International workshop organized by the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) together with the Inst. of European Ethnology and the Inst. of Contemporary History at the Univ. of Vienna

Time: May 22-24, 2014
Venue: Vienna
Deadline: November 30, 2013

Deutsche Version des CfP: Storylines and Blackboxes. Konstellationen auto/biographischer Erzählungen über Gewalterfahrungen im Kontext des Zweiten Weltkrieges (Web)

Experiences of violence from a range of perspectives constitute an important part of the body of biographical narrative about the period of the Second World War; they have been granted particular attention and reflection in the consideration of the aftermath of National Socialism and its crimes. The significance of these narratives about violence in the context of identity constructions within society, and in particular of those with a national outlook, has long been reflected upon with great differentiation and been a topic in theory construction. The auto/biographical character of many of these narratives, however, has… read more (Web)