Geo-Politics in the Age of the Great War 1900-1930

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Geo-Politics in the Age of the Great War 1900-1930

Veranstalter
IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften an der Kunstuniversität Linz/Wien
Veranstaltungsort
Reichsratsstraße 17, 1010 Wien
Ort
Wien
Land
Austria
Vom - Bis
06.10.2011 - 08.10.2011
Website
http://www.ifk.ac.at
Von
Ingrid Söllner-Pötz

World War I was a European war over the future of the world. But the futures of the world that emerged from the war, including a yet more deadly war and a long period of cold confrontation, were quite unlike anything the belligerents, high and low, had expected. It is to the futures of this violent past that the series of three conferences on The Time of Destruction is dedicated.
The first conference is concerned with the shifting tectonics of European civilization between 1900 and 1930. The image of shifting force fields that collide to explode in horrific bursts to give way to a new layout of the land serves as a one of the most potent metaphors for what happened in World War I. This war was fought in defense of civilization, but it was evident to many, even foreshadowed in dreams of violence to come, that utter destruction not only was a product of a deep disquiet with, but also would inexorably change civilization. The nature of this tectonic shift is the subject of a first conference that takes the excess of destruction as a measure for the forces and movements that remade European civilization. The total nature of the war impacted all aspects of civilization in its material reality and its imagination: the spatial order of Europe and the world; the order of social bonds in and between communities and societies; the interiority and subjectivity of the human sense of self. These civilizational spaces—the way the world was configured—were the battlefields of a ―greater war,‖ a struggle over civilized life that came to a head in the utter destruction of the Great War.

Programm

Thursday, 6 October 2011:
10.30
Address of Welcome:
Helmut Lethen
Introduction:
Michael Geyer
Chair: Oliver Rathkolb

THE TECTONICS OF SPACE
11.00
Hew Strachan Heartlands vs Rimlands, Continental vs Maritime Power: Mackinder confronts Reality
12.00
Lunch Break
14.30
Michael Geyer The ―Great‖ and the ―Greater‖ War: Wars – Revolutions – Rural Émeutes
15.30
Coffee Break
Chair: Maureen Healy
16.00
Lutz Musner The Myriad Faces of Battlefield Dynamics
17.00
Karl Schlögel
The Tectonics of Borders
18.00
End

Österreichisches Staatsarchiv,
Dachfoyer, Minoritenplatz 1,
1010 Wien
Thursday, 6 October 2011
18:30
Keynote: Jay Winter
The Degeneration of War 1914-1919

Friday, 7 October 2011:
Chair: Helmut Konrad
REGIMES OF LIVING
10.00
Richard Bessel
Migration and Forced Removal
11.00
Coffee Break
11.30
Tamara Scheer
Nations, Borders, Peoples: The Believe in the Power of Order
12.30 Lunch Break
14.30
Christian Geulen
Rationalities of War: Gender, Race and the Dawning of
the 20th Century
15.30
Coffee Break
16.00
Christa Hämmerle
Home Front / Frontlines: Gender and the New Geography
of War
17.00
Patrick J. Houlihan The Religion of War and Peace
18.00
End

Saturday, 8 October 2011:
Chair: Peter Becker
Moral Orders
10.00
Ute Frevert
The Moral Economy of Honour and Shame: Making Sense of War and Defeat
11.00
Coffee Break
11.30
Elisa Primavera-Lévy
La grande désillusion: Heroic Pain after 1914
in France and Germany
12.30 Lunch Break
14.30
Laura Engelstein The New Man and the Old: Habits of War in the
Russian Revolution
15.30
Helmut Lethen The Discourse about Nerves and the Phantasm of
„Men of Steel―. Ernst Jünger’s War Diaries
16.30
End

Conveners: Michael Geyer, University of Chicago
Helmut Lethen, IFK
Lutz Musner IFK

Participants:
Peter Becker, University of Vienna
Richard Bessel, University of York
Laura Engelstein, Yale University
Ute Frevert, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Christian Geulen, University of Koblenz
Michael Geyer, University of Chicago
Christa Hämmerele, University of Vienna
Maureen Healy, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
Patrick Houlihan, The University of Chicago
Helmut Konrad, University of Graz
Helmut Lethen, IFK
Lutz Musner, IFK
Elisa Primavery-Lévy, The University of Chicago
Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna
Tamara Scheer, Andrassy Universität Budapest
Karl Schlögel, Viadrina University at Frankfurt/Oder
Hew Strachan, University of Oxford
Jay Winter, Yale University

Kontakt

Söllner-Pötz

Reichsratstraße 17, 1010 Wien

soellner-poetz@ifk.ac.at

http://www.ifk.ac.at
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