Friday, 5.7.2019

13:00 Welcome with Coffee

13.45 Kerstin von Lingen (Vienna): The Management of Migration: a short Intro

Jour 1: Possibilities of digital methods and samples

14:00 Ismee Tames (NIOD): The experience of being in liminal space. Ideas about linking War and Society Studies and Migration Studies

14:20 Christoph Rass (Osnabrück): Biographies, violence induced mobility and migratory effects. Revisiting categories, perspectives and narratives.

14:40 Henning Borggräfe (ITS): Postwar DPs and their Representation in the (Digital) Collections of the Arolsen Archives

15:00 Christian Höschler (ITS): From Authorized Histories to Big Data: The Historiography of Europe’s Postwar DPs

15:20 Discussion

15:50 Café Break

16:20 Sebastian Bondzio (Osnabrück): Big Data and Historical Research. How to Utilize Personal Data in GIS

16:40 Pawel Sekowski (Kraków): The resettlement policy of IRO - a new approach of the international community towards the issue of refugees in Europe. Case study of DPs and refugees from Poland

17:00 Roderick Bailey (Oxford): Disease and Data Collection: Allied Health Surveillance of Displaced Persons in Europe, 1944-45

17.20 Hinke Piersma (NIOD): The meaning of property loss for Jewish victims in relation to persecution and flight

17.40 Discussion

Saturday, 6.7.2019

Jour 2 CASE STUDIES: Global Perspectives/ Asia and Latin America

9:00 Rana Mitter (Oxford): UNRRA in China: the rebirth of the developmental state and the legacy of imperialism in Asia, 1943-7

9:20 Milinda Banerjee (LMU Munich): Forced Displacements and the Conceptual Production of 'Humanity' in the mid-20th Century: Bengali Texts and Digital Archives in Global Intellectual Geographies

9:40 Anne van Mourik (NIOD): The influence of displacement on national stories about wars of decolonization. Moral high grounds in the Netherlands and in Indonesia on the Indonesian war for independence 1945-1950.

10:00 Ralf Futselaar (NIOD): Colonial soldiers as loyal servants, unwanted aliens and enemies within

10.20 Discussion

10.50 Café Break

11:20 Linda Erker (Vienna): Forced Jewish Migration as a Career Opportunity? The Austrian Archaeologist Grete Mostny in Chile after 1938

11.40 Sebastian Huhn (Osnabrück): Negotiating Resettlement towards Venezuela

12:00 Discussion

12.30 Lunch break

CASE STUDIES: Europe

14:00 Christian Cwik (Tobago/Vienna): Between evacuation and repatriation:
The case of Gibraltarian displacement between 1940 and 1951

14:20 René Bienert (VWI): Help(ing) Survivors - Between Displacement and Resettlement. Simon Wiesenthal and the early search for Nazi War Criminals

14:40 Richard Germann (Vienna): Born in Vienna – Lost in Europe. A sample of Viennese DPs

15:00 Discussion

15:20 Café break

15:40 Discussion und final round/ Comments: Possibilities and limits of digital research tools within DP and refugee research