Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1955-2015
2015 Stefan Zweig Centre Salzburg, Organization: Ralph Poole, Joshua Parker
A two-day conference to reflect on America’s relationship with Austria from 1955-2015, focusing on political, literary, filmic, and musical transatlantic relations between the United States and Austria, as well as on issues of academic exchange.
Austria and America:
Cross-Cultural Encounters
1955-2015
May 7-8, 2015
Stefan Zweig Centre Salzburg
Edmundsburg, Mönchsberg 2
HS 101, Universitätsplatz 1
Organization: Ralph Poole, Joshua Parker
Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1955-2015
May 7, Stefan Zweig Centre
10:00-10:30
Introduction and Welcome
Dr. Klemens Renoldner, Stefan Zweig Centre, Dr. Sylvia Hahn, 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
MAY 8, 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”
