Empire, Socialism, & Jews IV
Sunday, 24 April 2016
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
Empire, Socialism, & Jews III
28 May 2015
15.00 | Welcome Address
Helmut Lethen, IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies & Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
PANEL I: 1848
This panel on the 1848 Revolution is dedicated to the memory of Siegfried Mattl (1954-2015), who passed away on April 25. Béla Rásky will deliver the paper, on which the two of them have begun working together.
Chair: Amy Vargas-Tonsi, Duke University
Commentator: Gerhard Milchram, Wien Museum
15.15 | Louise Hecht, Palacký University, Olomouc
Between Toleration and Emancipation: The Self-empowerment of Jewish Intellectuals in the Habsburg Monarchy
16.15 | Siegfried Mattl, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft & Béla Rásky, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute
Antisemitism in 1848
17.15 | Coffee break
18.00 | Keynote
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
The Abiding Imperial Tradition: Austrian Socialism, the Jews, the Monarchy, and Europe
Respondent: Helmut Konrad, Karl-Franzens University, Graz
29 May 2015
PANEL II: 1867
Chair: Serena Bazemore, Duke University
Commentator: Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Vienna & Ingo Zechner, IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies
10.00| Dieter Hecht, Austrian Academy of the Sciences
Self-Assertion in the Public Sphere: Jewish Press on the Eve of Legal Emancipation
11.00 | Lisa Silverman, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Jews, Property, and the Staatsgrundgesetz
12.00 | Lunch break
PANEL III: 1889
A. Metropole
Chair: Martina Steer, University of Vienna
Commentator: Jill Lewis, Swansea University & Georg Spitaler, Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (VGA)
14.00| Wolfgang Maderthaner, Austrian State Archives
1889 in the History of Austrian Socialism: The Founding of an Imperial Party?
15.00 | Deborah Holmes, University of Kent
Socialism and Empire: The Early Years of the Arbeiterzeitung
16.00 | Coffee break
B. Provinces
Chair: Jill Lewis, Swansea University
Commentator: Werner Michael Schwarz, Wien Museum & Martina Steer, University of Vienna
16.30 | Joshua Shanes, College of Charleston
Galician Jewish Socialism – Imperially Embedded?
17.30 | Thomas Prendergast, Duke University
“Die Sozialdemokraten der Wissenschaft:” Austrian Jewish Ethnologists and the Quest for a Science of Nationality, 1880-1900
18.30 | End
Empire, Socialism, & Jews II
March 20-22, 2013
Participants
- Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
- Deborah Holmes, University of Kent
- Jill Lewis, Swansea University & Vienna, Stadt Wien/IFK Fellow, IFK
- Wolfgang Maderthaner, Vienna, Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
- Michaela Maier, VGA,Vienna
- Siegfried Mattl, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Vienna
Session I | Dilemmas of Assimilation: Fin-de-siècle Socialism, Progressivism, and the Jewish Question
Deborah Holmes | Eugenie Schwarzwald: an “Honest Antisemite”? The Galician Ostjudin as a Fin-de-siècle Viennese Icon
Wolfgang Maderthaner | Otto Bauer as Protagonist for German Culture: Imperial Multinational & German Jewish Subjectivity
Session II | Socialist, Feminist & Jewish: Women Subjectivities in Late Imperial Austria
Michaela Maier | Between Father & Son, Jews & Christian: Emma Adler (1852-1938)
Siegfried Mattl | Between Socialism & Feminism: Charlotte Glass (1873-1944)
Jill Lewis | Socialism, Feminism and Jewish Memory: Käthe Leichter (1895-1942)
Public Presentation | The Ambiguous Legacy of Continental European Empires: Socialism and the Jewish Question in Late Imperial Russia and Austria
Martin Mill, Duke University | Terrorism, Anarchism, and Pogroms: Russian Autocracy & the Jews
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University | Towards Alternative Histories of Austrian Socialism: Empire, Socialist Women and Jewish European History