AUSTRIA AND THE EAST / ÖSTERREICH UND DER OSTEN
PROGRAM AS OF MAY 29, 2018
Wednesday, May 30
5:30-7:00 pm
Opening Reception
Sugar Maple Ballroom
Sponsored by the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
Thursday, May 31
8:30-9:00 am
Breakfast/Registration
Livak Fireplace Lounge and Sugar Maple Ballroom
9:00-9:30 am
Welcome/Opening Remarks
Livak Ballroom
9:30-10:30 am
Study Abroad in Austria
Practical Tips for Guiding Students in Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna, and Beyond
Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Kristina E. Poznan, Journal of Austrian-American History
Study Abroad in Salzburg and Vienna
Katherine Baber, University of Redlands
Study Abroad in Innsbruck
Robert Dupont, University of New Orleans
Faculty FYI: The Administrative Side of Study Abroad Planning
Sarah Mullen, Brown University
10:30-10:45 am
Coffee break
Livak Fireplace Lounge
Sponsored by Fulbright Austria
10:45-12:15 pm
Thursday Morning Panels
1) New Approaches to the Cold War in Austria
Frank Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Nicole Phelps, University of Vermont
Humanitarian Politics? Carl J. Burckhardt between Nazi Germany and the Early Cold War
Gerald J. Steinacher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Selling the Marshall Plan
Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
Environmental History and the Cold War in Austria
Marc Landry, University of New Orleans
Comment
Mark Stoler, University of Vermont
2) Orientalism in Literature
Mildred Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Ein Mord ist geschehen und die Menschheit möchte um Hilfe rufen. Sie kann es nicht.”: Karl Kraus’s “Die chinesische Mauer” (1909)
Katherine Arens, University of Texas, Austin
Constructing Monstrosity: German Incarnations of French Demons and Orientalist Imagery in Gustav Meyrink’s Der Golem (1915)
Amy Braun, Washington University in St. Louis
Reading the “Balkan Route” in Joseph Roth’s Die Geschichte der 1002. Nacht
Neil Christian Pages, Binghamton University SUNY
3) Applied Theory
Jost Foundation Room
Moderator: Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont
Wo wird die Sehnsucht gestillt, die mit uns ist auf allen Wegen?: Augustinian Longing in Peter Rosegger
Peter Meilaender, Houghton College
Existential Guilt in the Fiction of “Prager Kreis” Writer Johannes Urzidil (1896-1970)
Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Samuel Mago’s Stories and Concept of “Glück” as a Romani Writer Connecting Austria and Hungary
Lorely French, Pacific University
12:15-1:30 pm
Lunch
Sugar Maple Ballroom
1:30-2:45 pm
Thursday Early Afternoon Panels
4) Austrian Film
Frank Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Bridget Swanson, University of Vermont
The East in Austrian Road Movies
Maria Hofmann, Middlebury College
Else goes East: Anna Martinetz’s Indian Adaptation of Fräulein Else
Richard Lambert III, Washington University in St. Louis
Chromatic Revisioning in Anja Salomonowitz’s Spanien (2012)
Nikhil Sathe, Ohio University
5) Modernist Discourses
Mildred Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Geoff Howes, Bowling Green State University
The Ukrainian Periphery through The Eyes of Modernist Vienna
Ewa Siwak, Texas State University/Austin Community College
Borders and Boundaries in Kafka
Lorraine Markotic, University of Calgary
Victor Tausk’s Psychopathology of War: Reimagining the Psychoanalytic Subject in 1916 Austria-Hungary
Katie Lally, University of California, Santa Cruz
6) Europe and Memory
Jost Foundation Room
Moderator: Christina Guenther, Bowling Green State University
Die Doppelerfahrung des NS- und Sowjetterrors als distinktives Merkmal Mittelosteuropas. Zu neueren Texten von Christoph Ransmayr und Martin Pollack
Sławomir Piontek, Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität Poznań
Eastern European Travel and Remembering “Flight and Expulsion” in Contemporary Austrian Literature
Joshua Seale, Georgetown University
Mitteleuropa-Nostalgie in neuen Kleidern? Die Donauraumstrategie der Europäischen Union
Christian Hütterer, Verbindungsbüro des österreichischen Parlaments bei den Europäischen Institutionen in Brüssel
2:45-3:00 pm
Coffee break
Livak Fireplace Lounge
3:00-4:15 pm
Thursday Late Afternoon Panels
7) Austrian Diplomacy from WWII to the Cold War
Frank Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Gregor Thuswaldner, North Park University
CANCELLED: Austro-Slovak and Austro-Czech Relations after WWII: Cooperative Neighbors or Impassable Border?
David Schriffl, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
The Forgotton Front: Austria and the Congress for Cultural Freedom
Joseph McVeigh, Smith College
Wolfgang Kraus: The Making of the Cultural Diplomat as Agent of the State
Michael Burri, Bryn Mawr College
8) Grillparzer and the East
Mildred Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Dennis Mahoney, University of Vermont
Wo der Osten anfängt: Grillparzers Orient
Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington
Eastern Promises: Grillparzer’s Ahnfrau
Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Die Böhmen im Werk Franz Grillparzers
Birthe Hoffmann, University of Copenhagen
9) Austria in World War II
Frank Livak Ballroom
NEW Moderator: Tim Corbett, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Ostmark as Bulwark: Austrian Mountains and the East in the Nazi Imaginary
Laura Morowitz, Wagner College
MOVED to Session 17: “… trotz aller dieser Widrigkeiten ist es schön hier”: Epistolary Reflections on Exile and Emigration to the Middle East, 1938-1943
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan, Dearborn
“Ostarbeiter,” POWs, and the Austrian Rural Population during World War II
Winfried R. Garscha, Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes
CANCELLED: The Role of Austrian Petroleum Resources as German Reparations to the Soviet Union
Ernst Aichinger, Visiting Research Fellow, Center Austria, University of New Orleans
4:30 -6:00 pm
Keynote Address
Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Helga Schreckenberger
Seeing and Selling: Austrian Economic Visions in the “Orient” in the Early Twentieth Century
Maureen Healy, Lewis & Clark College
Friday, June 1
8:30-9:00 am
Breakfast
Livak Fireplace Lounge and Sugar Maple Ballroom
9:00-10:15 am
Friday Early Morning Panels
10) The Cold War in Literature
Mildred Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Joseph McVeigh, Smith College
Voices between Two Worlds: Refugee Narratives in Austrian Radio Drama from the Cold War to the Present
Caroline Kita, Washington University in St. Louis
Asiens Atem ist diesseits. Der Kalte Krieg in der Lyrik Ingeborg Bachmanns.
Wolfgang Hackl, Universität Innsbruck
On Refugees and Austrian Hilfsbereitschaft: The “Hungarian Crisis” in Vladimir Vertlib’s Mein erste Mörder and Daniel Zipfel’s Eine Handvoll Rosinen
Michael Boehringer, University of Waterloo
11) Austria and the East in Music
Jost Foundation Room
Moderator: Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State University
Sonic Boundaries: Orientalist Ambivalence in Franz Schreker’s “Der Ferne Klang”
Martha Sullivan, Rutgers University
Austria and the East: Mahler’s Multiethnic Music
Leah Batstone, McGill University
China Meets Austria: Interpreting Mozart in a Global Context
Jinsong Chen, Purdue University
12) Austrian Literature and the Middle East
Chittenden Bank Room
Moderator: Anita McChesney, Texas Tech University
Searching for Palestine in Jewish-Austrian Literature, or: “Die einzige Rettung Palästinas wäre der Sieg des bolschewistischen Sozialismus in Europa”
Viktoria Pötzl, University of Minnesota
Encounter in Distance: Egypt as the Space of the Bachmann-Celan Correspondence
Emma Goehler, Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies
Death, Destruction & the Middle East: From Elfriede Jelinek’s Bambiland to Die Schutzbefohlenen
Teresa Kovacs, University of Michigan
10:15-10:30 am
Coffee break
Livak Fireplace Lounge
10:30-12:00 noon
Friday Late Morning Panels
13) The Frontier Orientalism-Concept of André Gingrich and Hungary
Frank Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Kristina E. Poznan, Journal of Austrian-American History
The (Unknown) Hungary and Its Orientalist Traditions
Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Between the Ballhausplatz and the Ottoman Empire: The Reburial of Ferenc Rákóczi II
Csaba Katona, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Turanism: A Bridge to the Past and Toward the Colonies
Rudolf Paksa, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Relations between Hungary and Turkey and Their Repercussions (1876-1939)
Emre Saral, Hacettepe University
14) Meditations on the Austrian Mind
Mildred Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Katherine Arens, University of Texas, Austin
Hofmannsthal, Orientalism, and the Austrian Mind
Donald L. Wallace, United States Naval Academy
From Robert Musil to the Austrian Tradition
David S. Luft, Oregon State University
Secular Redemption & the Elevation of Transgression in Robert Musil, Theodor Adorno, and Karl Kraus
Carl E. Findley III, Mercer University
Comment
Mason Tattersall, Oregon State University
15) Transatlantic Austrian Studies: Changes across Generations—Ausblick into the Future
Chittenden Bank Room
Moderator: Helga Schreckenberger
Amy Braun, Washington University in St. Louis
Raymond Burt, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Jennifer Good, Baylor University
Carolina Kita, Washington University in St. Louis
Teresa Kovacs, University of Michigan
12:00-2:00 pm
Luncheon, Business Meeting, and Speakers
Sugar Maple Ballroom
ASA Business Meeting
Tribute to Craig Decker
Moderator: Nicole Phelps
Hilberg and Vienna
Elizabeth Anthony, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]
Chris Burns, University of Vermont Libraries
2:15-3:30 pm
Friday Early Afternoon Panels
16) Positions Between East and West
Frank Livak Ballroom
Moderator: Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington
Neither East nor West: The Israelitsche Kultusgemeinde in Vienna and the “Unity of Israel,” 1784-1890
Tim Corbett, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Habsburg Zionisms between East and West
Scott Spector, University of Michigan
“Zwischen der nüchternen Phantastik des Ostens und der phantastischen Nüchternheit des Westerns” (M. Lazar): Russland und/oder Amerika-Diskurse/Parallelisierungen in der Kunst und Literatur der Zwischenkriegszeit
Primus-Heinz Kucher, Universität Klagenfurt
17) The Rhetoric of the Balkans and Hungary
Mildred Livak Ballroom
NEW Moderator: Lorraine Markotic, University of Calgary
MOVED from Panel 9: “… trotz aller dieser Widrigkeiten ist es schön hier”: Epistolary Reflections on Exile and Emigration to the Middle East, 1938-1943
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan, Dearborn
CANCELLED: Österreich ist nicht Österreich; der Osten war nie der Osten
Béla Rásky, Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien
The Balkan Turn in Vienna
Aaron Carpenter, University of Washington
“Der Balkan” in der Krone: Crises, “Identity Grammars” and Argumentative Topoi
Christian Karner, University of Nottingham
18) The Habsburg Past in Art and Memory
Jost Foundation Room
Moderator: Helga Schreckenberger
The Destiny of Serbian Printing and Graphic Art in the 18th Century at the Habsburg Monarchy
Jasna Mijailovic, University of Belgrad
Reenactment: A Gateway from the Past to the Present
Emily Lamb, University of Cincinnati
Folk Art on Parade
Megan Brandow-Faller, City University of New York Kingsborough
19) The East in Austrian Poetry
Chittenden Bank Room
NEW Moderator: Pameula Saur, Lamar University
“Jenes unsinniges Lachen des Dichters”: Mandelstam, Madness and Poetics in Celan’s Meridian
Sharon Weiner, Emory University
CANCELLED: Der fehlende Ortsname ‘Hiroshima’ in Ingeborg Bachmanns Gdicht Freies geleit
Yuuki Kazaoka, Kitasato University
Poetry, Trance, and Voice: An Acoustics of Consciousness in Peter Pessl’s “Anchored in Trance” (1996)
Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State University
3:30-3:45 pm
Coffee break
Livak Fireplace Lounge
3:45-5:15 pm
Friday Late Afternoon Sessions
20) The Habsburg Empire in the World
Jost Foundation Room
Moderator: David Luft, Oregon State University
The Missing East: The Mental Maps of British and German Travelers to the Habsburg Empire, ca. 1815-1850
Martin Schaller, Plattform Geschichte, Vienna
The Habsburg Consular Service in Comparative Perspective
Nicole Phelps, University of Vermont
The Austro-Hungarian Prisoner of War Refugees in China
Mátyás Mervay, New York University
Austrian Emigration to the Middle East: Scholars and Engineers in the Service of the Empire
Laurin Mackowitz, University of Alberta
21) Framing the “East” in Recent Austrian Literature
Mildred Livak Ballroom
NEW Moderator: Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Framing the “East”: Anna Kim’s Historical Fictions Die gefrorene Zeit and Die große Heimkehr
Christina Guenther, Bowling Green State University
Translating China in Christoph Ransmayr’s Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit
Susan C. Anderson, University of Oregon
The East and the Anthropocene: Christoph Ransmayr’s Conception of Machine and Nature in Cox oder der Lauf der Zeit
Ted Dawson, Vanderbilt University
22) Ethnic Imaginations
Chittenden Bank Room
Moderator: Jennifer Good, Baylor University
Barbarians at the Gate: The Ottoman Empire in the Historical Memory of Habsburg Austria
Scott Moore, Eastern Connecticut State University
Die „barbarische Unbewusstheit des russischen Volkes“: Zu Stefan Zweigs Dostojewski-Bild
Gregor Thuswaldner, North Park University
Irreconcilable Identities: “Westjuden” and “Ostjuden” in Franz Werfel’s Fragment “Pogrom”
Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont
23) The East in Recent Austrian Literature
Jost Foundation Room
Moderator: Teresa Kovacs, University of Michigan
Austria and/or Europe? Eva Rossmann’s Patrioten
Anita McChesney, Texas Tech University
CANCELLED: Der Osten im österreichischen Generationenroman: Josef Haslingers Das Vaterspiel (2000) und Anna Mitgutschs Die Annäherung (2016)
Eva Kuttenberg, Penn State Erie
Bilder des Ostens im Werk von Anna Mitgutsch
Joanna Drynda, Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität Poznań
5:30-7:00 pm
Closing Reception
Sugar Maple Ballroom