Symposia, Lectures & Conferences – event archive
Wednesday 2 April - Friday 4 April 2008
St Hilda's College Oxford
From the Ausgleich to the Jahrhundertwende: 1867-1890
pre-modernism and change
This international conference, coordinated by Deborah Holmes (Vienna), Wolfgang Maderthaner (Vienna) and John Warren (Oxford), will examine the historical period which presaged and prepared for the artistic, cultural and political flowering which was to mark Austria and above all its capital Vienna at the Jahrhundertwende. In almost every field of activity – literature, music, art, architecture, journalism and politics – signs of emerging ‘modernity’ can be discerned in the years 1867-1890, although they have never attracted as much attention as the fin de siècle which followed.
The conference will include presentations on the historical and cultural background, the literature, art and music of this remarkable period by Robert Evans (Oxford), Wolfgang Maderthaner (Wien), László Péter (London), Jonathan Kwan (Nottingham), Eda Sagarra (Dublin), Robin Okey (Warwick), Andrea Grisold (Wien), Deborah Holmes (Wien), Emil Brix (Wien), Steven Beller (Cambridge), W.E. Yates (Exeter), Karlheinz Rossbacher (Salzburg), Marion Linhardt (Bayreuth), Helen Chambers (St. Andrews), Patricia Howe (London), Martin Liebscher (London), Ritchie Robertson (Oxford), Ulrike Tanzer (Salzburg), Charlotte Woodford (Cambridge), Lorenzo Belletini (Cambridge), Wolfgang Kreutzer (Wien), Gilbert Carr (Dublin), Sabine Wieber (Roehampton), Dafna Clifford (Oxford), Ilona Parsons (Budapest), Monika Faber (Wien), Christa Veigl (Wien), Gemma Blackshaw (Plymouth), Diana Reynolds (San Diego), Christian Glanz (Wien), Roger Moseley (Chicago), Jennifer Murphy (Chicago), Richard Stokes (London), Carl Auböck (Wien). Sessions will be chaired by Peter Pulzer (Oxford), Mark CornwaIl (Southampton), Ian Roe (Reading), Ian Foster (Salford), Robert Vilain (Royal Holloway), Judith Beniston (London), Florian Krobb (Maynooth), Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway), Andrew Barker (Edinburgh), Rodney Livingstone (Southampton) and Robert Pyrah (Oxford).
Info: To register an interest, or to request more information, please contact Deborah Holmes (deborah.holmes@onb.ac.at) or John Warren (jdawarren@hotmail.co.uk ). Conference fees will be announced shortly.
Venue and Information
St Hilda's College Oxford
Wednesday 20, 27 February & Wednesday 12 March 2008, 4pm
Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth
Memory Cultures Seminar Series: Constructing Memory
Wednesday 20 February, University of Portsmouth, 4pm
Law, Politics and Memory. How Austria dealt with her past after 1945
Lecture with Professor Karl Vocelka, University of Vienna.
Wednesday 27 February, University of Portsmouth, 4pm
Culture, Politics, Palimpsest. Theses on Memory and Society
Lecture with Dr Heidemarie Uhl, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Wednesday 12 March, University of Portsmouth, 4pm
Changing of the Memorial Landscape and the Identity Politics in Transitional Europe
Lecture with Professor Oto Luthar, Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Jointly organised by the Czernovitz Project Group and the Memory Culture Research ClusterÂ
Venue and Information
Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth
School of Languages and Area Studies
Park Building, R. 2.19
King Hentry 1 Street, P01 2DZ
T 02392 846064
Tuesday 11 December 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Rüdiger Görner: W. H. Auden’s poetic voyage
On the occasion of Wystan Hugh Auden 100th birthday, Rüdiger Görner will speak on the writer and poet, whose critical and ironic language contrasted the ideological thinking and vocabulary of his time.
Professor Rüdiger Görner chairs the German Department at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London.
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 23 October 2007, 10am – 5.30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Austrian Day-School’ for Sixth-Formers
A special day for Sixth Form students, with a multi-disciplinary programme on Austria – including presentations on history, music, art history, psychology and literature- each one to be led by an expert in the field. At least one session (on an appropriate aspect of 20th century Austria) will be held in German for members of the German Sixth Forms.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Saturday 13 October 2007, 10am – 16.15pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Österreich – Tag: Intercultural Relationships
This special day on Austria presents topical information for German Language teachers and others interested in Austrian life and culture. The programme will feature a reading by Austrian author Jutta Treiber as well as workshops. The latter will focus on the use of drama in German lessons, activities around the “alltäglichen Dinge”, and German proverbs, compared to English ones.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Information & registration: Association for Language Learning, 150 Railway Terrace, Rugby CV21 3HN, T 01788 546 443, F 01788 544 149, E info@ALL-languages.org.uk, www.all-languages.org.uk
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Wednesday 10 October 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Tobias Natter: Angelika Kauffmann. A Woman of Immense Talent
The painter Angelika Kauffmann (1741-1807), daughter and pupil of the painter Joseph Johann Kauffmann from Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg, was a citizen of the world who spent most of her life London, Rome, Florence and Venice. From 1766-1781 she stayed in London, where she became a founding member of the Royal Academy.
Dr. Tobias G. Natter is director of the Vorarlberger Landesmuseum in Bregenz. An art historian and curator of internationally successful exhibitions, he worked at Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, before taking over the Landesmuseum. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Angelika Kauffmann’s death in 1807, the Landesmuseum currently presents a major exhibition with works of the painter from numerous European collections.
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 20 - Friday 21 September 2007
Lancaster University
Biennial Conference of the International Robert Musil Society
Re-contextualising Robert Musil: the author ‘without qualities’ and European culture
The conference will investigate influences on Robert Musil from the perspective of various cultural traditions of the 19th and the 20th century. Though the central focus will be on Musil himself, the remit is broad and contributors may range over such themes as Romanticism in Britain and Europe as a whole, modernism, intertextuality, theory and practice of the encyclopaedic European novel, Austrian prose and its transnational outreach, and the interplay of aesthetics and morality within modern European culture.
Programme & Booking Form
Venue and Information
Lancaster University
Department of European Languages and Cultures, Bowland North, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT, www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/eurolang/news/musil/index.htm
Monday 17 September – Sunday 23 September 2007
Trafalgar Square, London
The 7th Lomography World Congress London 2007
Upon invitation by the London Design Festival, the Lomographic Society International will present an extraordinary exhibition at Trafalgar Square, showing a snapshot portrait of the world on a gigantic LomoWorldWall with over 100.000 images shot by people from all over the planet. During the Lomography World Congress participants will be offered to take part in a wide range of events and workshops as well as the opportunity to have their weeks work on display on the growing part of the LomoWorldWall.
Venue and Information
Trafalgar Square, London
Lomographic Society International,
Hollergasse 41, 1150 Vienna, T 0043-1-89944660 (Katja Kulidzhanova, Vienna) or 020 74980500 (Linda Scott, London), www.lomography.com/congress2007
Friday 6 – Sunday 8 July 2007
University of Southampton
Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe
The main focus of this conference will be on the position and uses of German in relation to other languages in the current reshaping of central European space – whether as the dominant, officially legitimated language of Germany or Austria, as the minority language of historical migrations, or as a (potential) regional lingua franca occupying the middle ground between global English and ‘national’ languages.
Keynote speakers: Thomas Diez (Birmingham), Matthias Makowski (Prague), Ulrike Hanna Meinhof (Southampton), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster/Vienna).
Venue and Information
University of Southampton
Modern Languages, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
E: glipp@soton.ac.uk, www.glipp.soton.ac.uk/conference.html
May – June 2007
London
Reunion
A project by Sophie Hope / B+B
Reunion is a two year contemporary visual arts project consisting of research, meetings, residencies and exhibitions that try out ideas and reflect on what it means to be political as a cultural producer in Europe today.
The programme involves artists from the UK and the rest of Europe, with an emphasis on South East Europe. The focus on this geographical area stems from a need to expand UK perspectives to culture and challenge perceptions of the ‘new’ Europe. By offering opportunities for meetings, creating new work and presenting existing work for artists in the UK and South Eastern Europe, Reunion hopes to develop a wider understanding of an enlarging European Union and the impact this has on culture.
Contribute to The 2007 Almanac of Political Art!
To mark two years of Reunion an Almanac of Political Art will be edited, printed and distributed in one day to capture meanings, facts, fictions and predictions of political art in the year 2007. You are invited to make a contribution to this snap shot in time. Your contribution will be used by guest editors and contributors as the subject for discussion on a production and editing day on 30 June 2007, which you are all invited to.
How to contribute
Editor at large: Sophie Hope
Guest Editors: Simona Nastac and others TBC (if you would like to put your name forward as an editor please email mail@reunionprojects.org.uk)
Contributors so far include: allsopp&weir, Djordje Balmazovic, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Igor Grubic, John Jordan and Nada Prlja
The Discussion and production of The 2007 Almanac of Political Art will be on
30 June 2007 from 11am – 4pm at the
Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7
Reunion received support from the Austrian Cultural Forum London.
For further information about Reunion, public events, presentations and the Almanac please go to: www.reunionprojects.org.uk or email mail@reunionprojects.org.uk