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Organized by Nele Hempel-Lamer Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association
Department of Romance, German, Russian
Languages and Literatures, California State University, Long Beach Thursday, 26 April - Saturday, 28 April, 2012
<http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/rgrll/> California State University Long Beach

The Conference is generously supported by: ________________________________

Center for Austrian Studies Keynote Speakers:
at the University of Minnesota
Barbara Neuwirth and Harald Friedl
Office of the Provost ________________________________
at California State University Long Beach

College of Liberal Arts
at California State University Long Beach
Department of Romance, Russian, German

Languages and Literatures
at California State University Long Beach

Thursday, April 26 __________________________________

6:30 pm Morning Session I
Opening Reception at the residence of Friday, 10:00-11:30 am
Dr. Karin Proidl, Consul General of Austria in Los Angeles
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Friday, 10:00-11:30 am
Friday, April 27 Anatol Center
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7:45 - 8:30 am Breakfast and Conference Registration
Anatol Center Patio Room After the Great War
(registration will continue here throughout the day)
Moderator: Jacqueline Vansant
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8:30 – 9:00 am Words of Welcome: Globales Denken? Hofmannsthals Idee von Europa
Nele Hempel-Lamer, California State University Long Beach, Conference Organizer Wolfgang Nehring, University of California, Los Angeles
Lisa Vollendorf, Chair of the Department of Romance, German, Russian
"Die Senkgrube des Vergessens": Alfred Polgar, World War I and the
Languages and Literatures, California State University Long Beach Viennese Feuilleton
Gerry Riposa, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts,
Ari Linden, Cornell University
California State University Long Beach
Karin Proidl, Consul General of Austria in Los Angeles Österreichische Aktion: The Fate of Monarchism during the First Republic
Janek Wasserman, University of Alabama
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Friday, 9:00-9:30 am __________________________________
Keynote Address
Anatol Center Friday, 10:00-11:30 am
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Barbara Neuwirth
Politics through Fiction
„Migration, der stete Fluss der Globalisierung“
Moderator: Jakub S. Beneš
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Habsburg recycelt: Alfred Kubins Die andere Seite
Stefan Krammer, Universität Wien

From the Island of the Blessed to the Underworld: Transforming Austria’s
Global Image in Gerhard Roth’s Orkus

Anita McChesney, Texas Tech University

Große Finanzkrisen - kleines Österreich. Literarische Vermessungen
politischer Ökonomien rund um die Jahre 1929 und 2008

Sabine Zelger, Universität Wien

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Friday, 10:00-11:30 am Friday, 11:45 am -1:15 pm
Morning Session I, AS 243 AS 384
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Residues of Nazism Gender Politics

Moderator: Allyson Fiddler Moderator: Heike Henderson

Paul Hörbiger’s Roles in Nazi Comedy and Propaganda Film Shaking the Empire, Shaking Patriarchy: Austro-Hungarian Feminisms in a
Joseph Moser, Randolph-Macon College Trans-Regional and Trans-Border Context

Challenge from the Periphery: Postwar Austria in Die Flucht ins Schilf (1953) Agatha Schwartz, University of Ottawa, and Helga Thorson,
Mary Wauchope, San Diego State University University of Victoria

Fragt…forscht…widersteht… : Education in Elisabeth Reichart’s “Von Männer[n], Maschinen und monotoner Masturbation”: Migration und
Komm über den See Männlichkeit in Dimitré Dinevs Engelszungen

Jennifer L. Good, Baylor University Michael Boehringer, University of Waterloo

__________________________________ Conceptualizing the Social and Political Life of Jewish Women through the
Lens of Karl Emil Franzos' Ghetto Tales
Morning Session II
Friday, 11:45 am -1:15 pm Katarzyna Kowalczyk, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Friday, 11:45 am -1:15 pm Friday, 11:45 am -1:15 pm
Anatol Center AS 243
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Colonial Others, in an Austrian Key The Global Stefan Zweig

Moderator: Robert von Dassanowsky Moderator: Jeffrey High

Austria and Portugal – Distance without Contact or Contact without “… bis in den letzten Winkel der Erde”: The Reception of the Austrian
Memory? Writer Stefan Zweig in China

David Schriffl, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle, University of London

From Vienna Circle to Analytic Philosophy and Its Others: The Export of Globale Geschichtsschreibung: Zu Stefan Zweigs Sternstunden der
Austrian Philosophy Menschheit

Katherine Arens, University of Texas at Austin Hans Wagener, University of California Los Angeles

"Stalins Brückenköpfe in Österreich”: Hans Weigel und der Kalte Krieg __________________________________
Wolfgang Straub, Universität Wien
LUNCH BREAK
Friday 1:15 - 2:15 pm

Anatol Center Patio Room

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Afternoon Session I Friday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Friday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm AS 243
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Women
Friday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Anatol Center Moderator: Dagmar Lorenz
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Kein Drachenopfer!: Marlene Streeruwitz: Die Schmerzmacherin
Austria from the Peripheries I Sabine Kock, Association of Independent Theaterwork Austria

Moderator: Robert von Dassanowsky “Culture Shock” Grows Up: Barbara Frischmuth’s Mature Cross-Cultural
Novel Vergiss Egypten (2008) as a Sequel to Das Verschwinden des
Peripheral Desires: Sex, Knowledge and the Orient in Leopold von Schattens in der Sonne (1973)
Andrian’s Der Garten der Erkenntnis (1895)
Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
Heidi Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University
Weinviertel: welthaltig -- Zum Heimatbegriff bei Barbara Neuwirth
Images of Russia and the United States in Inter-War Viennese Operetta Maximilian Aue, Emory University
Ulrike Petersen, University of California, Berkeley
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Csárdás in 3/4 Time: the Post-Imperial Cinema World in Interwar Austria
and Hungary Afternoon Session II
Friday, 4:15 - 5:45 pm
Andrew Behrendt, University of Pittsburgh
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Friday, 4:15 - 5:45 pm
Friday, 2:30 - 4:00 pm Anatol Center
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Austria from the Peripheries II
Nature
Moderator: Craig Decker
Moderator: Rebecca Hermann
Czech Mates and Colonial Fantasies: Exoticizing the Proximate Other and
Between Nature and Culture: Tourism and Austrian Identity in the Ironizing the Self in Brod, Musil, and Broch
Twentieth Century
Robert Lemon, University of Oklahoma
Andrew Denning, Western Washington University
“Alles, was gut ist, ist türkisch, was schlecht ist, ist deutsch”: Die serbische
Climbing Routes, Reading Routes: Physical and Simulated Space in kulturelle Identität in der Klemme zwischen dem Osmanischen Reich und
Christoph Ransmayr's Der fliegende Berg der Habsburgermonarchie

Gloria Man, University of Washington Ana Foteva, University of Minnesota at Morris

The Birth of Modern Czech out of the Spirit of the Austrian Enlightenment
David Luft, Oregon State University

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Friday, 4:15 - 5:45 pm Friday, 6:15 pm
AS 384
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Film: Documentaries and Beyond Gladstone’s at Shoreline Village
330 South Pine Ave
Moderator: Beret Norman Long Beach, CA 90802

Lungo drom __________________________________
Ursula Knoll, Universität Wien
Saturday, April 28
Harald Friedl’s documentaries, “Aus der Zeit” (2007) and “Mein Leben als
Apfelbaum” (2012) 8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast
Anatol Center Patio Room
Curtis Maughan, California State University Long Beach
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Prater Time Machine: Ulrike Ottinger’s Cultural History of Amusement
Todd Herzog, University of Cincinnati Morning Session I
Saturday, 9:00-10:30 am
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Friday, 4:15 - 5:45 pm
AS 243 Saturday, 9:00 -10:30am
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Dreams and Visions: Changing Places
Travelers
Moderator: Lauren Brooks
Moderator: Katherine Arens
Dream Images from Austria: Oskar Kokoschka between Freud and
Kandinsky “As if it were from America”: An Eighteenth-Century Austrian Botanist’s
Detailed Observations of the Peoples and Customs of Philadelphia,
Robert W. Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte Williamsburg, and Charleston

Like Oil and Water: A Cultural Analysis of Ann Cotten’s Poem “Wenn ich Heather Morrison, State University of New York at New Paltz
saufe, verlieren sich”
“Echte Neger” in Vienna: The 1896 Ethnological Exhibit and Peter
Jamele Watkins, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Altenberg’s Ashantee

“Curtiz is insane […] And Vienna is the asshole of Europe”: Michael Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College
Curtiz’s A Breath of Scandal
Austria & the (Frozen) World Stage: The Reception of the Tegetthoff
Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan-Dearborn Expedition

Stephen A. Walsh, Harvard University

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Saturday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Saturday, 10:45 am -12:15 pm
AS 384 AS 384
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Theater Politics Austrians and Other Intrigues

Moderator: Todd Herzog Moderator: Wyatt Fry

Österreich 2000: Gegen/Reden. International Espionage, Intrigue, and Love in the Fiction of Mitgutsch,
Susanne Hochreiter, Universität Wien Rabinovici, and Vertlib

Wolfgang Bauer, Global Player und "Revolutionär im Kampf gegen Dagmar Lorenz, University of Illinois at Chicago
Etiketten": Aspekte zur internationalen Rezeption Bauers und zur Welt
außerhalb Österreichs in seinem Werk Mythos Kaffeehaus: Eine Wiener Institution als Schauplatz für
Kriminalgeschichten der Gegenwart
Thomas Antonic, Universität Wien
Heike Henderson, Boise State University
The Cultural Politics of Sport in Elfriede Jelinek’s Das Sportstück
Edward Muston, Dickinson College The Intrigues of Global Security: Marlene Streeruwitz's Die
Schmerzmacherin
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Helga Kraft, University of Illinois at Chicago
Morning Session II
Saturday, 10:45 am - 12:15 pm __________________________________

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AS 243
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Anatol Center
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Culture Transfers: Coming to Vienna Moderator: Sophia Clark

Moderator: Katherine Arens Pan-Europe’s Cosmopolitan Outsiders
Katherine Sorrels, University of Cincinnati
Wiener Komödie und Londoner Theater um 1800: Zur Skurrilität eines
marginalen Kulturtransfers Austria as a Microcosm of the West in Peter Rosei’s Recent Novels
Geoffrey C. Howes, Bowling Green State University
Matthias Mansky, Universität Wien
Stopsley, Burma, and Vienna: Global Spaces in Eva Menasse`s VIENNA
Das Nationalgemüth der Literatur: Hieronymus Lorms „Wien’s Poetische Alexandra Pölzlbauer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Schwingen und Federn“ (1847)
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Karin S. Wozonig, Hamburg
LUNCH BREAK
Rule, Britannia?: The importance of British music and fashion for Austrian Saturday 12:15 - 1:15 pm
youth from the 1960s to the 1980s
Anatol Center Patio Room
Bianca Zaininger, University of London
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__________________________________ A Dwarf amongst Giants: The Legacy of Jewish Modernism in Arnon
Grunberg's "The Story of My Boldness"
Afternoon Session I
Saturday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Brechtje Beuker, University of California, Los Angeles

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Saturday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Saturday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Anatol Center AS 243
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Politics Apocalyptic Visions

Moderator: Curtis Maughan Moderator: Geoffrey C Howes

The Last World Empire?: Political Ideology, International Military Service, Vacuum Stories?: Peter Rosei's Sketch for a World Without People and
and the Habsburgs in the Seventeenth Century Ecological Writing of the 1970s

Suzanne Sutherland Duchacek, Stanford University Paul Buchholz, Scripps College

International Socialism on the Austrian Model? The Unlikely Afterlife of Why the Last Man on Earth is Austrian: Thomas Glavinic’s Die Arbeit der
Late Habsburg Austro-Marxism” Nacht (2006)

Jakub S. Beneš, University of California, Davis Laura McLary, University of Portland

Diplomacy, Discipline, and Sovereignty: Habsburg Efforts to Secure US __________________________________
Compliance with the Culture of Great Power Diplomacy
Afternoon Session II
Nicole M. Phelps, University of Vermont Saturday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm

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Saturday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Saturday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm
AS 384 Anatol Center
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Jewish Voices on an International Stage Performing Resistance, Performing Memory

Moderator: Joseph W. Moser Moderator: Karl Solibakke

“In the Prater, One is Happy": The Prater and the Jews in the early 20th Sounding out Austria: Acoustic Protest against the Political “Wende” of
Century 1999/2000

Hillary Hope Herzog, University of Kentucky Allyson Fiddler, Lancaster University

 
A Supremacy of Intellectual Values?: Felix Salten and the PEN conference “The Space Between Remembering and Forgetting”
in Ragusa in 1933 Karen Frostig, Brandeis University

Andre Schwarz, Philipps-Universität Marburg/Lahn and
literaturkritik.de

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Saturday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm
AS 384 Thomas Antonic Curtis Maughan
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Maximilian Aue
Out of the Ruins: At the End of WW II Andrew Behrendt Laura McLary
Jakub S. Beneš Imke Meyer
Moderator: Daniel Gilfillan Brechtje Beuker Heather Morrison
Michael Boehringer Joseph Moser
Wiedersehen mit Czernowitz Paul Buchholz Edward Muston
Bianca Rosenthal, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Andrew Denning Wolfgang Nehring
Suzanne Sutherland Duchacek Barbara Neuwirth
Österreichische Exilorganisationen im amerikanischen Exil: Der Kampf um Allyson Fiddler Ulrike Petersen
Nachkriegsösterreich Nicole M. Phelps
Ana Foteva Alexandra Pölzlbauer
Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont Harald Friedl Bianca Rosenthal
Karen Frostig Pamela S. Saur
Austrian Women and the Aftermath of World War II Jennifer L. Good Heidi Schlipphacke
Undine S. Weber, Rhodes University (South Africa) Heike Henderson Helga Schreckenberger
Hillary Hope Herzog David Schriffl
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Saturday, 5:15 pm Susanne Hochreiter Agatha Schwartz
Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle Katherine Sorrels
Film Screening Geoffrey C. Howes Wolfgang Straub
Ursula Knoll Jacqueline Vansant
followed by Q&A with the director Sabine Kock Hans Wagener
Lecture Hall 150 Katarzyna Kowalczyk Stephen A. Walsh
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Stefan Krammer Jamele Watkins
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Harald Friedl Robert Lemon Mary Wauchope
Undine S. Weber
„Mein Leben als Apfelbaum“ (2011) Ari Linden Robert W. Whalen
Dagmar Lorenz Karin S. Wozonig
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David Luft Sabine Zelger
Gloria Man
Matthias Mansky