academy of Sciences/University of Warsaw): War Refugees in the Great War. An East-Central European Perspective
Jochen Böhler (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies): Displaced Persons and Statelessness in the Second World War
Michal Frankl (Czech Academy of Sciences): Emigration Fantasies. Citizenship and Imagination of Mass Refugee Migration During the Holocaust
Chair: Katarzyna Nowak (Central European University)

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–13:30 Panel II: Ukraine in Focus: Refugees in Past and Present
Kamil Ruszała (Jagiellonian University): Ukrainian Refugees and the First World War Refugee Camps
Peter Ruggenthaler (Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut für Kriegsfolgenforschung): The Deportation of Ukrainian Forced Labourers During the Second World War
Dieter Bacher (Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut für Kriegsfolgenforschung): Ukrainian DP´s and Refugees from Eastern Europe as Persons of Interest for Western Intelligence in the Early Cold War
Malwina Talik (Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa): Ukrainian Refugees After 24 February 2022
Chair: Christoph Augustynowicz (University of Vienna)

13:30–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30–16:30 Panel III: Documenting Displacement and War
Katherine Younger (Institut für Wissenschaften von Menschen): Documenting Ukraine
Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History in Lviv): Documenting Experiences of War
Anne von Oswald (Minor–Projektkontor für Bildung und Forschung): We Refugees Archive
Chair: Kamil Ruszała (Jagiellonian University)

16:30–17:00 Closing Remarks

Organisers:
Polish Academy of Sciences–Research Centre in Vienna
Institute of History–Jagiellonian University, „Refugees in Europe 1914-1923“ Research Group
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna
Lviv Centre for Urban History

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