Yesterday in a month, a fantastic workshop on all kinds of bureaucratic encounters will begin. The programme is enticing, and I much look forward to it:
Bureaucratic Encounters
Workshop at the University of Vienna (Lecture Hall 6, Lower Ground floor), Universitätsring 1, A-1010 Vienna
June 15 – 16, 2018
Friday, June 15
9.00 – 9.15
Welcome Address:
Margareth Lanzinger, Deputy Head of the Department of Economic and Social History
Opening Remarks:
Therese Garstenauer
9.15 – 10.45
Panel 1: Bureaucratic Encounters: Access to Healthcare
Chair: Veronika Helfer
V. Kalyan Shankar (Pune):
Opening a Bureaucratic Can of Worms: Medical Insurance for Waste Pickers in an Indian City
Marius Wamsiedel (Suzhou):
Credibility contests at the emergency department
10.45 – 11.05 Coffee break
11.05 – 13.00
Panel 2: Agency of Bureaucratic Subjects
Chair: Therese Garstenauer
Alexandra Ridgway (Hong Kong/Vienna):
Stay Requests: The Dual Role Performances of Divorced Migrant Women During Bureaucratic Encounters in Hong Kong and Melbourne
Sigrid Wadauer (Vienna):
Vagueness and Errors in Bureaucratic Practices (Austria, 1920s and 30s)
Anna Tsalapatanis (Oxford):
Waiting, Queueing and Endless Delays: Temporality in Bureaucratic Encounters
13 – 14.15 Lunch break
14.15 – 15.45
Panel 3: Administrative Reform: Early 19th Century
Chair: Alexandra Ridgway
Michał Gałędek (Gdansk):
Collegial Decision-making as the Foundation of the Local Administration Reform in the Kingdom of Poland. The 1814 Debate of the Civil Reform Committee
Martin H. Herrnstadt (Tel Aviv):
Bureaucratic Encounters in Post-Revolutionary France: The Case of Joseph-Marie de Gérando
15.45 – 16.15: Coffee break
16.15 – 17.45
Panel 4: Effects of War and Totalitarian Regimes
Chair: Sigrid Wadauer
Franziska Walter (Munich):
Here We Meet Again. An Emotional History Approach to (Re-)Encounters with Former Perpetrators in the Bavarian Police and Security Forces 1945 until 1955.
Thomas Rohringer (Vienna/Berlin):
Between Sense of Duty and Sacrifice. Petitions of German- and Czech-speaking War-disabled Persons (1914 – 1918)
Saturday, June 16
10 – 11.45
Panel 5: Modernization and Organizational Change
Chair: Thomas Stockinger
Egor Lykov (Vienna):
Bureaucracy as Intermediary Practice. Experience of Russian Private Rail Enterprises (1860–1914)
Julian Klinkhammer (Heidelberg):
Revisiting the New Spirit of Capitalism: Encounters with Neoliberal Globalization or Liberal Bureaucratization in Corporate Management Practices?
Peter Fleer (Bern):
The Swiss Federal Archives as Information Broker between State and Citizens – From Over-the-Counter Business to Online User Interface
11.45 – 12.00: Coffee break
12.00 – 12.30 Final Discussion
Concept and Organization: Therese Garstenauer
In cooperation with the Research Platforms “Economic and society from a perspective of historical and cultural studies” and “Global History” (Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies)