Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2025, 10:30 - 19:00 iCal

Closing Event Remapping Refugee Stories 1933–1953

Abschlussveranstaltung mit Lesung und Workshop

Aula am Campus der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2-4 / Hof 1.11, 1090 Wien

Informationsveranstaltung


Weitere Termine

Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2025, 18:30 - 21:30

We warmly invite you to the closing event of the international research project “Remapping Refugee Stories” as part of the 2025 commemorative year.

 

The project shares the lesser-known life stories of 26 survivors of the Holocaust. All of them were persecuted under National Socialism and survived by fleeing. While some were able to use established transit routes, others found unconventional ways to save their lives, often shaped by luck and chance.

 

PROGRAM

 

Day 1: OPENING CEREMONY

Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

 

OPENING WORDS

Prof. Dr Paula Wojcik and Prof. Dr Werner Nell | Project Lead

 

WELCOME REMARKS

Prof. Dr Manuela Baccarini | Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs, University of Vienna

 

Prof. Dr Stephan Müller | Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

 

Johanna Sokoließ | EVZ Foundation

 

PROJECT PRESENTATION

 

SHORT FILM SCREENING

Prof. Avner Faingulernt and Hagar Saad-Shalom | Skene Border Films

 

READING AND MUSIC

Dörte Lyssewski | Ensemble Member of the Burgtheater

 

Maura Petersen | Singer and Or Rozenfeld | Bassist

 

RECEPTION WITH FOOD AND DRINKS

 

The Opening Ceremony will be streamed live: www.youtube.com/@UniWienlive

 

Day 2: WORKSHOP

Thursday, January 30, 2025, 10:30 AM – 7:00 PM

 

KEYNOTE | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

 

Dr Judith Kohlenberger (WU Vienna) | Paradoxes of Forced Migration and International Protection, Past and Present

 

PANEL 1 | 11:30 AM – 3:45 PM

 

Ass.-Prof. Dr Ana Mijić (University of Vienna) | The Art of Arriving: Reframing Refugee Integration

 

LUNCH BREAK | 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM

 

Prof. Sibylle Heilbrunn, PhD (Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv) | The Refugee Experience: History, Theory and Humanity

 

Prof. (FH) Dr Irene Messinger (FH Campus Vienna) | Refugees in Transit: 26 Viennese Social Workers Responding to Exile Conditions in London and New York

 

Shiri Spector, PhD (Psychotherapy for Healthcare) | Psychological Resilience: The capacity to cope, overcome, and thrive

 

COFFEE BREAK | 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

 

PANEL 2 | 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM

 

PD Dr Martha Keil (Institute for Jewish History in Austria) | Threat and self-assertion. Young people with refugee experience during the Nazi era and today. A recently launched Sparkling Science project

 

Dr Julia Richter (University of Graz) | Exil:Trans – Exploring Translation in Contexts of Displacement

 

PD Dr Oliver Kühschelm (Institute of Rural History) | Austrian-Jewish refugees in Uruguay: A diasporic topology

 

ROUND TABLE | HOW TO TELL REFUGEE STORIES | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

 

Prof. Dr Helga Ramsey-Kurz (University of Innsbruck)

Dr Ruth Eithan (Historian, Israel)

Prof. Avner Faingulernt (Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv)

Prof. Dr Paula Wojcik (University of Vienna)

Chair: Prof. Dr Werner Nell (Queen’s University)

Zur Webseite der Veranstaltung


Veranstalter

Abteilung für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Wien und Wienbibliothek


Kontakt

Assoz. Prof. Dr. Paula Wojcik
Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Abteilung für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
+43-1-4277-43076
paula.wojcik@univie.ac.at