Images of the Marshall Plan: Film, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters
When: May 19 - 20, 2008
Where: AWS Vienna, Ungergasse
Conference Conveners:
Günter Bischof, CenterAustria, Unviersity of New Orleans
Dieter Stiefel, Institute of Social and Economic History, University of Vienna
Conference Sponsor:
Austrian Marshall Plan Anniversary Foundation, Vienna (Wolfgang Stoiber & Eugen Stark, Executive Directors)
On the Occasion of
the 60th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan and 10th Anniversary of CenterAustria, University of New Orleans
PROGRAM:
MONDAY, MAY 19
9 – 9:30
Welcomes
Ferdinand Lacina, Minister a.D., Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation
Scott F. Kilner, Chargé d’Affaires, U.S. Embassy Vienna
Günter Bischof, Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce, University of New Orleans
Dieter Stiefel, Institute of Social and Economic History, University of Vienna
9:30 – 10:30
Keynote Address
Chair: Siegfried Beer, University of Graz
Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University): The Marshall Plan and American Consumer Democracy
11 – 13:00
Session I: The Marshall Plan in Film
Chair: Dieter Stiefel, University of Vienna
David Elwood (Bologna)
Film and the Marshall Plan
Christoph Höllriegl (Vienna)
Visualizations of the Marshall Plan in Austrian USIS Films
Hans-Jürgen Schröder (Giessen)
The Marshall Plan in Film and Posters in the Federal Republic of Germany
13:30-14:30
Lunch14:30 – 16:30
Session II: Media Representations of the Marshall Plan in a Comparative European Context
Chair: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
Helge Pharo/Helge Danielson, University of Oslo
Media Representations of the Marshall Plan in Norway
Stelios Zachariou, Hellenic Foreign Ministry and University of Athens
Media Representations of the Marshall Plan in Greece
Ramón Reichert, Kunstuniversität Linz
Narrative Techniques in the Austrian Marshall Plan Movies: A Methodological Approach
18:30-20:00
Special Film Presentation:
Chair: Reinhold Wagnleitner, University of Salzburg
Linda and Eric Christenson, Independent Scholars, Washington, D.C.
The Marshall Plan – The Making of a Documentary
20:00
Reception
Celebrating Ten Years CenterAustria, University of New Orleans
TUESDAY, May 20
9:30-12:00
Session III: The Marshall Plan in Austria: Myth, Moloch, and Memory
Chair: Peter Berger, Wirtschaftsunviersität Vienna
Wolfgang Kos, Vienna Museum
The Marshall Plan, Tourism and the Modernization of the Austrian Landscape
Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Ludwig-Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgenforschung, Graz
Marshall Plan Dead Ends and “Anti-USIA” Campaigns: The Soviet Economic Propaganda Campaign in Austria
Dieter Stiefel/Günter Bischof, University of Vienna/University of New Orleans
Memories of the Marshall Plan in Austria
12:00-13:30
Lunch13:30-16:30
Session IV: The Marshall Plan in Austria in Photography and Film
Chair: Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna
Hans Petschar, Picture Archives, Austrian National Library, Vienna
USIS Photographers and the Marshall Plan in Rural Austria
Michaela Pfunder, Picture Archives, Austrian National Library, Vienna
The Marshall Plan in USIS Photography
18:30
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