New Approaches to Re-evaluating Everyday Life in East-Central and Southeastern Europe between the Late Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 10 am – 3 pm
Central European University Vienna, Quellenstraße 51 (1100 Vienna), Room D-103
Zoom: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/67664006320?pwd=bCMWonCWuL3h0bbO9f0qh1eBi6wZRS.1
This workshop is organized as part of the Austrian Science Fund Project “Entanglements of Jews and non-Jews in Private Spaces” (FWF ESPRIT 120)
10 – 10.15
Welcome and Introduction: Forced or Voluntarily? Cohabitation in Central and Eastern Europe
Susanne Korbel (University of Graz/Central European University Vienna)
10.15 – 11
Students Shared Living in the Middle-of-the-19th-Century Prague
Miroslav Vašík (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)
11 – 11.45
Categories and Contexts: The Elusive Concept of “Household” and the Ukrainian Co-residence Patterns in Comparative Perspective
Mikołaj Szołtysek (The Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland)
11.45 – 12 Coffee Break
12 – 12.45
Housing Complexes for Railway Workers in Galicia’s Lemberg (Lwów, L’viv). Promoting the Sense of Community through Work and Shared Housing
Nadja Weck (University of Vienna, Austria)
12.45 – 13.30
Forced Shared Housing during the Holocaust
Michaela Raggam-Blesch (Zentrums für Holocaust Studien München, Germany | University of Vienna, Austria)
13.30 – 13.45 Coffee Break
13.45 – 14.30
Continuities versus Rupture: Shared Housing Experiences of Holocaust Survivors in Postwar Romania
Julie Dawson (University of Vienna, Austria)
14.30 – 15.00 Final Discussion