Virtual Conference

Adaptation – Autonomy – Continuity: Academia in Times of Crises


14th–16th of June 2021

Historisches Institut der Universität Bern

All lectures are public (live stream on YouTube), registration for the lectures in not necessary.

Organizers

SNF-PRIMA Research Group «Forced Academic Migration in Switzerland, 1933–1945»

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Mahrer
Sinja Clavadetscher, M.A.
Stefanie Salvisberg M.A.
Aleksandra Petrović, B.A.

Info & registration

aleksandra.petrovic[at]hist.unibe.ch

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Program

Monday, June 14th

Link for all lectures on Monday: https://youtu.be/heycNkJEGPA
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14.30
Introduction
Stefanie Mahrer
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14.50–16.30
Panel 1: Studying in times of upheaval and crises

Pushpa Kumbhat (University of Oxford)
Taking Down the Walls. Universities and Extramural Education for Mass Democracy in Britain, 1900 – 1939

Isabella Löhr (Universität Osnabrück)
Academic Solidarity and Modern Humanitarianism: The Emergence of Student Relief Practices during World War I

Marino Ferri (Universität Luzern)
Ein akademisches Hilfswerk «im eigentlichen Sinne des Wortes»? Die Hilfsaktion für Flüchtlingsstudenten in der Schweiz als historiographische Herausforderung
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16.30–17.00 Break
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17.00
Virtual get together on wonderme (Please register in advance)

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Tuesday, June 15th

Link for all lectures on Tuesday https://youtu.be/M-cpExvgcDc
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9.00–10.40
Panel 2: Resistance and aid to migration in academia. Actors and their options for action during the Nazi regime

Silvia Madotto
(FU Berlin)
Facing Fascism at University. Resistance in Academia during the Second World War

Tim Schmalz (University of Cambridge)
The Austrian Legation in London and Academic Refugees at Cambridge, 1933–1945

Sinja Clavadetscher (Universität Bern)
Aid Organisations for academic refugees from Germany after 1933: A Swiss example
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10.40–11.00 Break
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11.00–12.20
Panel 3: Swiss Policy and Policies in Swiss Universities (1933–1945)

Stefanie Salvisberg (Universität Bern)
«For a Swiss citizen, Switzerland should provide”. Appointment Practices at Swiss Universities and the Case of Alexander Weinstein

Isabelle Haffter (Universität Bern)
The Crisis of the Academisation of Theatre Studies in the context of the Swiss policy of a „geistige Landesverteidigung“ during the Second World War
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12.20–14.00 Break
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14.00–15.40
Panel 4: Working in Exile

Linda Erker (Universität Wien)
Zwangsmigration als wissenschaftliche Chance? Zur Karriere der chilenisch-österreichischen Archäologin Grete Mostny und anderer vertriebener Wissenschaftlerinnen

Rudolph Ng (University of Portsmouth)
Learning behind War Front: Foreign Professors at the National Southwest Associated University

Julia Richter (Universität Wien)
Das Fortleben des Textes – Kollaborative Translation im Exil.

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Wednesday, June 16th

Link for all lectures on Wednesday: https://youtu.be/tte6Vk3yUhc
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8.30–9.50
Panel 5: Uninterrupted careers. The legacy of Nazi scientists in the post-war period.

Robert Obermair
(Universität Salzburg)
Eine Vergleichsstudie des Einflusses katholisch-nationaler Kreise im akademischen Milieu in Österreich und Argentinien am Beispiel des Urhistorikers Oswald Menghin

Halvard Schommartz (Freie Universität Berlin, Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin) & Thekla Neuss (Freie Universität Berlin)
Anti-Crisis-Objects of Post-War Theatre Studies.
Performing Dramaturgies of Epistemic and Personal Continuity through Festschriften in Times of Academic Distortion
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9.50–10.10 Break

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10.10–11.30
Panel 6: Mobility and exchange in academia during the Cold War

Matthieu Gillabert (Université de Fribourg)
Racialized mobility and postcolonial student housing: Switzerland and Poland in comparison

Irina Nastasă-Matei
(University of Bucharerst)
Intellectuals between East and West during the Cold War. The Romanian Humboldt fellows in the Federal Republic of Germany
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11.30–11.45 Break
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11.45 Final Discussion