42nd Linz Conference (September 14th–17th, 2006)
organized by International Conference of Labour and Social History 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 and the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Bonn.
Some Remarks concerning the organization of the conference.
Programme
Simultaneous translation into English, French and German
Thursday, September 14, 2006
9.00 am to 10.00 pm:
Registration
of the participants at the venue AK-Bildungshaus
Jägermayrhof (cultural and educational centre of the Upper Austrian
Chamber of Labour), Römerstr. 98a, 4020 Linz, Austria
2.00 pm to 3.30 pm:
Meeting of the Executive Committee and the
International Advisory Board
3.30 pm to 4.00 pm: Break
4.00 pm to 6.30 pm:
General Assembly of the Member Institutes of ITH
7.00 pm:
Conference Opening by the President of ITH,
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
Lectures and Sessions
Friday, September 15, 2006
from 9.00 am:
Welcoming of the participants by the President of ITH, Berthold Unfried
Workers in "national
socialism" and fascism
(Chair: Jürgen Hofmann, Berlin)
Jürgen Hofmann (Berlin): Arbeitermilieu
und Rechtsextremismus. Zu Genesis und Dimensionen eines historischen und
aktuellen Problems.
Michael Schneider (Bonn): Arbeiter im "Dritten
Reich": Zwischen Einordnung, Hinnahme und Dissens.
Luigi Ganapini (Milano):
Fascist Trade Unions, syndicalism and Working classes in Mussolini’s
Italy (1920-1945).
Reception by the Provincial
Governor of Upper Austria, Josef Pühringer,
in the Youth Hostel of Linz
from 2.00 pm:
Laszlo Marjanucz (Szeged): Arbeiter zwischen
Sozialdemokratie und Pfeilkreuzbewegung in Südungarn.
Nigel Copsey (Teesside): Labour and Right-Wing
Extremism: United States and Britain in the inter-war period.
Right-Wing Extremism
and Labour in White Settler Countries
(Chair: Berthold Unfried, Vienna)
Lorenzo Veracini (Canberra): Labour and Settler
Society.
Wessel Visser (Stellenbosch): Labour and right-wing
extremism in the South African context – a historical overview.
Daniel Lvovich (Buenos Aires): Extreme right,
social question and the Argentine´s working class in the 20th century.
6:30 pm: Dinner at Jägermayrhof
8:00 pm:
Panel Discussion: "Ein neuer Nationalismus
oder Internationalismus?"
Kunstuniversität Linz, Hauptplatz 8, 4010 Linz, Lecture room A, 1st
flloor
Organized by: International Conference of Labour and Social History; Society
for Cultural and Educational Policy of Upper Austria; Institute for Contemporary
History of the Johannes Kepler-University Linz
Conception: Thomas Hellmuth,
University of Linz
Panel:
Horst Helas (Berlin): Nationalismus und Rechtsextremismus
in Gewerkschaften.
Marcus Meier (Marburg): Gewerkschaften, fordistischer
Staat und Nationalismus.
Christian Schacherreiter (Linz): Interkulturelle
Bildung als globale Bildung.
Andre Zogholy, cultural anthropologist, artist
Chris Müller, artist
Chair:
Wiltrud Hackl (ORF Oberösterreich)
Saturday, September 16, 2006
from 9.00 am:
Right-Wing Extremism and Labour in Western Europe
after 1945
(Chair: Thomas Hellmuth, Linz)
Fabian Virchow (Marburg): Volks-
statt Klassenbewegung. Weltanschauung und Praxeologie der extremen Rechten
in Deutschland seit 1990 am Beispiel der "sozialen Frage".
Sylvain Crépon (Paris): La tentation
populiste de la jeunesse d’extrême droite contemporaine. L’exemple
des militants du Front national de la jeunesse.
Lampros Flitouris (Ioannina): « L’extrême
droite en Grèce actuelle. Les racines et le présent d’un
phénomène particulier ».
from 2.00 pm:
Right-Wing Extremism and Labour in transforming
societies in Eastern Europe
(Chair: Jürgen Hofmann, Berlin)
Gerhard Botz (Wien): Arbeiter
und andere Lohnabhängige im Nationalsozialismus.
(Contribution transferred from the panel “Workers in ‘national
socialism’ and fascism”)
Karl-Heinz Gräfe (Freital): Die Wiedergeburt
rechtsextremer Ideologien, Bewegungen und Parteien in Osteuropa seit 1989.
Eine vergleichende Betrachtung.
Mariana Hausleitner (München): Der rumänische
Rechtsextremismus vor 1945 und seine Rezeption in Rumänien nach 1990.
General Discussion.
6:30 pm: Dinner at Jägermayrhof
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Departure of the participants after breakfast