41st Linz Conference (September 15th–18th, 2005)
organized by International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) and Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, kindly supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria, the City of Linz, the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions and the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Bonn.
Some Remarks concerning the organization of the conference.
In the framework of the 41st Linz Conference an exhibition about the "October Strike" of 1950 — a still disputed event in Austrian post war history ("communist putsch attempt" or social uprising?) — was shown. More information in German.
Program
Simultaneous translation English - French - German Thursday, September 15, 2005
9:00 am to 10:00 pm:
Registration
of the participants at AK-Bildungshaus (cultural and educational centre
of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour)
Jägermayrhof, Römerstr. 98a, A-4020 Linz
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm:
Meeting of the Executive Committee and the
International Advisory Board
3:30 pm to 3:45 pm: Break
3:45 pm to 6:30 pm:
General Assembly of the Member Institutes of ITH
Election of the new president and the board
7:00 pm:
Conference Opening by the new President
of ITH (Berthold Unfried), representatives
of the City of Linz, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria, the University
of Linz, and by our host Mr. Erwin Kaiser from the AK-Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof.
Conferring of the Herbert Steiner
Prize for the promotion of scholars on the fieldsresearch on antifascist
resistance, persecution and , exile as well asand the history of the labour
movement.
Reception by the Mayor of Linz, Franz
Dobusch, in Jägermayrhof
Friday, September 16, 2005
from 9:00 am
(Chair: Claudie Weill)
Welcoming of the participants
Gratulation for Susanne Miller, founding member
of the ITH, at the occasion of her 90th birthday
Bruno Groppo (CNRS, Paris):
Introduction
Claude Pennetier (CNRS, Paris): L'expérience
du Dictionnaire Biographique du Mouvement Ouvrier Français.
Les problèmes de la prosopographie en histoire ouvrière et
sociale.
Feliks Tych (Warszawa): Erfahrungen mit dem
biographischen Handbuch der polnischen Arbeiterbewegung.
Horacio Tarcus (Universidad de Buenos Aires):
Pour un dictionnaire biographique de la gauche argentine.
Reception by the Provincial
Governor of Upper Austria, Josef Pühringer,
in the Youth Hostel of Linz
from 2:00 pm
(Chair: Michael Schneider)
Klaus Tenfelde (Ruhr-Universität
Bochum): Generationen in der deutschen Sozialdemokratie.
Jürgen Mittag (Ruhr-Universität Bochum):
Kollektivbiographische Forschung in der Geschichts-wissenschaft : Das
Beispiel der sozialdemokratischen Land- und Reichstagsabgebordneten.
Patricia Toucas-Truyen (Université Paris
I): Itinéraires biographiques de militants du mouvement coopératif
en France.
Short presentation: Claudie Weill (EHESS, Paris):
Biographies de militants socialistes juifs de Russie.
6:30 pm: Dinner at Jägermayrhof
Saturday, September 17, 2005
from 9:00 am
(Chair: Feliks Tych)
Michael Buckmiller (Universität
Hannover): Biographien von Komintern-Mitarbeitern.
Short presentation: Klaus Meschkat (Universität
Hannover): Das biographische Handbuch latein-amerikanischer Komintern-Mitarbeiter.
José Gotovich (Université Libre
de Bruxelles): Les cominterniens de langue française. Problèmes
méthodologiques posés par le Dictionnaire biographique
de l'Internationale communiste.
Kevin Morgan (University of Manchester): The
Communist Party Biographical Project.
from 2:00 pm
(Chair: Berthold Unfried)
Hermann Weber
(Universität Mannheim): Biographien deutscher Kommunisten.
Bernard Pudal (Université
Paris X Nanterre): Les biographies de militants communistes français.
Short presentation: Ottokar Luban
(Berlin): Führung und Helferkreise der Spartakusgruppe (1915-1918):
Probleme bei der Erforschung der Biographien.
Short presentation: Ulla Plener (Berlin): Frauen
aus Deutschland in der französischen Resistance als "kollektive
Biographie".
General Discussion.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Departure of the participants after breakfast
Sunday, September 19, 2003
Departure of the participants after breakfast