Program

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”

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)

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”

5:00-5:30pm Concluding Comment and Discussion