Mario Wimmer Visiting Scholar, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley

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1 Mario Wimmer Visiting Scholar, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley CONTACT INFORMATION 2639 Benvenue Ave Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. Austrian Citizen, Greencard-holder CURRENT POSITION Visiting Scholar, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS The history of modern Europe, especially German and Austrian culture since the late 18th century, with particular interest in the cultural and institutional history of knowledge, and the history of everyday life and of material and popular culture. Other areas include: cultural and critical theory; the history and memory of the Holocaust; film and media history; history and theory of archives. EDUCATION Ph.D. (October 2010), History, Bielefeld University, Germany Dissertation: Archival Bodies. A Cultural History of Historical Knowledge. Germany and Austria, (in German) Committee members: Martina Kessel (chair), Willibald Steinmetz (second reader), Thomas Welskopp (first reader) Degree (Instructor) in Academic Writing, Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, University of Bielefeld, 2008 University of Vienna, Mag. phil. (MA), Modern European History MA thesis: In the Name of the Source. J.G. Droysen and Historiographical Technique in 19th Century Germany, (180pp., in German) Committee members: Mitchell G. Ash (first reader), Johanna Gehmacher (chair), Friedrich Stadler (second reader) Free University and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany and 2002 (without degree) University of Vienna, History, Sociology, History and Philosophy of Science,

2 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Rheotric (5 years), University of California, Berkeley Visiting Scholar, Department of German, University of California, Berkeley Postdoc and Lecturer in History, Science Studies Group, ETH Zürich, Swiss Institute of Technology, Switzerland Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern History, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, Summer 2010 Pre- and Postdoctoral Visiting Student Researcher, Department of History (sponsored by Thomas W. Laqueur) and Office for the History of Science, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., Junior Research Fellow, IFK, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, Austria, Visiting Research Fellow, National Literary Archives, Marbach, Germany, Spring 2008 Research Associate, Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Research Associate and Curator, Department of Contemporary History and Mauthausen Memorial, Austria, 2003 SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Finalist for OPUS PRIMUM prize for the first best scholarly book in German Publication subsidy awarded by Gerda Henkel-Foundation for Archival Bodies ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Swiss Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland IFK Research Fellowship abroad, Austrian Ministry for Research and Education Junior Fellowship, IFK, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, Austria Gerda Henkel-Award in the History of Ideas, by Gerda Henkel-Foundation and German National Literature Archive, Marbach am Neckar, Germany Scholarship by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as member of the the Graduate Programme Archives, Power, and Knowledge, Department of History, University of Bielefeld, Germany, Travel grant by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Vienna, 2002 Scholarship by the Austrian Ministry of Research and Education, 2002, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin Erasmus Exchange Programme, Department of Modern history, Free University, Berlin

3 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lecturer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, Program in the History of Knowledge Visiting Assistant Professor, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Summer 2010 Lecturer in Late Modern European History, Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, 2009 Instructor in Academic Writing, University of Bielefeld, Lecturer, Department of History, University of Bielefeld, Teaching Assistant, Department of Social and Economic History (Michael Mitterauer), University of Vienna, RECENT AND UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS JOB TALK The Archival Unconscious, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. INVITED LECTURES June 2014, Reading Practice and Parapraxis of Archival Theory in Germany around 1800, International Workshop Archives and History in the Long 19th Century, University of Göttingen, Germany 7 9 November 2013, Annual Conference Das Eigenleben der Objekte. An den Rändern des Archivs, ZfL, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, Germany May 2013, Comment, Conference Collecting Ideas The Idea of Collecting, DLA, German National Literature Archives, Marbach/N., Germany 16 October 2012, Über Wirkung und Relevanz geschichtswissenschaftlicher Veröffentlichungen, Workshop Rankings, Internationalisierung und Bibliometrie als Herausforderung? Publikationskulturen im Wandel in den Osteuropa- und Geschichtswissenschaften, Herder-Institut, Marburg, Germany 8 March 2012, Zeitlosigkeit und die Entstehung eines historischen Sinns, Forschungsstelle für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Colloquium Philipp Sarasin, Jakob Tanner, University of Zurich, Switzerland September 2011, Archival Bodies and Philological Factish, Workshop Fragments and Fragmentation, Pembroke College and Center for Material Texts, Cambridge,

4 United Kingdom November 2010, Paper Organisms. Historical Knowledge and Evolutionary Thinking, Office for the History of Science, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A. March 2009, The Unconscious of Archives, IFK, International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna, Austria February 2008, Collection and Distraction. The Obsession with History and the Culture of Archives in Weimar Germany, German Department, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A. PRESENTATIONS AT PEER REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES June 2013, Foundational Figures, Epistemic Environments, and the Unconscious of Historical Knowledge, Conference of the International Network for the Theory of History, Ghent, July 2013 (organizer of a and convener to a panel on Figures of Historical Knowledge together with Hennig Trueper, IAS Princeton, U.S.A.) October 2013, Dissecting Archival bodies, Extracting and Editing Historical Documents, Annual Conference of the Society for the Social Study of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (panel organized by Javier Lezaune, Oxford, UK, and Fernando Rubio, New York University, U.S.A. The Properties of Materials and the Ownership of Things ) September 2012, Archival Bodies. Historical Imagination and Bureaucratic Practice in the Age of Historism, Annual Conference of the British German History Society, Edinburgh (panel together with Philipp Mueller, University of London; Carolyn Steedman, Univesity of Warwick; Henning Trueper, EHESS, Paris) October 2012, Archival Bodies. Extracting and Editing Historical Documents, Annual Conference of the Society for the Social Study of Science, panel The properties of materials and the ownership of things, (together with Javier Lezaune, Oxford; Fernando D. Rubio, New York University) September 2011, Archival Bodies and Philological Factish, Workshop Fragments and Fragmentation, Pembroke College, Centre for Material Texts, Cambridge, UK PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association (U.S.A.), German Studies Association (U.S.A.), International Society on the Study of Time, Society for the Social Studies of Science (U.S.A), Deutsche Schillergesellschaft (Germany), Austrian Society of Contemporary History (Austria) REFERENCES

5 Michael Hagner, Professor of History of Science, ETH Zürich, Swiss Institute of Technology Thomas W. Laqueur, Helen Fawcett Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley Niklaus Largier, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley Christopher S. Wood, Professor of History of Art, Yale University

6 PUBLICATIONS Mario Wimmer REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS Archival Bodies. A Particular History of Historical Imagination, Constance: Konstanz University Press 2012 [in German]. finalist for OPUS PRIMUM prize 2012 for the best first scholarly book in German. On Sources. Mythical and Historical Thinking in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, RES. JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND AESTHETICS, Wet/Dry, ed. by Christopher S. Wood and Francesco Pellizzi, 2013 [forthcoming]. Verkehr. Rhythmus 21 und die Bewegungsformen der Moderne, Hans Richters Rhythmus 21. Schlüsselfilm der Moderne ed. by Christoph Bareither et al. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, Abstraktion durch Anschaulichkeit. Haushalts- und Lebensführung in der Zwischenkriegszeit, L HOMME Z.F.G. 22, 2012, 2, pp Die kalte Sprache des Lebendigen. Über die Anfänge der deutschen Archivberufssprache, Sprachvollzug im Amt. Kommunikation und Verwaltung im Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Peter Becker, Bielefeld 2011, pp Geschichte der Gedenkstätte, Das Gedächtnis von Mauthausen, co-dir. with Bertrand Perz et al., pp , co-authored with Bertrand Perz. WORK IN PROGRESS The Cold Language of the Living.Administration of Words and Things in the Archives of Weimar Germany, REPRESENTATIONS (submitted for review) Is Weimar Culture a, NEW GERMAN CRITIQUE (in progress) Begriffsgeschichte, Conceptual History, INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES, second edition, Elsevier (contracted) Review of Bernhard Kleeberg, Ed., Schlechte Angewohnheiten. Eine Anthologie, , Berlin 2012, ISIS

7 FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Archivkörper. Eine Geschichte historischer Einbildungskraft, Constance: Konstanz University Press EDITED AND DIRECTED VOLUMES Aus der Arbeit des Historikers. Ein Wörterbuch aus Praxis und Theorie der Geschichte, [Mélanges Peter Schöttler] Bielefeld 2010, co-edited with Anne Kwaschik. Reviews Alexandra Przyrembel, in: Historische Anthropologie, 20, 2012, 1. G. Koller, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte (SGW), 62, 2012, 2. Stefan Jordan, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, Birthe Kundrus, Werkstatt Geschichte, 56, Hanna Schissler, H-Soz-u-Kult, Detlev Mares, sehepunkte, 11, 2011, 3, Uwe Walter, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Das Gedächtnis von Mauthausen, Vienna: BMI 2004, co-directed with Bertrand Perz et al. ARTICLES IN JOURNALS On Sources. Mythical and Historical Thinking in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, RES. JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND AESTHETICS Wet/Dry, ed. by Christopher S. Wood and Francesco Pellizzi, 63/64, 2013, [accepted; forthcoming]. --- Sammelwut. Über eine Zeitdiagnose der jungen Sexualwissenschaft, TRAVERSE Z.F.G., 3, 2012, Sammelpraxis, ed. by Michael Jucker et al, pp Über die Wirkung geschichtswissenschaftlicher Texte, oder warum impact eine zu einfache Lösung für ein komplexes Problem ist, in: SCHWEIZERISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GESCHICHTSWISSENSCHAFT (SZG), 62, 2012, 2, pp Der Geschmack des Archivs und der historische Sinn, HISTORISCHE ANTHROPOLOGIE, 12, 2012, 1, pp Abstraktion durch Anschaulichkeit. Haushalts- und Lebensführung in der Zwischenkriegszeit, L HOMME Z.F.G. 22, 2012, 2, pp Kastalia. Zur Interpretation einer Statue im Arkadenhof der Universität Wien im Kontext der Wiener Moderne, MITTEILUNGEN DES ÖSTERREICHISCHEN STAATSARCHIVS (MÖSTA), 55, 2011, pp , first author with Mitchell G. Ash.

8 Die Lagen der Historik, ÖSTERREICHISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GESCHICHTSWISSENSCHAFTEN (ÖZG), 12, 2007, 2 pp BOOK CHAPTERS Verkehr. Rhythmus 21 und die Bewegungsformen der Moderne, Hans Richters Rhythmus 21. Schlüsselfilm der Moderne ed. by Christoph Bareither et al. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, Die kalte Sprache des Lebendigen. Über die Anfänge der deutschen Archivberufssprache, Sprachvollzug im Amt. Kommunikation und Verwaltung im Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Peter Becker, Bielefeld 2011, pp Geschichte der Gedenkstätte, Das Gedächtnis von Mauthausen, pp , co-authored with Bertrand Perz. MISCELLANEA Dispositiv, Ute Frietsch/Jörg Rogge (Eds.), Über die Praxis des kulturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens. Ein Handwörterbuch, Bielefeld 2013 [accpeted, forthcoming]. Register, Ute Frietsch/Jörg Rogge (Eds.), Über die Praxis des kulturwissenschaftlichen Arbeitens. Ein Handwörterbuch, Bielefeld 2013 [accpeted, forthcoming]. Review of Sebastian Jobs/Alf Lüdtke (Eds.), Unsettling History. Archiving and Narrating in Historiography, Frankfurt am Main: Campus 2010, H-SOZ-U-KULT. Review essay of Cornelia Vismann, Akten. Medientechnik und Recht, Frankfurt am Main 2000, TRAVERSE. Z.F.G, , pp Archive, Akten, Zettelkästen, ÖSTERREICHISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GESCHICHTSWISSENSCHAFTEN (ÖZG) 13, 2002, 2, pp CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Zur Rezeption Michel Foucaults in der deutschen Geschichtswissenschaft 1968, 7. Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag Vorgeschichten Folgen. Bestandsaufnahme der österreichischen Zeitgeschichte ed. by Ingrid Böhler et al., Vienna/Innsbruck 2010, pp Symposion Zur Geschichte und Historiographie vom Archiven (Bericht), DER ARCHIVAR 60 (2007), pp , co-authored with Michael Aumüller. Sammeln für die Ewigkeit: Zur Geschichte und Historiographie von Archiven, LIPPISCHE MITTEILUNGEN AUS GESCHICHTE UND LANDESKUNDE 75, 2006, pp , co-authored with Michael Aumüller. Oral History: Materialität und Medialität, Kunst Kommunikation Macht. Sechster

9 Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag 2003 ed. by Ingrid Bauer et al., Innsbruck 2004, pp TRANSLATIONS Natalie Z. Davis, Imagination, Aus der Arbeit des Historikers. Ein Wörterbuch aus Praxis und Theorie der Geschichte ed. Anne Kwaschik and Mario Wimmer, Bielefeld Lionel Gossman, Graphische Darstellung, Ibid. John L. Harvey, Internationale Bibliographie, Ibid. CONVERSATIONS Randolph Starn/Mario Wimmer, Ein Toast auf das langsame Buch! Ein Gespräch mit Randolph Starn über ungeschriebene Bücher, ZEITENBLICKE 9, 2010, 2, urn:nbn:de: Ulrich Raulff/Mario Wimmer, Das ist wie ein künstlerischer Arbeitsprozess. Ein Gespräch mit Ulrich Raulff über die Geschichte von Ideen, ÖSTERREICHISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GESCHICHTSWISSENSCHAFTEN (ÖZG), 20, 2009, 2, pp