New Books – event archive
Tuesday 27 May 2008, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
State and Civil Society
Book launch
Ed. Emil Brix, Jürgen Nautz, Rita Trattnigg, Werner Wutscher
While concepts of civil society have become ever more significant and the role of the state continues to be challenged, recent civil society research suggests that the state appears to be in demand again with respect to key questions concerning distribution of power, resource management and justice. This new volume gives valuable direction regarding possible future modes of governance and participation, featuring the state as desirable regulatory framework.
Information: www.oefg.at, www.passagen.at
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Tuesday 6 May, 2008, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Oona Strathern - The History of the Future from Delphi to Döbling
Book talk with Oona Strathern.
The futurist and trend consultant Oona Strathern will give a talk about the history of the future inspired by years of research for her book and more than a decade of working in the field of futurism. The History of the Future from Delphi to Döbling looks at the most interesting and influential figures and what their predictions have done for us.
The brilliant, beautiful and sometimes terrifying ideas of visionary thinkers such as Leonardo, Darwin, Orwell and Dawkins have played a key part in influencing our minds, politics and civilization to date. Entrepreneurs and politicians are trying to buy a hold on the future – and the question is, do we make the future, or does the future make us? This unique and fascinating book looks behind the scenes at how tomorrow’s trends are being identified, ‘made’ and marketed today.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 8 November 2007 at 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
A Time Out of Joint by Roland Hill
Introduced by the author in conversation with Christopher Cviic
Roland Hill’s autobiography, A Time Out of Joint: A Journey from Nazi Germany to Post-War Britain, is a remarkable and moving personal story and much more: it enables readers to re-live European history during the dark days of World War II to the return of peace and the time of hope for which he worked. Roland Hill was born in Hamburg in 1920 into a wealthy family of Jewish descent. In 1933 the family fled Nazi persecution, moving to Prague, Vienna and Milan before Roland Hill eventually came to London.
After serving in the British army during the war Hill enjoyed a successful career as a journalist, working for both the Tablet and as London Correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Photograph: Cover detail A Time Out of Joint, thanks and credit to I.B. Tauris Publishers.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Tuesday 6 November 2007, 7 pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Book Launch: Burgtheater and Austrian Identity. Theatre and Cultural Politics in Vienna, 1918-38 by Robert Pyrah
The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918 galvanized discussion about national identity in the new Republic of Austria. As Robert Pyrah shows in this thoroughly documented study, the complex identity politics of interwar Austria were played out in the theatres of Vienna, which enjoyed a cultural prominence rarely matched in other countries.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 25 October 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Book Launch: Workers and politics in occupied Austria, 1945-55, by Jill Lewis
With an introduction by Oliver Rathkolb
Between 1945 and 1955, Austria and its capital were occupied by the Four (increasingly mutually antagonistic) Allied Powers. Jill Lewis’s book sets the social and economic difficulties that Austria encountered in this crucial decade in their international context and examines how they were contained. The author also discusses the long-term implications of the Austrian culture of consensus, not only for the way in which the country dealt with its recent past, but also for present-day political developments.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Wednesday 17 October 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Book Launch: Zemlinsky Studies
With a musical interlude by Daniela Lehner – mezzo-soprano / Jose Gayo – piano
Zemlinsky Studies, edited by Michael Frith, comprises a varied and fascinating collection of essays by international scholars and musicians, including Antony Beaumont, Raymond Coffer and Pamela Tancsik, on the important early twentieth-century composer and conductor Alexander Zemlinsky.
Daniela Lehner has participated in master-classes with Marilyn Horne, Christa Ludwig, Roger Vignoles, Margo Garrett, Martin Katz and Ferenc Rados. She will be accompanied by Jose Gayo who has appeared in concert in France, Portugal, Spain and the UK.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Tuesday 9 October, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Book Launch: Culture smart! Austria. A quick guide to customs & etiquette, by Peter Gieler
This Austrian guide offers insights into Austrian Culture and society. By describing the real people in the picture postcard, the book provides an overview of the past, examines their traditions and the values that they live by today, and offers guidelines on what to expect and how to behave in different circumstances.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Tuesday 2 October 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Book Lauch: A Confusion of the Spheres.
Kierkegaard Philosophy and Religion, by Genia Schönbaumsfeld
In cooperation with Oxford University Press.
Genia Schönbaumsfeld offers new readings of Kierkegaard’s and Wittgenstein’s conceptions of philosophy and religious belief.
A Confusion of the Spheres addresses issues which not only concern scholars of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard, but anyone interested in the philosophy of religion, or the ethical aspects of philosophical practice as such.
Dr. Genia Schönbaumsfeld studied philosophy in Oxford, Cambridge and Vienna. She is currently a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 27 September 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Book Talk: Rites of Peace. The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna, by Adam Zamoyski
Internationally bestselling author Adam Zamoyski will give a talk on his new book, Rites of Peace. Meticulously researched, masterfully told, and featuring a cast of some of the most influential and powerful figures in history, including Tsar Alexander, Metternich, Talleyrand, and the Duke of Wellington, Rites of Peace tells the story of the Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna and their profound historical consequences.
Zamoyski draws on a wide range of original sources, which include not only official documents, private letters, diaries, and firsthand accounts, but also the reports of police spies and informers, to reveal the steamy atmosphere of greed and lust in which the new Europe was forged.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!