‘Interrogating Ellie’ is a book about an English woman’s experience in Austria during the Nazi period. An associated web site is designed as an educational resource to introduce students to this period. It can be found here: http://www.interrogating-ellie.com The book and website use the central story of one individual’s experiences to ‘bring history to life.’ I […]
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Call for Proposals Austrian Studies 24 (2016): Jews and Austrian Culture What it means to be Jewish in Austria is deeply rooted in the past, but also continues to evolve. Although confronted with antisemitism, Austrian Jews ranging from strongly assimilationist to ardently Zionist drove and supported some of the most well-known ideas and […]
Fellowship Application Guidelines 2015 The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) is accepting applications for the Botstiber Fellowship in Austrian-American Studies. The fellowship will be awarded to a scholar or professional who seeks funds for a project that promotes an understanding of the historic relationship between Austria and the United States. A grant of up […]
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By Isabella Ferron I would like to join the Austrian Forum with a short article about the Austrian author, journalist and essayist, descending from a highly assimilated Jewish family originated from Prague, Anton Kuh (Vienna 1890-1941 New York). Anton Kuh, as I hope to show, was not only a very unique writer but also a […]
Last September, I began an MPhil on the subject of Austro-Hungarian art and poetry of WWI, analysing the ways in which the landscapes of the Italian front were represented by soldiers. Although the Austro-Hungarian response to WWI was unique, little attention has been paid to the ways in which the art and poetry of the Dual […]
Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature, London at the Institute of Modern Languages Research CALL FOR PAPERS: ‚ES GEHT UNS GUT‘ – Recent Trends in (Re)writing the Past in Austrian Literature since 2000 A one-day conference at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London Thursday, 27 November, 2014 Organizer: Heide Kunzelmann (Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for […]
A Storybook Homecoming? Remigration in Context Symposium at the University of Vienna, Department of German Studies, and the Vienna City Library 19–21 February 2015 Call for papers The Austrian critic and author Hans Weigel called his return to Austria after his exile in Switzerland in autumn of 1945 a „storybook-homecoming“. He quickly gained […]
The Anglo-Austrian Society proposes to make a further award for doctoral study, funded from the Otto Harpner Fund and the Angela Krosik Bequest, to a British or Austrian citizen from September 2014. The award is for doctoral research on a topic related to Austria. The award may be used for tuition fees or maintenance, or […]
With globalisation comes the need to redefine boundaries and research agendas of academic fields and the Humanities, especially Foreign languages, are no exception. With the decline in language learners in the UK and the public and political discussion about the necessity of language learning that has been haunting the media for a while now (click […]
INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE at the INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH (IMLR), UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS WITH NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 20 MARCH 2014 11th IBC International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature and Culture Studies WEDNESDAY, 3 AND THURSDAY, 4 JULY 2014 Venue: IMLR, Senate House, Malet […]
This is the transcript of a lecture held at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London, on 29th October, 2013. Austrianresearchuk would like to thank Professor Andrew Barker for his permission to publish his lecture. His most recent book, “Fictions from an Orphan State” (Camden House, 2012) can be ordered here. RECENT NEWS on 15 Jan 2014: […]
David Gordon reviews Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture • Edited by Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox • Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009, in the light of Austrian Economics: “The contributors to this outstanding collection of essays propose a revolution in literary criticism — a revolution, moreover, that has as […]
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 […]
2014 LEO BAECK YEAR BOOK ESSAY PRIZE The Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry is delighted to announce its 2014 Year Book Essay Prize. The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book is a fully refereed Oxford journal. The Leo Baeck Essay Prize was established to: • Stimulate […]
Our colleagues at the University of Vienna, Michael Rohrwasser and Günther Stocker, have issued a Call for Papers that relates to a period in Austrian Cultural and Literary history which had not been addressed in such an explicit way over many decades. Now that Post-War times are more than 60 years in the past and Austria’s role in […]
For everybody interested in New Austrian Literature: this week, the English translation of Sabine Gruber’s “Roman Elegy” was launched at the Austrian Cultural Forum London: Tuesday 16 April, 7pm 2013 A compelling tale of lost love, hatred, and reconciliation, during some of the darkest periods of European history. From Rome in the fascist 1940s, to the […]
Originally posted on Cataloguing the Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert Miller Archive:
Hello, and welcome to my blog about a project to catalogue the papers of Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert Miller. Martin and Hannah were Austrian Jewish actors, active in the theatre in 1930s Vienna, who came to London as refugees in 1939. The couple were pivotal…
CLICK HERE FOR THE REVIEW BY HELEN FINCH! When Josef Fritzl was charged with incestuous rape, among several other offences against universal humane – ethical standards, in 2009, the global press took notice and over a period of many months, the question whether this was a ‘typically Austrian’ crime, given Austria’s Nazi past and its difficulties with […]
(Quoted from University of Sussex’ Website:) “University of Sussex academic Professor Ladislaus Löb has been presented with the annual Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award. The award was made at a special ceremony at the Austrian Embassy this week (Monday 10 December 2012) for Professor Löb’s book recounting the life of the man who saved him from […]
INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE at the INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON CALL FOR PAPERS Conference: “Translating Gender in Modern Austrian Literature” 8 May 2013 Venue: University of London, Senate House, G35 Co-organised by Heide Kunzelmann (IBC London) & Birgit Friedrich (Centre of Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, Nottingham) Keynote […]
On behalf of Dr Katia Pizzi (IGRS, School of Advanced Studies, University of London) I would lke to draw your attention to the following talk by the inspiring young American researcher, Dr Sabrina Rahman, who has spent a few weeks with us in London as SAS Leverhulme Research Fellow. Her Seminar talk for the Centre […]
Last Monday, on 19 November 2012, Professor Konstanze Fliedl (Vienna) gave a greatly recieved lecture entitled “A Farewell to Words. Zu den Uebersetzungen von Ingeborg Bachmanns Abschied von England“ at the University of London. The lecture was the 4th Biennial IBC Lecture and formed part of the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre’s 10th Anniversary Celebrations. Konstanze Fliedl’s excellent semantic and metric analysis of […]
