Austria and America
Cross-Cultural Encounters 1955-2015
07.05.2015 um 10:00 Uhr – 08.05.2015 um 14:00 Uhr
Tagungsorte: am 7.05.2015 Stefan Zweig Centre Salzburg Edmundsburg, Mönchsberg 2/ am 8.05.2015 HS 101, Universitätsplatz 1
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Tagungsprogramm:
7.05.2015 Stefan Zweg Centre Salzburg
10:00 - 10:30
Introduction and Welcome
- Dr. Klemens Renoldner, Stefan Zweig Centre
- Dr. Sylvia Hahn, University of Salzburg
- Dr. Ralph Poole, University of Salzburg
- Dr. Joshua Parker, University of Salzburg
10:30-11:30
Keynote Address: Dr. Walter Grünzweig, Technical University of Dortmund, “Mozart Dies Instantly: Carl Djerassi, Grenzgänger between the United States and Austria”
11:30-12:00
Dr. Gabriele Seethaler, art presentation
12:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-16:00
Panel 1 – POLITICS (Chair: Leopold Lippert)
- Jonathan Singerton, University of Edinburgh, “175 or 235 Years of Austrian-American Relations?”
- Rachel Kaye, University of Vienna, “Kurt Waldheim and the Destruction of Austria's Post-war ‘Identity Myth’: Foreign Intervention, Confrontation, and the Remolding of American Public Opinion”
- Dante Mazzari, Georgetown University, “America and the Austrian State Treaty”
- Mark Miscovich, University of Salzburg, “Exhibiting America: Bernard Rudofsky's Answer to Sputnik”
16:00-16:30
Coffee
16:30-18:00
Panel 2 – Roundtable on Academic Exchanges
- Dr. Mitchell Ash, University of Vienna
- Marty Gecek, Salzburg Seminar American Studies Association
- Dr. Reinhold Wagnleitner, University of Salzburg
18:00-19:00
Reception: Stefan Zweig Centre
19:30
Dinner at Triangel, Wiener Philharmonikergasse 7
8.05.2015 HS 101 (Universitätsplatz 1)
9:00-10:30
Panel 3 – Literature and Film (Chair: Dr. Annette Keck)
- Sebastian Kluge, Free University Berlin, “Cosmopolitan Kakanien: Daniel Kehlmann as a Literary Correspondent between Austrian and American Literature”
- Dr. Marta Koval, University of Gdansk, “The Image of Home Lost (and Rediscovered): Writing the Austrian Past by Walter Abish and William Gass”
- Leopold Lippert, University of Salzburg, “The Neoliberal Politics of ‘Playing Indian Abroad’ in Florian Pochlatko’s Erdbeerland”
10:30-10:45
Coffee
10:45-12:00
Panel 4 – Music (Chair: Dr. Ralph Poole)
- Dr. Laura MacDonald, University of Portsmouth, “The Perils of Prejudice: The Sound of Music on Broadway and in Salzburg”
- Dr. Hilary Demske, Utah Valley University, “Schubert’s Die Winterreise as a Cultural and Musical Bridge”