# CES: Beyond the Siege: Cultural Traffic between Austrians and Turks in the 20th Century #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 7, 2016** 04:15PM - 06:00PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room** The 1683 Ottoman siege of Vienna has had a long and malleable cultural afterlife. Central Europeans have 're-written' the siege story in modern times to support Habsburg patriotism, Austrian republicanism, Polish nationalism of the nineteenth century, German nationalism of the twentieth, and post-1960 scares about Muslim immigration. This talk takes up one unexpected chapter in the story: In the 1920s, Turkey became a desired destination for unemployed Austrians. In job seekers’ accounts of their dreams and travails in “the Orient” we find a surprising reversal of the Gastarbeiter phenomenon. [Maureen Healy ](https://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/152-maureen-healy)Associate Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College Sponsors: [New Directions in European History Study Group](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/studygroups/new-directions-in-european-history/) Contact: Elizabeth Cross, See also:- [ Elsewhere at Harvard ](/events/elsewhere) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/node/603981/event-feed.ics) Copy link link