General organisational remarks
The conference will take place from September
11-14, 2008, in Linz,
Upper Austria, in the cultural and educational centre of the Upper Austrian
Chamber of Labour: Bildungshaus
Jägermayrhof, Römerstraße 98, 4020 Linz, Austria.
All listeners are required to register.
Deadline for registration is August 11, 2008.
Please send your registration by by e-mail (ith@doew.at),
by fax (+43-1-22 89 469-391) or by mail (ITH, 1010 Vienna, Wipplinger Str.
8, Austria).
Download
Registration Form (e-mail)
Download
Registration Form (mail or fax)
The Conference fee
is EUR 80,–
for accommodation (only twin-bedded rooms available), meals and congress
materials (without accommodation: EUR 40,–). All participants, also
those who have arranged their own accommodation, are requested to register
at the ITH-secretariat at "Jägermayrhof".
Travel expenses can
only be refunded in a few, exceptional cases – in order to facilitate
contacts to possible new members. Please apply for partial or total travel
reimbursements before August 1, 2008,
and include a statement with arguments.
These regulations do not concern speakers or members of the preparatory
committee nor representatives of public authorities.
Linz is an industrial town some 180 km west of Vienna and one of the histortical centres of Austrian labour movement. The short civil war between Austro fascist militias ("Heimwehren", Home Guards) and the federal army on the one hand and the paramilitary organization of the labour movement, the Republikanischer Schutzbund (Republican Defense League) on the other hand, in February 1934, started in Linz; the surroundigs of the Jägermayrhof were one of the centres of combat. For today's Linz attractions cf. the official website of Linz.
Important for Speakers, accepted by the Preparatory Committee
ITH does not pay a honorarium for speakers.
Travel expenses will be covered fully or partially
according to previous arrangements with the
Secretariat, on the basis: second class trains resp. flights (we urge you
to check cheap flights soon), public transport between airport and railway
station.
Accommodation and meals during the conference as well as the participation
in the conference are free. If necessary we arrange accommodation in Vienna
or Linz before or/and after the Linz conference. In any case we need the
precise dates of your arrival and departure by August 11, 2008.
For the preparation of the conference we ask you to send us an abstract
of your paper (max. 1500 signs resp. ½ page A4)
until April 1, 2008. We would like to publish
it on our website and to distribute it together with the full conference
program. We shall be grateful to receive your full
contribution by August 1, 2008 (speech max. 20 min) at the latest
to distribute it to the other contributors and to the translators. These
drafts can of course be revised for publication after the conference.
The proceedings of the conference shall be published within a year. An international
committee will decide on publication of the papers
after the conference. Only texts made available on disc or e-mail
attachment (word, wordperfect, rtf) by November 15, 2008, can be considered
for publication.
Speakers who need a special invitation for visa and/or for the university
are asked to inform the ITH-secretariat in time. Please take into
consideration that the issuing of visa can need several weeks! Please let
uns know special (technical – overhead, video, etc. – or personal,
eg. handicaps) needs.