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Lecture Series
Since its inception, the Center for Austrian Studies has offered a regular series of presentations by scholars in a wide variety of disciplines: the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, business, and medicine. CAS seminars range from descriptions of academic works-in-progress (many of which appear afterwards as CAS Working Papers in Austrian Studies) to presentations about more general subjects and even reports of current events in Austria and Central Europe. The lectures are free; students, staff, and the public are cordially invited to attend. Below you will find a listing of seminars for the past ten years in order to give you a sense of the range of our seminar series.
For a schedule of Spring 2007 events please go to the Calendar page.
- 2007-2008
- 2006-2007
- 2005-2006
- 2004-2005
- 2003-2004
- 2002-2003
- 2001-2002
- 2000-2001
- 1999-2000
- 1998-1999
- 1997-1998
- 1996-1997
2007-2008
October 16: Maria-Regina Kecht, German Studies, Rice University: “Austrian Women Writers and National Socialism: Creating Literary Space for Forgotten Jews.” Cosponsored with the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, and the Center for Jewish Studies
November 15: Kurt Remele, University of Graz; visiting professor, University of Minnesota: “Is Faith-Based Morality in Need of Psychotherapy? Religion, Ethics, and the Human Psyche.”
November 29: Michael Cherlin, University of Minnesota, School of Music: “’Mondestrunken’: Schoenberg’s Intoxicating Moonlight.”
January 25: Allan T. Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art & Design: “The Jugendstil and the Wiener Werkstätte Movement.”
February 7: Josef Melchior, University of Vienna; Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University: “Governing the European Union: Leadership without Leaders?”
February 28: Christian Fleck, University of Graz; Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota: “Towards a Theory of the Talking Class.”
March 6: David Walsh, University of Minnesota, School of Music: “Staging Opera in a Eurotrash Culture.”
March 10: Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna: “Reflections on the Anschluss of Austria with Nazi Germany.”
March 11: David Brodbeck, University of California, Irvine: “From Prague to Vienna: Hanslick and the Music of Smetana”
March 11: Dialogue: “Cosmopolitanism and Jewish Musical Identity in the Habsburg Empire.” A dialogue between Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago, and David Brodbeck, University of California, Irvinbe. Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies, CGES, CHGS, CLA, IAS, School of Music, and others
April 3: Gloria Kaiser, author, Graz (Austria): “Mozart: Perspectives from his Correspondence.”
April 15: Andreas Pribersky, University of Vienna: “European Memory Politics after 1989.”
April 23: Max Haller, University of Graz: “European Unification as an Elite Process.”
2006-2007 Lectures and Events
January 25: Max Preglau, University of Graz; Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University: “The Rise and Transformation of the European Welfare State.”
February 1: Steven Beller, independent scholar: “’To Be or Not to Be’: The Ironies and Anomalies of Austrian History.”
February 7: Gary B. Cohen, director, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota: “Centuries in the Heart of Europe. Jews in Golden Prague.” Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies
February 12: Roundtable: “Supporting the Arts where the Government won’t: Austria and the U.S. in the 21st Century.” Florian Kitt and Rita Medjimorec, Arts University of Graz, Roy Close, Artspace Inc.; Ann Markusen, Humphrey Inst., University of Minnesota; Sheila Smith, MN Citizens for the Arts. Cosponsored with the School of Music
March 23: Forum: “New Trade and Investment Opportunities in Southeastern Europe: Strategies based on the Austrian Experience.” Dr. Robert Zischg, Austrian Consul-General, Chicago; Franz Roessler, AustrianTrade Commissioner, Chicago; Gisbert T. Mayr, director, Austrian Business Agency, NYC. Cosponsored with the Carlson School of Management International Programs and the Austrian Consulate and Trade Commission, Chicago
April 12: Roundtable: “The Art of Vienna in its Timeless Appeal.” Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, director, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC; Lyndel King, director, Weisman Art Museum; David Ryan, curator of design, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Cosponsored with the Weisman Art Museum
April 16: Monika Oebelsberger, Mozarteum University Salzburg; Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minneapolis, School of Music: “Girls Sing, Boys Beat the Drums: Gender Issues in Music Education.” Cosponsored with the School of Music
September 14, 2006: Carola Sachse, history, University of Vienna. “On Men and the Animals: The Vivisection Debate in late 19th Century Germany.” Cosponsored with the Program in the History of Science and Technology, the Center for German and European Studies, and the Department of History.
October 9, 2006: Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture. Herwig Wolfram, history, University of Vienna. “Austria before Austria: The Medieval Past of Polities to Come.” Cosponsored with the Center for Medieval Studies.
October 17, 2006: Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the U.S. “Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance: The Growing Role of Multilateral Cooperation.” Cosponsored with the Departments of Political Science and Sociology and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute.
October 25, 2006: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, University of Minnesota Law School and the University of Ulster (Belfast). “The European Legal System Responds to Terrorism: Balancing Human Rights and Security.”
November 8, 2006: Roundtable. “The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Assessments and Testimony.” Charles Gati, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; Robert Fisch, University of Minnesota Medical School; Laszlo Fülop, Minnesota Hungarians. Cosponsored with the Minnesota Historical Society and Minnesota Hungarians. Minnesota History Center, St. Paul.
2005-06 Lectures and Events
September 8, 2005 : Wolfgang David, Austrian violinist accompanied by David Gompper, University of Iowa Free concert
September 13, 2005: Eva Faber, history, Karl-Franzens University, Graz: "Austria's Southeastern Frontier in the Eighteenth Century: Confronting the Peoples and Cultures of the Adriatic."
September 19, 2005: Franz A. J. Szabo, history, University of Alberta, Edmonton: "The State As Agent of Change: Austria and Prussia in the Eighteenth Century." Co-sponsored with the Center for Early Modern History
September 20, 2005: Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture. John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta, Edmonton: "A Central European Diaspora under the Shadow of World War II: The Galician Ukrainians in North America."
October 5, 2005: Sven Rossel, Scandinavian literature, University of Vienna: "'To Travel Is to Live': Hans Christian Andersen's Visits to Austria."
October 18, 2005: Nicole Phelps, history, University of Minnesota: "Contested Citizizenship and Wartime Experience: Impressment and Internment in Austria-Hungary and the U.S. during World War I."
November 2, 2005: Mitchell Ash,history, University of Vienna: "The Sciences in Germany and Austria during the Nazi Era: Can There Be "Good" Science in an Evil Regime?" Co-sponsored with History of Science and Technology.
November 17, 2005: Gilg Seeber, University of Innsbruck and Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor in Political Science, University of Minnesota: "Who Participates? Voter Turnout in Austria and the European Union." Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science.
December 8, 2005: Peter Gerlich, political science, University of Vienna: "Can Europe Learn from America? The US and the EU in a Comparative Perspective."
February 8, 2006: Lecture. John A. Rice, musicology, Rochester, Minn. "Mozart in the Theatre." Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., 280 Ferguson Hall. Cosponsored with the School of Music.
February 17, 2006: Lecture. Michael Lorenz, musicology, Univ. of Vienna. "Mozart: New Possibilities for Source Studies." Friday, 2:30 p.m., 280 Ferguson Hall. Cosponsored with the School of Music.
February 22, 2006: Lecture. Poul Houe, German, Univ. of Minnesota. "Arthur Schnitzler and Georg Brandes: A Literary Correspondence."
March 26, 2006: Lieder recital. Mike Schmidt, baritone, winner, "Voices of Vienna" Scholarship. Accompanied by Susan Heiserman, piano.
March 27, 2006: Lecture. Manfred Frühwirth, economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business; Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard Univ. "Real Options in Business Valuation." Cosponsored with Dept. of Finance, CSOM, and Dept. of Applied Economics.
March 30, 2006: Lecture. Eagle Glassheim, history, Univ. of British Columbia. "Most, the Town that Moved: Coal, Communism, and Modernity in Post-War Czechoslovakia."
April 13, 2006: Reading. Josef Haslinger, Austrian essayist and novelist. Migratory Birds: A reading from his new collection of short stories.
2004-05 Lectures and Events
September 14, 2004: Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture. Prof. Ernst Bruckmüller, University of Vienna. "Late Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Society: Was there One?"
September 20, 2004: Brigitte Bailer-Galanda, history, University of Vienna and Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance. "Compensation for Victims of Nazism in and from Austria: A Never Ending Story." Co-sponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
October 14, 2004: "Music and the Arts in Post-Communist Croatia and Slovenia: A Conversation with the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet." Co-sponsored with the School of Music, the Weisman Museum of Art, and the College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Events Fund.
October 22, 2004: Tomáš Klvaňa, visiting fellow, Remarque Center, New York University. "Media and the Failure of Civil Society in the Czech Republic." Co-sponsored with the European Studies Consortium [Title VI Grant], the Department of Communication Studies, and the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota.
November 3, 2004: Walter Matznetter, geography, University of Vienna and Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota. "200 Years of Urban Planning in Vienna: Imagination and Reality." Co-sponsored with the Department of Geography.
November 11, 2004: . Martin Zagler, economics, Wirtschafts Universität Wien and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Public Finance in the European Union: What the Stability and Growth Pact does to National Budget Policy."
November 18, 2004: Gerald Angermann-Mozetic, sociology, Karl-Franzens University, Graz. "The Concept of 'Nation' and Nationalities in Early Austrian Sociology."
January 27, 2005: Steven Meyer, Pragmatic C Software Corp. "The Vienna Circle's Successors in Minnesota and America: The Lakatos-Feyerabend-Kuhn Program."
February 14, 2005: Ulrike Peters Nichols, German, University of Michigan. "Looking Back in Pain: Melancholia in Strindberg and Hofmannsthal." Co-sponsored with the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch.
February 21, 2005: Anneliese Rohrer, Die Presse, Vienna, Austria: "The U.S., Europe, and the Trans-Atlantic Political Rift." Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science.
10 March 2005: Elizabeth Cronin, art history, winner of the 2004 "Voices of Vienna" Keefer Scholarship: "Gabriel Lippmann's Photography: The Pursuit of Color in the 19th Century."
March 22 - 24, 2005: " The Essential Cinema of Peter Kubelka: A festival of the work of Austrian film maker Peter Kubelka, including screenings and discussions with the film maker." Co-sponsored with the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature.
April 5, 2005: Joan M. Mohr, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh: "Caught in the Bolshevik Revolution: The Czech and Slovak Legion in Russia and Siberia, 1916-1921." Co-sponsored with the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota; Czech and Slovak Sokol Minnesota; German Section, Modern Languages, Hamline University; Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota; Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.
April 14, 2005: Nikki Carlson, landscape architecture, University of Minnesota: "The Central European 'Black Triangle': Landscape in Transition." Co-sponsored with the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Center For Nations in Transition.
April 25, 2005: Ambassador Eva Nowotny, Embassy of Austria, Washington D.C.; Professor Guenter Bischof, Center Austria, University of New Orleans; Katharina Wegan, Demokratiezentrum Wien, Austria: "An Early Thaw in the Cold War? - The Austrian State Treaty of 1955."
April 26, 2005: Thomas Nowotny, political science, University of Vienna and Austrian Wirtschaftsservice, Washington D.C.: "Constructing the 21st Century: The US, Europe, and the Task of Global Governance." Co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science.
April 30, 2005: Kristi Brown-Montesano, musicology, Los Angeles; Michael Lupu, dramaturg, Guthrie Theatre; James Mandrell, Spanish, Brandeis University; Gretchen Wheelock, music history, Eastman School of Music, Rochester: "In Search of Don Giovanni: The Origins, Interpretations, and Legacy of Mozart and Da Ponte's Anti-Hero." Co-sponsored with the School of Music Opera Theatre.
2003-04 Lectures
September 17, 2003: Christopher Friedrichs, history, University of British Columbia. "Towards a Global View of Urban Political Cultures: Thinking about Cities in Early Modern Europe and Asia." Cosponsored with the Center for Early Modern History.
October 8, 2003: Elisabeth Kehrer, Consul-General of Austria in Chicago. "A Union of Europe? European Integration from an Austrian Perspective."
October 29, 2003: Patrizia McBride, German, Scandinavian, & Dutch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. "'In Praise of the Present': Adolf Loos' Modernity."
November 13, 2003: Benjamin Frommer, history, Northwestern University. "Confronting the Legacy of Nazism: The Extraordinary Trial of Two Ordinary Women, Prague 1947."
February 4, 2004: Alan Gross, rhetoric, University of Minnesota. "Misremembering Austrian Jewry: The Rathaus Exhibit, Vienna 1938."
February 20, 2004: Pieter M. Judson, history, Swarthmore College: "Stones or Pebbles? Rethinking the Meanings of Rural Nationalist Violence in Late Imperial Austria." Co-sponsored with the Center for German and European Studies.
February 26, 2004: Kenneth Calhoon, comparative literature and German, University of Oregon. "Sublimation and Civilized Value: Dracula's Legacy." Co-sponsored with the Humanities Institute and the Department of German-Scandinavian-Dutch.
March 1, 2004: Eduard Mühle, history, Herder Institute, University of Marburg. "Ordering the East: German Historians' Rationales for German Eastward Expansion in the 1930s and 1940s." Co-sponsored with the Center for German and European Studies.
March 11, 2004: Sieglinde Rosenberger, political science, University of Vienna, and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "More Female Politicians, but Less Equality: Shifts in Austrian Women's Politics since the 1990s."
April 15, 2004: Annemarie Steidl, history, University of Salzburg, and visiting postdoctoral fellow, Minnesota Population Center. "Relationships between Continental and Transatlantic Migration in the Late Habsburg Monarchy."
April 22, 2004: Manuela Steinberger, art and architecture, University of Graz. "A Visual Nation? Political Ideas in Industrial Design in Germany and Austria in the 1930s." Co-sponsored with the Center for German and European Studies.
May 6, 2004: Gabriele Mras, philosophy, University of Economics, Vienna, and Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota. 'The Rise of Analytic Philosophy—The 'Vienna Circle' and its Critique of Metaphysics."
2002-03 Lectures
September 12, 2002: Edmund M. Kern, history, Lawrence University. "Quotidian Distinctions: Magic, Gender, and Village Discourse in Styria, 1546-1746."
October 10, 2002: Fred Stambrook, history, University of Manitoba. "The Golden Age of the Jews of Bukovina, 1880-1914."
October 24, 2002: Lilian Faschinger, Austrian novelist and translator - "Of Sevenfold Mankillers, Gagged Priests, Scheming Mothers and Other Austrian Phenomena: Lilian Faschinger's Novel Magdalena the Sinner."
November 7, 2002: Gundolf Graml, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota. "Denn die Fremden sind ja fremd hier: Tourism and Governmentality in 1950s Austria."
November 21, 2002: Hubert Lengauer, German, University of Klagenfurt and Visiting Fulbright Lecturer, University of Minnesota. "Is this a Good Land? Self-Image and Self-Critique in Austrian Culture after the State Treaty."
December 5, 2002: Tim Malchow, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota. "Thomas Bernhard's Early Prose and the Specter of Adalbert Stifter: Politics, National Identity, and the Canon of the Young Austrian Second Republic."
January 30, 2003: Harald Stelzer, philosophy, University of Graz. "The Role of Democracy in Karl Popper's Social Philosophy"
February 13, 2003: Michel Janssen, physics and history of science, University of Minnesota. "Boltzmann, Loschmidt, and Ehrenfest: Three Viennese Physicists on Entropy and Statistics."
February 27, 2003: William D. Bowman, history, Gettysburg College - "Suicide in Freud's Vienna."
February 28, 2003: Paul Robert Magocsi, professor of history and holder of the Chair in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. "On the Writing of the History of States and Peoples."
March 13, 2003: Matti Bunzl, anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "From Austrian Victims to European Victors: Viennese Jews at the Turn of the Millennium."
March 25, 2003: Marsha L. Rozenblit, history, University of Maryland, College Park. "Jews as Germans? The Dilemmas of Jews in Habsburg Austria."
March 27, 2003: Maria E. Reicher, philosophy, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz. "A Pathbreaker in Modern Austrian Philosophy: Value and the Emotions in the Philosophy of Alexius Meinong."
April 10, 2003: Alison Frank, history, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Galician California or Galician Hell? The Austrian Oil Industry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."
April 24, 2003: Derek Katz, music, Lawrence University. "Leoš Janáček and the Perils of Musical Patriotism."
May 1, 2003: Wolfgang Müller, political science, University of Vienna, Schumpeter Fellow at Harvard University. "Coalition Theory and the Life, Death and Resurrection of the Austrian Center-Right Coalition."
2001-02 Seminars
October 1, 2001: Hans Winkler, J.D., Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "A Search for Justice: Austria, the Holocaust, and the Issues of Assets Recovery and Forced Labor Compensation."
October 10, 2001: Peter Moser, Austrian Ambassador to the U.S. "The EU, Austria and the Impact of the EU on the United States."
November 1, 2001: Michael Cherlin, music, University of Minnesota. "Gurrelieder: Arnold Schoenberg's Reluctant Farewell to the 19th Century."
November 8, 2001: Patrizia McBride, German, University of Minnesota. "Who Needs Politics? Jörg Haider's Freedom Party and the Concept of the Political."
November 29, 2001: Matthew P. Berg, history, John Carroll University. "Surviving Liberation in Post-Nazi Austria: Patronage and Everyday Life in the Social Democratic Milieu."
February 14, 2002: Louis Rose, history, Otterbein College. "From Art History to Propaganda Studies: Two Exiled Scholars."
February 21, 2002: Stephan Hametner, ethnomusicology, Institute of European Folk Music Research, University of Vienna. "An Introduction to Austrian Folk Music and the Truth about Yodeling."
February 28, 2002: Leslie C. Morris, German, Scandinavian Studies, and Dutch, University of Minnesota. "Translating Czernowitz: City, Text, Ruin."
March 7, 2002: Hansjörg Klausinger, economics, University of Vienna. "The Austrian School of Economics and the Gold Standard Mentality in the 1930s."
March 28, 2002: Evelyn Kain, art history, Ripon College. "Stephanie Hollenstein (1886-1944): Expressionist Painter, Fascist Patriot."
April 4, 2002: Karl Bahm, history, University of Wisconsin. "Imagined Wombs: Germans, Czechs, and the Gendering of National and Class Identities in 19th-century Bohemia."
April 25, 2002: Eve Blau, architectural history, Harvard University. "Encoding Identity and DIfference: Otto Wagner's Grossstadt as Form and Idea."
2000-01 Seminars
September 26, 2000: Judith Martin, geography, director, Program in Urban Studies, University of Minnesota."The Entrepreneurial City: Thoughts from the Salzburg Seminar."
October 24, 2000: Nicole Slupetzky, history, University of Salzburg, Kommission für die neuere Geschichte Österreichs; Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Fall 2000. "Forced Labor in the Province of Salzburg During the Nazi Regime."
November 2, 2000: Heinz Slupetzky, geography, University of Salzburg. "The Austrian Alps Without Glaciers? Natural Climatic Changes vs Global Warming."
November 15, 2000: Helmut Konrad, history, University of Graz. "Austria and Germany: A Complex Neighborly Relationship."
December 7, 2000: Heinz Slupetzky, geography, University of Salzburg. "The Splendor of Snow, Glaciers, and Mountains: Photographic Highlights by a Passionate Photographer from Austria."
February 8, 2001: Richard McCormick, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota. "From Europe to Hollywood and Back: Austrian-born Filmmakers Before, During, and After Exile."
February 15, 2001: Leo Riegert, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota. "Assimilated Jewish Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Austria: The Case of Karl Emil Franzos."
March 8, 2001: Eric Hollas, director, Hill Monastic Library, St. John's University. "Austrian Monasteries and the Hill Monastic Manuscripts Library."
March 15, 2001: Rosemarie Lester, German studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "An Austrian in Wisconsin, 1856-1860: The Impressions of Franz Hölzhuber."
April 17, 2001: Reinhard Neck, economics, University of Klagenfurt; Visiting Professor, Stanford University. "The Growth of the Public Sector in Austria."
1999-2000 Seminars
September 27, 1999: Raul F. Kneucker, Director General, Scientific Research and International Affairs, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Transport. "European Integration: Science and Technology and More Incredible Stories."
October 13, 1999: Sarah Kent, history, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. "Franz Joseph in Zagreb in 1895: The Failure of Official Nationality."
October 27, 1999: Jürgen Koppensteiner, German studies, University of Northern Iowa and Austrian American Council. "Images of America in Austrian Literature."
December 9, 1999: Thomas Emmert, history, Gustavus Adolphus College. "Broken Dreams: Serbia at the End of the Century." Cosponsored by Institute for Global Studies.
February 3, 2000: Matthew Lungerhausen, history, University of Minnesota. "Photography in the fin-de-siécle Austrian-Hungarian-Monarchy: The Case of Hungary."
February 16, 2000: David F. Good, Eric Weitz, history, Thomas Wolfe, history, W. Phillips Shiveley, political science, and Helga Leitner, geography, all University of Minnesota. Roundtable discussion. "Austria and the Haider Phenomenon: Democracy, National Identity, and the European Union." Cosponsored by the Center for German and European Studies.
February 17, 2000: David Buch, music history, University of Northern Iowa. "New Mozart Attributions in the Fairy-tale Singspiel 'Der Stein der Weisen' (Vienna, 1790)."
March 17, 2000: Gerhard Orosel, economics, University of Vienna, and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Corporate Vote Trading as an Instrument of Corporate Governance."
April 17, 2000: Anna Mitgutsch, Austrian author. A Reading from her latest novel, Haus der Kindheit (in German). Cosponsored by the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch and the Austrian Cultural Institute, New York.
April 27, 2000: Wolff A. Greinert, author and critic,, "Der Zeit am Wort den Puls zu fühlen: Der Kritiker Piero Rismondo als Zeitzeuge des österreichischen Theaters im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert." Cosponsored by the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch and The Austrian Cultural Institute, New York.
May 3, 2000: Stefan Schmitz, economics, Vienna University of Business and Economics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Rudolf Sallinger Fellow at the University of Minnesota, Department of Economics. "The Global Information Society and the Transformation of Statism: The Case of Austria."
1998-99 Seminars
September 27, 1998: Paul Polansky, Czech Historical Research Center, Prague and Spillville, Iowa. "Excavating the Roman Holocaust. New Research from the Czech Republic on the Destruction of the Gypsies." Cosponsored by the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
November 11, 1998: His Excellency Helmut Türk, Austrian Ambassador to the United States. "Austria in the New Europe." Cosponsored by the Department of Political Science and The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute's Freeman Center for International Economic Policy and Stassen Center for International Affairs.
November 23, 1998: Friedrich Stadler, philosophy, Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Vienna; Vienna Circle Institute; and Visiting Fellow at the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science. "The Case of the Vienna Circle." Cosponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
January 29, 1999: Sonja Kuftinec, theatre,, University of Minnesota." Bosnia: Border Crossings: Creating Theater With Youth in Former Yugoslavia." Cosponsored by the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.
February 18, 1999: Patrizia McBride, German, University of Minnesota. "Our Problems Are Not Modern: Robert Musil on National Socialism." Cosponsored by the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch.
March 4, 1999: Winifred M. Griffin, German, University of Minnesota. "Elfriede Jelinek: National Identification and Ideology Critique." Cosponsored by the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch.
April 8, 1999: Stefan Güldenberg, management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Building a Learning Organization in the Knowledge Age." Cosponsored by the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management.
April 28, 1999: Reinhold Wagnleitner, history, University of Salzburg. "The Empire of Fun or Talking Soviet Union Blues: The Sound of Freedom and American Cultural Hegemony in Europe During the Cold War." Cosponsored by the Program in American Studies and the Department of History.
May 11, 1999: Franz Szabo,history, and Director of the Canadian Center for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Canada."New Perspectives on Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze."
1997-98 Seminars
September 2, 1997: Christine Haidegger, author and poet, reading from her novel Amerikanische Verwunderung. Cosponsored by the CAS, presented by the Department of German,Scandinavian, and Dutch.
October 9, 1997: Zoltan Kovac, history, Central European University, Budapest; Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC. "'Mercenary Bloodsucker' or Natural Ally? British Foreign Policy Towards the Habsburg Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century." Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Center for Early Modern History.
October 13, 1997: Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider and Winfried R. Garscha, history, Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes. "Justice and Nazi War Crimes in Austria: The Second Austrian Republic and the Sequels of the Nazi Dictatorship." Cosponsored by the ACI.
November 13, 1997: András Gerö, history, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and Professor of History at the Central European University, Budapest. "Contradictions of the Newborn Democracies in Central Europe: The Heritage of the Past." Cosponsored by the Department of Political Science.
November 17, 1997: Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, English and American studies, University of Vienna. "American Views of Austria from the Biedermeier Era to the 1930s."
December 4, 1997: Kurt R. Fischer, philosophy, University of Vienna. "Philosophy in Austria (and the United States) since 1945." Cosponsored by the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.
January 29, 1998: Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann, history, Johannes Kepler University-Linz. "Business Women in the Late Habsburg Monarchy."
February 26, 1998: T. Mills Kelly, history, Grinnell College. "Without Remorse: Czech National Socialism and the Habsburg State."
April 21, 1998: Prof. Adi Wimmer, English, University of Graz. "The Lesser Traumatized: Strangers at Home and Abroad. Memories and Oral Testimonies of Exiled Austrian Jews." Cosponsored by ACI, the Department of English, and the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch.
April 27, 1998: Gerda Neyer, Institute For demography, University of Vienna, and Austrian Visiting Professor at Stanford. "Gender and the Austrian Welfare State: A Case Study." Cosponsored by the ACI.
April 30, 1998: Monika Albrecht, Editor of Ingeborg Bachmann's Critical Edition "Todesarten"-Projekt, Münster, Germany. "It is yet to be written": Colonization and Magical World View in Ingeborg Bachmann's Fragment of a Novel "Das Buch Franza." Cosponsored by the ACI and the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch.
May 14, 1998: Michael Landesmann, economics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "The Shape of the 'New Europe': Perspectives on East-West European Integration." Cosponsored by the ACI and the Department of Political Science.
1996-97 Seminars
November 18, 1996: Gitta Honegger, theatre history, Catholic University of Washington DC. "Modern Austrian Theater: Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek." Cosponsored with the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch.
February 20, 1997: Christopher Long, architectural history, University of Texas, Austin. "Continuity, Compromise, Concession: Modern Architecture in Vienna Between the Wars."
April 3, 1997: Siegfried Beer, history, University of Graz, and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Target Central Europe: Anglo-American Intelligence Efforts Regarding Nazi and Early Postwar Austria." Cosponsored by the ACI.
May 1, 1997: Erna M. Appelt, political science, University of Innsbruck, and Visiting Professor, University of New Orleans. "Women in the Changing European Welfare States." Cosponsored by the ACI and the Dept. of Political Science.
May 8, 1997: Helga Embacher, history, University of Salzburg, and Visiting Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Minnesota. "Jews in Austria after World War II."
May 15, 1997: Anton Pelinka, political science, University of Innsbruck, Visiting Professor, Stanford University. "The De-Austrification of Austria: Changes in Austria's Political Culture." Cosponsored by the ACI and the Dept. of Political Science.
May 22, 1997: Barbara Boomgaarden, history, Kommission für neure Geschichte Österreichs, University of Salzburg. "Sixty Years of Austrian Cultural Influence in the United States: A Survey."
