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»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.

Annemarie Steidl, Universität Wien James Oberly, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Donna Gabbaccia, University of Minnesota Gary Cohen, University of Minnesota Simo

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).

This publication of 2005 was the first published text on the project about migrants from predominantly South Slavic speaking regions to Vienna around 1900. It contains many basic considerations, an evaluation of the state of the art and discusses possible research strategies. The state of the art section was criticized because it did not include some of the most important quantitative research on migrants to Vienna. This critique was appreciated and later texts did incorporate this literature.