PROGRAMME
 

Wednesday, September 28

Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2,
1010 Wien, Johannessaal

The event is sponsored by Wien Kultur.

15:00-16:00

Registration and tea/coffee

16:00-16:30

Welcome notes and conference opening:

Arnold Suppan, Vice-President, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Claudia Lingner, Managing Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft

Thomas Lindenberger, Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres

János Mátyás Kovács, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)

16:30-18:30

Keynote addresses 1 and 2:

Alfred Rieber, Frontiers: Symbolic and Geo-Cultural
and
Sabine Dullin, Implementation and Export of the Soviet Border Regime in Eastern Europe

18:30-20:00

Buffet dinner

Thursday, September 29

Institute for Human Sciences (IWM),
Spittelauer Lände 3, 1090 Wien

09:00-10:30

Panel I: Borders and Border Guarding

11:00-12:30

Panel II: The Making of Border Populations

13:45-15:15

Panel III: Making the Borders More Permeable:
The Détente and After

15:45-17:15

Panel IV: Heroes and Villains: Borders in Propaganda and Creative Representations

18:00-19:30

Keynote address 3

Alf Lüdtke, Working the Passage: East German Border Check Points, 1961-1990: The Case of "GÜSt Bhf. Friedrichstrasse", Berlin

20:00-22:30

Conference dinner

Friday, September 30

Institute for Human Sciences (IWM),
Spittelauer Lände 3, 1090 Wien

09:30-11:00

Panel V: Economic and Consumerist Aspects of Borders

11:30-13:00

Panel VI: Intellectual Cross-Border
Cooperation and Penetration

14:30-16:00

Panel VII: Borders in Memory Cultures
and Everyday Life

18:00-20:00

Panel discussion: Border Crossings: Migration Policies and Theories of Migration for the 21st Century

• Alev Korun, MP, Spokesperson for Integration, Migration and Human Rights, Austrian Green Party
  
• Endre Sik, Centre for Refugee and Migration Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; TÁRKI Social Research Institute, Budapest
  
• Dariusz Stola, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw