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CAS Turns 30 —Let the Celebration Begin! CENTER FOR AUSTRIAN STUDIES Vol. 19, No. 1 • Spring 2007 ASNAUSTRIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER CAS turns 30 —let the celebration begin! Plus: Don’t know much about Liechtenstein? Ambassador Claudia Fritsche does! Alison Fleig Frank’s “madcap” history of Left to right: William E. Wright, the Galician oil boom—and bust David F. Good, Gary B. Cohen, Gerhard H. Weiss ASN/TOC Letter from the Director 3 2006 Minnesota Calendar 3 News from the Center 4 ASN Interview: Herwig Wolfram 6 CAS Student Group News 8 Opportunities for Giving 9 ASN Interview: Claudia Fritsche 10 Publications: News and Reviews 14 Hot off the Presses 18 News from the Field 19 SAHH News 20 News from the North 21 ASN Interview: Charles Gati 22 Dispatch from CenterAustria 24 Salzburg 2006 Preview 25 Above, left to right, Gary Cohen, Jane Johnston, and Barbara Krausss-Christensen. Announcements 26 Below, left to right, Janna Fiesselmann, Tai Jin Kim, and Malte Franz. ASN Austrian Studies Newsletter Volume 19, No. 1 • Spring 2007 Editor: Daniel Pinkerton Editorial Assistants: Linda Andrean, Anne Carter, Barbara Reiterer ASN is published twice annually, in February and Septem- ber, and is distributed free of charge to interested sub- scribers as a public service of the Center for Austrian Studies. Editor’s Note Director: Gary B. Cohen Getting scholars together for a photo session is like herding cats. Whether current Administrative manager: Linda Andrean faculty members or emeriti, they lead extremely active lives, and coordinating their Editor: Daniel Pinkerton schedules (plus that of photographer Everett Ayoubzadah) isn’t easy. The result, however, was over fifty lively pictures that commemorate the history of the Center Send subscription requests or contributions for for Austrian Studies in a special way. Of course, picking just one of the fifty shots publication to: for the cover of this issue became another kind of a problem, but a very pleasant one indeed—an embarrassment of riches is the best problem an editor can have. Center for Austrian Studies My only regret is that we couldn’t get every director or acting director that the University of Minnesota Center has had into the picture. In the case of Richard L. Rudolph, CAS director for Attn: Austrian Studies Newsletter three years, we wish we could have enticed him from his home on the Russian River 314 Social Sciences Building in California to attend a photo shoot, but that didn’t seem practical. And misssing 267 19th Avenue S. from the cover, but not from our thoughts, is the late Kinley Brauer, interim director Minneapolis MN 55455 during a brief but crucial period of the Center’s history. Phone: 612-624-9811; fax: 612-626-9004 Once again, we thank Maureen McManus of CLA External Relations for “lend- Website: http://www.cas.umn.edu ing” us photographers for some of our most crucial events, including Everett, whose Subscriptions: [email protected] photography is featured throughout this issue of the ASN. Editor: [email protected] Daniel Pinkerton Austrian Studies Newsletter 2 Letter from the Director CAS In April 2007 the Center for Austrian Stud- tional centers ies will observe the thirtieth anniversary of its for Austrian spring 2007 founding with a gala celebration at the Wom- studies have an’s Club of Minneapolis. This great occasion followed at the calendar will be a marvelous opportunity to honor in University of Thursday, January 25, 3:30 P.M. Lecture. particular the founder of the Center, William New Orleans, Max Preglau, Sociology, Univ. of Graz; E. Wright, Professor Emeritus of History at the Hebrew Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard Univ. “The Rise and the University of Minnesota. In addition to University in Transformation of the European Welfare State.” putting together the proposal that won the $1 Jerusalem, and 710 Social Sciences Bldg. million grant from Austria in 1977 to endow a the University Thursday, February 1, 7:00 P.M. Lecture. Steven research center at an American university, Bill of Alberta, as Beller, independent scholar, author of A Concise Wright also played an important role in per- well as individ- History of Austria (Cambridge, 2006). “‘To Be or suading prominent Austrians of the usefulness ual professorial Not to Be’: The Ironies and Anomalies of Austrian of such a center from the outset of the project. chairs at other History.” 710 Social Sciences. The Center for Austrian Studies was universities; Wednesday, February 7, 7:30 P.M. Lecture. Gary founded with a distinct set of purposes. Above but the Minnesota center was the pioneer and B. Cohen, director, CAS, Univ. of MN. “Centuries all, it was to serve as a focal point in the United remains a leader. in the Heart of Europe: Jews in Golden Prague.” States for the study of Austria, spanning the Priorities and opportunities for the Minne- Beth Jacob Congregation, Mendota Heights. humanities, the social sciences, the applied sci- sota Center’s programming have varied with Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies. ences, and the fine arts. It was to serve as a cata- each of the directors since the founding, but I Sunday, February 11, 7:30 P.M. Concert. Florian lyst in aiding the studies, research, and teaching think that we can all be justly proud of many Kitt, cello, Arts Univ. of Graz, Rita Medjimorec, of those already interested in Austrian themes accomplishments over the last thirty years: piano, Arts Univ. of Graz. Music by Austrian and and issues and in stimulating others to work our international scholarly conferences and American Composers. Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson in this area. Unspoken was the understand- the collections of selected and revised papers Hall. Cosponsored with the School of Music. ing that making such a commitment to further published by Berghahn Books; the Austrian Monday, February 12, 7:30 P.M. Panel Discussion. Austrian studies would have a salutary impact History Yearbook, which has flourished under “Supporting the Arts where the Government on American college and university education, the editorship of R. John Rath (founding Won’t: Austria and the U.S. in the 21st Century.” where studies of continental Europe all too editor), Solomon Wank, Charles Ingrao, Florian Kitt and Rita Medjimorec, Arts Univ. of often got little farther than France, Germany, and now Pieter Judson; the annual Robert Graz; Roy Close, Artspace, Inc.; Ann Markusen, and perhaps Russia. A. Kann Memorial Lecture, which brings Humphrey Inst., Univ. of MN; Sheila Smith, The original advocates in Austria for such eminent scholars of Austrian and Central MN Citizens for the Arts. 280 Ferguson Hall. a center, and Bill Wright and his colleagues in European studies to Minnesota; our admin- Cosponsored with the School of Music. Minnesota understood that the study of Aus- istration of the ACF competitions for book Thursday, March 1, 3:30 P.M. Lecture. Monika tria implied the study of the neighboring coun- and dissertation prizes to encourage research Oebelsberger, Mozarteum Univ., Salzburg; tries that share the Habsburg heritage. David by North American scholars in a range of dis- Fulbright Visiting Professor, U of MN School of Good, who succeeded Bill as CAS director, ciplines and the R. John Rath Prize to honor Music. “Girls Sing, Boys Beat the Drums: Gender made the connection explicit. He reminded the best article published in each volume of Issues in Music Education.” 280 Ferguson. our constituency, in an expanded mission state- the Yearbook; grants to students for research Cosponsored with the School of Music. ment that was followed by a series of dynamic travel; our sponsorship of faculty and student Friday, March 23, 8:00-10:00 A.M. Forum. conferences and research projects that Austria exchange programs between the University CAS and the Carlson School of Management was connected with a Central and East Central of Minnesota and Austrian universities; our International Programs present “New Trade Europe that was too often forgotten during the on-campus lecture series; and our outreach and Investment Opportunities in Southeastern Cold War era. The whole region shares a tra- programs in the community, including special Europe: Strategies based on the Austrian dition rich in important intellectual, cultural, lectures, symposia, films, and concerts. Experience.” Dr. Robert Zischg, Austrian Consul- religious, scientific, and economic develop- To be true to its mission of advancing General, Chicago, Franz Roessler, Austrian ments continuing since the Middle Ages that research and public education, the Center for Trade Commissioner, Chicago, and Gisbert T. have shaped the rest of the world as much as Austrian Studies must constantly reinvent Mayr, director, Austrian Business Agency, NYC. the better known experience of Britain, France, itself, blending tradition and innovation. My Cosponsored by the Austrian Consulate and Trade and Germany. Neutral Austria, in fact, was an colleagues and I undertook a strategic plan- Commission, Chicago. important bridge between western and east ning effort this past summer and autumn as Thursday, April 12, 7:30 P.M. Panel discussion. central Europe during the Cold War years. part of a periodic Center review. We have “The Art of Vienna 1900 and its Timeless Appeal.“ It has only increased its mediating role with charted a course for CAS for the next three to Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, director, Austrian the end of communist rule in the neighboring five years that, among other goals, calls for a Cultural Forum, New York; Lyndel King, director, countries and their growing integration in a major new collaborative research program on Weisman Art Museum; David Ryan, curator of united Europe. the social, demographic, cultural, and intellec- design, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Shepherd With those developments since 1989, the tual aspects of the Austrian-American migra- Seminar Room, Weisman Art Museum. Reception need for Austrian studies and the opportuni- tion experience.
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