International Conference of SKÖTH: Austria and the Czech Republic as Immigration Countries: Transnational Labor Migration since 1780 in Historical Comparison

Datum konání: 
16. 9. 2021, 8:30 - 17. 9. 2021, 14:00

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

 

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