46. Linz Conference (9-12 September 2010)
Venue: Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof, Römerstraße 98, A-4020 Linz, Austria
Organized by the International Conference of Labour and Social History and the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, kindly supported by the Federal Ministry of Research, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria, the City of Linz and the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Bonn.
Preparatory Committee: Jürgen Mittag
(Co-ordinator, Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University of Bochum),
Bruno Groppo (Centre d'Histoire Sociale, Université de Paris I),
Eva Himmelstoss (ITH), Jürgen Hofmann (Berlin), Silke Neunsinger (Labour
movement archives and library, Stockholm), Berthold Unfried (ITH & Institute
for Social and Economic History, Vienna University), Marcel van der Linden
(International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
Some Remarks concerning the
organization of the conference.
PROGRAM
Simultaneous translation: English — German
Thursday, 9 September 2010
9.00 - 22.00
Registration of the participants at Jägermayrhof
13.00 - 15.00
Meeting of the Executive Committee and the
International Scientific Committee
of ITH
15.00: Break
15.30 - 17.30
Annual General Meeting of the Member Institutes
of ITH
17.30: Aperitif
18.00
Conference Opening by the President of ITH, Berthold Unfried, Walter
Schuster from the City of Linz and our host, Erwin Kaiser, from Bildungshaus
Jägermayrhof
18.30
Keynote Address by Enzo Traverso
(Paris): European Memories. Entangled Perspectives
19.00
Welcome reception by the Mayor of Linz at
Jägermayrhof
20.30
Conferring of the René Kuczynski Prize 2010
for outstanding publications on the field of social and economic history
to Silke Fengler for her book: Entwickelt und
fixiert. Zur Unternehmens- und Technikgeschichte der deutschen Fotoindustrie,
dargestellt am Beispiel der Agfa AG Leverkusen und des VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen
(1945-1995), Essen 2009
Friday, 10 September 2010
9.00
Introduction by Berthold Unfried
(Vienna) and Jürgen Mittag (Bochum):
The New ITH Conference Cycle and this Conference
9.30
PANEL I (Traces of Labour in European Memory)
Chair: Jürgen Mittag (Bochum)
Jürgen Kocka (Berlin):
Arbeiterbewegungen in der europäischen Erinnerung des 20. Jahrhunderts
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
Bruno Groppo (Paris) / Filippo Focardi
(Padua): The Changing Memories of World War II and Resistance in
Italy and France: A Comparative View
12.30
Reception by the Provincial Governor of
Upper Austria at Jägermayrhof
14.00
PANEL II (Memory Strategies
of Labour Movements)
Chair: Berthold Unfried (Vienna)
Bernd Faulenbach (Bochum): Die deutsche
Sozialdemokratie in den geschichtspolitischen Auseinandersetzungen der 1970er
und 1980er Jahre
Helmut Konrad (Graz): Geschichtspolitik
der österreichischen Sozialdemokratie in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
Mario Kessler (Potsdam): Die Historiographie
der Arbeiterbewegung – von der Erinnerungskultur zur Erinnerung an
eine Zukunft
Nick Dyrenfurth (Sydney): ‘Socialism
is being mates’: ‘Mateship’ and the Cultural Politics
of the fin de siècle Australian Labour Movement
18.00
Intermediary Inventory
Jens Kroh (Essen): Which tracks of
interpretation have been pursued?
18.30
Dinner at Jägermayrhof
20.00
Public Panel Discussion
Macht.Geschichte.Politik
Die Rolle der HistorikerInnen in der Erinnerungspolitik
Venue: Wissensturm der VHS Linz, Kärntner Str. 26
Organizers: ITH, Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, Adult Education Centre
of Linz
Podium: Jürgen Kocka (Berlin),
Oliver Rathkolb (Vienna), Brigitte
Kepplinger (Linz)
Please notice: The discussion will be held in GERMAN
without simultaneous translation!
Saturday, 11 September 2010
9.00
PANEL III (Labour
and Social Movements in Africa, Latin America and Asia)
Chair: David Mayer (Wien)
Andreas Eckert (Berlin): Historische
Bezugspunkte afrikanischer Arbeiterbewegungen
Gerardo Leibner (Tel Aviv): The Memory
of Latin American Labour Movements
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break
Hyun Back Chung (Seoul): The South
Korean Labour Movement and the Legacy of Chun Tae-Il Myth: Resistance Memory
or Public Memory?
12.30
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
14.00
PANEL V (Strategies
and Instruments of Social Movements)
Chair: Silke Neunsinger (Stockholm)
Berthold Molden (Vienna): The Politics
of History of Anticolonial Activism. A Historicizing Localization
Ullla Manns (Stockholm): Historico-political
Strategies of Scandinavian Feminist Movements
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
Tomasz Kozłowski (Warsaw): The
Memory of the Polish Independent Self-Governing Trade Union “Solidarnosc”
17.15
Concluding Discussion
Jens Kroh (Essen): An essay of synthesis
19.00
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
Sunday, 12 September 2010
Departure of the participants after breakfast