Sunday, 24 April
7:00pm Evening Reception & Welcome
John Hope Franklin Center Gallery
Monday, 25 April
All panels will take place in the John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall (Room 240)
9:15am – 10:15am Panel I: Interwar Austria and the Imperial Legacy: The Empire in the Province
Chair: Gabriel Trop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Helmut Konrad, Rector and Professor Emeritus, University of Graz
The Empire in the Province: An Unknown Interwar Austrian Tale
Comments: Malachi Hacohen, Director, Council for European Studies, Duke University
10:15am – 10:30am Coffee Break
10:30am – 12:00pm Panel II: Interwar Austria and the Imperial Legacy: Red Vienna, the “Nation” and the Jewish Question
Chair: Deirdre White, Program Coordinator, Council for European Studies & Africa Initiative
Georg Spitaler, Program Director, Verein für Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenbewegung, Vienna
Socialist Betrayal or Imperial Loyalty? The Julius Deutsch 1923 Trial
Lisa Silverman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jewish Difference in an Austrian nation: Austria from Monarchy to Republic
Comments: Ingo Zechner, Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society, Vienna
12:00pm – 1:30pm Buffet Lunch
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 130
2:00pm – 3:30pm Panel III – Interwar Central Europe and the Imperial Legacy:
Economic and Political Transformations
Chair: Deirdre White, Program Director, Council for European Studies, Duke University
Andreas Weigl, University of Vienna
Beggar-Your-Neighbor vs. Danube Basin Strategy: Habsburg Economic Networks in Interwar Europe
Katherine Sorrels, University of Cincinnati
Eurafrica and the Austrian Imperial Legacy: Paneuropa and the Freemasons
Comments: James Chappel, Duke University
3:30pm – 3:45pm Coffee Break
3:45pm – 5:15pm Panel IV – Interwar Central Europe and the Imperial Legacy:
Memory in the Successor States
Chair: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Freelance curator and museum consultant, Vienna
Béla Rásky, Managing Director, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
Habsburg Unplugged: The Memory of the Empire in Hungary
Saskia Ziolkowski, Duke University
Imperial Traces in Italian Trieste
Comments: Thomas Prendergast, Duke University
7:00pm Dinner (The Piedmont)
Tuesday, April 26
Panel V will take place at the John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall (Room 240)
9:15am – 11:30am Panel V – Émigrés, Exile and the Memory of the Empire
Chair: Gerhard Milchram, Curator, Wien Museum, Vienna
Richard Lambert III, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Memory, Empire, and the Language Crisis: Hermann Broch’s “Hofmannsthal und seine Zeit”
Ilse Lazaroms, Center for Jewish History, New York
Blown out of Empire: Hungarian Jewish Memory in Exile
Kata Gellen, Duke University
Modernism in Galicia: Imperial Nostalgia in Soma Morgenstern
Comments: Malachi Hacohen, Director, Council for European Studies, Duke University
Concluding Comments: Malachi Hacohen
12:00pm Buffet Lunch
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 130
A shuttle will meet participants at John Hope Franklin Center at 1:15 to arrange transportation to the Round Table Discussion and/or hotel.
1:30pm – 3:30pm Round Table Discussion
Curator Dilemmas: Exhibiting Jewish Life in Post-Holocaust German-Speaking Europe
Rubenstein Library, Carpenter Conference Room (Room 130)
Chair: Ingo Zechner, Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for History and Society, Vienna
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Freelance curator and museum consultant, Vienna
Gerhard Milchram, Curator, Wien Museum, Vienna
4:00pm Optional tour of the Duke University campus
