The Center for Austrian Studies 2006-07 Annual Report the 2006-07 Staff Editor: Daniel Pinkerton, M.F.A
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THE CENTER FOR AUSTRIAN StUDIES 2006-07 Annual Report the 2006-07 staff Editor: Daniel Pinkerton, M.F.A. in playwriting, M.A. in European history, has worked at the Center since 1990. He has edited the Austrian Studies Newsletter since January 1992 and the Annual Report since 1991. He also assists the director in special projects such as writing grants, website design, and preparing graphics for the Austrian History Yearbook. Student Staff: Anne Carter was a Ph.D. candidate in English, and successfully defended her dissertation in November 2006. She worked at the Center for the entire academic year as editorial assitant for the CAS book series and the Austrian Studies Newsletter. Barbara Reiterer, CAS/BMBWK Research Fellow, was funded by Austria’s Federal Ministry for Education, Science, and Culture. She is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University Front row, left to right: Daniel Pinkerton, Linda Andrean, Barbara Reiterer, Nicole Phelps. of Graz and has been accepted into the Program Back row, left to right: Anne Carter, Gary B. Cohen, Annett Richter. (photo by Karl Krohn) in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota as a Ph.D. candidate Director: Administrative Manager: beginning in fall 2007. She coordinated the Gary B. Cohen, professor of history, University Linda Andrean, B.A. in Anthropology and lecture series and, with Linda Andrean, the of Minnesota. Education: B.A., University of History, B.S. in Secondary Education, came to Austrian student events. She was also an editorial Southern California, 1970; M.A., Princeton the Center in June 2004 after twenty years of assistant for the Austrian Studies Newsletter and University, 1972; Ph.D., Princeton University, service in the University of Minnesota Academic assisted the director on special projects. 1975. He was a historian at the University of Health Center, including work for the Cancer Oklahoma from 1976 to 2001 prior to taking Protocol Review Committee, the Medical School, Annett Richter, a native of Halle, Germany, the CAS directorship in August 2001. His and the School of Public Health. At CAS, she and a Ph.D. candidate in musicology, was the publications include two books, The Politics of oversees the Center’s administrative and financial assistant editor of the Austrian History Yearbook Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 affairs, and is involved with program planning, and editorial assistant for the Austrian Studies (1981, 2006), and Education and Middle-Class fundraising and student and community outreach. Newsletter. Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (1996). Ms. Andrean is the author of Where in the World In addition to serving as director, he is executive Is Austria?, a text for second- and third-grade editor of the Yearbook and the CAS book series. students. CAS 2006-07 ANNUAL REPORT ©2007, The Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Designed and edited by Daniel Pinkerton. contents Editorial assistants: Linda Andrean, Anne Carter, and Barbara Reiterer. Staff 2 Faculty 12 The Center for Austrian Studies is an inde- The Director’s View 3 Support & Collaboration 14 pendent unit of the College of Liberal Arts, Publications 5 Making a Gift 15 University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota is committed Events 8 BMBWK Fellowship 16 to the policy that all persons shall have equal Student Support 10 access to its programs, facilities, and employ- ment without regard to race, color, creed, COVER: CAS directors past and present. Left to right: Gerhard Weiss, William Wright, Gary Cohen, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital David Good. Not pictured: Richard Rudolph, Kinley Brauer. Photo by Everett Ayoubzadah. status, veteran status, or sexual orientation. 2 the director’s view The Center for Austrian Studies reached an impor- ary discussions of culture, society, and political and tant milestone in spring 2007: the thirtieth anniver- economic experience in Austria and the neighbor- sary of its founding. The occasion was duly celebrated, ing Central European countries. Today, the Center first in Minneapolis on April 27, with a gala dinner, for Austrian Studies is well positioned to continue and then by a reception in Vienna on May 22, hosted to sponsor important new scholarship in the future. by Susan McCaw, the US ambassador to Austria, at Since the founding of this center in 1977, other her elegant residence near the Schönbrunn Palace. Austrian centers have followed at the University This anniversary has been an occasion for our many of Alberta, the University of New Orleans, and the well wishers to offer their congratulations and for us Hebrew University in Jerusalem as well as special to express our gratitude to all the contributors to the chairs and lectureships in other universities. Still, the Center’s various programs over the years. On the occa- Minnesota Center for Austrian Studies has the wid- sion of our thirtieth birthday, I would also like to offer est range of programs and scholarly publications. We some thoughts. know from correspondence, comments at scholarly meetings, and subscriptions and sales, that scholars The Center’s mission statement mandates that it and students around the world follow our activities mount a broad range of programs in the humanities, with great interest. The Center is already the Western social sciences, the applied sciences, and fine arts to hemisphere’s leading research center for Austrian and advance the cause of Austrian and Central European Central European studies, and we expect to maintain studies at the University of Minnesota, in the United our momentum and become the world’s leading pro- States, and internationally. The original reasons moter of cross-disciplinary scholarship on Austria, for creating the Center retain their force today and, Central Europe, and Central Europe’s relationship indeed, have only gained strength because of interna- with the EU. Our goal is to expand our intellectual tional developments during the last several decades. reach, yet maintain our commitments to public edu- For centuries Austria has functioned as a critical cation, community outreach, and assistance for the bridge between Western and Eastern Europe. Since teaching mission of CLA. the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, Austria’s government and business and cultural leaders have THE YEAR IN REVIEW continued this role. As a result, today Austria and sev- During this past year, the Center engaged faculty Gary Cohen at Bellagio, Italy. eral of the other smaller developed European states and students from across our own university along play important parts in the European Union. Cultur- with a broad range of scholars, artists, and govern- were cosponsored with research institutions ally, Austria has enjoyed a remarkable flowering since ment experts from North America and around the in other countries, enabling CAS to extend the 1970s, recovering from the losses suffered in the globe in offering a diverse program of activities. The the impact of its resources. The Rockefeller 1930s and the Nazi era. The other former lands of individual activities are described in detail elsewhere Foundation hosted a conference coorga- the Habsburg Monarchy are also now poised to make in this annual report, but a few of them deserve spe- nized by the Center and the Institute for important intellectual and economic advances as they cial note here. Cultural Studies and Theater History of the emerge from four decades of communist rule. The Center continued its long tradition of spon- Austrian Academy of Sciences at the famed For the last thirty years, the Center for Austrian soring scholarly conferences to bring together tal- Bellagio center in Italy. The topic was “Mul- Studies, through its scholarly symposia, book series, ented scholars from many countries. In September, ticulturalism: The Central European Expe- and scholarly journal, the Austrian History Yearbook, we even held two. Both of these conferences exempli- rience and its Impact on Identity Formation has played a leading role in advancing interdisciplin- fied a more recent tradition of the Center in that they in a Globalized World.” Participating schol- ars came from North America, Western and Eastern Europe, and India. Within days of OUR MISSION the Bellagio meeting, CAS completed the two-part project on “Religion and Author- THE CENTER FOR AUSTRIAN STUDIES ity in Central Europe from the Middle Ages • serves as a focal point in the United States for the study of Austria and the to the Enlightenment” with a conference at Central European lands with a common Habsburg heritage across disciplines in the the University of Alberta, cosponsored by the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Cen- humanities, the social sciences, the applied sciences, and the fine arts; tral European Studies. • analyzes Austrian perspectives as a powerful tool for understanding the new Europe The Austrian History Yearbook thrived in the age of the European Union; under the leadership of its editor, Pieter M. Judson, its book review editor, Daniel • connects scholars, students, and an international community to resources in Unowsky, and the Austrian associate edi- Austria, Central Europe, the EU, and Minnesota; tor Margarete Grandner. The thematic and chronological range of its articles has • reaches out to a local, national, and international community of educated increased noticeably in recent years, making nonacademics, bringing an awareness of Austria and the new Europe and its the Yearbook an ever more valuable periodi- relevance to American life. cal. Annett Richter, the assistant editor for The Center pursues its mission through a variety of activities including research projects, this last year, made the editorial process publications, international interdisciplinary symposia, student and faculty exchanges, function with precision and efficiency. We scholarships, and outreach events for both students and the Twin Cities community. regret that we are losing her, but a fellow- ship for 2007-08 will enable her to focus on continued on page 4 3 the director’s view from page 3 publications completing her doctoral dissertation in ethnomu- students, Where in the World is Austria?, and a ASN, and a few basic on-campus programs.