A word cloud of topics popular the the 2020 GSA Annual Conference.
Image: German Studies Association
Center Austria Associate Director Marc Landry served as a co-convener of a seminar at the Forty-Fourth Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, ensuring a robust Austrian presence at the conference - held virtually from September 29 to October 4, 2020.
The seminar, which convened on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (October 2 -4) and was titled The Second Austrian Republic: Building the Nation, Shaping the State, focused on contemporary Second Republic Austria, which remains greatly shaped by early post-1945 efforts to re-establish the Austrian state and to retool an “Austrian” identity dissociated from the failures of the First Republic and the 1938-1945 period. It addressed the diversity of stakeholders and the multiplicity of practices engaged in these efforts. Such stakeholders include political, technical, and media elites, together with new and re-formed institutions, like the Staatsoper, Salzburg Festival, and Forum Alpbach, as well as reinvigorated practices such as the expansionary creation of state prizes.
The seminar was attended by 17 participants, including young and emerging scholars, ensuring a diverse set of viewpoints from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Conveners:
Michael Burri, Bryn Mawr College
Marc Landry, University of New Orleans
Eva Pfanzelter, University of Innsbruck
Participants:
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State University
Christian Karner, University of Lincoln
Christoph Leschanz, University of Vienna
Felix Tweraser, University of West Georgia
Sofie Mittas, Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Bernhard Achhorner, Universität Innsbruck
Stefan Hechl, Universität Innsbruck
Sarah Oberbichler, Universität Innsbruck
Anne Rothfeld
Judith Welz, Universität Innsbruck
Nikhil Sathe, Ohio University
Julia-Katharina Neier, Universität Innsbruck
Gundolf Graml, Agnes Scott College
David Luft, Oregon State University