Tuesday, May 23
Opening at VGA
10:00am Welcome with Michaela Maier & Georg Spitaler (VGA)
10:15am-12:00pm Panel I: “Socialism, Catholicism and Empire from Interwar to Postwar”
- Chair: Michaela Maier
- Alfred Pfoser (Vienna): “The Imperial Memory from Red Vienna to the Postwar Years”
- Dieter A. Binder (Karl-Franzens-University Graz): “Pietas Austriaca? The Imperial Legacy in Postwar Austria”
- Commentator: Martina Steer
12:00pm Light Lunch
1:00-3:30pm Panel 2: “Survival Across the Iron Curtain? The Imperial Legacy in Postwar Eastern Europe”
- Chair: Deirdre White (Duke University)
- Charlotte Natmeßnig (Vienna University of Economics and Business) and Andreas Weigl (Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna): “Economic Networks across the Iron Curtain”
- Werner Michael Schwarz (Wien Museum): “Galician Traces in Postwar Poland”
- Cristina Florea (Harvard University): “Empire as a Way of Life and its Aftermath in Bukovina”
- Commentator: Peter Eigner (University of Vienna)
Location: Wien Museum
4:30pm Greeting: Matti Bunzl (Wien Museum)
4:35-6:15pm Panel 3: “Discovering Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Forgetting the Monarchy?”
- Chair: Deborah Holmes (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg)
- Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University): “Carl Schorske and the American Imagination of Vienna 1900”
- Heidemarie Uhl (Austrian Academy of Sciences): “Traum und Wirklichkeit: The Austrian Invention of Vienna 1900”
- Commentator: Sylvia Mattl-Wurm (Vienna City Library)
6:15pm Break
6:30-7:00pm Key Note: “Malachi Hacohen (Duke University): Empire, Socialism & Jews: Rewriting the Monarchy into Austrian History”
- Chair: Wolfgang Maderthaner
7:00-8:00pm Roundtable 1: “Empire, Socialism & Jews”
- Moderator: Ingo Zechner (LBIGG)
- Erhard Busek (Vienna), Barbara Coudenhove-Kalergi (Vienna), Helmut Konrad (Karl-Franzens-University Graz), Doron Rabinovici (Vienna)
Wednesday, May 24
Location: IFK
10:15am IFK Welcome: Thomas Macho (IFK)
10:30am-12:00pm Roundtable 2: “Metropole Wien: The Socialist Fin-de-siècle”
- Moderator: Georg Spitaler (VGA)
- Lisa Fischer (Vienna), Gerhard Meißl (Vienna), Roman Horak (University of Applied Arts)
12.00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-3:00pm Panel 4: “Bruno Kreisky: Der letzte Kaiser?”
- Chair: Lisa Fischer (Vienna)
- Andreas Weigl (Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna): “Kreisky’s Central Europe: Foreign Policy and Austrian Imperial Management”
- Oliver Rathkolb (University of Vienna): “From Revolutionary Socialism to the Imperial Legacy: Kreisky as a Jewish Remigré”
- Comment: Maria Mesner (Kreisky Archive)
3:00pm Coffee Break
3:30-5:00pm Roundtable 3: “The Imperial Legacy and Contemporary Europe”
- Moderator: Malachi Hacohen (Duke University)
- Jakub Beneš (University of Oxford)
- Georg Spitaler (VGA)
- Saskia Stachowitsch (University of Vienna)
- Leslie Topp (Birbeck, University of London)
5:00-5:30pm Concluding Comment and Discussion
- Malachi Hacohen (Duke University) and Audience
