Conferences & Events Organized by Project Members

15 November 2023, 18:30: Book presentation and podium discussion to the newly published monograph "Kindom of Barracks, Polish Displaced Persons in Allied-Occupied Germany and Austria" by Katarzyna Nowak. Please download the invitation here. You can access the live stream here. 

3 November 2023, 9:30: Workshop "Mapping Displacement: Visualisierungen und Analyse von Mobilitätsund Lebenslaufdaten" organized in cooperation with the University of Osnabrück included presentations by team members:

• Jewish ‘Displaced Persons’ with Disabilities (Glack)
• ‘Displaced Persons’ into and from the Philippines (Christoph)
• Explorative Netzwerkanalyse räumlicher sowie sozial-administrativer Resettlementpraktiken (Schischka)

21 August 2023, our internal GIS workshop with the title "Introduction to GIS (ArcGisPRO) for Historical Studies" took place. The workshop was planned and conducted by Konstantin Schischka, and included a presentation by Peter Hinterndorfer

23 June 2023, 17:00: ERC Advanced Grant “GLORE” Inauguration.Venue: University of Vienna, Great Ceremonial Hall (Großer Festsaal)„Project Design“ Talk by Kerstin von Lingen, Keynote Lecture Jessica Reinisch

Lectures at Conferences, Workshops and Participation at Research Trips

16-18 January 2024: Konstantin Schischka will participate in the EHRI seminar "What's New in Austrian Holocaust Studies?" at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute. He will present his dissertation project. "Mapping the Spatial and Social-Administrative Networks of Resettlement: The Role of Hubs of Displacement in the Resettlement Process of 'The Last Million'" in English.

28-29 September 2023: Konstantin Schischka participated at the workshop "HISTORY & (Q)GIS. Dealing with Geographical Data in Historical Sciences" at the University of Vienna and gave a talk with the title: "Mapping the Spatial and Social-Administrative Networks of Resettlement: The Role of Hubs of Displacement in the Resettlement Process of 'The Last Million".

21-23 September 2023: Annual Conference of the Society for Excile Research in Osnabrück, Germany.
Raphaela Bollwein and Lena Christoph pariticipatdt at the PhD Workshop and talked about their respective reseach topics:

• "Our Children - the Future of Our Nation. The (dis)qualification of parents and children in the context of (international) adoptations from the Children´s Centers of UNRRA/IRO after 1945" (Bollwein)
• "Transit through the Philippines. Jewish and Russian Displaced Persons in Search of a New Home, 1945-1952" (Christoph)

29 June — 1 July 2023: 7th ENIUGH congress:”Conflict and Inequity, Peace and Justice: Local, Regional and International Perspectives”:

• Kerstin von Lingen: „Displaced Persons and Refugees in Postwar Europe: a transnational Perspective“ 
• Elisabeth Czerniak: panelist Double Panel "Displaced Persons and Refugees and Postwar Europe: A Transnational History of Displacement", Talk: Navigating Repatriation from Shanghai to Vienna: Agency on the Challenging Way Back 'Home'Johannes
• Glack: panelist "Double Panel: Displaced Persons and Refugees in Postwar Europe: A Transnational History of Displacement",  Talk: In Search for Self-determination: The Struggle for Agency of Jewish DPs with disabilities in the US-Zone between 1945 and 1963

Book Launches

Project Meetings

Fellowships and Grants and Prizes of Project Members

15 February 2024, Johannes Glack awarded with the Herbert-Steiner-Prize for his work "Zwischen Endkampf und Werwolf. The perpetrators of the final phase crimes in April 1945 in the district of Scheibbs. A micro-historical analysis of court records"

20 December 2023, Lena Christoph has been awarded with a three-month reseach fellowship by the German Historical Institute (DHI), Washington. She is expected to start her stay in the US in May 2024.