In conjunction with the ACF’s exhibition Art Meets Language this illustrated talk scrutinises translation processes inherent in the field of visual arts. Franz Thalmair, independent arts writer and curator, will examine the relationship between content, medium and form. As managing curator at the Vienna Secession, Thalmair is interested in the process of interpretation of language-based […]
Archives for September, 2013
The novel under review unfolds as an elderly Austrian Jew, Nathan Menzel, narrates the memories of his early adulthood in the Vienna, London, and New York of the 1930’s and 40’s to a young music journalist. In my commentary, I wish to highlight some of the ways in which the book, which was translated from […]
Call for Contributions Everyday Life in Emigration: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Volume 16 a peer-reviewed journal published by Rodopi Proposals for contributions are requested on the subject of everyday life in emigration, for vol. 16 of the Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, […]
Call for Papers Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association 1914: Preludes and Echoes / Auftakt und Widerhall 6-9 February 2014 Austin, Texas AT&T Conference Center U of Texas at Austin Abstracts due: 15 September 2013 Acceptances by: 1 October 2013 2014asaconference@gmail.com Organizer: Katherine Arens, U of Texas at Austin Conference website […]