THE CENTER FOR AUSTRIAN STUDIES 2004-05 Annual Report

From the Director The Center for Austrian Studies had an active and productive year in 2004-05. My colleagues and I continued to work on many fronts to further the mission of the Center as a focal point in the United States for interdisciplinary research, education, and public service regarding Austria and the other Central European lands that share a common Habsburg heritage. The Center’s programs embraced a remarkable range of disciplines and interests. Public events included twelve lectures, a panel discussion on the arts in the lands of former Yugoslavia, a roundtable for the fiftieth anniversary of the Austrian State Treaty, and a scintillating symposium on Mozart and Da Ponte’s Don Giovanni. Publications included the Austrian History Yearbook, the Austrian Studies Newsletter, and a new volume of essays. The Center’s finances continued to suffer 2004-05 Center for Austrian Studies Staff. Clockwise from left: Linda Andrean, Mirjam in 2004-05 due to the sharp drop in the Marits, Arnold Lelis, Gary Cohen, Nicole Phelps, and Daniel Pinkerton. market value of its endowment since 2001-02, declining interest rates, and a reduction in its annual allocation from the University of depend critically on contributions and grants. reviews for the Austrian History Yearbook, while Minnesota College of Liberal Arts. With some The Center’s staff rose magnificently to Arnold Lelis did similarly stalwart work for the additional support from the European Studies the challenges of our busy schedule this past Center’s volumes of essays, working papers, and Consortium (Title VI National Resource year. Linda D. Andrean assumed the duties of website. Center), the Institute for Global Studies, and administrative manager of the Center in June Considerable credit for the success of this the College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Events 2004, succeeding Barbara Krauss-Christensen, year’s lecture series and many special events Fund at the University of Minnesota, the who retired after twenty-six years of service belongs to Mirjam Marits, our doctoral Center was able to mount a robust schedule to CAS. Linda’s many years of experience in fellow from Austria, who was supported by a of events this year. To improve the long-term other academic and administrative units at the fellowship from the Austrian Federal Ministry of financial outlook, the Center undertook University of Minnesota are serving us very well Education, Science, and Culture. In organizing important new fundraising initiatives, assisted indeed. She initiated new efforts to reach out to much of the publicity and logistics for these by Mary Hicks and Diane Walters in the the Twin Cities community and to Austrian and programs, Mirjam met all the challenges College of Liberal Arts Office of External Central European students at the University. presented by a complex university structure and Relations. Family, friends, and admirers of The Center sponsored a dinner for friends of the diverse technical requirements of our many the late Prof. Robert A. Kann have responded the Center before a concert of the Vienna Choir speakers with good cheer, energy, and aplomb. generously to the call for contributions to help Boys in November 2004 in the Ted Mann CAS has taken new steps to enhance its us establish an endowment fund to support Concert Hall as well as a series of events for contributions to international scholarship in the annual Kann Memorial Lecture. We students. Austrian and Central European studies and continue to seek contributions to that fund As always, during the year Daniel Pinkerton to the intellectual life of the University of and have launched a new drive to establish produced informative, stimulating, and Minnesota. CAS is working closely with other a graduate fellowship to honor William E. handsomely designed issues of the Austrian centers and departments in the University Wright, the founding director of the Center Studies Newsletter as well as numerous other on collaborative research projects and the and longtime member of the Minnesota brochures and posters. Nicole Phelps was enrichment of degree programs as well as jointly- Department of History. Major enhancements indefatigable in her precise and thoughtful sponsored conferences and symposia. in the Center’s programs in the future will formatting and copyediting of articles and continued on page 2 The CENTER FOR AUSTRIAN STUDIES is an independent unit of the College of Liberal Arts • 2004-05 CAS STAFF CAS: Aims and Scope Director: On the occasion of America’s bicentennial, Gary B. Cohen, professor of history, University the people and government of Austria of Minnesota. Education: B.A., University of gave the University of Minnesota Southern California, 1970; M.A., Princeton one million dollars to establish and University, 1972; Ph.D., Princeton University, permanently endow the Center for 1975. He was a historian at the University of Austrian Studies. Established in 1977, the Oklahoma from 1976 to 2001 prior to taking Center the CAS directorship in August 2001. His • serves as the focal point in North publications include two books, The Politics of America for the study of Austria, the Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 Habsburg Empire, and its Central (1981), and Education and Middle-Class Society European successor states across the in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (1996). In disciplines in the humanities, the social addition to serving as director, he is executive sciences, the applied sciences, and the editor of the AHY and the CAS book series. fine arts; • serves as an international Administrative Manager: clearinghouse for information about Linda Andrean, B.A. in Anthropology and interdisciplinary scholarship concerning History, B.S. in Secondary Education, came Eminent Austrian journalist Annaliese Rohrer and Austria and the region through its to the CAS in June 2004 after twenty years CAS director Gary B. Cohen. publications and conferences; of service in the Academic Health Center, • connects institutions, scholars, including work for the Cancer Protocol Review students, and an international From the Director from page 1 Committee, the Medical School, and the community to Austrian, Central • CAS has joined the Center for German School of Public Health. Here at the CAS, and European Studies and the Institute for European, and Minnesotan resources she oversees the Center’s administrative and Global Studies in the longterm collaborative as it promotes research and training in financial affairs, and is heavily involved with the field; international research project, “Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the strategic aspects of program planning and • plays, especially since the collapse of fundraising. Soviet hegemony and the end of the Shatter-Zones of Empires Since 1848.” In October 2004, the Center assisted cold war, a unique and important role in sponsoring an international research Editor: in the debate over the prospects for workshop for this project held on the Daniel Pinkerton, M.F.A. in playwriting, civil peace and economic prosperity in University of Minnesota campus. M.A. in European history, has worked at the Europe, stressing the insights offered by • CAS joined with faculty in the University Center since 1990. He has served as editor of Austria’s experience as a small neutral of Minnesota Law School and colleagues the Austrian Studies Newsletter since January state with an imperial past in the heart at the universities of Vienna and Graz to 1992 and editor of the Annual Report since hold a successful research workshop on new of the continent. 1991. He also assists the director in special developments in international public law and projects such as writing grants or preparing human rights law on the University campus CONTENTS in April 2004. A second such workshop is graphics for AHY. being planned for spring 2006 in Vienna. Staff 2 • Dr. Zbigniew Bochniarz, director of Student Staff: Publications 3 the Center for the Study of Nations in Arnold Lelis, a Ph.D. candidate in medieval Development 5 Transition, Hubert Humphrey Institute, European history, was editor of the CAS Events 6 University of Minnesota, and I completed website, editorial assistant for the Austrian Faculty 8 editorial work on a volume of selected, History Yearboook, and editorial assistant for Classes 9 revised essays deriving from the CAS the Austrian Studies Newsletter. Student Support 9 conference in fall 2002, “The Environment Mirjam Marits, CAS/BMBWK Research Research Partners 10 and Sustainable Development in the New Fellow, whose stipend was provided by the Outreach & Support 11 Central Europe: Austria and Its Neighbors.” Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Berghahn Books will publish it in 2006. Science, and Culture, is a Ph.D candidate in BMBWK Assistantship 12 • Franz Szabo, director, Wirth Institute for and . She coordinated Austrian and East Central European Studies Anglistik Amerikanistik ©2005, The Center for Austrian Studies at the University at the University of Alberta, Canada, and the lecture series, the travel grant competitions, of Minnesota. Designed and edited by Daniel Pinkerton. I continued editorial work on a volume and, along with Linda Andrean, the Austrian Editorial assistants: Arnold Lelis and Nicole Phelps. of selected essays from the CAS/Wirth student events. The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that Centre conference, “Embodiments of Power: Nicole Phelps, a Ph.D. candidate in Habsburg all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facili- ties, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, Building Baroque Cities in Austria and history, was assistant editor of the Austrian religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, veteran Europe,” held in fall 2003. History Yearbook and editorial assistant for the status, or sexual orientation. continued on page 5 Austrian Studies Newsletter. 2 Publications Founded in 1965 by the late R. John Rath, the Austrian History Yearbook remains the only English language journal devoted to the history of the Habsburg monarchy, modern Austria, and Central European lands with a common Habsburg heritage. Inside its dramatically redesigned covers, volume XXXVI holds a wealth of original research, with an emphasis this year on emigration and ethnic diasporas. This is the last volume for which Charles Ingrao is editor and Catherine Albrecht is book review editor (see Director’s Letter, p.1). CAS director Gary B. Cohen continues as executive editor. CONTENTS

Articles Early Modern Urban Immigration in East Central Europe: A Macroanalysis by Jaroslav Miller Beyond the Walls: The Beginnings of Pest Jewry by Howard Lupovitch Cultural Currents and Political Choices: Romanian Intellectuals in the Banat to 1848 by Alex Drace-Francis The Friends of Progress: Learned Societies and the Public Sphere in the Transylvanian Reform Era by Zsuzsanna Török Obtaining History: The Case of Ukrainians in Habsburg Galicia, 1848-1900 by Andriy Zayarnyuk Minority Building in the German Diaspora: The Hungarian-Germans by John C. Swanson Forum: The Dynamics of Diaspora Politics Annual subscription rate: In Step, or Out of Step with the Times? Central Europe’s Diasporas and Institutions: $75 / £50 / €65* their Homelands in 1918 and 1989 Individuals: $35 / £25 / €32* by Paul Robert Magocsi HABSBURG / CGCEH members: $33 / £23 / €28* Commentary: Some Reflections on South Slav Diasporas Students: $25 / £16.50 / €22* by Mark Biondich *payment in Euros can be made only by credit card. Commentary: In Step with the Times: A Slovak Perspective NOTE: All subscriptions include electronic access. by M. Mark Stolarik WORLDWIDE E-MAIL: [email protected] Commentary: Central Europe Is Elsewhere WEBSITE: WWW.BERGHAHNBOOKS.COM by Steven Beller plus 28 book reviews 2004 R. JOHN RATH PRIZE TheR. John Rath Prize for the best article in the Aus- HONEGGER, HOWE WIN 2004 ACF PRIZES trian History Yearbook in 2004 was awarded to Dr. Peter Gitta Honegger, Department of English, Arizona State University, won the Austrian Urbanitsch for his “Pluralist Myth and Nationalist Realities: Cultural Forum’s Book Prize for Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian (New The Dynastic Myth of the Habsburg Monarchy–a Futile Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2001). The jury considered both the scholarly contribution of the Exercise in the Creation of Identity?” nominated books to the field of Austrian studies and their ability to engage a wide audi- Urbanitsch’s persuasive analysis demonstrated how the ence of knowledgeable or interested readers outside the field. “On both counts,” they wrote, Habsburg dynasty and its ministers from the eighteenth cen- “Honegger’s book proves the most impressive of the nominees. Her book presents a model tury to 1918 tried, in the end unsuccessfully, to weave a myth of critical engagement with its subject.” of the supranational unifying powers of the dynasty to coun- Philip J. Howe, who received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, was ter the growing centrifugal forces that threatened the unity awarded the 2004 Dissertation Prize for “Well-Tempered Discontent: Nationalism, Eth- of the realm. The committee praised Urbanitsch’s “master- nic Group Politics, Electoral Institutions and Parliamentary Behavior in the Western Half ful command” of the vast body of writings that attempted to of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1867-1914.” The jury was particularly impressed by strengthen dynastic patriotism. Howe’s application of the methods of political science to the larger question of how well The Rath Prize is awarded annually for the best article the electoral system of the Austrian half of the Habsburg monarchy functioned after 1867, published in the Austrian History Yearbook (in this case, Vol. offering new insights into how well the Austrian half of the monarchy functioned. 34). It is funded by the estate of the late R. John Rath, long- The biannual prizes support travel for research in Austria, and are funded by ACF, New time Habsburg scholar and founding editor of the AHY, York. Patrizia McBride, Louis Rose (chair), and Jacqueline Vansant were the book prize and donations in his memory. Catherine Giustino, Gerald jury; T. Mills Kelly (chair), Edmund Kern, and James Shedel, were the dissertation jury. Stourzh, and William E. Wright (chair). 3 AUSTRIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER

CAS BOOK SERIES: Left to right: University of Minnesota ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, and CAS director Gary B. Cohen. AUSTRIAN AND

2004-05: A SUMMARY HABSBURG STUDIES TheAustrian Studies Newsletter, an English-language publication founded in 1989 Our monograph series, based on past CAS symposia, reflects and edited by Daniel Pinkerton since 1992, is an international clearinghouse for the broad geographical, temporal, and intellectual scope of the information on scholarly activities and opportunities that includes lively, thought- Center. In 1996, the Center for Austrian Studies and Berghahn provoking interviews and feature articles offering scholarly perspectives on current Books initiated a series, “Austrian History, Culture, and Society,” events. Its readership consists of: now called “Austrian and Habsburg Studies” and under the • students, who are introduced to interdisciplinary study of the region by receiving general editorship of Gary B. Cohen. information about scholars, activities, and opportunities for funding and study abroad; Five volumes have been published previously: Austrian Women • scholars, who learn about international conferences, postdoctoral fellowships, archival in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, From World War to holdings, and the work of colleagues in other countries and disciplines; Waldheim, Rethinking Vienna 1900, The Great Tradition, and • an educated public, that learns about current developments in scholarship, current Creating the “Other.” events in the region, and the relationship between the two. This year, The Center for Austrian Studies and Berghahn In the 2004-05 academic year, the Center published two issues of the ASN—in mid- Books published an addition to the series. Volume 6 is entitled, September and mid-February—and mailed them free of charge to subscribers around Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe (see cover the world. above). It was edited by Pieter Judson and Marsha Rozenblit, Last year, the ASN carried feature articles on music in Viennese popular comedy and is based on a fall 2000 conference in honor of István Deák from 1700-1850 , the career of Thomas Klestil, the new minor in Austrian Studies at held at Columbia University and cosponsored by CAS. the University of Minnesota, and other subjects. It reviewed volumes on Austrian and Two other volumes are in preparation: a volume based on the East Central European architectural history, film, and history, as well as other fields. fall 2002 CAS conference, “The Environment and Sustainable An important ongoing feature of ASN is the publication of interviews with scholars Development in the New Central Europe: Austria and Its and public figures connected with research and public life in Austria and its neighbors. Neighbors”; and a volume based on “Embodiments of Power: In the 2004-05, subjects included geographer Walter Matznetter, journalist Tomáš Building Baroque Cities in Austria and Europe,” the fall 2003 Klvaňa, and political scientist/Schumpeter Fellow Sieglinde Rosenberger. conference cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies TheAustrian Studies Newsletter also continued to serve as the venue for news at the University of Minnesota and the Wirth Institute for columns by the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History, the HABSBURG Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of newsgroup, and the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies. As Alberta. copyeditors and editorial assistants, Nicole Phelps and Arnold Lelis contributed to the ASN’s success. 4 Development Dear friends, Since its creation in 1977, the Center for This past year was a very successful one for the Austrian Studies has achieved international Center. Some highlights include: recognition for its excellence in promoting the • Initiation of fundraising for the William study of Austria. Many of you have recognized E. Wright Graduate Fellowship in and embraced the mission and continuing Central European History, which will work of the center by supporting it with your honor the emeritus history professor gifts. and founding director of the Center for Thanks to your generosity, the Center has Austrian Studies by providing fellowship grown in stature and influence over the years. support for students who are pursuing Its contributions to Austrian scholarship and graduate studies in Central European to cultural and educational collaborations are a history. source of great pride. But as available university • An unprecedented gathering of Minnesota dollars decline and endowment income business leaders who are doing business flattens, we need your help more than ever to in Austria for a meeting with Austrian sustain our programs. Your tax-deductible gift Ambassador Eva Nowotny. to the Center for Austrian Studies will help ensure that • “The Essential Cinema of Peter Kubelka,” a festival of the Austrian filmmaker’s • The Center will continue to serve as a focal work, cosponsored with the Department point in North America for the study of of Cultural Studies and Comparative Austria, the Habsburg Empire, and its Literature. Central European successor states. With your support, exciting opportunities and initiatives such as these • Future scholars will continue to produce interdisciplinary research on will continue. We hope that you will consider making a gift to ensure the Austria and Central Europe. center’s continuing international preeminence as a hub of research and • The Center will continue to connect institutions, scholars, students, intellectual and cultural engagement. We will work with you to make sure and the international community to Austrian, Central European, and that your gift is an expression of what truly matters to you. Minnesota resources. If you would like to discuss scholarships, fellowships, or other gift • The Center will continue to play a pivotal role in the debate over the opportunities, please contact me at 612-625-4324 or [email protected]. prospects for peace and prosperity in Europe. I look forward to hearing from you. Diane R. Walters, Major Gifts Officer, College of Liberal Arts

From the Director from page 2 • In spring 2004, CAS cosponsored the postdoctoral residency of Dr. The Center’s work in publishing new scholarship in Austrian and Central Annemarie Steidl, a young Austrian historian of Central European European studies continued in 2004-05. In November 2004, Berghahn migration and demography. The Center is pursuing further collaborative Books published an exciting new volume of essays in the series “Austrian and research that we hope will link Austrian scholars with our Minnesota Habsburg Studies,” sponsored by CAS: Constructing Nationalities in East colleagues at the Immigration History Research Center and the Central Europe, edited by Pieter M. Judson and Marsha L. Rozenblit. Article Minnesota Population Center. submissions to the Yearbook continue to be strong, thanks in large part to the vigorous efforts of the editor, Prof. Charles Ingrao of Purdue University. Prof. CAS supports the teaching mission of the University of Minnesota Ingrao is completing his service as editor in spring 2005 after nearly a decade in many important ways. In fall 2004, a new undergraduate minor in of dedicated work. To the great good fortune of the Yearbook and scholarship Austrian and Central European Studies became available to students. With in Austrian history, Prof. Pieter Judson of Swarthmore College has agreed support from CAS, the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch to assume the duties of article editor. After six years of sterling work as book is administering this interdisciplinary minor, which requires a minimum review editor, Prof. Catherine Albrecht of the University of Baltimore is also of 16 credits of junior, senior, or first-year graduate courses. Since 2002, stepping down this spring. Prof. Daniel Unowsky, a talented young historian CAS, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Austrian-American Educational at the University of Memphis, will succeed her. I look forward to working Commission have sponsored a Visiting Austrian Fulbright Professor for one with these gifted colleagues in developing further the Yearbook as the venue semester in each academic year. In fall 2004, Professor Walter Matznetter, of choice for new scholarship in Austrian and Central European history. University of Vienna, was in residence in the Department of Geography. As always, I am deeply grateful to the members of the CAS staff as well as Professor Gilg Seeber from the University of Innsbruck will be a visiting the faculty and administrative colleagues in the CAS Advisory Committee, professor in political science in fall 2005. Our continuing exchange of the College of Liberal Arts, and the many departments and offices of the professors and graduate teaching assistants with various Austrian universities University of Minnesota who have all contributed significantly to the enriches instruction in a number of departments on the Twin Cities campus. accomplishments and successes we enjoyed in the past year. Thanks to such With the assistance of generous gifts, CAS continues its program of assistance and support, the Center for Austrian Studies continues to grow. scholarships for students’ study travel in Austria and Central Europe. Gary B. Cohen 5 Events 2004-05 CAS Lecture Series NOVEMBER 3. Lecture. Walter Matznetter, Russia and Siberia, 1916-1921.” Cosponsored Geography, Univ. of Vienna, and Fulbright Visit- with the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center ing Professor, Univ. of Minnesota. “200 Years of Minnesota; Czech and Slovak Sokol, of Urban Planning in Vienna: Imagination and Minnesota; Center for Holocaust and Genocide Reality.” Cosponsored with the Department of Studies, Univ. of Minnesota; Immigration Geography. History Research Center, Univ. of Minnesota; and the German Section, Dept. of Modern NOVEMBER 11. Lecture. Martin Zagler, Eco- Languages, Hamline Univ. nomics, Vienna Univ. of Economics; Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard Univ. “Public Finance in the APRIL 14. Lecture. Niki Carlson, Landscape European Union: What the Stabilty and Growth Architecture, University of Minnesota. Pact Does to National Budget Policy.” “Central Europe’s ‘Black Triangle’:Landscape in Transition.” Cosponsored by the Department NOVEMBER 18. Lecture. Gerald Angermann- Mozetic, Sociology, Karl-Franzens Univ., Graz. of Landscape Architecture and the Center for “The Concept of ‘Nation’ and Nationalities in Nations in Transition. Early Austrian Sociology.” APRIL 25. Roundtable discussion. “An Early Thaw in the Cold War? The Austrian State JANUARY 27. Lecture. Steven Meyer, Pragmatic C Softeware Corp. “The Vienna Circle’s Treaty of 1955.” (See opposite page.) Successors in Minnesota and America: The APRIL 26. Lecture. Dr. Thomas Nowotny, Lakatos-Feyerabend-Kuhn Program.” senior advisor on corporate development and international affairs to the Austrian FEBRUARY 14. Lecture. Ulrike Peters Nichols, Wirtschaftsservice in Washington, D.C. German, Univ. of Michigan. “August Strindberg “Constructing the 21st Century: The and the New Vienna Circle.” Cosponsored with US, Europe, and the Task of Global German, Scandinavian, and Dutch. Governance.” Cosponsored by Political Science. FEBRUARY 21. Lecture. Annaliese Rohrer, APRIL 30. “In Search of Don Die Presse, Vienna. “The U.S., Europe, and the Symposium. Transatlantic Political Rift.” Giovanni: The Origins, Interpretations, and Dr. Eva Nowotny, Austrian Ambassador to the U.S. Legacy of Mozart and Da Ponte’s Anti-Hero.” FEBRUARY 24. Lecture. Elizabeth Cronin, (See opposite page.) Art History, Univ. of Minnesota. “Gabriel SEPTEMBER 14. Robert A. Kann Memorial Lippmann’s Photography: The Pursuit of Color THE CENTER ALSO COSPONSORED: . Ernst Bruckmüller, Univ. of Vienna, “Late in the 19th Century.” Lecture MARCH 21-24. Film Festival. “The Essential Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Society: Was APRIL 5. Lecture. Joan Mohr, University Cinema of Peter Kubelka,” Oak Street Cinema. There ?” (See opposite page.) One of Pittsburgh. “Caught in the Bolshevik With Cultural Studies and Comparative SEPTEMBER 20. Lecture. Brigitte Bailer- Revolution: The Czech and Slovak Legion in Literature and other units of CLA. Galanda, History and Political Science, Univ. of Vienna, and Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance. “Compensation for Victims of Nazism in and from Austria: A Never Ending AUSTRIA HONORS CAS ALUMNI Story.” Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish On September 14, Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Geno- 2004, Consul General cide Studies. Elisabeth Kehrer (far OCTOBER 14. Discussion. “Music and the left) presented medals Arts in Post-Communist Croatia and Slovenia: from the Austrian A Conversation with the Zagreb Saxophone government to (left Quartet.” Cosponsored with the School of Music, to right): former the Weisman Museum of Art, and the College of CAS interim direc- Liberal Arts Scholarly Events Fund. tor Gerhard Weiss, former CAS executive OCTOBER 22. Lecture. Tomas Klvana, visiting secretary Barbara fellow, Remarque Center, New York Univ. “Media Krauss-Christensen, and the Failure of Civil Society in the Czech and former CAS Republic.” Cosponsored with the European Stud- director David F. ies Consortium (Title VI Grant), the Department Good. of Communication Studies, and the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota. 6 The Twentieth Annual Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture ERNST BRUCKMÜLLER professor of social and economic history, University of Vienna “Late Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Society: Was Th ereOne ?” September 14, 2004 was a day of celebration as the twentieth Kann Memorial Lecture was delivered. Th e series, which has alternated between public lectures by distinguished Austrian and North American historians (with the occasional public fi gure included) is one of the highlights of the Center’s and the University of Minnesota’s intellectual year. Virtually all the lectures are now printed in the Austrian History Yearbook. Th is year, Austrian Consul General Elizabeth Kehrer was on hand to salute CAS and pay tribute to the late Robert Kann, and Minnesota history professors Gary Cohen and David Good provided comments after Bruckmüller’s lecture. The Origins, An Early Interpretations, Thaw in the and Legacy of Mozart and DaPonte’s Cold War ? Anti-Hero The Austrian State Treaty of 1955 In Search of April 30, 2005 Th e Center and the School of Music Opera Th eatre presented an interdisciplinaryDon one-day sym-Giovanni: posium in conjunction with the Opera Th eatre’s production ofDon Giovanni. It was cosponsored by the CLA Scholarly Events Fund, the Department of Spanish and Portugese, and the Department of Th eatre Arts and Dance. Four distinguished scholars spoke at the symposium: Kristi Brown-Mon- A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION FEATURING tesano, music history, Colburn School of Performing Arts, “Il DR. EVA NOWOTNY Dissoluto Punito, or Don Giovanni Austrian Ambassador to the United States Unmasked”; Michael Lupu, senior dramaturg, Guthrie Th eatre, “Don PROFESSOR GÜNTER BISCHOF Juan: One Myth, Many Performing Director, CenterAustria, Faces”; James Mandrell, Spanish University of New Orleans literature, Brandeis University, DR. KATHARINA WEGAN “Don Juan and : From Don Giovanni Demokratiezentrum Wien, Vienna Where to Th ere”; and Gretchen Wheelock, musicology, Eastman moderated by School of Music, “Don Giovanni as DR. RANDALL KINDLEY Voiceless Opportunist.” Members of the University of Minnesota faculty Clockwise from upper left: Michael Lupu, James Mandrell, APRIL 25, 2005 served as moderators. Gretchen Wheelock, and Kristi Montesano-Brown. 7 Faculty

Many members of the University of Minnesota Pucker Gallery, Boston (2004), and is editing Eric Weitz (History, Center for German and faculty have a scholarly and/or teaching focus on a forthcoming book, Absence/Presence: Critical European Studies) delivered a paper at the 2005 topics related to the Center’s mission. Some of these Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust Salzburg Seminar. As director of CGES, he scholars, along with current projects and activities (Syracuse University Press). He also taught on is involved with CAS in the interdisciplinary, connected with Austria, Central Europe, and the the history of the Holocaust. multiyear “Borderlands” project and serves on the Center, are listed below. CAS Advisory Committee. David Good (History) served on the CAS Zbigniew Bochniarz (Humphrey Institute Advisory Committee, the AHY Advisory David Walsh (director, School of Music Opera for Public Policy, director, Center for Nations Board, the Advisory Council of the Woodrow Program) was involved in planning the conference in Transition) is coediting the volume “The Wilson Center, East Europe Program, and as a “In Search of Don Giovanni” and directed the Environment and Sustainable Development” with commentator at the Kann Memorial Lecture. Opera Program’s production of Don Giovanni. Gary Cohen and taught a course on “Strategies for Sustainable Development” in East Central Sonja Kuftinec (Theatre Arts and Dance) Jack Zipes (German, Scandinavian, and Dutch), Europe. presented two papers this year: “Violent Re- among his 2004-05 activities, published “‘Alle Formations: Image Theater and Identity in meine Gedichte sind gelebtes, erlebtes, erlittenes Michael Cherlin (School of Music) was, Macedonia,” for the “Borderlands” workshop, and Leben’: Rose Ausländers Verhältnis zu New along with David Walsh and Craig Kirchhoff, “Revelations of Image Theater and Identity in York.” In Meine geträumte Wortwirklichkeit, ed. involved in the preparation of a production of Macedonia,” for the American Society of Theatre Helmut Braun. (Berlin, 2004). Don Giovanni for the University of Minnesota Research Conference. She has a forthcoming Opera Program. He also lectured on Schönberg’s article, “Bridging Haunted Places: Performance David Grayson, (School of Music), Michal “Pelleas und Melisande,” at the joint conference of and the Production of Mostar,” that will appear Kobialka (Theatre Arts and Dance), Peter American Musicological Society and the Society in the book Opening Acts: Performance in/as Mercer-Taylor, (School of Music), and Barbara for Music Theory. Communication, ed. Judith Hamera (Thousand Weissberger (Spanish and Portugese), served Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, forthcoming 2005). as moderators at the CAS-School of Music Gary B. Cohen (history and director, CAS) conference, “In Search of Don Giovanni.” published an article, “Společnost, politický život a Helga Leitner (Geography) taught courses, vláda v pozdně imperiálním Rakousku: zamyšlení including “Europe: A Geographical Perspective,” nad novou syntézou” [Society, Politics, and with a large Austrian component. CAS Advisory Committee Government in Late Imperial Austria: Thoughts Chair: William Hanson, Philosophy on a New Synthesis], Český časopis historický 102 Mary Jo Maynes (History) published Secret Michael Cherlin, School of Music (2004), no. 4: 745-65. He also presented a paper, Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European John Freeman, Political Science “The Habsburg Monarchy and its Nationalities: History, 1750-1960, ed. by Mary Jo Maynes, David F. Good, History A Reassessment of Popular Loyalties Birgitte Søland, and Christina Benninghaus Michael Houston, Carlson School of Management and Political Conflict, 1867-1914,” for the (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004). Sonja Kuftinec, Theatre Arts and Dance International Research Workshop: “Borderlands: Several comparative articles used examples from Helga Leitner, Geography Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter Habsburg or former Habsburg lands, and one Leslie Morris, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Zone of Empires since 1848,” University of essay dealt exclusively with teenaged girls in Glenn Pederson, Applied Economics Minnesota. He gave two public lectures, “Austria Austria after World War II. Maynes also served in the New Europe,” for the University of on the CAS Advisory Board. Ex officio: Minnesota Continuing Education series, “Coffee Ernst Aichinger, deputy director, with a Scholar,” and “The Real Tragedies of the Patrizia McBride (German, Scandinavian, and Austrian Cultural Forum Former Yugoslavia,” in the lecture series for the Dutch) published an article, “‘In Praise of the Laura Dale Bischof, University Libraries “Coexistence” Exhibit in downtown Minneapolis. Present’: Adolf Loos on Style and Fashion,” in Gary B. Cohen, director, Cohen taught a proseminar on Habsburg Central MODERNISM/Modernity 11, no. 4 (November Center for Austrian Studies Europe, 1740-1918, and an undergraduate course, 2004): 745-67. Evelyn Davidheiser, director, History of Eastern Europe. Institute for Global Studies Rick McCormick (German, Scandinavian, and Stephen Feinstein, director, Stephen Feinstein (director, Center for Holocaust Dutch) taught German 1601, “Fleeing Hitler: Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies and Genocide Studies) wrote two catalogues German and Austrian Filmmakers Between Michael Hancher, chair, English for the Florida Holocaust Museum, Kaddish for Europe and Hollywood,” and German 5630: Erika Kahler, Community Liaison the Children: Art of Alice Lok Cahana (March “Berlin to Hollywood: Lang and Wilder.” Lyndel King, director, Weisman Art Museum 2004), and William Pachner: Landscapes of Mary Jo Maynes, chair, History Crisis (February, 2005). He participated in the Leslie Morris (German, Scandinavian, and Dutch; Charlotte Melin, interim chair, 2005 Salzburg Seminar, delivering a paper at a director, Center for Jewish Studies), published an German, Scandinavian, and Dutch workshop on “Ideologies of Revolution, Nation, article, “Translating Czernowitz: The Non-Place Eva Nowotny, and Empire: Political Ideas, Parties, and Practices of East Central Europe,” in Studies in Twentieth Austrian Ambassador to the United States at the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1878-1922.” Century Literature. Special issue on Austria, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein,director, He edited and wrote an article for the catalogue Spring 2005. She also delivered a paper, “Poesie Austrian Cultural Forum Between Worlds: The Art of Samuel Bak, for an und Verlust: Zur Ästhetik in Rose Ausländers Eric Weitz, director, exhibition at Finegood Gallery, Los Angeles, and Lyrik,” at the University of Münster, Germany. Center for German and European Studies 8 Student Support CLASSES UNDERGRADUATE MINOR IN The courses below contained a major component dealing with Austria, AUSTRIAN & CENTRAL EUROPEAN the Habsburg Empire, or the Central European successor states in a wider European context; were taught by visiting Austrian faculty; or both. The STUDIES university also offered language classes in beginning and intermediate An undergraduate minor in Austrian and Central European Studies was Polish and all levels of German. approved in the 2003-04 academic year, to take effect in the 2004-05 academic year. This minor, a program of the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, gives students a window not only on Austria, but also on the changing FALL 2004 world of the new democracies of Central and Southeastern Europe. It draws on Cultural Studies & Comp Lit 3412: Psychoanalysis and Literature, the resources of the CLA faculty and the CAS. The faculty listed on these pages Part I: The Essential Freud are among the resources available, and the courses listed on this page are among Geography 3161: Europe: A Geographical Perspective those available to students minoring in Austrian & Central European Studies. Geography 5900: European Urban Geographies Students will have to pass a German language proficiency exam, complete junior-level German Conversation and Composition (German 3011W), and Geography 8980: Contested Urban Futures complete at least one Topics in Austrian/Central European Culture course German 1601: Fleeing Hitler: German & Austrian Filmmakers taught by the Department of G, S, & D (German 3520). between Europe & Hollywood German 5610: German & Jewish Memory/Culture German 8240: Modernism & the Avant Garde GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS History 3727: History of the Holocaust The Center sponsors competitions for grants every year. Some are open to History 5740: Central Europe University of Minnesota students, and some are open to graduate students from History 5777: Proseminar in Habsburg History anywhere in the United States. This year, the Center awarded a Voices of Vienna Philosophy 8660: Workshop & Seminar in Philosophy of Science Scholarship to Minnesota art history graduate student Elizabeth Cronin. This Political Science 3477: Politics & Society in the New Europe award was created and funded by Kathryn and Wilbur C. Keefer in honor Sociology 3701: Social Theory of William E. Wright. The Grants Committee consisted of history professor Warsaw Master of Business Administration 5664-5694: Sequence in Thomas Wolfe, German studies professor emeritus Gerhard Weiss, and CAS Management, Economics, Politics, Ethics, and other subjects director Gary Cohen. The Center also facilitates a graduate teaching assistant exchange with the SPRING 2005 University of Salzburg. In 2004-05, Jennifer Johnson went to Salzburg and Art History 3011: History of Renaissance and Baroque Art Johanna Auer came to Minnesota. In addition, CAS provided funds that enabled Austrian undergraduate to come to the University of Art History 5781: Age of Empire: Mughals, Safavids, and Ottomans Stefan Siller Minnesota to study geography. Cultural Studies & Comp Lit 3412: Psychoanalysis and Literature, Part I: The Essential Freud Geography 3161: Europe: A Geographical Perspective CAS STUDENT ACTIVITIES German 3510: Jewish Thought in Modernity During the academic 2004-05 year CAS launched a new social group for German 5630: Berlin to Hollywood: Lang & Wilder students interested in Austria. Linda Andrean from the Center and Kristin History 3244: History of Eastern Europe Vogtenhuber, an Austrian who is a doctoral candidate at the University of History 3722: History of Europe from the End of World War II to the Minnesota, came up with the idea. Linda saw the opportunity to develop a End of the Cold War: 1945-1991 group consisting of students from Austria and the surrounding countries as well History 3960: Women in the Holocaust as American students who have studied in Austria. When Mirjam Marits, the Jewish Studies 1909: Remembering to Forget: The Holocaust and its BMBWK RA from Austria, arrived in September, the group found a major Afterlife supporter and organizer. Events organized by Mirjam and Linda included: Philosophy 8600: Workshop in the Philosophy of Science • A CAS-sponsored trip to Duluth and Gooseberry Falls in October. Nicole Phelps and Linda each drove a University van. Fourteen students and visiting Public Affairs 5531: Strategies for Sustainable Development: Theory faculty came along. A highlight of the trip was a boat tour of the Duluth harbor. and Practice All agreed that this should be an annual activity. • Erika and Herb Kahler hosted their annual holiday celebration on MAY SESSION & SUMMER 2005 December 6, St. Nikolaus Day. Thanks to the established student network and Geography 3161: Europe: A Geographic Perspective Mirjam’s superb promotional efforts, it had the highest attendance of any CAS History 3721: 20th Century Europe from the Turn of the Century to holiday party in years—nearly 50 people. The Kahlers provided the wonderful the End of World War II: 1900-1945 smoked turkeys as well as other delightful dishes. “Nikolaus” also made an History 5960: Genocide & Human Rights appearance and handed out traditional Austrian gift bags. International Business 5120: Vienna Seminar • A “Stammtisch,” held in February at the Kitty Cat Club in Dinkytown. International Business 5130: Doing Business in the European Union • A taste of Minnesota “culture”: a pizza dinner and a showing of the movie International Business 5140: Vienna Summer Program “Fargo” on April 1. • A farewell party on May 4 for the students before they went their various Vienna Executive MBA: Marketing Management ways. CAS director Gary Cohen presented each attendee with a gift to remember the Center and their stay at the University of Minnesota. 9 Research Partnerships CENTER FOR GERMAN AND EUROPEAN STUDIES CGES was established in 1998 as a consortium of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Its mission is to promote new knowledge about Europe, foster transatlantic relations, and educate the next generation of American experts on Germany and Europe. It receives major support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and matching funds from both universities. A major part of CGES’s activities entails research collaboratives that involve faculty and graduate students at Minnesota and partner institutions. The staff of this interdisciplinary center, including directorEric Weitz (right) and program coordinator Sabine Engel, have worked closely with CAS, including joint funding of conferences, seminar speakers, and other scholarly and public events. In 2004-05, CGES and CAS continued to collaborate on “Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter-Zones of Empires Since 1848,” an interdisciplinary and international research project exploring conflicts in the borderlands region of Central and Eastern Europe.

Eric Weitz, director of CGES CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES MINNESOTA Established in 1997, CHGS is a focal point for mobilizing university resources in the Twin Cities for outreach to precollege teachers and other organizations. CHGS works on campus with the Centers for POPULATION CENTER German and European Studies; the Center for Bioethics; the Department of German, Scandinavian, The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) and Dutch; History; Sociology; Art History; the Law School; and others, including CAS. fosters connections among population researchers CHGS works in conjunction with a number of off-campus organizations: Jewish-Christian Learning across disciplines and opens up new opportuni- Center of the University of Saint Thomas, Gustavus Adolphus College, Jewish Community Relations ties for large-scale collaborative research projects. Council for Minnesota and the Dakotas, Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Center for Victims of Torture, It assists investigators in developing new projects and others. Director Stephen Feinstein and staff are available to speak at local high schools and middle and provides technical and administrative support. schools. CHGS also sponsors university-level courses on the Holocaust and genocide, conferences, In 2004, the National Institutes of Health teaching workshops, exhibitions of Holocaust-related art and photography, guest speakers on and off awarded the MPC a major grant to undertake a campus, and development of curricular models for precollege teachers. five-year initiative to create integrated and fully In 2004-05, CHGS was the recipient of a $25,000 grant, renewed once already, to place all videos documented samples of over fifty European and audios from interviews with Minnesota Holocaust survivors and liberators on the CHGS web page. censuses and micro-censuses from the 1960s to The project was started by the Jewish Community Relations Council in 1982, and tapes date from that the present. The final integrated microdata series, era through the present. CGES also produced a public television show on the Armenian genocide in the IPUMS-Europe, is provisionally scheduled for Ottoman Empire on the occasion of the 90th anniversary. CGES also cosponsored the “Borderlands” release in 2009. It will be available via the world conference and Brigitte Bailer-Galanda’s presentation in the CAS Lecture Series. wide web to researchers from many disciplines around the world. In 2005, the IPUMS-Europe project received data and documentation for the 1971, 1981, 1991, CSOM CENTRAL EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIPS and 2001 censuses from Statistics Austria. CAS is The Carlson School of Management (CSOM) established an executive master’s program at Olsztyn proud of the part it played in bringing MPC and University of Agriculture and Technology, Poland, in 1995. In 1996, it established an executive MBA Statistics Austria together. In late 2004, IPUMS- program at the Warsaw School of Economics. Europe received 10 percent samples and all Since 1997, CSOM has been a partner with Austria’s prestigious Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU) documentation of the 1992 and 2002 Romanian in programs that focus on comparative business practices between Western nations and the emerging censuses from the National Center for Statistical markets of Central and Eastern Europe. Training of the National Institute of Statistics of The Vienna Seminar, established in 1997, has two groups of students who take classes separately Romania. MPC also had a visit from Victor Din- at CSOM and WU each spring, then meet together for two weeks in Vienna to analyze a real-life culescu (National Center for Statistical Training, case study and make presentations to executives from the firm studied. In 2004-05, 20 Carlson MBA the National Institute of Statistics, Romania). He students and 10 WU students participated. The Executive MBA Program at WU, established in March spoke on “A Geographical Information System for 2000, is codirected by CSOM’s Michael Houston and WU’s Bodo Schlegelmilch. It is a 14-month Studying the Population of Romania.” The Czech modular course of study that includes case studies, projects, and international field studies in the United Statistical Office began translating their census States and Eastern Europe. In the Vienna Summer Program, an international faculty (including mem- variables as part of their participation in IPUMS- bers of CSOM) teaches 150 students about the challenges facing the transitioning economies of Eastern Europe. CAS director Gary Cohen initiated and Central Europe. In 2004-05, 11 MBA students from CSOM participated. negotiations between Czech officials and MPC. CSOM faculty who taught in either Vienna or Warsaw in 2004-05 were John Anderson, Richard The principal investigator of the NIH grant Arvey, Norm Bowie, Charlie Caliendo, Norman Chervany, John Fossum, Ed Joyce, Thomas Legg, is Robert McCaa; co-investigators are Steven Alfred Marcus, John Mauriel, Christopher Nachtsheim, Tim Nantell, Dileep Rao, William Rudelius, Ruggles, Miriam King, Deborah Levison, and Roger Schroeder, Pervin Shroff, Sri Zaheer, and Mary Zellmer-Bruhn. Matthew Sobek. 10 Outreach and Support Support Outreach Austrian Government Minnesota The Center deeply appreciates the assistance of MinisterElisabeth Gehrer, The Center cooperated with a wide range of units at the University of Sektionsleiterin Barbara Weitgruber, and Weitgruber’s replacement, interim Minnesota in presenting its programs and providing services to others. Sektionsleiter Markus Pasterk, of the Austrian Ministry for Education, The Center cosponsored events with theCenter for German and European Science, and Culture. We gratefully acknowledge the support and help of Studies; the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; the Center for Sektionsleiter Emil Brix, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna, Jewish Studies; the Center for Nations in Transition, the Departments Ambassador Eva Nowotny of the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C., of Communication Studies, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, the Austrian consul general in Chicago, Elisabeth Kehrer; and the honorary Geography, German, Scandinavian, & Dutch, Economics, History, Austrian consuls in the Twin Cities, Ronald Bosrock and Herbert Kahler. Landscape Architecture, Political Science, Sociology, Spanish & Portugese, At the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, and Theatre Arts & Dance; the Immigration History Research Center; the director, and Ernst Aichinger, deputy director, gave invaluable assistance. Institute for Global Studies; the School of Music; and the Weisman Art Museum. The Center worked with theCarlson School of Management, Global Campus, and the Office of International Programs to facilitate student Other Sources of Support and faculty exchanges. The Center deeply appreciates its many institutional and individual Off campus, the Center worked with the Czech and Slovak Cultural supporters. The University of Minnesota’sCenter for German and European Center of Minnesota; Czech and Slovak Sokol; German Section, Department Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Jewish of Modern Languages, Hamline University; and the Minneapolis World Studies, Center for Nations in Transition, CLA Scholarly Events Fund; Affairs Committee. Departments of Communication Studies, German, Scandinavian, & Dutch, Landscape Architecture, Political Science, Spanish & Portugese, and Theatre Arts & Dance; and School of Music, as well as the Czech and Slovak Cultural North America Center of Minnesota; the European Studies Consortium (Title VI Grant), Institutions. TheWirth Institute for Austrian and Central European and the Minneapolis World Affairs Committee funded CAS programs Studies at the University of Alberta, Franz A. J. Szabo, director, continued in 2004-05. Individual donors are gratefully acknowledged below. The to be a valued partner. The Center also cooperated withCenterAustria, the Center also appreciates the ongoing support of the College of Liberal Arts, Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce at the University of New Orleans its dean, Steven J. Rosenstone, associate dean, James A. Parente, Jr., CLA and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. development officers Mary Hicks and Diane Walters, and Lyndel King, Professional Organizations. The Center continued to work closely with director of the Weisman Art Museum. Erika Kahler, community liaison to the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History (SAHH). In every issue the Minnesota Advisory Board, along with her husband, Herbert Kahler, the ASN publishes “SAHH News,” written by the executive secretary of assisted the Center on many occasions. the SAHH (in 2004-05, Howard Louthan of the University of Florida). CAS, through Louthan and Charles Ingrao (Purdue) also worked with members of the American Historical Association, the American Association 2004-05 Individual Donors for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), and the German Studies Association (GSA) to encourage them to form panels including Kann Memorial Lecture Fund Austrian papers for their annual meetings. CAS is also affiliated with the Under $100: HABSBURG Discussion Network. Samuel Williamson $100-$249: International Zdeněk David, István Deák, Bertram Gordon, Charles C. The past academic year saw a number of faculty exchanges between the Herod, Grete Klingenstein, Paul Schroeder, Kurt & Mary University of Minnesota and Austrian universities, many of them facilitated Wallace, Stanley B. Winters and funded by CAS and other partners at home and around the world. In Austria, its partners included the Austrian Academic Exchange Service $250-$499: (ÖAD) and the Austrian Fulbright Commission, executive secretary, John Boyer, Gary B. Cohen, Atsushi Otsuru Lonnie Johnson. The Austrian Fulbright Commision, the Center, CLA, and $500-$999: individual departments combine to facilitate and fund the annual Fulbright David Good Visiting Professorship, which brings an Austrian scholar to the University of Minnesota every year. In fall semester 2004, Walter Matznetter, a geographer $1,000 and over: from the University of Vienna, was the Fulbright Visiting Professor. Peter Kann, Neil & Marilyn Kann McElroy He taught Geography 5900: Urban European Geography, and gave a presentation in the CAS Lecture Series (see p. 6). CAS Scholarship Funds The University of Graz has a longtime faculty exchange partnership with CAS. Gerald Angermann-Mozetic, a sociologist from the University of Graz, Donald Putsch, whose contribution was matched by was a Graz exchange professor in fall 2004, teaching Sociology 3701: Social General Mills Foundation. Theory. He also presented a public lecture. Kathryn and Wilbur C. Keefer, who fund the Voices of Vienna In adition, Alexander Haslberger, a scholar with the Institute for Nutritional scholarship Sciences at the University of Vienna, was a visiting fellow with the ISEES- MacArthur Program. 11 CENTER FOR AUSTRIAN STUDIES Non-Profi t Organization 314 SOCIAL SCIENCES BUILDING U.S. Postage Paid 267 19TH AVE S. Minneapolis, Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS MN 55455 Permit No. 155

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Beginning with the 1992-93 Her dissertation examines the PAST FELLOWS academic year, Austria’s Federal phenomena of narrators who are Ministry for Education, Science, and also participants (characters) in the 92-93: Sonja Kröll, Culture (BMBWK) began awarding narrative, and compares various University of Salzburg a fellowship to a doctoral student media (theatre, television, cinema, 93-94: Manfred Blümel, from an Austrian university to come and fi ction) to analyze the meaning University of Vienna to the University of Minnesota for and eff ect of this device. 94-95: Thomas Burg, nine months of research and/or Along with Administrative University of Vienna classes. In exchange for a stipend, Manager Linda Andrean, Mirjam 95-96: Thomas Winderl, the student works part time at the contacted Austrian students at University of Vienna Center on projects related to the Twin Cities colleges and organized 96-97: Rudy Weissenbacher, Center’s programs. Over the years, a number of events for them and University of Vienna evolving CAS priorities and the American students interested in 97-98: Anita Eichinger, talents and interests of individual Austria—movies, tours of the Twin University of Vienna recipients have increased the variety Cities and outstate Minnesota, and 98-99: Johanna Ortler, of duties and the importance of the more. Th anks to their organizational University of Vienna CAS/BMBWK research fellows. eff orts, the annual CAS holiday 99-00: Stefan Riegler, An outstanding group of fellows has party was the best attended in years. University of Graz created opportunities for themselves Off campus, Mirjam continued 01-02: Stephan Hametner, and helped the Center accomplish a tradition. She moved into the University of Vienna its goals. apartment that last year’s CAS/ 02-03: Harald Stelzer, Th is year’s fellow was Mirjam BWBWK Reasearch Assistant University of Graz Marits, a Ph.D. candidate at the vacated, in a house next to another 03-04: Manuela Steinberger, University of Graz. Her fi eld of CAS RA (Arnold Lelis) and some University of Graz study is Anglistik and Amerikanistik. Mirjam Marits TAs from Germany.