History and Cultural Studies: Meetings in Linz
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The Capital of Culture Year program has featured an interesting array of theoretical and scholarly discussions and encounters with important regional historical issues. This month, two major conferences will be taking place in Linz.
Scholars in the field of modern cultural history have been focusing a great deal of attention lately on questions of cultural and social identity. Now, Linz is the setting of the 2nd Cultural History Convention, a conclave of historians, social scientists and cultural studies scholars from all over Europe being staged by the University of Linz’s Department of Contemporary and Modern History. And the Capital of Culture is also playing a featured role in the assembled scholars’ consideration of how and to what extent European cultural policies can be implemented on national, regional and local levels. Ján Figel of the European Commission will be in attendance.The second conference on the Capital of Culture program this month is entitled “Disturbing Remains. Dealing with the Material Remnants of National Socialism.” This historiographical symposium is a continuation of the “Beyond History” conference held in 2008. Attendees will focus on the role played by memorial sites within commemorative culture.
Cultural History Convention
September 12-15, 2009
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Altenberger Str. 69, 4040 Linz
Details at www.linz09.at/kulturgeschichtetag09
Free admission
Disturbing Remains. Dealing with the Material Remnants of National Socialism
September 21, 2009, 9:30 AM-5:30 PM, Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial (Erinnerungsstr. 1, 4310 Mauthausen)
September 22, 2009, 9 AM-4:30 PM, Altes Rathaus, Linz
Free admission
