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»MigrantInnen aus Österreich-Ungarn in den USA: eine transatlantische Perspektive« (gemeinsam mit Annemarie Steidl)

Migrations- und Integrationsforschung in Österreich. 2. Jahrestagung,  18.-19. September 2012, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Universität Wien.

»The Advent And Development Of A Serbian We-Discourse In the Habsburg Monarchy«

Presentation held in German at the conference

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

»Desperately Looking for the Migrant Subject. Südslaven in Wien, 1900 / 1970« Polyphone Geschichte(n): Schreiben – Einschreiben – Teilhaben. Migration und Geschichte / Literatur / Medien & Politik. Workshop/Konferenz, Innsbruck, 20./21. Juni 2012.

Beschreibung der Tagung:

Universität Innsbruck, Forschungsplattform CEnT – Cultural Encounters and Transfers

»Desperately Looking For The Migrant Subject. South Slavs in Vienna, 1900/1970«

Presentation given in German at the workshop/conference

»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.

This text is the outcome of the extensive archival studies in Minnesota, at the Immigration History Research Archive (IHRC) in Minneapolis and the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) archives in St. Paul. It uses the unpublished recorded memories of a Croat migrant from Austria Hungary in order to discuss basic questions of the analysis of ego documents, self representation in memoirs and the influence of intermediary tradition.

»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.