Side Events to the exhibition "shaping democracy - the republic in 24 frames per century"

All events are free of charge
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Votes for Women! Universal Suffrage!
Panel discussion
Date: Mon, Apr 09, doors open 19:00
Venue: Raum D / Q21

A hundred years ago, women in Austria won the right to vote. What means and methods did they achieve this with, who were their opponents, who supported them in their efforts? Can the historical knowledge of these struggles be harnessed for the present efforts to secure universal suffrage? Who is entitled to vote and on what basis, who is not, and how is this and has it been justified in each case? What disputes and conflicts about the right to vote have there been and are there?

Veronika Helfert, historian, University of Vienna
Corinna Oesch, historian, University of Vienna
Gerd Valchars, political scientist, University of Vienna

Chair: Anton Tantner, historian, University of Vienna

The Sound of Austria
Panel discussion
Date: Wed, May 16, 19:00
Venue: DEPOT, Breitegasse 3, 1070 Vienna

From the time of the monarchy down to the present day, identity politics has been practised in Austria by using music. This can be seen in genre names such as Viennese classicism, Viennese waltz, Austropop and the neologism Schnitzelbeat. Talk of “Austria a land of music” is part of the myth-formation around the “cultural nation”. This is often marketed in tourism industry campaigns and is currently increasingly reappearing in concrete political debate.

Martina Nußbaumer, historian, Wien Museum
Al Bird Sputnik, sub-culture researcher, Trash Rock Archives
Anita Mayer-Hirzberger, musicologist, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Chair: Christian König, historian, University of Vienna

Performances of failure on television: Contingencies, as programmed, in the 1938 "Anschluss" commemorations on Austrian state TV
Lecture
Date: Wed, May 30, doors open 19:00
Venue: Raum D / Q21

Against the backdrop of events on the occasion of the 2018 anniversary year, concerning the 1938 "Anschluss", i.e., Nazis taking over power, recent perspectives on Nazism on Austrian history television programming are critically commented on and discussed. What´s at stake are the political-ideological as well as media and formal settings of public history under increasingly national-authoritarian conditions.

Drehli Robnik, theoretician on film and politics, critic, edutainer, author (Wien-Erdberg)
Renée Winter, historian and cultural studies researcher, University of Vienna


Salon in Gesellschaft – No need to argue?
Panel discussion
Date: Sun, Jun 03, doors open 19:00
Venue: Raum D / Q21

<link http: www.zeit.de demokratie-toleranz-gesellschaft-wahrheit-meinung-vielfalt komplettansicht _blank>"Ertragt Euch“ [Bear With Yourselves] is the title of an article that recently appeared in the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. According to the author, world views drifting apart without a real discourse behind them are separating people from each other to such an extent that democracy is endangered. Tolerance, on the other hand, seems to have degenerated into a compulsory exercise without substance. Criticism of the system and its expression can no longer be attributed to a political side in the classical sense. Where are the political and moral dividing lines nowadays and where is the common ground? In the anniversary year of the ’68 movement, these questions are intended to provide an occasion for a renewed assessment of political standpoints.

Panel: tba
Chair: Jana Vetten
In cooperation with Salon in Gesellschaft


Image: Maria Lassnig Kantate, AT/1992, 8 min

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