CfPs & Ausschreibungen
Das Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust Studien (VWI) veranstaltet regelmäßig wissenschaftliche Konferenzen und Workshops. Die Vortragenden werden im Regelfall nach einem offenen Call for Papers durch eine in Absprache mit dem Internationalen Wissenschaftlichen Beirat des Instituts zusammengestellte Gruppe von Expertinnen und Experten ausgewählt. Ebenso verhält es sich mit den jährlich ausgeschriebenen Fellowships des VWI.
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Call for Papers: Simon Wiesenthal Conference 2017: (In)Glorious Victims? Challenging the Paradigms of Memory Politics in Europe | |||
von Freitag, 12. Mai 2017 - 08:00
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Vienna, 27 November – 29 November 2017
Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI)
Martyrdom has a long tradition in European culture. In the nineteenth century, the cult of death became a major symbolic element of nation-building, shifting the focus from the heroic commander to the suffering soldier. This transition created common, Europe-wide rituals and iconographies of suffering for the nation while also opening up the battlefield for rivalry between these nations. After 1945, within the context of the post-war reconstruction of Europe, memory of the murder of European Jewry was established within the framework of an antifascist resistance narrative, building on the notion of a national (and sometimes antifascist) martyrdom, thereby denying the specificity of Jewish suffering and excluding the Holocaust from national histories. With the collapse of the European political blocs in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the fading of ideological boundaries, this national antifascist resistance narrative lost its credibility as it became clear that it could not address, let alone overcome the trauma-rooted, terrible experience of the Holocaust. Recognition of victimhood now came to the fore. Thus, the Holocaust became more or less the only generally recognised and accepted transnational European historical event, serving as a form of symbolic ‘container’ for the construction of a European identity – albeit always challenged by many other historical traumas, especially at the peripheries of the continent: Stalinism, the Spanish Civil War, or the Irish Potato Famine. This produced a hegemonic, exclusive and simultaneously very vulnerable centre-oriented discourse of ‘Europeanism’.
The conference will challenge the various victimhood narratives by posing the following questions:
The conference languages will be German and English. Individual papers or complete panels of up to four contributions each are welcome. The VWI will cover accommodation fees. The institute is also endeavouring to find separate funding to be able to reimburse some of the participants’ travel costs. Proposals should be written in German or in English and include an outline of the topic of no more than 600 words, as well as a short CV and a short list of publications. Please send your application in one integrated PDF file by email with the subject “SWC 2017” to Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! no later than 30 July 2017. |
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