PRESENTATIONS

»Die Entstehung und Entwicklung eines serbischen Wir-Diskurses in der Habsburger Monarchie«

Kanon – Zäsur – Wissenschaft. Das historische Erzählen in Österreich/Ungarn – und anderswo. Conference at the German Department, Eötvös-Loránd-Universität, Budapest, 19. April 2012.

»Advertising Difference: Bodies, Nostalgia, and Migrant Facilities in the US South Slav Press«

Session ›Consuming Diasporas: Migration and Consumption from a Transnational Perspective‹, 36th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Boston 17.–20. November 2011.

»On Identity Politics and Marriage in two Migrant Communities. The Cases of South Slavs in Pittsburgh and the Iron Range«

Panel ›Understanding the Transatlantic Migration Experience: Diverse and Similar Migration Patterns of People from Austria-Hungary‹, at the  American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston/NJ, January 6–9, 2011.

Presentation in the workshop ›The Transatlantic Migration Experience‹ together with Annemarie Steidl and James Oberly at the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison, October 16, 2010.

Abstract: Ethnic identities have been treated as a ›given‹ for many decades. This presentation departs from the great difficulty of maintaining a group at all, taking South Slav migrant groups from the 1890ies to 1960ies in the Northeastern United States as an example.

»Workers write their Lives. Three Autobiographies by Balkan Migrants in the Iron Range Mining Regions of Minnesota«

Panel ›Migration in/and Ego Documents‹ at the Symposium ›Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives‹, Interdisziplinäres Dialogforum der Wittgenstein-PreisträgerInnen an der Universität Wien Vienna,  July 1–3, 2010.

Unfortunately, the presentation had to be cancelled due to sickness.

»South-Slavic Correspondence between the U.S. and Austria-Hungary«

Symposium ›The Migration Letter: Archiving Intimacy in the Postal Era‹, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/MN, May 17–18, 2010.

Presentation, held together with Annemarie Steidl and Jim Oberley:

»The Transnational Migration Experience. The Austrian-American Connection 1870–1914«.

›Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series‹, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/MN, April 19, 2010.

Wladimir Fischer: “Migrant Accommodation around 1900: Vienna vs. ‘North America’”

Presentation at the 34th Social Science History Association Meeting in Long Beach, California.

In the panel The Trans-National Immigration Experience from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1870-1914, organized by Annemarie Steidl (University of Vienna) with papers by Annemarie Steidl and James Oberly (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire).