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Winter Pgs 01/30/2K AUSTRIANCENTER STUDIES FOR AUSTRIAN STUDIESNEWSLETTER Vol. 12, No. 1 Winter 2000 Fulbright program turns fifty by Lonnie R. Johnson In the immediate wake of World War II, J. William Fulbright (1905- 1995), a junior senator from Arkan- sas, came up with a simple but bril- liant idea. In 1946, he tagged an amendment on to the Surplus Prop- erty Act of 1944 that stipulated that foreign credits earned overseas by the sale of U.S. wartime property could be used to finance educational ex- change with other countries. This amendment, which Fulbright rushed through Congress, became Public Law 584 on 1 August 1946 and laid the foundations for the American government’s flagship international educational exchange program that came to bear his name. Since 1946, approximately 220,000 “Fulbright- ers”—82,000 students, teachers, scholars, scientists, and professionals from the United States and 138,000 from abroad—have participated in the program, whose objective is to promote mutual understanding between Above: Inaugural group of Austrian grantees en route to America in the peoples of the United States and other nations. Today some 4,200 1951 on the ocean liner S.S. Constitution. That’s the captain, center, Fulbright grants are awarded annually under the auspices of the pro- and note how many women are wearing dirndls! (USIS photo courtesy gram. Austrian Fulbright Commission.) J. William Fulbright studied political science at the University of Ar- kansas, graduating in 1925, and then attended Oxford University as a IN THIS ISSUE Rhodes Scholar, which gave him an initial opportunity to spend a total of four years in Europe. Before leaving for Europe, Fulbright was a pro- LetterfromtheDirector 2 vincial southerner. He had never seen a major city or an ocean, and as a MinnesotaCalendar 3 result of his Rhodes experience, he knew how exciting and liberating an DianaKurzExhibittovisitMinnesota 3 education abroad was. His personal experience undoubtedly played a ASNInterview:RaoulKneucker 4 role in his conception of the program, which was combined with his aversion for the horrors of World War II and his firm belief that interna- ASNInterview:AlanLevy 6 tional education was one means of making the world a more reasonable, SpingConference:AustrianHistory&Culture 11 sane, safe, and peaceful place. Publications:NewsandReviews 12 As an internationalist, Fulbright was concerned about the potential of HotoffthePresses 14 American isolationism. He understood the dangers inherent in the real AustrianElections:HaiderAscending 15 asymmetries of power politics and recognized that genuine international understanding must be based on equity. We had as much to learn from NewsfromtheField:Klestilvs.Mortier 16 them as they had to learn from us. In particular, we had to learn “to see HABSBURGHappenings 17 continued on page 8 StreetwiseGuidetotheArchives:Hungary 18 OUR NEW WEBSITE ADDRESS: SAHHNews 20 NewsfromtheNorth 21 www.cas.umn.edu Announcements 22 AUSTRIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR On the cusp of a new century I find it hard to believe that three months have already passed conference on Austrian history and culture. (Please see page 11 since I began my assignment as Interim Director of the Minne- for details.) sota Center for Austrian Studies. Time flies, they say, and it cer- The Center will also be a cosponsor of a major symposium tainly does when you deal with Austria! We’ve had an excellent honoring Professor István Deák, “Dilemmas of East Central Eu- autumn. Not only was the Minnesota weather unusually coop- rope: Nationalism, Totalitarianism, and the Search for Identity,” erative, making us smile rather than complain, but also the Center to be held at Columbia University, New York, 24-25 March 2000 itself gave us good reasons to be satisfied. The seminars were (see p. 9, fall 1999 ASN). exciting and well attended, the cooperation with other univer- During the visit to Minneapolis of Sektionsrat Dr. Kneucker in sity centers that share our interests have progressed satisfacto- September, and my subsequent visit to Vienna in October, we rily (we have been able to cosponsor a number of events), and have begun to explore the role of the Center as we move into our various publications are progressing apace. The date for the the new millennium. Austria, Europe, and the United States are Robert Kann Memorial Lecture has now been set (April 6), and no longer what they were when the Center was established in we are delighted that the Austrian historian Prof. Dr. Erika 1977. Issues have changed, new challenges have developed, and Weinzierl will be our speaker. Dr. Weinzierl’s lecture will focus on a new relationship among nations has evolved. We are all look- the Jewish middle class in Vienna around the period of 1900. ing forward to a future of close cooperation, with teams of schol- The Kann lecture will actually be the climax of a special one-day ars from Austria and the United States working together on mat- ters of mutual concern and with close links between Austrian EDITOR’S NOTE and American universities. I was pleased to see how well our Center is received by our partners in Austria, and I am certain that this friendship will continue to prevail as we enter “Y2K.” To all our friends in Austria, in the United States, in Canada, and around the world: our warmest greetings of the season and our best wishes for the New Year. We hope to hear from you, and if you are in the Twin Cities, we trust that you will stop by! Gerhard H. Weiss Interim Director AUSTRIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER Volume 12, No. 1• Winter 2000 Editor: Daniel Pinkerton Editorial Assistants: Seulky Shin, Kenneth Marks Austrian Correspondent: Franz Adlgasser ASN is published three times annually (January, April, and September) and distributed free of charge to interested subscribers as a public service of Once again, we must say goodbye to a departing staffer: Barbara the Center for Austrian Studies, an independent unit of the College of Melton-Boomgaarden, longtime (since 1994) associate editor of the Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. AHY, foreign correspondent for the ASN, guest lecturer at the U of Interim Director: Gerhard H. Weiss Executive Secretary: Barbara Krauß-Christensen M, and liaison between the Center and the Kommission für neuere Editor: Daniel Pinkerton Geschichte österreichs. But there is a consolation: we get to wel- Contributions for publication or subscription requests should be addressed to: come a relative of Barbara’s into the world, if not onto the staff Center for Austrian Studies (although one never knows what the future will bring). On 10 Sep- Attn: Austrian Studies Newsletter tember 1999, Barbara Melton-Boomgaarden and James van Horn 314 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Avenue S. Minneapolis MN 55455 Melton gave birth to a son, Peter Melton. The family will divide Phone: (612) 624-9811 Fax: (612) 626-9004 their time between Salzburg and Atlanta (James, as many of you website: http://www.socsci.umn.edu/cas know, teaches at Emory University). Above is a picture of Barbara Editor's e-mail: [email protected] Subscriptions: [email protected] and Peter in Mirabell Garden, Salzburg, when Peter was about three We also have a subscription form at our website. weeks old. Please join us in congratulating all three Meltons. For obvious reasons, Franz Adlgasser performed Barbara’s du- The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. ties in the fall and did a superb job for ASN. Nicole Slupetzky has now been named Barbara’s permanent successor. spring 2000 submission deadline: Daniel Pinkerton 15 february 2 WINTER 2000 NEWS FROM THE CENTER Austrian-born artist Minnesota Calendar Diana Kurz to visit U of M 3 FEBRUARY. Seminar. Matthew Lunger- hausen, History, University of Minnesota. “Photography in the Fin-de-Siècle Austro- Hungarian Empire: The Case of Hungary.” 3:30 P.M., Lippincott Room, 1314 Social Sciences. 17 FEBRUARY. Seminar. David Buch, Music History, University of Iowa. “New Mozart Attributions in the Fairy-Tale Singspiel ‘Der Stein der Weisen’ (Vienna, 1790).” 3:30 P.M., 225 Ferguson Hall. 17 MARCH. Seminar. Gerhard Orosel, Eco- nomics, University of Vienna and Schum- peter Fellow, Harvard University. “Corpo- rate Vote Trading as an Instrument of Cor- porate Governance.” 3:30 p.m., Carlson School of Management, Room 1-135. 6 APRIL. Conference. “Aspects of Austrian History and Culture.” Featuring Arnold Sup- pan, Leslie Morris, and Kann Memorial Lecturer Erika Weinzierl. Cowles Audito- Diana Kurz (photo © Alisa Douer) rium, Humphrey Institute. (See p. 11.) The University of Minnesota’s Center for tions of museums on both sides of the Atlan- 14-29 APRIL. 18th Annual Rivertown Inter- Austrian Studies, Center for Holocaust and tic, including the Corcoran Gallery in Wash- national Film Festival. Recent films from Genocide Studies, Center for Advanced Femi- ington, D.C., and the Historisches Museum der around the world, including Austria, Hun- nist Studies, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Col- Stadt Wien. Since 1972, she has been given gary, and East Central Europe. Screenings lege of Liberal Arts, Art Department, and Stu- solo exhibitions in the United States and Eu- at the Bell Museum, Oak Street Cinema, and dent Visual Arts Committee are cosponsoring rope. She has also taught painting and illus- other locations. Complete pullout schedule an exhibition of the Viennese-born artist Di- trated a book. in City Pages issue preceding festival. In- ana Kurz at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, The Holocaust has deeply affected her; formation: tel. 612-627-4432, fax 612-627- Willey Hall, on the University of Minnesota’s though her immediate family survived, her aunt 4111, website, http://www.ufilm.org west bank campus. The exhibit will run from 9 and two cousins were deported and killed. The February—16 March.
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