Monday, 22. January 2018, 10:00 - 16:00

Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI) 1010 Wien, Rabensteig 3, Research Lounge

10:00-12:00
Collective Violence, Antisemitism and Modernity

Pavel Kolář (European University Institute, Florence), State Violence in Peaceful Times
Natalia Aleksiun (Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York), In the Aftermath: Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Galicia in the Summer and Spring of 1944
Michal Frankl (Masaryk Institute, Prague), Performing Citizenship of a Nation State? Anti-Jewish Riots in Prague, 1918-1919
Vassili Schedrin (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario), Theatre as Politics in Stalin’s USSR. Case of Solomon Mikhoels (1890-1948)

Discussion and debate

14:00-16:00
Post-1945 Antisemitism (Research Reports from Participants of the Collective Project)

Valentin Sandulescu (University of Bucharest), Romania
Péter Apor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest), Hungary
Ivica Búmová (Comenius University, Bratislava) and Michala Lončiková (Comenius University, Bratislava), Slovakia
Tamás Kende (Budapest/Kisoroszi), The USSR

Discussant: Jan C. Behrends (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam)

Organised by the project group “Post-WWII Antisemitic Pogroms in East and East Central Europe: Collective Violence and Popular Culture”

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