International Conference of SKÖTH: Austria and the Czech Republic as Immigration Countries: Transnational Labor Migration since 1780 in Historical Comparison
Location: Institute for Eastern European History, University of Vienna, Campus, Hörsaal Spitalgasse 2/ Hof 3/ Eingang 3.2; 1090 Wien
Programme
Thursday, September 16th
8.30 - 9.00 Covid Registration and 3G Control
9.00 – 9.30 Brief Introduction to the Conference
- Zdeňka Stoklásková, Masaryk Universität Brünn, SKÖTH
- Philipp Ther, RECET, University of Vienna, SKÖTH
- Mojmir Stransky, RECET, University of Vienna
Greeting Statements
- Luboš Velek, MUA Prague, SKÖTH
- Stefan Newerkla, University of Vienna, SKÖTH
- Arnold Obermayr, BMEIA
9.30 – 10.30 - Panel 1 – Approaches to Labour Migration
- Anna Lukešová, Charles University Prague: Multi-level governance of (civic) integration policies in Austria and Czechia
- Ondřej Daniel, Charles University Praguef: Ex Oriente Obscuro? Czech and Austrian Representations of Migrant Cultures from Eastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.00 – Panel 2 – Labour Migration to the Czech Republic after 1989/93
- Dušan Drbohlav, Charles University Prague: Ukrainian Labour Migration to Czechia
- Barbora Nováková, Charles University Prague (online): Vietnamese Migrant Workers before and after 1989/1993
12.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.00 – Panel 3 – Guest Workers in Postwar Czechoslovakia and Austria
- Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Charles University Prague: Yugoslav Construction Workers in Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to the 1980s
- Tomáš Dvořák, Masaryk University Brno: The „Gastarbeit“ in the Early Period of the Postwar Social Experiment in Czechoslovakia
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.30
- Maximilian Graf, MUA Prague: From Refugees to Labor Migrants: Austria and Migration from Eastern Europe
- Gudrun Biffl, Donau Universität Krems: Migration nach Österreich nach 1989/95 (Titel vorläufig, t.b.c.)
17.00 Keynote
- Michal Frankl, MUA Prague: Biographies or statistics? Historiographic approaches to refugees to Czechoslovakia
- & Rainer Bauböck, EUI Florenz/ÖAW: Central European Immigration Countries in Self-Denial?
Some lessons from the Austrian Case
19.30 Dinner
Friday, September 17th
8.30 - 9.00 Covid Registrierung und 3G Kontrolle
9.00 – 10.30 - Panel 4 – Labour Migration in the 18th and the long 19th Century
- Roumiana Il. Preshlenova, Institut für Balkanistik mit Zentrum für Thrakologie, Bulgarische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Arbeits- und Studienmigration der Bulgaren nach Österreich-Ungarn seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs
- Zděnka Stoklásková, Masaryk Universität Brünn: Arbeitsmigration im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Staat, Personen, Reisedokumente
- Werner Drobesch, Universität Klagenfurt: Von der Proto-Industrie zur Industrie: Arbeitsmigration innerösterreichischen Länder während des Vormärz
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00
- Annemarie Steidl, University of Vienna & Jessica Richter, Institute of Rural History St.Pölten: Many Ways to Migrate! Migrants´ Practices off the Beaten Tracks
12.00 – 14.00 Lunch and Closing Discussion