Univ. Prof. Dr. Norman Stone
8. April 2003
18:00
Vienna International Centre
Conference Room F1001

Veranstaltung des OTW zusammen mit dem VIC Turkish Art and Culture Club mit der freundlichen Unterstützung durch S.E. Botschafter H. Aydin Sahinbas, Vertreter der türkischen ständigen Vertretung bei den Vereinten Nationen in Wien.

Univ.Prof. Dr. Norman Stone (Bilkent University / Ankara) und Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats des OTW sprach über The Central European Emigration in Turkey 1930-1960.

Abstract The Central European Emigration in Turkey 1930-1960 : The Turkish minister of education described the outflow of scholars from Central Europe to Turkey between the Wars as the equivalent of the flight of Byzantine scholars five centuries before to Italy, where they were said to have "caused the Renaissance". Einstein, Hindemith, Bartok were at the head; but there was an extraordinary outflow of architects, mathematicians, medical doctors, international lawyers and economists who are remembered to this day �not just by their students, but by the students of their students.

Anschließend an den 40 minütigen Beitrag Norman Stones, in dem der Professor die Wichtigkeit der Türkei in diesen Jahren für die Intellektuellen der Welt hervorhob und unter anderem betonte, daß die Universität Istanbul 10 Jahre lang dank der zahlreichen Emigranten (wie Einstein!) die beste Universität der Welt war, lud S.E. Botschafter H.Aydin Sahinbas, Vertreter der türkischen ständigen Vertretung bei den Vereinten Nationen in Wien,zu einem Glas Wein und einem türkischen Buffet ein. Diese Veranstaltung war außerordentlich gut besucht.

Der Präsident des VIC Turkish Art and Culture Club, Herr Ziya Yazici und die Obfrau von OTW, Frau Mag. Kerstin Tomenendal beschlossen nach der gelungenen Veranstaltung, ihre Zusammenarbeit zu vertiefen und diesen Vortrag als ersten einer Reihe von vielen Vorträgen mit österreichisch-türkischer Thematik zu betrachten, die einer internationalen Gemeinde vorgestellt werden sollen.

The VIC Turkish Art and Culture Club is established in 1992 in the Vienna International Centre. The aim of the Club is to promote inter-cultural
activities and to introduce the Turkish art and culture to the Vienna International Centre staff members and to the community of Permanent Missions to the United Nations in Vienna mainly by organizing cultural trips, presentations, exhibitions, concerts and speeches.


Curriculum Vitae Univ. Prof. Dr. Norman Stone

The Director of the Russian-Turkish Centre, Norman Stone, born in Glaskow in 1941, has been Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, since 1997. He was previously (after 1984) Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and before then (after 1965) Lecturer in Russian and German History at Cambridge where, latterly, he was a Fellow of Trinity College. His undergraduate education occurred at Cambridge (1959-62) but his graduate work was done on Central European History, in Vienna and Budapest (1962-65). His principal publications are The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (1975) which won the Wolfson Prize, Hitler (1980), Europe Transformed 1878-1919 (1983), all of which are still in print (Penguin, Hodder-Coronet and Blackwell, respectively). A further book, The Atlantic Revival 1970-1990, will be published in 2003 by Random House (it is centred upon the 1980's). He intends thereafter to work on various aspects of the Russo-Turkish relationship, past and present. He has been a frequent commentator, since 1985, in British press, and has also written for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Wall Street Journal.