Activities
2023
| November 28 | Presentation of the Commemorative Project, Provenance Research and the critical evaluation of academic honours at the lecture series Vom (Ver-)Schweigen zum Erinnern: Universitäten und ihr Umgang mit Verfolgung und Ausgrenzung 1933–1945 at the University of Veterinary Medicine (Vienna). |
| July 3 til October 26 | Campus exhibition on 125 years WU. |
| June 5 | Presentation of research findings on the awarding of honorary doctorates to individuals with close ties to the Nazi regime and on displaced members of the University of World Trade in the context of the event Closed to Exclusion – Open to Inclusion. Critical reflection on WU’s handling of the Nazi era. |
| May 11 | At the University of Graz presentation of WU's path to digital archiving at the spring conference of the working group of archivists at universities and scientific institutions of the Association of Austrian Archivists, under the theme Records Management and Digital Archiving. Design Spaces of the Digital Transformation. |
| May 8 | Podcast on WU’s handling with its Nazi past.With Rector Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger and Johannes Koll, Senior Scientist and Head of University Archives, in: Die Presse, 8 May 2023. |
| April 13 | In the context of the Commemorative Project publication of an article on Halina Karin in the German weekly DIE ZEIT. |
2022
| December | Release of names and scans from the University Archive on Jewish students of the Academy of Export and the College for World Trade from Galicia on the All Galicia Database.A report, published on the related project in The Galitzianer. The Quarterly Research Journal of Gesher Galicia, can be found here. |
2021
| May 25 | Release of the first 20 historical blackbords within the Digital Collections. |
2019
| September 10 - 13 | As one of the results of provenance research, presentation of the case of Doris J. Klang on the Austrian Librarians’ Day 2019 by Lisa Frank (Commission for Provenance Research) and Regina Zodl (University Archives of WU) on September, 11 in Graz.The program can be found here, the article based on the above mentioned presentation (in German with English abstract) is accessible via this link. |
| April 25 - 26 | Organization of the spring conference of the academic institutions chapter of the Association of Austrian Archivists. |
2018
| November 28 | Involvement in the Memorial Concert which included the symbolic re-awarding of an academic degree revoked during the Nazi-era. |
| April 26 | Presentation of the Commemorative Project, provenance research, and the University Archive at the spring conference of the academic institutions chapter of the Association of Austrian Archivists on Archive und Geschichtspolitik an Universitäten und wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen (Mozarteum Salzburg). |
| April 24 | Panel discussion: Wo stehen die Universitäten 80 Jahre nach der Nazi-Zeit? as part of the series WU matters. WU talks (WU Vienna). Video recording available here: https://youtu.be/Njx7OD¬PSjJY. |
| April 13 | Participation in the Long Night of Research. |
| April 10 | Presentation of the Commemorative Project as part of the series Geschichte im Gespräch (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg). |
2017
| October 4 | Opening ceremony of the new permanent exhibition of the Technisches Museum Wien on fossil fuels, including information on the WU provenance research project. |
| October 2 | Opening ceremony of the WU Commemorative Year 2018 with a presentation of the book “Säuberungen” an österreichischen Hochschulen 1934-1945. Voraussetzungen, Prozesse, Folgen (edited by Johannes Koll, Böhlau-Verlag: Vienna/Cologne/Weimar 2017). |
| June 12-13 | Talk at the conference Was bleibt? Bibliothekarische NS-Provenienzforschung und der Umgang mit ihren Ergebnissen (University of Graz). |
| April 19-21 | Co-organization of the joint spring conference of the Austrian, Czech, and German University and Academic Archivists: Normen und Ethos. Schreiben ArchivarInnen Geschichte? |
2016
| July 6-8 | Co-organization of the 26th annual International Summer Academy of the Institute for Jewish History in Austria: "In die Häuser schauen“. Aspekte jüdischen Wohnens vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (WU Vienna). |
| Jun 13 | Participation in the panel discussion Learning from history – or not? The Past, present, and future of (un)sustainability, an event with Timothy Snyder as part of the series SustainabilityControversy (WU Vienna). |
2015
| September 16 | Lecture as part of the NS provenance research panel at the 32nd Austrian Librarians’ Day: Provenienzforschung an der UB der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien – Hauptbibliothek (University of Vienna). |
| July 7-10 | Co-organization of the 25th annual International Summer Academy of the Institute for Jewish History in Austria: „Wer kann den Judentempel brauchen?“ Synagogen in Europa nach 1945 (WU Vienna). |
| June 9 | Organization of the panel discussion: Die WU stellt sich ihrer Vergangenheit: 50 Jahre Affäre Bor. |