AUSTRIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION AUSTRIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION austrian-studies.org austrian-studies.org Organized by Nele Hempel-Lamer Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures, California State University, Long Beach <http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/rgrll/> The Conference is generously supported by: Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association Thursday, 26 April - Saturday, 28 April, 2012 California State University Long Beach Center for Austrian Studies ________________________________ at the University of Minnesota Keynote Speakers: California State University Long Beach Department of Romance, German, Russian Barbara Neuwirth and Harald Friedl Languages and Literatures College of Liberal Arts ________________________________ Office of the Provost Thursday, April 26 __________________________________ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Morning Session I Opening Reception at the residence of Friday, 10:00-11:30 am Dr. Karin Proidl, Consul General of Austria in Los Angeles __________________________________ __________________________________ Friday, 10:00-11:30 am Friday, April 27 Anatol Center __________________________________ After the Great War 7:45 - 8:30 am Breakfast and Conference Registration Moderator: Jacqueline Vansant Anatol Center Patio Room (registration will continue here throughout the day) Globales Denken? Hofmannsthals Idee von Europa __________________________________ Wolfgang Nehring, University of California, Los Angeles 8:30 – 9:00 am Words of Welcome: "Die Senkgrube des Vergessens": Alfred Polgar, World War I and the Nele Hempel-Lamer, California State University Long Beach, Conference Organizer Viennese Feuilleton Ari Linden, Cornell University Lisa Vollendorf, Chair of the Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures, California State University Long Beach Österreichische Aktion: The Fate of Monarchism during the First Republic Janek Wasserman, University of Alabama Gerry Riposa, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, California State University Long Beach __________________________________ Karin Proidl, Consul General of Austria in Los Angeles Friday, 10:00-11:30 am AS 384 __________________________________ __________________________________ Politics through Fiction Friday, 9:00-9:30 am Moderator: Jakub S. Beneš Keynote Address Anatol Center Habsburg recycelt: Alfred Kubins Die andere Seite __________________________________ Stefan Krammer, Universität Wien From the Island of the Blessed to the Underworld: Transforming Austria’s Global Image in Gerhard Roth’s Orkus KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Barbara Neuwirth Anita McChesney, Texas Tech University „Migration, der stete Fluss der Globalisierung“ Große Finanzkrisen - kleines Österreich. Literarische Vermessungen politischer Ökonomien rund um die Jahre 1929 und 2008 Sabine Zelger, Universität Wien __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ Friday, 10:00-11:30 am Friday, 11:45 am -1:15 pm Morning Session I, AS 243 AS 384 __________________________________ __________________________________ Residues of Nazism Gender Politics Moderator: Allyson Fiddler Moderator: Heike Henderson Paul Hörbiger’s Roles in Nazi Comedy and Propaganda Film Shaking the Empire, Shaking Patriarchy: Austro-Hungarian Feminisms in a Joseph Moser, Randolph-Macon College Trans-Regional and Trans-Border Context Agatha Schwartz, University of Ottawa, and Helga Thorson, University of Victoria Challenge from the Periphery: Postwar Austria in Die Flucht ins Schilf (1953) Mary Wauchope, San Diego State University “Von Männer[n], Maschinen und monotoner Masturbation”: Migration und Männlichkeit in Dimitré Dinevs Engelszungen Fragt…forscht…widersteht… : Education in Elisabeth Reichart’s Michael Boehringer, University of Waterloo Komm über den See Jennifer L. Good, Baylor University Conceptualizing the Social and Political Life of Jewish Women through the Lens of Karl Emil Franzos' Ghetto Tales __________________________________ Katarzyna Kowalczyk, University of Illinois at Chicago Morning Session II Friday, 11:45 am -1:15 pm __________________________________ __________________________________ Friday, 11:45 am -1:15 pm AS 243 Friday, 11:45 am -1:15 pm __________________________________ Anatol Center The Global Stefan Zweig __________________________________ Moderator: Jeffrey High Colonial Others, in an Austrian Key Moderator: Robert von Dassanowsky “… bis in den letzten Winkel der Erde”: The Reception of the Austrian Writer Stefan Zweig in China Austria and Portugal – Distance without Contact or Contact without Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle, University of London Memory? David Schriffl, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Globale Geschichtsschreibung: Zu Stefan Zweigs Sternstunden der Menschheit From Vienna Circle to Analytic Philosophy and Its Others: The Export of Hans Wagener, University of California Los Angeles Austrian Philosophy Katherine Arens, University of Texas at Austin __________________________________ "Stalins Brückenköpfe in Österreich”: Hans Weigel und der Kalte Krieg LUNCH BREAK Wolfgang Straub, Universität Wien Friday 1:15 - 2:15 pm Anatol Center Patio Room __________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ Afternoon Session I Friday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm Friday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm AS 243 __________________________________ __________________________________ Women Moderator: Dagmar Lorenz Friday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm Anatol Center Kein Drachenopfer!: Marlene Streeruwitz: Die Schmerzmacherin __________________________________ Sabine Kock, Association of Independent Theaterwork Austria Austria from the Peripheries I Moderator: Robert von Dassanowsky “Culture Shock” Grows Up: Barbara Frischmuth’s Mature Cross-Cultural Novel Vergiss Ägypten (2008) as a Sequel to Das Verschwinden des Peripheral Desires: Sex, Knowledge and the Orient in Leopold von Schattens in der Sonne (1973) Andrian’s Der Garten der Erkenntnis (1895) Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University Heidi Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University Weinviertel: welthaltig -- Zum Heimatbegriff bei Barbara Neuwirth Images of Russia and the United States in Inter-War Viennese Operetta Maximilian Aue, Emory University Ulrike Petersen, University of California, Berkeley Csárdás in 3/4 Time: the Post-Imperial Cinema World in Interwar Austria __________________________________ and Hungary Andrew Behrendt, University of Pittsburgh Afternoon Session II Friday, 4:15 - 5:45 pm __________________________________ __________________________________ Friday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm Friday, 4:15 - 5:45 pm AS 384 Anatol Center __________________________________ __________________________________ Nature Austria from the Peripheries II Moderator: Rebecca Hermann Moderator: Craig Decker Between Nature and Culture: Tourism and Austrian Identity in the Czech Mates and Colonial Fantasies: Exoticizing the Proximate Other and Twentieth Century Ironizing the Self in Brod, Musil, and Broch Andrew Denning, Western Washington University Robert Lemon, University of Oklahoma Climbing Routes, Reading Routes: Physical and Simulated Space in “Alles, was gut ist, ist türkisch, was schlecht ist, ist deutsch”: Die serbische Christoph Ransmayr's Der fliegende Berg kulturelle Identität in der Klemme zwischen dem Osmanischen Reich und Gloria Man, University of Washington der Habsburgermonarchie Ana Foteva, University of Minnesota at Morris The Birth of Modern Czech out of the Spirit of the Austrian Enlightenment David Luft, Oregon State University __________________________________ __________________________________ Friday, 4:15 - 5:45 pm Friday, 6:15 pm AS 384 __________________________________ Banquet and Business Meeting Film: Documentaries and Beyond Moderator: Beret Norman Gladstone’s at Shoreline Village 330 South Pine Ave Lungo drom Long Beach, CA 90802 Ursula Knoll, Universität Wien __________________________________ Harald Friedl’s Documentaries, “Aus der Zeit” (2007) and “Mein Leben als Apfelbaum” (2012) Saturday, April 28 Curtis Maughan, California State University Long Beach 8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast Prater Time Machine: Ulrike Ottinger’s Cultural History of Amusement Anatol Center Patio Room Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati __________________________________ __________________________________ Morning Session I Friday, 4:15 - 5:45 pm AS 243 Saturday, 9:00-10:30 am __________________________________ Dreams and Visions: Changing Places __________________________________ Moderator: Lauren Brooks Saturday, 9:00 -10:30am Dream Images from Austria: Oskar Kokoschka between Freud and Anatol Center Kandinsky __________________________________ Robert W. Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte Travelers Moderator: Katherine Arens Like Oil and Water: A Cultural Analysis of Ann Cotten’s Poem “Wenn ich saufe, verlieren sich” “As if it were from America”: An Eighteenth-Century Austrian Botanist’s Jamele Watkins, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Detailed Observations of the Peoples and Customs of Philadelphia, Williamsburg, and Charleston “Curtiz is insane […] And Vienna is the asshole of Europe”: Michael Heather Morrison, State University of New York at New Paltz Curtiz’s A Breath of Scandal Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn “Echte Neger” in Vienna: The 1896 Ethnological Exhibit and Peter Altenberg’s Ashantee Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College Austria & the (Frozen) World Stage: The Reception of the Tegetthoff Expedition Stephen A. Walsh, Harvard University ___________________________________ __________________________________