43rd Linz Conference (September 13–16, 2007)
Venue: Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof, Römerstraße 98, A-4020 Linz, Austria
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 and the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Bonn.
Preparatory Committee: Berthold Unfried (Co-ordinator; ITH & Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna), Bruno Groppo (CHS, Université de Paris I), Jürgen Mittag (Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University of Bochum), Michael Schneider (Friedrich Ebert Foundation Bonn), Marcel van der Linden (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
Some Remarks concerning the organization of the conference.
PPROGRAMME
Simultaneous translation: English - French - German
Thursday, September 13, 2007
9.00 am - 10.00 pm:
Registration of the participants at Jägermayrhof
(cultural and educational centre of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour),
Römerstr. 98a, 4020 Linz, Austria
12.00 am - 1.30 pm:
Meeting of the Executive Committee and the
International Advisory Board of ITH
1.30 - 2.00 pm: Break
2.00 - 4.30 pm:
General Assembly of the Member Institutes
of ITH
4.30 - 6.00 pm: Break
6.00 pm:
Conference Opening by the President of ITH,
Berthold Unfried, representatives of the Federal Ministry of Research (Gerhard
Pfeisinger), the City of Linz (Franz Leidenmühler), the Provincial
Government of Upper Austria (Hermann Kepplinger), the Chamber of Labour
of Upper Austria (Manfred Polzer) and our host Mr Erwin Kaiser from the
AK-Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof
6.30 pm:
Conferring of the René
Kuczynski Prize for outstanding publications on the field of
social and economic history to Jaap Sleifer
for his book: Planning Ahead and Falling Behind. The East German Economy
in Comparison with West Germany 1936-2002, Berlin 2006
afterwards:
Reception by the Mayor of Linz, Franz Dobusch,
at Jägermayrhof
Friday, September 14, 2007
9.00 am:
SESSION I (Notions
and concepts)
Chair: Berthold Unfried
Wolfgang Neurath (Wien) & Lothar
Krempel (Köln): Geschichtswissenschaft
und Netzwerkanalyse
Susan Zimmermann (Budapest): Internationalismus
– Forschungsstand und Forschungsperspektiven
11.00 am: Coffee break
11.15 am:
SESSION II (Migrations of people)
Chair: Berthold Unfried
Dirk Hoerder (Arizona): Transnational,
-regional, -cultural: Social History and Labour Migrants' Networks in the
19th and 20th Centuries
12.30 am:
Reception by the Provincial Governor of
Upper Austria, Dr. Josef Pühringer, at the Youth Hostel of Linz, Stanglhofweg
3, 4020 Linz
2.00 pm:
SESSION III (Migrations
of ideas and practices: foundations, think tanks)
Chair: Jürgen Mittag
Patrik von zur Mühlen (Bonn):
Die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung als internationales Netzwerk
Clemens Rode (Warsaw): Transnationale
ArbeiterInnennetzwerke in der internationalen Arbeit der FES nach 1989
Daniel Maul (Berlin): "A people's
peace in the colonies" – Die International Labour Organization
als Teil des transnationalen Netzwerkes zur Reform kolonialer Sozialpolitik
1940-1944
7.30 pm:
Dinner at Jägermayrhof
Saturday, September 15, 2007
9.00 am:
SESSION IV (Political
networks & transfers of ideology)
Chair: Bruno Groppo
Augusta Dimou (Ioannina): Conceptualizing
the Social Subject in Early Socialist Discourses in Southeastern Europe.
Possibilities and Limitations in the Transfer of International Paradigms
Ottokar Luban (Berlin): Die Zimmerwalder
Bewegung als Netzwerk am Beispiel der Mitwirkung der Spartakusgruppe
Bernhard Bayerlein (Mannheim): Transnationale
Strukturen und Netzwerke der Komintern: Wege zur Erkundung eines politischen
und kulturellen Universums
12.30 am:
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
2.00 pm:
SESSION V (Political
networks & transfers of ideology)
Chair: Marcel van der Linden
Bruno Groppo
& Catherine Collomp (Paris): The
Jewish Labor Committee: An American Network of Transatlantic Solidarity
during the Nazi Years
Peter Waterman (Den Haag): Shall the
Last Be the First? The Networked Internationalism of Labour's Others
Ravi Ahuja (Heidelberg/London): Netzwerke
und Arbeitsmärkte: Eine Annäherung an ein Problem transterritorialer
Arbeitsgeschichte
afterwards:
CLOSING DISCUSSION
7.00 pm:
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Departure of the participants after breakfast.
EXHIBITION
In the frame of conference an exhibition about a controversial event of
the Austrian interwar period will be shown:
1927 – Gewaltlösung in Österreich.
Mord in Schattendorf, Massaker in Wien, Staat gegen
Streikende.
Createt by Institut für Gewerkschafts- und AK-Geschichte,
Chamber of Labour of Vienna and Austrian Federation of Trade Unions
Idea & Documents: Ernst Jaritz, Presentation: Brigitte Pellar