EH.N: ANN: First postgraduate workshop of the Economic History Association, Austrian Branch

[Markus Cerman]

The first postgraduate workshop of the Economic 
History Association, Austrian Branch, will take 
place on April 25th and 26th, 2008, at the 
University of Salzburg, Faculty of History.

It will discuss research projects of current 
doctoral students of Economic and Social History 
at Austrian universities in a framework similar 
to the international ESTER doctoral seminars. We 
ask all participants to organize travel and 
accommodation for themselves.

The workshop is intended for all doctoral 
students of Economic and Social History in 
Austria and for all representatives of the field. 
It will begin on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 
11:00 am in room 389, Faculty of History, 
Rudolfskai 42, first floor, University of 
Salzburg.

Presentation and discussion language is German.

Organization:
Christoph Boyer (University of Salzburg)
Markus Cerman (University of Vienna)
Reinhold Reith (University of Salzburg)

Contact:
Markus Cerman (markus.cerman at univie.ac.at)


Programme

Friday, April 25th, 2008:

11:00: Opening of the workshop, organizational remarks

11:10: Angela Griessenböck: An institutional 
history of the psychiatric hospital in Hall (the 
Tyrol) (1830-1938) Comment: Christian Dirninger

12:30: Lunch

13:45: Alois Unterkircher: Medicine and gender: 
manliness and illness in rural areas based on the 
reports of the Southern Tyrolian village doctor 
Franz von Ottenthal, ca. 1860
Comment: Franz Eder

15:00: Georg Stöger: Second hand trading in the early modern period
Comment: Franz Mathis

16:15: Coffee

16:35: Christina Altenstrasser: Knowledge of 
gender and economics. The first generation of 
female economists at the 
Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Berlin, 1896-1945
Comment: Ingrid Bauer

17:50: Therese Garstenauer: Use and construction 
of East’ and West’ in collaboration of Russian 
and Western’ gender scholars
Comment: Sylvia Hahn

19:00: Conference Dinner


Saturday, April 26th, 2008:

9:00: Wilko Schröter: The demography of the European high nobility, 1600-1900
Comment: Ulrich Woitek

10:15: Coffee

10:30: Julia Casutt-Schneeberger: Business cycles 
and strike activities in Austria, Germany and 
Switzerland, 1901-2004
Comment: Dieter Stiefel

11:45: Simon Hartmann: Globalization of 
exploitation (systems) in Congo - a history of 
agents and relations in the context of violent 
action
Comment: Walter Schicho

13:00: Lunch

14:15: Alois Nussbaumer: Forced labour in agriculture in the Austrian Pinzgau
Comment: Michael Pammer

15:30: Hannes Koch: The Nazi terror regime in Upper Austria
Comment: Christoph Boyer

End of workshop: ca. 16:45