workshop
The workshop will address the changing meaning of political capitals of East-Central Europe and their relation to political identification after the end of the Cold War division of Europe. It will consider Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Tbilisi, and Bratislava.
The workshop will ask: what is the changing relation between economic, cultural, and political functions of capitals in the region? If a capital city represents "the political" of a country, then how is "the political" specifically understood today? What issues or functions does it include and exclude? Does it consider itself a center, and if so, a center of and for what? At a time when the symbolic geography of Europe is being radically reconfigured, what is the significance of national capitals in Central Europe? What is the relation of these national capitals to other European capitals? Are there other capital cities, either in the past or present, that serve as a central symbolic/cultural referent?
program: John Borneman, Professor für Anthropologie, Cornell University und IFK Urban Fellow (sponsored by: Stadt Wien, Abt. f. Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung) / Lutz Musner, IFK, Wien
participants: Judit Bodnár, The State University of New Jersey Rutgers / Matti Bunzl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Stefan Holcik, Archeologicke muzeum SNM, Bratislava / Konrad Köstlin, Universität Wien / Klara Löffler, Universität Wien / Péter Niedermüller, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Bela Rasky, Österreichisches Ost- und Südosteuropa-Institut, Außenstelle Budapest / George Tarkhan-Mouravi, ICGS Tbilisi / Bernhard Tschofen, Universität Wien / Gotthart Wunberg, IFK, Wien
Friday, 10 December 1999
9.00 - 12.00
Gotthart Wunberg
Introduction
John Borneman
Introduction. Some reflections on the transformation of capital cities in
Central/Eastern Europe
Péter Niedermüller
Culture, symbolic economy, andt the new politics of representation: The case
of Berlin
Comment: Konrad Köstlin
14.00 - 16.30
Judit Bodnár
Budapest: A national alien
Comment: Bela Rasky
Matti Bunzl
The cosmopolitanism of sexual subversion: Vienna's Regenbogen-parade and
the making of a European capital
Comment: Bernhard Tschofen
Saturday, 11 December 1999
9.30 - 12.30
Stefan Holcik
Bratislava: "Capitals" in a Capital
Comment: Klara Löffler
George Tarkhan-Mouravi
Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. Winds of change and hope
Comment: Lutz Musner
Résumé
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