Film Series: Global Resettlement after 1945 “The Windermere Children”, 29/4/2024 – 19:30 h &“The Juggler”, 27/5/2024 – 19:30 h Film Screening and Discussion: VOTIV-Kino, Währinger Str. 12, 1090 Wien, 19:30 About the Film Series An often-overlooked consequence of the Second World War was that it resulted in the largest migration process of the 20th century. …
Four years after the end of World War II, a letter from a refugee named Massimiliano reached Vatican City. Massimiliano wrote a dramatic appeal to the Pope, seeking assistance for himself and his wife, Anna, as they hoped to emigrate to Australia in search of a better life. This refugee from Venezia Giulia, classified as Volksdeutsche and therefore excluded from the main refugee assistance programmes, saw the Holy See as a last resort.[1] The correspondence related to his case has been preserved in the Vatican Apostolic Archive, alongside thousands of other files concerning refugees who sought the Vatican’s assistance during the tumultuous years of the war’s aftermath.
The inter-project workshop “Introduction to GIS (ArcGisPRO) for Historical Studies offered historians from the projects GLORE and Negotiating Migration Regimes conceptual, theoretical and practical insights into working with geoinformation systems. The focus was on the one hand on the presentation of examples from research practice and on the other hand on the practical application based on exercise examples.
Kerstin von Lingen about the ERC-Project “GLORE” On 23 June 2023, the kick-off event of the ERC project “GLORE” took place in the Great Festival Hall of the University of Vienna. In addition to a presentation by Kerstin von Lingen on the project design, there was also a keynote by Jessica Reinisch on the development …
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During his fellowship in the ERC project “GLORE”, the historian Mátyás Mervay worked on a way to communicate the results of his research on the journalist Ladislaus Frank to a broad public. He succeeded in embedding micro-historical-biographical aspects in a global-historical context and visualising them in the form of an immersive storymap.
