Donnerstag, 26. April 2018, 15:00 - 20:00 iCal

GRACEH

12th Annual Graduate Conference in European History

"People and Ideas on the Move: Interaction, Interconnection, Entanglement"

Hörsaal und Seminarraum des Instituts für Osteuropäische Geschichte
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 3, Eingang 3.2 (Campus), 1090 Wien

Tagung, Konferenz, Kongress, Symposium

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“People and Ideas on the Move: Interaction, Interconnection and Entanglement”

For the contemporaries of the 21st century, mobility often seems to lie at the heart of lived experience. International conferences or student mobility programmes like the European ERASMUS – now in its 30th year – shape the perceptions of young academics. However, mobility is encouraged not only by marvellous opportunity, but also out of urgent necessity. In recent years, millions of people from the Global South have been forced to leave their home countries for political or economical reasons, creating new challenges for the receiving societies.

The current prominence of mobility has inspired multiple enquiries in its historicity: Certainly, mobility of people and ideas is not a recent phenomenon. The 12th annual GRACEH, organised by the University of Vienna, Central European University (Budapest) and European University Institute (Florence), will focus on historical manifestations of movement. We perceive movement as an omnipresent phenomenon, not limited to people. It also embraces ideas, technology, scientific concepts, concepts of the state and governance, the circulation of goods, cultural practices, and more.

In order to establish a space for a productive discussion, we invite graduate students from the humanities and social sciences to reflect with us on the following themes:

 

1. Historical Research on the Move

Theoretical debates on mobility: their essence and forms, epistemic approaches and methodological perspectives as well as paradigm shifts. We encourage an open discussion with the aim of reflecting and expanding on the existing theoretical framework in order to illuminate less researched types of movement. Furthermore, we address basic requirements of mobility, as well as transformation and change occurring in this field over time.

2. People on the Move

Actors, circumstances, experience, memory, identity, and “otherness.” We regard mobility as an essential part of human experience, shaping people and practices. Who moved for what kind of reasons and purposes and under which conditions? How did mobility of people affect the social, political, economical and cultural dimension within their destinations, places of origin and travel hubs?

3. Ideas on the Move

Transfer of knowledge, change of paradigms, advancement of technology. Ideas, as well as people, are constantly in motion. All boundaries—gender, class or state borders—function within a continuum between rigidity and fluidity.

 

Keynote Speakers:

Ma?gorzata Mazurek (Columbia University, NYC)

Pap Ndiaye (Sciences Po, Paris)

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Veranstalter

GRACEH Organisations Team, unter Leitung von Prof. Peter Becker und Prof. Philipp Ther

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Kontakt

Joanna Rozmus
Doktoratskolleg Galizien
0043 1/4277-42824
joanna.rozmus@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Freitag, 06. April 2018, 20:00
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 09. April 2018, 09:21