Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Associa on austrian studies.org
“Crossing Borders — Blurring Borders”
March 26 28, 2015 University of Michigan Dearborn
Guest Ar sts: Maja Haderlap Ursula Hübner Karl Markovics
Invited Speaker: Diane Shooman “Crossing Borders — Blurring Borders,” the theme of the Austrian Studies Associa on’s March 26 28, 2015 conference, is conceived to promote discussions within Austrian Studies from the widest variety of disciplinary as well as mul and interdisciplinary perspec ves.
Special Events Thursday, March 26 7:00 p.m. Mardigian Library, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery Reading: Maja Haderlap
Maja Haderlap has long been an important voice from and for the Slovenian community in Austria. This role increased ten fold when she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Preis in July 2011 with her debut as an author of German prose at the Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur. The prize winning novel, Engel des Vergessens , published in 2011 by Wallstein Press, was subsequently awarded the Bruno Kreisky Preis for the best poli cal book and the Rauriser Literaturpreis in 2012.
Friday, March 27 8:40 9:20 a.m. 1030 CASL Building Featured morning talk Diane Shooman: “Dance in the Circular City” Diane Shooman, who will speak on the dance scene in Austria, received her PhD in Compara ve Literature from Brown Uni versity in 1987, and taught at Oberlin College, Clark University and Skidmore College before moving to Vienna in 1990. She has been teaching the interdisciplinary seminar “Vergleiche künstlerischer Disziplinen” at the University of Art in Linz since 1998, and Humani es at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien since 1999. She was a Core Adjunct Faculty member of the Hollins University/ American Dance Fes val MFA Program in Dance from Summer 2008 – Summer 2010. She writes book and catalogue texts on the visual arts, and authored the Q&A dance column “Fragen Sie Dr Shooman” for the Falter Zeitschri , where she regularly publishes guest essays on dance. She has been a vocalist in the band “Chrono Popp und die Sorry Babies” since 2010, and debuted as a singer/songwriter in Spring 2014.
1 Friday, March 27 5:00 7:00 p.m. Mardigian Library, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery Early evening recep on and talk Ursula Hübner: “Bodily Obsessions: The History of Austrian Pain ng via Egon Schiele, Maria Lassnig, Ursula Hübner, and other Affi ni es” Ursula Hübner studied stage design at the Mozarteum and pain ng at the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Vienna, where she was a student of Maria Lassnig. She has been a Professor für Malerei und Grafi k at the Kunstuniversität in Linz since 1998. Her extensive oeuvre includes pain ngs, installa ons, and graphic design. She has also designed stage se ngs for plays by Wolfgang Bauer, Alan Benne , Flann O’Brian, Gustave Flaubert as well as fi lm sets for Kurt Palm. One of her most visible installa ons was the Triumphbogen der Kunst as part of the Triennale in Linz in 2010. She was been awarded numerous prizes, including the Preis für Bildende Kunst der Stadt Wien (2008) and the Interna onaler Preis für Kunst und Kultur des Kulturfonds der Stadt Salzburg (2010).
Saturday, March 28 1:30 2:10 p.m. 1030 CASL Building Roundtable discussion with guest ar sts (in German): Maja Haderlap, Ursula Hübner, Karl Markovics [per Skype]
Saturday, March 28 7:00 p.m. 1500 Social Sciences Building Film: Franz Fuchs. Ein Patriot (Franz Fuchs. A Patriot ): Introduc on and discussion with the actor/director Karl Markovics [per Skype] In his professional life Karl Markovics has crossed many borders. He is a talented stage and television actor as well as a screen actor. He is perhaps best known to American audiences as Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch in the Oscar winning fi lm The Conterfeiters (2007). In addi on to the many Austrian movies he has starred in, he played a German physician in the Hollywood movie Unknown (2011) and a prisoner in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). In 2012, he debuted as a director with the award winning fi lm Atmen (Breathing), which deals with a young man in a correc onal facility struggling with many internal and external borders. His second fi lm, Superwelt, in which a supermarket employee meets God, was recently screened at the Berlinale. 2 Thursday, March 26 Maja Haderlap 7:00 p.m. Mardigian Library, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery Reading in German, Slovenian, and English
Friday, March 27 Welcome 8:30 8:40 a.m. 1030 CASL Building Marty Hershock, Dean, College of Arts, Sciences, and Le er Jacqueline Vansant, Professor of German, UM Dearborn
Featured speaker: Diane Shooman 8:40 9:20 a.m. 1030 CASL Building “Dance in the Circular City”
Coff ee, tea and snacks will be available in 3065 CASL Building, our Café Kochoff , on Friday from 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. except during lunch.
Session 1: Friday 9:30 10:45 a.m.
1083 CASL Building The Garden, the Field, and the Home: Places for Scien fi c Refl ec on in Modern Austria and Germany Moderator: Jonathan Smith, University of Michigan Dearborn “Wilhelmine von Hillern and Evolu onary Theory” Lisabeth Hock, Wayne State University “Crossing Educa onal and Occupa onal Borders: Austrian Women’s Employment in the Life Sciences in the Early Twen eth Century” Marsha Richmond, Wayne State University “From Agricultural Prac ce to Gene c Theory: The Career of Erich Tschermak (1871–1962)” Sander Gliboff , Indiana University
3 Session 1: Friday 9:30 10:45 a.m. (con nued)
1084 CASL Building Transla ons and Transla ng over Borders and Iden es Moderator: Sofi a Calzada Orihuela, University of Michigan Dearborn “Recep on of Maja Haderlap’s novel Engel des Vergessens (2011) in Slovenian Cultural Circles” Monika Zagar, University of Minnesota “Genres of Transla on” Jennifer Gülly, College of William and Mary “Polytonality as Linguis c Border Crossing in Milena Michicko Flašar’s Novels” Edward Muston, Dickinson College
1085 CASL Building Transla ng Poli cs in Filmic Gestures Moderator: James Gilmore, University of Michigan Dearborn “Crossing Borders: The Case of Fritz Lang and the Biopoli cal Order in Early Film Noir” Margaret Ozierski, Virginia Commonwealth University “The Anschluss as Film Noir and the Deconstruc on of ‘Topos Vienna’: Reading Leo Perutz’s Novel Fragment Mainacht in Wien (1938) as Cinema c Text” Robert Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs “Writers as Actors: Elfriede Jelinek and Marlene Streeruwitz in Iconic Film Roles” Dagmar Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago
1088 CASL Building New Literary Geographies in Jelinek and Bernhard Moderator: Maria Regina Kecht, Webster Vienna Private University “Stories without Borders: Narra ves of Branding in Contemporary Austrian Literature” William Christopher Burwick, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis “bruit parasite? Überlegungen zur Erzeugung des Dazwischen durch Elfriede Jelineks Konzept des Sekundärdramas” Teresa Kovacs, Universität Wien “Thomas Bernhard’s Geography of the Page: A Report on Archival Expedi ons and Analysis of Bernhard’s Typescripts of the 1980s” Fred Yaniga, Hillsdale College
4 Session 1: Friday 9:30 10:45 a.m. (con nued)
1089 CASL Building Liminality in Austrian Waters and Dreamworlds Moderator: Tija Spitsberg, University of Michigan Dearborn “Water as a Transcendent Border in Five Austrian Novels and Tales” Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University “Crossing the Danube Limes: The Case of Angeschwemmt” Katherine Arens, University of Texas at Aus n “Sleepwalking through Vienna: On Malina’s Dreams” Kathryn E. McEwen, Michigan State University
Session 2: Friday 11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m. 1084 CASL Building Changing States in Hofmannsthal, Ka a, and Broch Moderator: Thomas Fiore, University of Michigan Dearborn “Between Human and Animal: Der Knecht in Hofmannsthal’s Andreas” Alexander Mathas, University of Oregon “Crossing the Animal/Human Divide: Franz Ka a’s Concentra onary Universe” Eva Revesz, Denison University “Trangressing the Empirical: Hermann Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil and the ‘Stream of Death’ Technique” Jacobs van der Kolk, Penn State University
1086 CASL Building Historical Circumstances and Women Crossing Borders in Fact and Fic on Moderator: Anna Muller, University of Michigan Dearborn “Blurring Borders of Iden ty: Mela Hartwig’s Female Figures” Sarah Painitz, Butler University “‘The Evil That Surrounds Me’: The Wri ngs of Erma Becker Kohen, 1937 1963” Mar na Cucchiara, Blu on University “‘Wenn ich die Wahl zwischen zwei Stühlen habe, nehme ich das Nagelbre ’: On Heimat and Border Crossings in Spaltkopf und Die Erdfresserin ” Chris na Eiko Guenther, Bowling Green State University
5 Session 2: Friday 11:00 a.m. 12:15 p.m. (con nued)
1087 CASL Building The Borders of Language and Concepts Moderator: Kathleen Wider, University of Michigan Dearborn “How the Limits of My Language Create New Possibili es for Meaning” Maureen Linker, University of Michigan Dearborn “On the trail of Wi genstein and Musil in the work of Ingeborg Bachmann” Sharon Weiner, University of Illinois, Chicago “Ka a’s Insubordinate Par culars” Lorraine Marko c, University of Calgary
1088 CASL Building Refugees, Migrants, and Exiles: Experiences Crossing Borders Moderator: Julia Daniel Walkuski, University of Michigan Dearborn “‘Tear Down the Walls of Fortress Europe’: Protest Movement and the Case of Somali Refugees in Austria” Verena Stern, Universität Wien Reimagining Mul Lingualism in Austrian Migrant Educa on Aaron Carpenter, Boise State University “Borderless, Boundaryless and Barrierless: The Life and Career of Austrian Exile Gina Kaus” Regina C. Range, Concordia University, Montreal
1089 CASL Building Cross Cultural Ties in Film Music, Math, and Art Moderator: Margret Hö , University of Michigan Dearborn “Arthur Kleiner: An Austrian in New York” Anna Katharina Windisch, Universität Wien “Border Crossings: Emil Ar n in Austria, Germany, and America” Della Dumbaugh, University of Richmond “Austrian Modernism in New York: The Life and Work of Erika Giovanna Klien (1900 1957): A Female Ar st Crossing Borders” Birgit Kirchmayr, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Lunch Break: Friday 12:15 2:00 p.m.
6 Session 3: Friday 2:00 3:15 p.m.
1083 CASL Building Literary Peregrina ons Moderator: Gabriella Eschrich, University of Michigan Dearborn “Traveling over the Edge in Christoph Ransmayr’s Die Schrecken des Eises and der Finsternis and Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes ” Susan C. Anderson, University of Oregon “Crossing Literary and Poli cal Borders in Peter Handke’s Noch einmal für Thukydides” Ana Foteva, St. Lawrence University “Time Travels: Space, Time, and Reckoning in Josef Haslinger’s die schlacht um wien” Anna Souchuk, DePaul University Chicago
1084 CASL Building Stretching the Limits of Genre—Challenging Readers and Listeners Moderator: Peter McIssac, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “Grenzen ohne Ende: Ulli Lusts ‘Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens’” Susanne Hochreiter, Universität Wien “An Ecology of Sound: Poetry, Voice and Language in Petra Ganglbauer’s Ökotonal (2010)” Daniel Gilfi llan, Arizona State University “Zur Dichotomie der Grenze in der Lyrik Manfred Winklers” Monica Tempian, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
7 Session 3: Friday 2:00 3:15 p.m. (con nued)
1085 CASL Building Reading Gender and Genre in S er, Musil, and Albert Moderator: Geoff rey C. Howes, Bowling Green State University “Gender Trouble im Biedermeier: A Queer Reading von Adalbert S ers Brigi a ” (in German) Jasmin Penninger, Universität Wien “‘Zwischen zwei Welten zerissen’: Liminality, Trangression, and Masochism in Musil’s Törleβ ” Ma hew J. Sherman, University of Texas at Aus n “Genre Borders: Melodrama and the ‘New Objec vity’ in the Cinema of Barbara Albert” Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois at Chicago 1086 CASL Building Wri ng and Reading Literature Across Poli cal Borders in Gruber, Haderlap, Handke Moderator: Megan Seiler, University of Michigan Dearborn “In between Stories from In between Places: Sabine Gruber’s S llbach oder die Sehnsucht” Isolde Müller, St. Cloud State University “Presen ng Historic/Historically Presented: Maja Haderlap’s Engel des Vergessens ” Allyson Fiddler, Lancaster University “Reading Handke Reading Hofmannsthal on Border Crossings and their Implica ons” Theodor Fiedler, University of Kentucky 1088 CASL Building Border Crossings in Music—From the Uncanny to the Poli cal Moderator: David James, University of Michigan Dearborn “At the Boundary in the Finite: Music Recep on and the Nineteenth Century Uncanny” Amanda Lalonde “Schubert Crosses Borders” Sco Messing, Alma College “Zu Mantua in Banden: Blurring Temporal and Poli cal Borders in Cultural Memory” Jacob Reis, University of Texas at Aus n
8 Session 4: Friday 3:30 4:45 p.m. (four person panel 5:10 p.m.)
1083 CASL Building Exil und Emigra on in der Literatur und in den Medien Moderator: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago “Odysseus als Grenzüberschreiter in den Texten ExilautorInnen aus Österreich” Alessandra Schininà, University of Catania (Italy) “Orient and Occident as Doppelgängers in Josef Roth’s Die Geschichte von der 1002. Nacht” Nicole McInteer, Wake Forest University “Drüben oder Andernorts—Exil und transna onale Erfahrungen in den Romanen von Luis S. Krausz und Doron Rabinovici” Marlen Eckl, Laboratório de Estudos sobre Etnicidade, Racismo e Discriminação (LEER), Universidade de São Paulo
1084 CASL Building Crossing Borders – Blurring Boundaries in the Works of Lilian Faschinger Moderator: Kris n Poling, University of Michigan Dearborn “Blurred Reali es in Lilian Faschinger’s Short Story Collec ons Selbstauslöser and Sprünge” Eva Ku enberg, Penn State Erie “Crossing Social Boundaries in Wiener Passion” Joseph W. Moser, West Chester University of Pennsylvania “Blurred Boundaries, Obscured Crimes: Lilian Faschinger’s Stadt der Verlierer and Die Unzertrennlichen” Anita McChesney, Texas Tech University “Postwar Austria’s Musical Others in Lilian Faschinger’s Wiener Passion” Simon Walsh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
9 Session 4: Friday 3:30 4:45/5:10 p.m. (con nued)
1085 CASL Building Reading “Texts” Memorializing Death and Suff ering Moderator: Jamie Wraight, University of Michigan Dearborn, Voice/Vision “Grenzen des Zeigbaren: Na onalsozialismus, Holocaust und Zweiter Weltkrieg im österreichischen Geschichtsschulbuch nach 1945” Ina Markova, Austrian Ministry Fellow, Center Austria, University of New Orleans “Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries: Mul ple Cultures and Hyphenated Iden es in Jewish Viennese Sepulchral Epigraphy” Tim Corbe , Vienna Wiesenthal Ins tute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) “Diff erent Narra ves of Ethnic German Suff ering?: Commemora ng Flight and Expulsion with Local Monuments in Austria” Jeff rey Luppes, Indiana University, South Bend
1087 CASL Building (De)Construc ng Virtual and Real Borders Moderator: Jorge González del Pozo, University of Michigan Dearborn “Community without Borders: The Threshold of Existence in Austrian Cinema” Oliver C. Speck, Virginia Commonwealth University “Crossing the Blurry Border of Sanity: Madness and Normality in Drei Herren” Geoff rey C. Howes, Bowling Green State University “Human Traffi cking in the Vienna Tatort ” Waltraud Maierhofer, University of Iowa
Recep on, exhibi on, and ar st’s talk Friday 5:00 7:00 p.m. Mardigian Library, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery Ursula Hübner “Bodily Obsessions: The History of Austrian Pain ng via Egon Schiele, Maria Lassnig, Ursula Hübner, and Other Affi ni es”
10 Special Session: Saturday 8:00 8:40 a.m. 1083 CASL Building Roundtable Discussion with the editors of The Journal of Austrian Studies Hillary Hope Herzog, University of Kentucky Todd Herzog, University of Cincinna Joseph Moser, West Chester University
Session 5: Saturday 8:45 10:00 a.m. 1084 CASL Building Erinnerung, Macht und öff entlicher Raum – Empirische Untersuchungen zur Erinnerungspoli k in Wien Moderator: Mar na Cucchiara, Blu on University “Zeichen der Erinnerung im öff entlichen Raum der Stadt Wien: Zwischenergebnisse der Gesamterhebung” Peter Pirker, Universität Wien “Erinnerungspoli k als symbolische Vergangenheitspoli k seit 1995” Mathias Lichtenwagner, Universität Wien “Das Denkmal für die Opfer der NS Militärjus z am Wiener Ballhausplatz“ Johannes Kramer, Universität Wien
1085 CASL Building Konstruk onen österreichischer Iden tät mi els Kultur angesichts (poli scher) Umbrüche Moderator: Nele Hempel Lamer, California State University, Long Beach “Das ‘Problem Österreich’. Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem„ Österreichischen Wesen“ aus französischer Sicht zu Beginn der Ersten Republik” Anita Mayer Hirzberger, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien “Wissenscha liche Karrieren in der Emigra on: Fallbeispiel österreichische Musikwissenscha ler” Clemens Zoidl, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien “Deutsche vs. Österreichische Iden tät in Wiener Musikfi lmen vor und nach 1945” Cornelia Szabó Kno k, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
11 Session 5: Saturday 8:45 10:00 a.m. (con nued)
1086 CASL Building Kulturtransfer Österreich USA im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert Moderator: Joseph Moser, West Chester University “Ein Grenzgänger zwischen Europa und den USA – Karl Postl/Charles Sealsfi eld” Wynfrid Kriegleder, Universität Wien “Eugenie Schwarzwald und Dorothy Thompson: Freundscha und transatlan scher Kulturtransfer zwischen 1920 und 1940” Karina von Tippelskirch, Syracuse University “Cultural Transfers: Die Farm in den grünen Bergen” Birgit Maier Katkin, Florida State University
1087 CASL Building Hapsburg Feminisms and Hibridisms (Organized by Women in German) Moderators: Beth Ann Muellner, The College of Wooster and Nicole McInteer, Wake Forest University “Retrieving the ‘Court Moor’: The Wien Museum’s Exhibit on Angelo Soliman” Tessa Wegener, Swarthmore College “Feminist Out of Bounds: Queen Carmen Sylva in Romania” Beth Ann Muellner, The College of Wooster “‘Hibridism’: Istrien: Mul kulturalismus in der Habsburgermonarchie” Reinhard Johler, Eberard Karls Universität Tübingen
Coff ee, tea and snacks will be available in 3065 CASL Building, our Café Kochoff , on Saturday from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. except during lunch.
12 Session 6: Saturday 10:15 11:30 a.m.
1084 CASL Building Overcoming Cultural and Ideological Boundaries in Stefan Zweig’s Ouevre (Organized by the Stefan Zweig Centre) Moderator: Ana Foteva, St. Lawrence University “The Prophet of Humanism and Pacifi sm: Syncre s c Tendencies in Zweig’s Drama Jeremias” Gregor Thuswaldner, Gordon College “Aus dem Exil gegen den Faschismus: Stefan Zweig und Ignazio Silone— zwei Wege zu Solidarität und Toleranz” Arturo Larca , University of Verona “Der Untergang Europas und die Utopie von der Neuen Welt: Stefan Zweigs und Joseph Roths ambivalente Iden tät im Exil” Klemens Renoldner, Stefan Zweig Centre
1085 CASL Building Roundtable: Teaching Austria: Teaching in Austria Moderator: Francia Eliana Mar nez, University of Michigan Dearborn “Mit Leib und Seele: A Case Study of Teaching Austria” Jennifer Good, Baylor University “Sound poems, Dream alphabets, and Luscious Lists: Workshopping Experimental Austrian Poetry in the U.S. College Classroom” Nele Hempel Lamer, California State University, Long Beach “Project Based Learning in Salzburg for Intermediate Students of German” Laura McLary, University of Portland “From Maria Theresa to Maria von Trapp: Teaching Austrian history to monolingual American students in the University of Portland’s Summer Salzburg program” Brian Els, University of Portland “A Korean American in Niederösterreich: Two years in Austria as a Fulbright TA” Jung Koral, University of Michigan Dearborn
13 Session 6: Saturday 10:15 11:30 a.m. (con nued)
1086 CASL Building Shaping and Escaping Modernity’s Networks Moderator: Craig Decker, Bates College “The Myth of the Divide between Tradi on and Modernity: Berlin and Vienna as Refl ec ons of a Blended Modernism” Susanne Kelley, Kennesaw State University “Arthur Kahane, der Dramaturg hinter Max Reinhardts Erfolgen” Evelyn Deutsch Schreiner, Kunstuniversität Graz “Leaving Modernism: Hermann Bahr’s Conversion to Catholicism and its Ramifi ca ons” Raymond Burt, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
1087 CASL Building Turning Heimat Inside Out and Upside Down Moderator: Liana McMillan, University of Michigan Dearborn “Heimat in a Transna onal Age: The Split Scene of Recent Austrian Film” Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago “Das Beobachten als ein Privileg. Zur transkulturellen Literatur in Österreich am Beispiel vom Werk Radek Knapps” Alicja Krauze Olejniczak, University of Poznań “Austrian between Utopia and Dystopia in Austrian, German, and American Post exile Wri ngs” Jessica Ortner, University of Copenhagen
Lunch Break: Saturday 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m.
Roundtable: Saturday 1:30 2:10 p.m. 1030 CASL Building Gespräch mit Maja Haderlap, Ursula Hübner und Karl Markovics [per Skype]
14 Session 7: Saturday 2:25 3:40 p.m.
1084 CASL Building Mapping Friendship, Chance, and Cuisine Moderator: Robert Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs “Notebook on Ci es and Museums: Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours (2012)” Todd Herzog, University of Cincinna “Encounters of a Diff erent Kind: Coincidence in Dimitré Dinev’s novel Engelszungen (2003)” Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont “Gulasch nach Wiener Art: The Food of Empire becomes Homegrown” Laura A. Detre, West Chester University
1085 CASL Building CB Exchange in the Borderlands and New Visions of Mi eleuropa Moderator: Jennifer Good, Baylor University “Christen und Muslime – Freunde und Feinde: Grenzwechsel habsburgisch osmanischer Groβbotscha en im 17. Und 18. Jahrundert” Arno Strohmeyer, Universität Salzburg “Franz Rosenzweig’s Mi eleuropa : Austria as the ‘Strategic Space’ of Europe” Jörg Kreienbrock, Northwestern University “Adoleszenz, Asyl, Immigra on—Grenzerfahrungen in Mar n Horváths Mohr im Hemd oder wie ich auszog, die Welt zu re en ” Daniela Roth, University of Waterloo
15 Session 7: Saturday 2:25 3:40 p.m. (con nued)
1086 CASL Building Musikpoli sche “Zwischenräume”: Kollabora on, Koopera on und Karikatur im Bereich des österreichischen Musiktheaters 1930 1955 Moderator: Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois at Chicago “Das ‘Mi elstück’ – ein hybrides Kleinkunstgenre der 1930er Jahre” Jasmin Linzer, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien “‘Soll München zur führenden Opernbühne gemacht werden?’ Transferprozess für die Planung eines Theater ‘Organismus’ im NS Staat” Juri Giannini, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien “Koopera on oder Kollabora on? Amerikanische Hilfskomitees und der Wiederau au der Wiener Staatsoper” Fritz Trümpi, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
1087 CASL Building Poli cal Discourses—Before and A er Waldheim Moderator: Aaron Carpenter, Boise State University “Waldheim before the Aff air” Michael Burri, University of Pennsylvania “Blurring Borders—Blurring Emo ons: Robert Schindel and Austrian History’s Rupture in the Mid eigh es” Helga Mi erbauer, University of Alberta “Norma ve Boundaries: The Struggle over Democracy and Limits of the Acceptable in Austrian Parliamentarian Discourse in Right Wing Extremism” Ma hias Falter, Universität Wien
16 Session 8: Saturday 3:50 5:05 p.m. (four person panel 5:20 p.m.) 1084 CASL Building Migra on, Remigra on: Neue Iden täten und neue und alte Diskurse Moderator: Susanne Hochreiter, Universität Wien “Migra on und transna onale Iden täten: Die türkische Community in Österreich und der Gazakrieg im Sommer 2014” Helga Embacher, Universität Salzburg “Grenzen überschreitende islamophobe Mo ve in der poli schen Werbung” Karin Liebhart, University of New Orleans “Return: A tenta ve story about transforma on” Karen Fros g, Lesley University and Brandeis University
1085 CB Centuries of Literary and Musical Transforma ons and Transgressions Moderator: Michael Burri, University of Pennsylvania “Instrumental Music, Genre Blending, and Representa on in Seventeenth Century Salzburg” Kimberly Beck, University of Bri sh Columbia “Die Parodie am Wiener Vorstadtstheater als Ga ung kultureller und literarischer Transgression” Ma hias Mansky, Universität Wien “Adorno, Berg, and Composi on with Twelve Tones: Reading Adorno’s Philosophy of New Music” Morgan Rich, University of Florida
1086 CB Border Crossings in the Works of Vladimir Vertlib and Julya Rabinowich Moderator: Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont “Julya Rabinowichs Grenzgängerinnen zwischen Ost und West, zwischen Mythos und Realität” Maria Regina Kecht, Webster Vienna Private University “‘I come from Klingonia’: Crossing Borders in Vladimir Vertlib’s Schimons Schweigen” Michael Boehringer, University of Waterloo, Canada “Grenzerfahrungen als poe sche Signatur: Vladimir Vertlib” Elin Nesje Vestli, Hochschule Øs old, Norwegen
17 Session 8: Saturday 3:50 5:05/5:20 p.m. (con nued)
1087 CB Alte und neue Mythen in Nachkriegsösterreich Moderator: Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University “Grenzen bauen: Der An kommunismus österreichischer Remigranten” Wolfgang Straub, Universität Wien “Zwischen >>K. u. K<< und Kaltem Krieg. Wolfgang Kraus und die >>Österreichische Gesellscha für Literatur<<” Stefan Maurer, Center Austria, University of New Orleans “‘Hoff nungsloses Wandern über das Lehm gewordene Meer der Heimat:’ Remapping the Borders Between Nature, Memory, and Ethics in the Contaminated Landscapes of Hans Lebert’s Die Wolfshaut (1960)” Gundolf Graml, Agnes Sco College “Gerhard Fritsch und die Demontage österreichischer Nachkriegsmythen” Sławomir Piontek, Adam Mickiewicz Universität, Poznan
Film: Saturday 7:00 p.m.
1500 Social Sciences Building
Franz Fuchs: Ein Patriot (German with English sub tles, 2007, 90 minutes)
Introduc on and Discussion with actor/director Karl Markovics [per Skype]
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With its architectural landmark building in the heart of Manhat- The ACFNY also supports the tan, the Austrian Cultural Forum Austrian Studies Association New York hosts around 200 free by providing young scholars events annually and showcases with selected travel grants for Austrian contemporary art, mu- its Annual Conference. sic, literature, theater and aca- demic thought in New York. The ACFNY houses around 10,000 follow, like, visit: volumes in its state-of-the-art @ACFNY facebook.com/acfny library, and enjoys long-standing www.acfny.org and flourishing partnerships with many venerable cul- tural and academic institutions throughout New York and the United States.
22 Das Stefan Zweig Centre Salzburg Das Stefan Zweig Centre der Salzburger Universität wurde 2008 in einer Koopera on von Universität, Bundesland und Stadt Salzburg gegründet. Forschungsschwerpunkt sind Leben und Werk Stefan Zweigs in den Koordinaten der österreichischen und europäischen Kultur und Literaturgeschichte, wie Kultur und Literatur Österreichs in den Jahren 1900 1938.
Das Angebot in Salzburg enthält wissenscha liche Konferenzen, Vorträge, Diskussionen und Ausstellungen. Im interna onalen Zusammenhang werden universitäre Koopera onen und Netzwerke mit Ins tu onen aus Kunst und Wissenscha geknüp . Viele Ak vitäten ha en aber auch mit zeitgenössischer Kunst und Literatur zu tun (z.B. mit Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Karl Markus Gauß). In diesem Sinne etablierte sich das Stefan Zweig Centre als zeitgenössischer Treff punkt für Kunst und Wissenscha , für Schri stellerinnen und Schri steller, wie für Gäste aus verschiedenen europäischen Ländern. S pendien wurden nicht nur an Wissenscha ler, sondern auch an Schri steller, Übersetzer und Kunstmanager vergeben.
Die jährlich sta indenden „Stefan Zweig Poe k Vorlesungen“, die gemeinsam mit dem Literaturforum „Leselampe“ veranstaltet werden, bringen 2015 Ruth Klüger und 2016 Maja Haderlap zu einer Reihe von Vorträgen und Lesungen nach Salzburg.
Klemens Renoldner, Schri steller und Literaturwissenscha ler, ist seit 2008 Direktor des Stefan Zweig Centre www.stefan zweig centre salzburg.at
23 24 The Henry Ford is where dreamers do. Where makers shake. Where movers rule.
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