A "LOST GENERATION"? THE EUROPEANNESS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE BALKAN WARS

Venue:
Small ballroom of the University of Vienna
Barrier-free access: Left side entrance, courtyard 5, lift 1st floor
Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna

Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies,
Transdisciplinary professorship at the Institute for Contemporary History and the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna in cooperation with the Sigmund Freud Private University of Vienna

A ‚lost generation’?
The Europeanness of the children of the Balkan wars

University Professor Dr Rainer Gries

Since October 2014 holder of the Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies
since 2013 Professor of Psychological and Historical Anthropology at the Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna/Berlin/Paris
since 2009 Associate Professor at the Institute of History at Friedrich Schiller University Jena; European Cultural History
2003-2011 Professor at the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna
2001-2002 Visiting Professor for Cultural History at the Institute for History at the University of Vienna
2002 Habilitation at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
1994-2001 Research assistant at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and at the Chair of Economic and Social History at the University of Leipzig
1992-1994 Habilitation Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne
1992 Awarded the first prize for young scientists by the Stinnes Foundation, Mülheim an der Ruhr
1991 Doctorate in Freiburg.
1977-1984 Studied German and History at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg im Breisgau. Scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
1958 Born in Heidelberg; grew up in Ladenburg am Neckar.

Research project:
- Head of the research network „PolitCIGs: The Cultures of the Cigarette and the Cultures of the Political“
- Head of the research network „GAMe: Historical Appropriation in the Media Society“
- Head of the research programme „The popes in the ‚forecourt of nations’: the cultural and communication history of the popes in the 20th and 21st centuries“

At the beginning of 2015, a book co-authored with Silke Satjukow will be published: „Bankerte. The story of the children of the occupation in Germany“.

Welcome:
O. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr Dr.h.c. Heinz W. Engl, Rector of the University of Vienna
Univ.-Prof. Dr Dr h.c. mult. Alfred Pritz, Rector of the Sigmund Freud University Vienna
Dr Franz Vranitzky; former Federal Chancellor; Honorary President of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue

Introduction.
Dean Prof Dr Ulrike Felt, Faculty of Social Sciences
Dean Prof. Dr Claudia Theune-Vogt, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies

Moderation: Prof. DDr Oliver Rathkolb,
Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna

Buffet

In cooperation with the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna