International Conference of SKÖTH on 16 & 17.9.2021
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
Please find the conference report on H-Soz-Kult.
Program:
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 Prague), 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 – Guest Workers in Postwar Austria
Maximilian Graf (MUA Prague), From Refugees to Labor Migrants: Austria and Migration from Eastern Europe
Gudrun Biffl (Danube University Krems), Migration in Austria after the fall of the Iron Curtain
12.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.00 – Panel 3 – Guest Workers in Postwar Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic
Dušan Drbohlav (Charles University Prague), Ukrainian Labour Migration to Czechia
Barbora Nováková (Charles University Prague; online), Vietnamese Migrant Workers before and after 1989/1993
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.30
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
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
