Learning from the past: ACIPSS study conference on October 11 at FH Campus Wien

On Friday, October 11, the Austrian Center for Intelligence, Propaganda & Security Studies (ACIPSS) invites you to the 34th ACIPSS conference at FH Campus Wien. Under the title “LEARNING FROM THE PAST – LEARNING FROM THE PAST”, the focus will be on lectures and discussions on the topics of geopolitics, history, espionage and surveillance.

Event details:

• Date: October 11, 2024
• Venue: FH Campus Wien, Favoritenstraße 222, 1100 Vienna (lecture hall E.5.01, 5th floor)
• Admission: from 08:30 am
• Start: 09:00 am
• Supported by: Department of Risk and Security Management at FH Campus Wien and the Association of Academic Security Consultants (VASBÖ)
• Number of participants: 40 persons (participation is free of charge)

Program:

• E. Lina Rukštelienė (Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to Austria):
  Challenges for Foreign and Security Policy: The Lithuanian Perspective
• Gerald Hesztera and Eva-Marina Strauss (Federal Ministry of the Interior):
  History of the Police under National Socialism
• Dieter Bacher (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War, ACIPSS):
  ČSSR espionage in Austria in the 1st half of the Cold War
• Anton Tantner (University of Vienna, Board ÖGDI):
  Numbers as a means of over- and under-surveillance
• Nikolaus Münker (FH Campus Vienna):
  Economic and industrial espionage – The underestimated danger in Austria

The conference will end at around 13:00. Afterwards there will be the possibility to have lunch together in the canteen of the FH Campus Wien.

Please register by e-mail to: (anmeldungen@acipss.org). As the number of participants is limited, a registration and waiting list will be kept.

How to get there:
Recommended public transportation: U1 station Altes Landgut (also accessible by bus line 15A).