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2 Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Europäische Geschichte und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Annual Report MASTHEAD Editor and a Owner: Ludwig Boltzmann-Gesellschaft GmbH Nussdorfer Strasse, th Floor, A- Vienna Responsible for the Content: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres (LBI EHP) Nussdorfer Strasse, th Floor, A- Vienna Editor or: Thomas Lindenberger (based on reports of the team) The Annual Reports are available for download at the website of the LBI EHP: Archive Annual Reports II

3 Contents..... Overview of the Institute Objectives... Budget... Partners... Boards... Personnel... Infrastructure... Highlights of the Year... Public Relations... Research contents and results... Projects... Publications and Reports... Organization of conference panels... Conference papers and presentations... Conference participation... Other activities Scientific cooperations, third party funds... Organization of conferences, workshops, seminars, etc.... Teaching by LBI EHP members... Outlook List of publications Edited volumes... Chapters in edited volumes (peer reviewed)... Articles in journals (peer reviewed)... Articles in journals (non peer reviewed)... Internet publications... Other publications... III

4 . Overview of the Institute 2011 saw a considerable increase in activities of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, both in terms of quality and quantity. While older research agendas such as the transnational research on Memory Politics was completed successfully by publishing the volume on Memory Clashes, new projects and both national and international cooperation in the two major fields of research, Migration and Memory, and Communist and Post-Communist Times in Central Europe, have been launched. Projects based on third party funding have now gained considerable weight in the overall profile of the institute s research program: The director, Thomas Lindenberger, was invited to join an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Project as senior researcher, a comparative project about the history of Regime and Society in Late State Socialism, directed by Prof. Ivalyo Znepolski (University of Sofia), whereby the institute has now become a contractual beneficiary of ERC funding. Key researcher Christiane Hintermann has been granted the highly prestigious Elise-Richter-fellowship to research her project on Lieux de memoire of migration in Austria while also directing a new research team on the representations of migration in Austrian schoolbooks funded by the Sparkling Science program of the Austrian Ministry for Higher Education and Research. A new cooperation project with the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF) on Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late State Socialism will provide the opportunity for key researcher Muriel Blaive to explore Power and violence over the female body in Czechoslovakia: social and medical practices of birth-giving, alongside with her responsibility for organizing an extended seminar series on European Contemporary History with international high-profile speakers. The academic highlight of 2011 was undoubtedly reached in September with the international conference From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area: Bordering Communist and Postcommunist Europe, organized by our project coordinator Libora Oates-Indruchová in close cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) and the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna. Despite this increasing visibility and, with all modesty, excellence of the institute, the record of 2011 has been substantially impaired by the decision of the board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft not to prolong the run time of the institute beyond May The reason for this decision is based exclusively on administrative considerations. Since it had been Increase of activities Projects Conference Closing of the institute /

5 clear that Thomas Lindenberger would return to his permanent position at ZZF Potsdam during 2012, possibilities to continue the institute for another 7-year period from June 2012 onwards had been explored, which, unfortunately, were not accepted as viable solutions by the LBG leadership. We deeply regret the premature closing envisioned in May 2013 although we are grateful for the management s commitment to provide sufficient funding also for the remaining 17 months so that the ambitious research program can be continued. In particular we are grateful for the willingness of our colleagues in Malmö and Cluj to remain partners of the institute also during this additional year and thereby help to sustain its impact on the European and international academic sphere. The research fields of the institute consist of: Research field COMMUNIST AND POST-COMMUNIST TIMES IN CENTRAL EUROPE LBI EHP coordinating researcher: Muriel Blaive. The field includes the following current projects: Border Communities. Microstudies on Everyday Life, Politics and Memory in European Societies from 1945 to the Present. LBI EHP coordinating researcher: Libora Oates- Indruchová. Affiliated researchers: Ulf Brunnbauer, Astrid M. Eckert, Roger Engelmann, Gabriela Ghindea, Friederike Kind- Kovács, Sabina Mihelj, Daniela Münkel, Alena Pfoser, Mark Pittaway, Sagi Schaefer, Lavinia Stan, Tatiana Zhurzhenko. Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism, in cooperation with the ZZF Potsdam. This project started in April LBI EHP researcher: Muriel Blaive. Research fields Communist and Post- Communist Times in Central Europe War Memories. Border Regions, Children & Migrants in Europe ( ). This project started in December LBI EHP researcher: Machteld Venken Research field MIGRATION & MEMORY LBI EHP coordinating researcher: Christiane Hintermann. LBI EHP researchers: Christina Johansson (Malmö University), Lavinia Stan (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj- Napoca). Affiliated researcher: Patrice G. Poutrus (University Halle- Migration and Memory /

6 Wittenberg). The field includes the following current and planned projects: Lieux de mémoire of migration in urban spaces: the example of Vienna LBI EHP researcher: Christiane Hintermann Migration(s) in Textbooks. A critical analysis by students, teachers and researchers (a Sparkling Science project) LBI EHP researchers: Christiane Hintermann, Christa Markom, Heidi Weinhäupl Swedish Museum, Migration and Cultural Diversity LBI EHP researcher: Christina Johansson The Presence of the Absents. Representations of Border Trespassers in Romania During Communism LBI EHP researcher: Lavinia Stan Moving in, moving through, moving out: a comparison of representations of migration through media coverage in the metropolises of Vienna and Berlin, /34 Prospective researcher: Patrice Poutrus Research field EUROPEAN COLD WAR CULTURES: MEDIA AND MEMORY BEFORE AND AFTER 1989 LBI EHP researcher: Thomas Lindenberger The field includes the project: Regime and Society in Eastern Europe ( ). From Extended Reproduction to Social and Political Change. LBI EHP researcher: Thomas Lindenberger European Cold War Cultures Objectives The LBI EHP s future Throughout the year, the director and the research team together with the LBG management sought for possibilities to put up new partnerships which would allow for another 7-year run-time of the institute from 2012 to Thomas Lindenberger will return to his original institute in Potsdam were he holds a permanent position as research director from which he was given leave only for a limited time. Efforts to find an agreement between LBG and Vienna University who was seriously interested in a contract-based cooperation remained fruitless due to formal incompatibilities regarding the position of the future director. In view of the management s definite decision in Main objective /

7 September 2011 not to explore further possibilities of a regular prolongation of the institute, it was agreed upon that during an additional fade-out year from June 2012 to May 2013 the level of activity and visibility of the institute should be fully maintained in order to complete the research and publishing agenda and develop new project ideas and cooperations. During the regular board meeting of the institute, both Malmö University and Babeş-Bolyai university confirmed their willingness to remain LBI EHP partners also during this additional year. J. Selye University decided not to prolong its partnership beyond the contract period, i.e., 31 May Budget The annual contribution of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society for 2011 amounted to 450,000. Additional funds were contributed by University of Malmö, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and J. Selye University Komárno (Slovakia), inkind and/or cash. Elise Richter project of the FWF: "Lieux de mémoire of migration in urban spaces: the example of Vienna", see 2.1. Austrian Ministry for Science and Research within the programme line 'Sparkling Science'; project: "Migration(en) im Schulbuch", see 2.1. ERC program of the European Union ( Advanced Grant ); project: Regime and Society in Eastern Europe ( ). From Extended Reproduction to Social and Political Change (RESOCEA), participation of Thomas Lindenberger as senior researcher, see 3.1. Project Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism, funded by the Leibniz Association and carried out in cooperation with the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF), Potsdam, see 3.1. Lise Meitner project of the FWF: "War Memories. Children, Border Regions & Migrants in Europe, see 2.1. Annual contribution of Ludwig Boltzmann Society Additional funds /

8 Partners The cooperation with the existing partners, the Ludwig Boltzmann Society, Malmö University, J. Selye University Komárno and Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca continued in Malmö University, J. Selye University and Babeş-Bolyai University made a contribution in the form of a part time inkind researcher until May Malmö University and J. Selye University also made a cash contribution. Partners Partner institutions Boards The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres is supported by two boards: Board (representing the institute partners) Scientific Advisory Committee The members of the board are: for Ludwig Boltzmann Society: Mag. Claudia Lingner for Malmö University: Professor Dr. Bo Petersson for Babeş Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Napoca: Professor Dr. Ioan Marius Bucur for J. Selye University, Komárno: Professor Dr. László Szarka Non on-voting members of the Board: Dr. Erich Heiss, Acting Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft GmbH Professor Dr. Thomas Lindenberger, Director of the LBI EHP Board member embers Non-voting members of the Board Board Meetings 2011: In 2011, three board meetings took place. The first meeting on 07 February was the replacement for the cancelled meeting in December 2010 and was held in the form of a video conference at the University of Vienna. The second board meeting was scheduled for 24 May 2011 and the third meeting took place on 29 November This last board meeting was crucial for the development of the institute. During this meeting, the record was set for the final 18 months of the running of the institute. After a first statement by Thomas Lindenberger on the progress and past events at the institute, the discussion went on to the Board meetings Further development of the institute /

9 procedure of prolongation. LBG confirmed that the additional year will be regulated by a formal extension of the contract. At the same time, LBG guaranteed that the academic work of the institute could be continued as before, agreeing to the same budget as in the previous year. It was also agreed upon that the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) will be asked to convene for an evaluation, which will take place in March 2012 and should then resume its regular meetings on a bi-annual schedule. To guarantee a smooth transition, Muriel Blaive was introduced to the Board members as Thomas Lindenberger s successor as director of the institute. On the question of future co-operations and joint events of the partners both during the run-time of the institute and later on, Bo Petersson from Malmö University suggested a larger conference on migration to be scheduled at the end of 2012 in Malmö. Also, the question was raised how to continue cooperation between the current institutional partners after the closing of the institute. A network meeting was suggested for all parties involved to discuss further strategies and to identify common interests and new ideas, which will take place at the end of The next Board meeting will take place on 30 March 2012 to discuss the further development of the institute. The Scientific Advisory Board s functions are 1. to advise the partner institutions of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, notably the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft GmbH and the head of the Institute as regards the long-term scientific orientation of research and development activities; 2. to contribute a critical assessment of the subject-specific and scientific output of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute; 3. to further the co-operation with other research institutions; 4. to offer subject-specific advice prior to decisions when requested to do so. The members of the Scientific Advisory Board are: Prof. Dr. Grete Brochmann, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, Oslo University Prof. Dr. Dariusz Stola, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Prof. Dr. Bo Stråth, Centre for Nordic Studies CENS, Helsinki University Prof. Dr. Gabriele Metzler, Chair for Western European History, Humboldt University, Berlin Future co-operations operations Scientific Advisory Board Members /

10 Following a decision by the LBG management, no meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board was held in The next Scientific Advisory Board meeting will take place on 12 March Personnel In February 2011, Sarah Lemmen took on her new position as research management assistant. In March 2011, Christa Markom and Heidi Weinhäupl joined the team to start the Sparkling Science project on Migration in textbooks. In December 2011, Machteld Venken started her fellowship as FWF researcher. The scientific s staff at LBI EHP/Vienna consists of: Dr. Muriel Blaive, historian Dr. Christiane Hintermann, geographer, migration researcher Sarah Lemmen, M.A., historian Dr. Christa Markom, social and cultural anthropologist Dr. habil. Libora Oates-Indruchová, cultural and literary scientist Dr. Machteld Venken, historian Heidi Weinhäupl, M.A., social and cultural anthropologist Head of the institute: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenberger, historian Office management: Brigitta Buchmayr Student assistants: Iris Obernhummer (January) Erich Größwang (February-September) Matthias Vigl (October-December) Scientific staff at Malmö University: Dr. Christina Johansson, historian, Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University. Research topic "Swedish Museums, Migration and Cultural Diversity. New employees Scientific staff Head Administrative staff Students Malmö University /

11 Scientific staff at Babeş-Bolyai Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca Napoca: Dr. Lavinia Stan, researcher at the Oral History Department of Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca. Research topic "The Presence of the Absents. Representations of Border Trespassers in Romania During Communism" Scientific staff at J. Selye University Komárno: Dr. Barnabas Vajda, lecturer at the History Department of J. Selye University Komárno. Research topic "Legacies of communism: Architecture, Ideology and Lieux de Mémoire in the ethnically mixed communities of South Western Slovakia". Babe abeş-bolyai University J. Selye University Komárno Infrastructure As a replacement for outdated computers, new equipment was installed and several notebooks were bought. Infrastructure Highlights of the Year Book presentation of "Debating Migration. Political Discourses on Labor Immigration in Historical Perspective", ed. by Stefanie Mayer and Mikael Spång, Innsbruck/New Brunswick 2009, and "Migration and Memory. Representations of Migration in Europe since 1960", ed. by Christiane Hintermann and Christina Johansson, Innsbruck/New Brunswick 2010, followed by a panel discussion on "Gedächtnislücke Migration? Repräsentationen von Migration und (Im)MigrantInnen in europäischen Einwanderungsgesellschaften". The event took place at the City Library of Vienna on 14 February Book presentation of Clashes in European Memory: The Case of Communist Repression and the Holocaust, ed. by Muriel Blaive, Christian Gerbel, Thomas Lindenberger, followed by a lecture on "Do we Need Memory?" by Pieter Lagrou (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and a rejoinder by Christian Gerbel (former LBI EHP researcher, now historian, Vienna). The event took place at the Institute of Comtemporary History at Vienna University on 24 May Conference on From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area. Bordering Communist and Post-Communist Europe, held at the IWM, Vienna, on September The conference was a joint venture with both IWM and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Book presentations Conference /

12 Public Relations The public external representation of the institute was maintained by interviews, talks on TV or radio: In September 2011 Christiane Hintermann was invited to the 10th Klagenfurter Frauensalon organized by the Office of Women s Affairs in Klagenfurt (Klagenfurter Frauenreferat) and the women s association Frau Scherwitz on the topic Migration, Geschichte/n und Gedächtnis ; parts of the interview were broadcasted by Radio Kärnten and Radio AGORA; see also Also in September 2011 Christiane Hintermann gave a talk at the Medien.Messe.Migration 2011 in Vienna, organized by M-Media, on the topic Darstellung von MigrantInnen in österreichischen Schulbüchern ; moderater: Hernan Villamizar, LatinoTV. In October 2011 Christina Johansson (Malmö University) participated in the radio program Polisrazzian i Alsike kloster (The Police Raid in Alsike Convent), P3 Documentary. See kel= In November 2011 Christina Johansson took part at MRdagarna i Stockholm (The days of Human Rights). She participated in the TV broadcasted session '100 år av svesnk migrationspolitik' (100 Years of Swedish Migration Policy). Christa Markom gave an interview on migration topics in the monthly magazine 'Arbeit und Wirtschaft' No. 11/2011 (newspaper of the Austrian trade union): "Die Mitte ist breit" (The mainstream society is broad). See ex&n=x03_999_suche.a&cid= In December 2011 Christiane Hintermann, Christa Markom and Heidi Weinhäupl gave an interview in the daily newspaper 'Der Standard' on the topic: "Klischees im Klassenzimmer. Von 'Rasse' und 'Buschmännern'. Schüler hinterfragen, wie Migranten in Schulbüchern dargestellt werden" (Stereotypes in the classroom. Of 'race' and 'Bushmen': students question how immigrants are represented in school textbooks.) See Klassenzimmer. September October November December /

13 . Research contents and results Research Field "Communist" and Post-Communist Times in Central Europe" Coordinating researcher: r Muriel Blaive The research activities of the year 2011 were mainly devoted to the following tasks: Research project 'Border Communities: Microstudies on Everyday Life, Politics and Memory in European Societies from 1945 to the Present'. This project is coordinated by Libora Oates-Indruchová, see 2.1. Research project 'Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism'. Research of Muriel Blaive: Power and violence over the female body in Czechoslovakia: social and medical practices of birth-giving. Communist and Post- Communist Times in Central Europe Border Communities Physical Violence Research Field F "Migration and Memory" Coordinating researcher: r Christiane Hintermann The research activities of the year 2011 were mainly devoted to the following tasks: Research project: Lieux de mémoire of migration in urban spaces: the example of Vienna, see 2.1. Research project: Migration(s) in Textbooks. A critical analysis by students, teachers and researchers, see 2.1. Monograph: Swedish Museums and Migration, currently written by Christina Johansson of Malmö University, see 2.1. Field research on the border between Romania and Yugoslavia on the Danube, carried out by Lavina Stan of Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, with the financial support of CNCSIS (Romania) and LBI EHP, see 2.1. Migration and Memory Lieux de mémoire Migration(s) in Textbooks Monograph Field research Research field "European Cold War Cultures: Media and Memory before and after a 1989" Researcher: Thomas Lindenberger The research activities of the year 2011 were mainly devoted to the tasks: Research project: Regime and Society in Eastern Europe ( ). From Extended Reproduction to Social and Political Change" (RESOCEA), see 3.1. European Cold War Cultures

14 Projects Research field "Communist and Post-Communist Times in Central Europe" Research project Border Communities: Microstudies on Everyday Life, Politics and Memory in European Societies From 1945 to the Present (researcher: Libora Oates-Indruchová Indruchová) The second phase of the project, launched in October 2010, continued in 2011 with the main focus on publishable outputs and tying up the various loose ends of the individual case studies. The highlight of these activities was the organisation of the international conference From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area (see point 2 below). Activities accomplished in 2011: 1. Consolidation of the international network of collaborators consisting of LBI key researchers, former contractual researchers and external experts in a project of a special journal issue: a proposal was developed for and accepted by Nationalities Papers (Routledge); a thematic forum was accepted by Contemporary European History (Cambridge). Both blocks of texts are scheduled for publication in late 2012-early Organisation of the From the Iron Curtain to the Schengen Area conference on September The conference was co-organised with the Historical Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Wolfgang Mueller) and the IWM (Klaus Nellen and János Mátyás Kovács). The three keynote speeches, seven conference panels and a discussion panel brought together over 40 academics and practitioners of border research and migration policy. For more details on the conference see: The daily 'Die Presse' published an announcement of the conference and the daily 'Der Standard' published an extensive article on the proceedings. A conference report was published by Jessie Labov on H-Soz-Kult. The expected publishing outputs are the following: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft confirmed for 2012/2013 Border Communities

15 Journal of Borderland Studies (Routledge) under negotiation for 2013 Journal of Contemporary History (Sage) confirmed for 2013 Iron Curtain-Schengen Area conference edited volume (proposal under review at Oxford UP). 3. Organising a writers workshop of the Border Communities network on 01 October 2011 at LBI EHP with the objective to comment on the draft articles for the Nationalities Papers issue (supported by EurHistXX). 4. Organising a conference panel by Border Communities researchers at the BASEES Annual Conference at Cambridge in April Organising a conference panel for the ESSHC in Glasgow in April 2012 to promote the Nationalities Papers issue and the Contemporary European History thematic forum (announced in the conference programme). 6. Sources research for the final report on the Komárno-Komárom case study completed and the whole report submitted to Erste Stiftung. 7. The utilization for research purposes of the Görlitz/ Zgorzelec LBI archival material negotiated with Katarzyna Stoklosa of the Department of Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark. Research project Power and violence over the female body in Czechoslovakia: social and medical practices of birth- giving, as part of the research network on Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism (researcher: Muriel Blaive) The research on birth-giving has been proceeding smoothly, with a one-week research stay at the British Library and the first two conference papers on the topic (one comparing Czechoslovakia and France, the other one comparing Czechoslovakia and the US), which were enthusiastically received. Muriel Blaive took part in the meetings organized in Potsdam (April 2011), in Vienna at LBI EHP (July 2011), and in Florence at the European University Institute (October 2011). Power and violence over the female body

16 Further activities Participation to the EurHistXX international research network meeting in Brussels (June 2011) and in Vienna at LBI EHP (December 2011). Muriel Blaive also organized a research seminar with Prof. Michal Pullmann, Director of the Institute for Economic and Social History at Charles University in Prague, on the theme Communist and Post- Communist Times in Central Europe. For program and further information see 3.2. The first two conference papers on the topic were presented in 2011 (one comparing Czechoslovakia and France in a workshop of the Physical Violence under Late State Socialism network in Florence, Italy, the other one comparing Czechoslovakia and the US in the annual meeting of the Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee, Germany), which were received with much interest by the scholarly community. Participation of o f Barnabas Vajda, J. Selye University Komárno In 2011, Barnabas Vajda has been actively involved in carrying on with the LBI project "Border Communities. Microstudies on Everyday life, politics and memory in European societies from 1945 to the present". His activities involved archival research in Slovakia and in Hungary, publishing a monograph, and lecturing at conferences, all regarding his particular research topic Komárom and Komárno. His most valuable achievement is an edited volume on "Államhatár és identitás Komárom/Komárno" [State Border and Identity - Komárom/Komárno], ed. by Barnabás Vajda, Monographiae Comaromienses 3., University of J. Selye, Komárno, 2011, ISBN This scientific volume is entirely devoted to the theme under research in cooperation with the LBI EHP. Besides Barnabas Vajda s and Muriel Blaive s studies it includes articles of five renowned historians from Slovakia as well as from Hungary. The volume was successfully presented to a wider audience in Komárno on 11 November 2011 by Prof. László Szarka. Further activities J. Selye University

17 Research Field F "Migration and Memory" Lieux de mémoire of migration in urban spaces: the example of Vienna (researcher Christiane Hintermann) Lieux de mémoire of migration in urban spaces is a four-year habilitation project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within the Elise Richter programme (a career development programme for female scientists). It was approved in December 2010, started in February 2011 and lasts until 31 January Generally speaking, the project aims to explore, empirically grasp, illustrate and portray sites of remembrance of migration in Vienna and Austria and to analyse their histories of origin, their (change of) meaning for different groups, struggles and conflicts concerning meaning(s) and interpretation(s) and the roles of the involved actors. The study makes use of the concept of lieux de mémoire as it has been introduced by Pierre Nora and adopts it in a way that fills the remembrance gap regarding the Vienna/Austrian migration history that is pertinent to both the national and the urban context. The basic idea of the project is to elaborate a remembrance topography of (im)migration (Erinnerungstopographie der Migration) for Vienna, complemented with lieux de mémoire that are not situated in Vienna itself but are nevertheless relevant and meaningful for Austrian migration history in general. The study consists of three main parts, each one exploiting different sources and demanding a different methodology: Migration history in the urban space: monuments, street names and memorial plaques It will be explored how far migration issues play(ed) a role in the naming of streets etc. in Vienna, departing from the basic hypothesis that the integration of people, associations, places, events etc. connected to the Austrian migration history is still pending. A further aim belonging to this part of the study is to investigate whether Vienna has any concrete memorials or commemorative plaques etc., with a connection to the younger Austrian migration history or whether there have been initiatives to create and install such commemorative objects. One example is the so-called Marcus-Omofuma-Stone. Lieux de mémoire

18 Symbolic places of immigrants in Vienna In order to trace and explore these places, semistructured interviews will be conducted with immigrants from different immigrant communities. The interview partners will in the first stage mainly consist of representatives of immigrant associations and intellectuals (researchers and artists) with a migration background. Grounded in the exploratory nature of the research, a decision about the final number of interviews and the people and immigrant organisations that will be approached to give evidence of their memories and remembrance activities will be taken during the course of the research. Austrian migration history and its sites of remembrance: places, historical events, people and myth In this part of the project the results from the research on textbooks and migration exhibitions will serve as starting and reference points. For example, in the context of Austrian migration history, Lichtermeer is an event that is mentioned and described in most of the current history textbooks designed for upper secondary school use. It is an open question whether these places will turn up as sites of remembrance among the immigrants themselves. Sources for the analysis include an investigation of secondary literature, the profound knowledge of the Austrian migration history of the author as well as the interviews mentioned under the headline Symbolic places of immigrants in Vienna. In accordance with the working programme, the work in 2011 concentrated on the elaboration of the theoretical background and the refinement of the research concept as defined in work package 1 of the work and time plan. The work mainly consisted of a review and critical reading of secondary literature in different fields. One of the outcomes of this theoretical and conceptual work is an article on the relationship of migration and memory in Austria in an anthology to be published in 2012 with the title 'Gedächtnislücke Migration? Betrachtungen über eine nationale Amnesie'. To support the project scientifically throughout the entire working period a scientific advisory board has been installed. The members of the board are:

19 Dr. Rainer Ohliger (Network Migration in Europe; historian and social scientist) Dipl. Soz. Kenan Güngör (migration expert; Büro [difference:] Gesellschaftsanalyse. Innovation. Integration.) Prof. Dr.in Felicitas Hillmann (Institute of Geography/University Bremen; Centre for Development Studies/FU Berlin) The first meeting of the scientific advisory board will take place in early summer 2012 in Vienna. Additionally a concept for a project website has been drafted which will be realized as soon as the first empirical results are available. The website will not only serve as a communication platform for the scientific community but will also integrate application-oriented tools for a broader public. Migration(s) in Textbooks.. A critical analysis by students, teachers and researchers,, see textbooks/migrations- textbooks (researchers: Christa Markom, Heidi Weinhäupl, Christiane Hintermann) Central to the project Migration(s) in Textbooks ( to ) is the documentation and critical analysis of migration narratives and representations of people with a migrant background in current Austrian textbooks. The main research questions include the following: Which Austrian and European migration histories are narrated in the textbooks?, Which stories are marginalised or even forgotten?, How are people with a migrant background depicted? In this study, the widely varying perspectives of teachers and students alike on the topic of migration and their experiences with textbooks are used both methodologically and analytically. Such collaboration between researchers, teachers and students is not only an innovative and promising approach in textbook research in general, but also reduces the danger of overemphasizing the researcher s view of the topic. In this study, students of eight classes (different school types and age groups) in two Austrian cities (Vienna and Salzburg) will analyse their own textbooks in workshops which are moderated by the researchers. The text analysis and the investigation of visual representations are done in small groups; the results are then reflected in Migration(s) in Textbooks Documentation of migration narratives Students of different schools

20 moderated group discussions. Subsequently, the results of the workshops will be contrasted and brought together with the findings of the researchers. The analysis as such is based on a methodological triangulation which has already been applied by the members of the team in their previous work with textbooks. The triangulation includes qualitative content analysis (Mayring 2007), critical discourse analysis (Jäger 2009), and text/context analysis (Hornscheidt/Göttel 2004). The method will be further developed throughout the research period so that it can be used by teachers and students afterwards without the assistance of researchers for future analyses of textbooks or other media. By gathering and critically analysing migration narratives in selected Austrian textbooks, scientific desiderata in Austrian and international textbook and migration studies are addressed and existing gaps in research can be filled. The analysis and documentation of representations of people with a migrant background in selected Austrian textbooks will take up questions that have only rarely been considered within the scientific community so far. The third main aim of the project is to offer an innovative methodological contribution to the research on textbooks. Between April and June 2011 the project team reviewed literature on specific theoretical questions regarding the main project contents and concentrated on migration history to create an annotated bibliography. Work on the analysis of the textbooks has been taken up by using Atlas TI. The first preparatory meeting (7 June) with the project partners (teachers) in Vienna took place in order to discuss the progress of the project and the next steps of cooperation. Between July and September 2011 the project team developed the concept for the school workshops and discussed it with the teachers of the schools in cooperation. The preparation of the workshops was finalised by considering and integrating specific situations in the different classes. The project team has continually been working on the analysis of the textbooks and finished the annotated bibliography on migration literature. The excerpts were made available online for the cooperation partners. Between October and December 2011 the project team conducted twelve workshops in four classes in three Critical analysis Innovative methodological contribution Annotated bibliography Concept for workshops Workshops in Vienna

21 Viennese schools. The workshops were recorded via audio and video documentation. The team is continuously busy working on the written documentation and reflection of the received data. Likewise the analysis of textbooks is to be continued. Simultaneously, the review of the relevant literature on the representation and narration of migration was finalized. The preparations for the workshops in Salzburg which will take place in February and March 2012 were started in December. The team already realized an information meeting with the cooperating teachers there. The second workshop phase of the project (in Salzburg) begins in early February 2012 and ends mid-march Subsequently to this empirical work an extended period of data analysis will follow. On the one hand the school books will be analyzed more detailed and on the other all material and documents collected during the workshops will be analyzed and interpreted as well. In April 2013 a conference for German-speaking experts is planned, to exchange ideas on the subject of migrations in textbooks. Participants will include pupils, teachers, textbook authors and researchers, hopefully also representatives of publishing houses and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. Researc esearch, carried out by Christina Johansson, Malmö University In preparation of her monograph on "Swedish Museum, Migration and Cultural Diversity", Christina Johansson studied the relevant literature and collected and structured the material. At the end of 2011, she conducted and transcribed several interviews. Furthermore, Christina Johansson already wrote the first parts on the research overview and the various case studies. Field research, carried out by Lavinia Stan, Babeş-Bolyai Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca From July 2011 Lavinia Stan carried out a field research on the border between Romania and Yugoslavia. This research was funded by CNCSIS (Romania) and LBI EHP. 20 interviews were conducted. Workshops in Salzburg Field research for monograph Field research on the Danube border

22 Research management assistance In her half time position as research management assistant, Sarah Lemmen's main task in 2011 was the coordination of the SFB project group on Beyond Historicizing Transformation in Contemporary Europe. This research group, consisting of about 20 researchers from LBI EHP, University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), and the Institute for South East European Studies (Regensburg), submitted an application for a Spezialforschungsbereich (SFB), a special research field which measures ca. 25 researchers involved, a run time of eight years, and an overall budget of eight million Euros. In order to achieve a coherent application, various internal workshops as well as some open for an invited public took place, all were organized by Sarah Lemmen. She also coordinated the application process and finalized the application itself, thereby being responsible for various aspects regarding the budget, time frame, and construction of the SFB-scheme, as well as parts of the conceptual work. Further tasks included the preparation of various workshops and meetings, negotiations with partners and funding organizations such as FWF and Zukunftsfonds, and several research tasks for the director of the institute and for staff members. Sarah Lemmen submitted an article to the Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte (2012), which she co-authored together with Thomas Lindenberger, on the current research and future developments of LBI EHP. She also submitted one conference report and one book review to H-Soz-Kult. At the same time, Sarah Lemmen was working on her PhD thesis on Representations of the non-european world and the Czech national Society, , pursuing chapters on Czech discourses on civilization and on colonization. She presented parts of her dissertation research at various conferences, with a strong focus on appearing before the Viennese research community. Research Management Assistance SFB application Preparation tasks PhD thesis

23 Publications and Reports Another book was published in the institute's book series "Studies in European History and Public Spheres": Institute's book series Muriel Blaive/Christian Gerbel/Thomas Lindenberger (eds.): Clashes in European Memory. The Case of Communist Repression and the Holocaust, Innsbruck/New Brunswick For more details on this and on all other publications, see 5.2ff. Organization of conference c panels January 2011: Workshop "Gender under Socialism" at Charles University Prague. Co-organized by Libora Oates- Indruchová. Lecture by Libora Oates-Indruchová: "Transformation of Gender Culture in Czech Society, " April 2011: Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Panel East European Borderlands Identities organized by Libora Oates-Indruchová, with Muriel Blaive, Gabriela Ghindea, Friederike Kind-Kovács, and Alena Pfoser April 2011: Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York. Panel Forms of nationalism in East Central Europe organized by Muriel Blaive, with Martin Brown, Paulina Bren, Petr Roubal, Shawn Clybor, Lavinia Stan, and Muriel Blaive. Panel Communism, Post-Communism and National Identity in East Central Europe organized by Muriel Blaive, with Martin Brown, Barbara Falk, Mark Kramer, Thomas Lindenberger and Muriel Blaive. Panel Volunteerism and In-securities: The Transition from Late State Socialism to Emerging Civil Societies in East Germany and Belarus organized by Thomas Lindenberger, with Melanie Arndt, Juliane Edler, Thomas Lindenberger, Petr Roubal and Tatjana Thelen. Panel Forms of nationalism in East Central Europe. Democracy and Socialism Compared organized by Muriel Blaive, with Paulina Bren, Petr Roubal, Shawn Clybor, Lavinia Stan and Radim Hladík. January April

24 Panel Communism, Post-Communism and National Identity in East Central Europe organized by Muriel Blaive, with Bradley Abrams, Barbara Falk, Mark Kramer, and Thomas Lindenberger November 2011: Christiane Hintermann organized Session H8 "Teaching Migration in Immigration Societies: Representations of Migration Histories and Migrants in School Textbooks in International Perspective" at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Boston, Massachusetts. November Conference papers and presentations February 2011: Conference "Die Diktatur in der Provinz" at Evangelische Akademie Thüringen, Zinzendorfhaus, Neudietendorf, Germany. Lecture by Thomas Lindenberger: "Grenzregime und Gesellschaftskonstruktion im SED-Staat" March 2011: Conference "Temps présent et contemporanéité, Institut d'histoire du temps présent, Paris, organized by Patrick Garcia and Vincent Auzas. Lecture by Muriel Blaive: "Histoire du temps présent, justice et politique: une cohabitation hasardeuse et improductive en République tchèque". 25 March 2011: Participation in a round table discussion "Eine ganz normale Straße Erste Ergebnisse einer vergleichenden Soziologie der Straße in Paris und Wien"; organized by Christoph Reinprecht (Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna) and Claire Lévy-Vroelant (Université Paris 8) at the French Cultural Institute in Vienna. Participation at the round table discussion by Christiane Hintermann. 26 March 2011: Seminar "50 Jahre Mauerbau. Vorgeschichte und Folgen" at Bildungsstätte St. Martin, Erfurt. Organized by Stiftung Ettersberg and Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen. Lecture by Thomas Lindenberger: "Die DDR, nachdem das 'Tor zum Westen' geschlossen war". 31 March to 02 April 2011: Conference Post-Stalinism as an Epoch: Towards a Comparative Societal History of European Communism between 1956 and 1980, organized by Pavel Kolář and Jens Gieseke, ZZF Potsdam. Lecture by Muriel Blaive: The Origins of Totalita : Birth and Development of a Historiographical Narrative on Communist History in Central Europe. Thomas Lindenberger chaired the panel Defining the Epoch Concepts and Perspectives. February March April

25 02-04 April 2011: Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Lecture by Muriel Blaive Changing generational identities at the Slovak-Hungarian border. Libora Oates-Indruchová acted as chair and discussant in the panels Gendered Periodisation of State Socialism and East European Borderland Identities. She was also a member of the Roundtable Reassessing Cold War Europe does the Eastern point of view bring anything new? April 2011: Symposium (Re)Locating Orientalism between East and West, organized by Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Institut für Kulturwissenschaften und Theatergeschichte and Institut für Sozialanthropologie Wien. Lecture by Sarah Lemmen: A non-colonial orientalism? Representations of Africa and Asia in Czech travelogues around April 2011: Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York. Muriel Blaive commented the panel Forms of nationalism in East Central Europe. Panel Communism, Post-Communism and National Identity in East Central Europe, lecture by Muriel Blaive: Citizens, Secret Police, and dealing with the communist past in the Czech Republic. Panel 'Charting the Nation between State and Society', lecture by Lavinia Stan, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj- Napoca: Socialism and National Identity on the Danube: Escapees from Romania to Yugoslavia. 02 May 2011: Seminar Territoire et pouvoir. Jeux d échelles en Europe, organized by Catherine Perron, CERI, Paris. Lecture by Muriel Blaive: Pratiques et imaginaires du territoire dans l'espace frontalier tchéco-autrichien en période de changements politiques May 2001: Conference Bildungsforschung (in) der Migrationsgesellschaft. Entwicklung und Perspektiven in Österreich, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Lecture by Christiane Hintermann: Migration im Schulbuch: eine Analyse der (Re)Konstruktion von Migrationen und Migrant/innen in österreichischen Schulbüchern der letzten 40 Jahre. 11 May 2011: Seminar Historická sociologie, organized by Nicolas Maslowski, Fakulta humanitních studií, Prague. Lecture by Muriel Blaive: Hranice (Borders). May

26 12 May 2011: Lecture series on Bereiste Imperien. Tourismus in Österreich-Ungarn, Russland und im Osmanischen Reich, organized by Historisches Seminar der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel. Lecture by Sarah Lemmen: Wir waren verzaubert, Kairo ist wie Prag. Reisen von Tschechen nach Afrika und Asien um May 2011: Conference Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts and the Legacy of 1989, organized by Michal Kopeček and Balázs Trencsényi, Academy of Sciences, Prague. Panel History Politics, lecture by Muriel Blaive (with Michal Pullmann): Comment on the papers of Piotr Wcislik, Georgij Kasianov and Gabor Egry. 24 May 2011: Public presentation of the book Muriel Blaive, Christian Gerbel, Thomas Lindenberger (eds), Clashes in European Memory: The Case of Communist Repression and the Holocaust, organized by Muriel Blaive, with Pieter Lagrou, Andrea Petö, Oliver Rathkolb, Christian Gerbel, Thomas Lindenberger and Muriel Blaive; Institute for Contemporary History, Vienna University. Introduction by Muriel Blaive European history and the passion of bearing witness: present-day issues. 26 May 2001: Off-Theaterfestival Spectrum, organized by neuebuehnevillach. Presentation by Christiane Hintermann Migration und Erinnerung. Erzählungen österreichischer Migrationsgeschichten in mehreren Stationen May 2011: Conference Populární kultura a česká identita [Popular culture and Czech identity], organized by Ondřej Daniel of CSPK, Moravská Třebová, Czech Republic. Lecture by Libora Oates-Indruchová: Přestavěné genderové identity?: Gender v populární literatuře v období perestrojky [ Re-restructured gender identities?: Gender in the popular culture of the perestroika period]. Lecture by Muriel Blaive: Malý český člověk: před a po June 2011: Seminar Mesto a región na novej hranici/nová hranica v meste a regiónu (International scientific conference of Czech and Slovak Commission of Historians), organized by Roman Holec, J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia. Lectures by Muriel Blaive: Nová hranice a starý nacionalismus na příkladě Českých Velenic and Barnabas Vajda: "Povojnová éra v komunikatívnej pamäti obyvateľov Komáromu" (Post-war memories of inhabitants of Komárom). 07 June 2011: International summer school Creativity and Control: Rephrasing Closed Societies, organized by the Aleksanteri Institute (Helsinki) for PhD students and Postdocs, Riga, Latvia. Keynote address by Libora Oates- Indruchová: The Tractor Driver's Nemeses: Helpmates, Feminine Superwomen, and the Void of Masculinity. June

27 10 to 11 June 2011: Conference 'Das Fremde im Eigenen'. Tourismus in Österreich-Ungarn und seinen Nachfolgestaaten organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. Participation by Sarah Lemmen who wrote a conference report for H-Soz-u-Kult, see June 2011: Conference 50 Jahre Berliner Mauer, Berlin, Dokumentationszentrum Berliner Mauer, Thomas Lindenberger as discussant and chair June 2011: International Conference Migration und Kultur/Migration and Culture, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt. Lecture by Christiane Hintermann Narrative und Gegennarrative: Erzählungen österreichischer Migrationsgeschichte/n in Ausstellungen June 2011: 18th International Conference of Europeanists, Barcelona, organized by the Council for European Studies (CES), Barcelona. Panel 088: Towards a Critical History of Contemporary Europe, lecture by Thomas Lindenberger (LBI EHP): "Reassembling Europe: Borders and Migrants as Actors of European History" June 2011: Conference Towards a Common Language on a Common Past: Methodological Workshop on the Overlapping Histories of Slovakia and Hungary, organized by Bálint Varga and Slávka Otčenášová, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, held at J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia. Lectures by Muriel Blaive: Slovakia meets Hungary: Issues of Slovak-Hungarian relations as seen from Komárno and Barnabas Vajda: "Perceiving the other side ". 15 July 2011: Conference The Cold War: History, Memory, Representation, organized by the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Panel 2: Official and Biographical Memorialization : Lecture by Thomas Lindenberger: " 'The Cold War? I rather have it in my family...' East-West discrepancies in remembering Cold War times". 22 July 2011: Summer School of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, organized by CVEK, Bratislava. Lecture by Muriel Blaive: Perceiving the other in Central Europe August 2011: Conference 6 th International Conference of Critical Geography: Crises Causes, Dimensions & Reactions, organized by the Department of Human Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt. Lecture by Christiane Hintermann: Migration memory gap: Whose is the right to symbolic recognition in public space in Austria?. July August