University of Vienna: Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies; Institut für Geschichte: Stephan Mai; Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Wien; Ambassade de France en Autriche; Institut Francais Autriche
Time: 06.-07.10.2016
Venue: University of Vienna, Elise Richter Saal, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien
Program
22. Fachtagung des Arbeitskreises Geschlechtergeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (Web)Beim der Tagung soll der Frage nachgegangen werden, wie sich Beziehungen bzw. Beziehungsgeflechte konstituierten, wie und von wem sie genutzt wurden, wer zu ihnen gehörte und wer nicht, welche Reichweiten sie jeweils hatten und wie sie dargestellt und erinnert wurden. Insbesondere und vor allem aber geht es dabei um die Frage, ob und wie Geschlechterdifferenz in diesen Beziehungen inszeniert („Geschichten“), idealisiert oder realisiert wurde. Weiterlesen … (Website)
ORF gemeinsam mit dem Mauthausen Komitee
Auf diesem Portal sind die Erinnerungen von 89 Zeitzeug/innen aufbereitet und dauerhaft zugänglich gemacht. An bekannten Personen kommen etwa Rosa Jochmann, Marie Jahoda, Anne Kohn-Feuermann, Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky, Ceija Stojka oder Franziska Jägerstätter zu Wort. Sie und viele andere Frauen und Männer erzählen in Fernseh-Interviews vom Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs, von den Verbrechen während der NS-Zeit bis hin zur Staatsvertragsunterzeichnung (Web).
Die Interviews sind nach vier Zeiträumen geordnet:
Leaving Europe: A New Life in America. The first joint virtual exhibit from Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America.
The exhibit includes more than 100 photographs, manuscripts, broadsheets, paintings, government documents, and other sources. (Web)
Themes
The U.S. are well-known as a land of immigrants; a notion that is essential to its identity. European migration to America may be dated from 1620 when 100 Pilgrims from England set out on the difficult four-month journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Most Europeans emigrated to Nort America between 1820-1920. They came in two major waves, first from northern and western Europe in the early 19th century, then from southern and eastern Europe between 1860 and 1920. While the Pilgrims left their homeland seeking freedom from religious persecution, immigrants in the 19th and early 20th centuries were also fleeing poor economic conditions or political oppression.
Minorities Records. Transfering cultural diversity into the digital (Weblog)
The weblog’s primary objective is to provide reliable information on the current digitization process on historical ethnical minorities in Europe. For that purpose the editorial team will write themselves papers – especially on the numerous German minorities in Eastern and Southeastern Europe – and also ask involved librarians and archivists across Europe for their contributions by presenting their institution’s digitization activities on minority heritage. A special attention is to be given to urgent desiderata for digitization, e.g. for highly endangered stocks of cultural materials which need to be digitized at the soonest; establishing, promoting and improving international collaboration for successfully conducting joint projects is therefore an important goal of the information service provided by the blog. A part of that is also the informing on technical issues like e.g. standards or new technologies and the evaluation of possibilities for the division of labour (e.g. providing Optical Character Recognition for Armenian, Gothic or Hewbrew letters or long-term digital preservation).
Secondary the blog will develop that accumulated knowledge to viable concepts for digitization strategies which are to be reviewed and debated by the community. In order to further advance such concepts the blog will also serve as Continue reading