Where: Center Austria, University of New Orleans
When: October 27-31, 2010
UNO’s CenterAustria is hosting the 2010 annual meeting of Austrian Studies Centers from around the world. After Austrian Centers in Minneapolis, Edmonton, and Jerusalem hosted the previous meetings, it is New Orleans’ turn this year to welcome Center directors along with graduate students in the Crescent City.
The Federal Ministry of Science and Research in Vienna is generously sponsoring this event and will be represented by its General Secretary Friedrich Faulhammer
The Centers for Austrian Studies visit Laura Plantation outside New Orleans, LA.
Program:
Wednesday, October 27, 2010:
Group Arrival
Recommended transportation from and to New Orleans Airport: Airport shuttle
www.airportshuttleneworleans.com or tel.: 504.212.5901
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Welcome Buffet, Art Gallery
Renaissance Arts Hotel
700 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Hosted by: Center Austria, University of New Orleans
Opening address: Alex Rawls, editor Offbeat Magazine
Introduction to New Orleans Music
Thursday, October 28, 2010:
8:00 a.m.
Bus to University of New Orleans Campus
8:30 a.m.
Opening Breakfast at the University of New Orleans,
Homer Hitt Alumni Center
9:00 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Joe M. King, Provost,
University of New Orleans
Friedrich Faulhammer, General Secretary,
Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
9:30-10:30 a.m.
UNO Presentations
Robert Dupont,
Department of History, UNO: Post-Katrina New Orleans
Peter Yaukey,
Department of Geography, UNO: Atlantic Hurricanes
10:30-10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:45–12:00 p.m.
Directors’ Presentations of Austrian Centers Profiles
Friedrich Faulhammer
General Secretary, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Resear
Klaas van der Sanden
Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Franz Szabo
Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta
Günter Bischof
CenterAustria, University of New Orleans
Elisheva Moatti
Center for Austrian Studies, European Forum at the Hebrew University
Marija Wakounig
Institute for Eastern European History, University of Vienna
Dieter Binder
Andrássy University, Budapest
1:00 p.m.
Lunch at a typical New Orleans Eatery: Deanie’s Seafood,
841 Iberville St. French Quarter, New Orleans, LA 70112
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Visit to National World War II Museum, with welcome by director Nick Mueller
OR
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
5:30 p.m.
Dinner “American Sector” Restaurant,
National World War II Museum
945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
8:00 p.m.
Jazz in the City
Friday, October 29, 2010
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast in Renaissance Arts Hotel Conference Room
8:30-10:00 a.m.
Graduate Student Forum I
Borderlands Travelers and Immigration
Chair: Klaas van der Sanden, University of Minnesota
Jelena Bulić,
PhD Student, Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta:
“Mid-nineteenth century British travelers on the Border between Austrian and Ottoman Empires”
Barbara Ecker,
PhD Student, University of Vienna:
“Women in Court: Crime among Female Immigrants from Austria-Hungary in Chicago, 1880-1914.
Philipp Luis Strobl,
PhD Student, University of Innsbruck, Botstiber Fellow, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans:
“Waging a New Life – How the Burgenländers Became Americans”
10:00-10:15 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:15-12:00 p.m.
Graduate Student Forum II
World War I & World War II
Chair: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
Nicole-Melanie Goll,
PhD Student, Andrássy University Budapest:
Godwin von Brumowski and the Myth of the Austrian War Hero during World War I
Karlo Ruzicic-Kessler,
PhD Student, University of Vienna and Historical Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna: “The Italian occupation of Yugoslavia 1941-1943”
Georg Hoffmann,
PhD Student, Andrássy University Budapest:
“Killing of Airmen: War Crimes Committed Against Downed Allied Airmen in the “Austrian” Area (1943-1945)”
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch in the Renaissance Arts Hotel, Art Gallery
1:00 p.m.
Bus leaves for Laura plantation tour
Ca. 6:00 p.m.
Return to hotel from plantation tour
7:00 p.m.
Conference Gala Dinner at Arnaud’s Restaurant
813 Bienville Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
Saturday, October 30, 2010
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast at Renaissance Arts Hotel Conference Room
8:30 – 9:15 a.m.
Film Presentation: (optional)
Fulbright at Sixty: The Austrian-American Fulbright Program, 1950-2010
9:30 -11:00
Graduate Student Forum III
19th Century Local and Transnational History
Chair: Arnold Suppan, University of Vienna
Alexander Smith,
PhD Student, University of Innsbruck, Ministry Fellow, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans:
“The Early History of Oil in Europe and North America”
Neta Bodner,
PhD Student, European Forum at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem:
“The Kreuzweg of Vienna: Local History and Universal Salvation”
Ádám Dombovári,
PhD Student Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta:
“Parliamentary Elections in Tolna County, 1839-1840: Political Culture in late Feudal Hungary”
11:00 -11:15 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:15 -12:15 p.m.
Graduate Student Forum IV
Scientific and Identity Discourses
Chair: Franz Szabo, University of Alberta
Omri Ben-Yehuda,
PhD Student, European Forum at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem: “The Voice of Lasunka: Particular Identity in Agnon's The Bridal Canopy”
Matthew Konieczny,
PhD Student, University of Minnesota:“Beyond a “Tragedy of the Sage”: The Peculiarities of a Polish Scientific Discourse in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”
12:15 p.m.
Lunch at Hotel Art Gallery
Afternoon Free
Suggestion: Voodoo Fest
http://thevoodooexperience.com
Evening:
French Quarter/Halloween
6:00 p.m.
Austrian Centers Leadership Dinner