THE CENTER for AUSTRIAN STUDIES AUSTRIAN STUDIES NEWSMAGAZINE Vol. 27, No. 2 • Fall 2015 ASN THE CAS TEAM IS COMPLETE! plus Vienna Executive MBA program turns 15 and Carl Schorske, 1915-2015 FALL2015TOC departments News from the Center 4 ASN Austrian Studies Vienna EMBA turns 15 - Varga wins Rath Prize - Newsmagazine Interview: Christian Karner - Interview: Larry Silver Volume 27, No. 2 • Fall 2015 - Artist Daniel Blaufuks visits & more Politics & Society 14 Designed & edited by Daniel Pinkerton Farid Hafez on the new Austrian Islamic Law Editorial Assistants: Christopher Flynn, Jennifer Hammer, and Jan Volek Books: News & Reviews 16 New books by Johnston, Ildikó Barna & ASN is published twice annually, in spring and fall, and is distributed free of charge to interested subscribers as a Petõ, and Fichtner - Hot off the Presses& more public service of the Center for Austrian Studies. Arts & Culture 20 Director: Howard Louthan Interview: Geza von Habsburg - 2015 Salzburg Festival Program Associate: Jennifer Hammer Editor: Daniel Pinkerton review - Lessing & Mezvinsky exhibit at ACFNY & more Send subscription requests or contributions to: Scholars & Scholarship 26 Center for Austrian Studies UNO-Innsbruck summer program turns 40 - the 2015 University of Minnesota ASA meeting - new Austrian professor at Alberta - Attn: Austrian Studies Newsmagazine 314 Social Sciences Building Carl Schorske, 1915-2015 & more 267 19th Avenue S. Minneapolis MN 55455 ON OUR COVER: Members of the CAS team: Left to right, CAS editor Daniel Phone: 612-624-9811; fax: 612-626-9004 Pinkerton, CAS director Howard Louthan, and CAS program associate Website: http://www.cas.umn.edu Jennifer Hammer. Photo: Christopher Flynn. Editor:
[email protected] CAS sponsors post-performance lecture on Terezín Theatre historian Lisa Peschel, a former member of the CAS staff, a 2009 University of Minnesota graduate, and a previous lecturer at our 2014 event, “Laughter in the Dark” (see report in the fall 2014 ASN) returned once more on September 13, 2015 to lecture about theatre at Terezín/Theresienstadt.