Registration, Del Brown Room, Turner Hall
Coffee and breakfast snacks

Session I: Del Brown Room, Turner Hall
Moderator: Jackie Vansant

Agnieska B. Nance, Texas State University, San Marcos:
Polish Galicia through the Eyes of an Austrian – Images of 1846 in Marie von Ebner-  Eschenbach’s Kreisphysikus and  Jakob Szela

Katherine Arens, University of Texas, Austin:
Das Kloster bei Sendomir”: Grillparzer’s Non-National Historical Literacy

David Luft, University of California, San Diego:  Austrian Literature and Bohemia

Session IIa: Del Brown Room, Turner Hall
Moderator: Eva Kuttenberg

Ulrich E. Bach, Stanford University:
Transcending Central Europe: Robert Müller, the Poet of Transgression

Susanne Kelley, University of Nevada, Reno:
Austria’s Position between Europe and Asia: Karl Emil Franzos and Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Alexis Pong, University of California, Berkeley:
The Imagined Legacy of the Austrian Empire in Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch: The Literary Construction of a Habsburg Myth

Session IIb: President’s Room, Brantly Hall
Moderator: Wolfgang Nehring

Lorely French, Pacific University:
The Roma as European Family? Family Structures in Writings
by Austrian Roma

Robert von Dassanowsky, University of Colorado:
“To experience the taste of the Inexpressible”: Austrian Context and Intertext as Marxist Foil in Andrzej Kusniewicz’s Krol obojga Sycylii (The King of the Two Sicilies)

Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington:
Poesie und Trauma der Grenze: Literarische Grenzfiktionen bei Ingeborg Bachmann und Terézia Mora

LUNCH: University Center Room 330
Welcome: Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences: Gerald A. Fetz

Session IIIa – Del Brown Room, Turner Hall:
Moderator: Rebecca Thomas

Winfried R. Garscha, Austrian Research Center for PostwarTrials, Vienna:
Overcoming Pan-Germanism. Patterns of identity Discourses in Austria, 1945-2005

Georg Grote, University of Dublin:
Wenn die Schutzmacht Schutz braucht – Südtirol, Österreich und die Dynamik des modernen westeuropäischen Regionalismus

Manfred Bansleben, University of Washington:
Österreich und die nicht-deutschen Reparationen nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg

Session IIIb – President’s Room, Brantly Hall
Moderator: Joseph Moser

Maria-Regina Kecht, Rice University:
Ein mitteleuropäisches Gesellschaftspanorama? – Gedanken zu Doron Rabinovici’s Roman Ohnehin

Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont:
Vladimir Vertlibs Zwischenstationen – ein österreichischer Roman?

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, University of Illinois, Chicago:
Vladimir Vertlib, a “Global” Intellectual. New Dimensions of Exile and Homelessness

Session IVa: Del Brown Room, Turner Hall
Moderator: Robert von Dassanowsky

Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan, Dearborn:
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Hollywood’s Austria

Heidi Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University:
Transcending Austria: Haneke’s La Pianiste as Post-National Eurofilm

Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College:
Post-Empire, Post-Apocalypse? Michael Haneke’s Film Wolfzeit

Alexandra Huster, New York University:
Desiring Subjects

Session IVb: Presiden’ts Room, Brantly Hall
Moderator: Dennis McCormick

Horst Jarka, University of Montana:
Armut in Kakanien. Seltene Seitenblicke amerikanischer und englischer Reisender.

David Colclasure, Monterey Institute of International Studies:
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Primus-Heinz Kucher, Universität Klagenfurt:
Transkulturalität und ästhetischer Eigensinn. Anmerkungen zur österreichischen Ghettoprosa von Leopold Kompert bis Fred Wander.

Author Reading: Zdenka Becker
Del Brown Room, Turner Hall

DINNER: University Center Room 330

Keynote Speaker: Botschafter Dr. Emil Brix

MALCA Executive Board Meeting
Room: TBA

Session V: Del Brown Room, Turner Hall
Moderator: Imke Meyer

Clemens Ruthner, University of Alberta:
Kakanien Revisited. Grundzüge einer “postkonialen” Österreich-Germanistik, Ergebnisse und Reaktionen

Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State University:
Destabilizing Globalization through Experimental Radio: The Example of Gordan Paunovi? and Kunstradio

Bernhard Doppler, Universität Paderborn:
Träume vom neunten Land. Slowenien im Irrealis

Session VIa: Del Brown Room, Turner Hall
Moderator: David Luft

Wolfgang Nehring, UCLA:
Tschechisch, böhmisch, zentraleuropäisch – unsterblich: Zum Erzählen des Autors Milan Kundera

Joseph W. Moser, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
Thomas Bernhard’s Romanticized View of Austria-Hungary

Ruxandra Mandoiu, Emory University:
Extraterritorial Spatiality: Intersections between the Postimperial and the Postcolonial in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Writing

Session VIb:President’s Room, Brantly Hall
Moderator: Heidi Schlipphacke

Paul F. Dvorak, Virginia Commonwealth University:
Literature and Provincialism: The Case of Alois Brandstetter

Raymond Burt, University of North Carolina, Wilmington:
Folklore and Psychoanalysis: Vienna interpreting Serbian Folklore

Eva Kuttenberg, Pennsylvania State University, Erie:
Arthur Schnitzler’s Cinematography: Getting the Image Out of the Box

LUNCH: University Center Room 326

Annual Open Business Meeting

Session VIIa: Del Brown Room, Turner Hall

Moderator: Clemens Ruthner

Robert Weldon Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte:
A Surprising Pre-History of Post-Modernism: Franz Brentano, Fin-de-siècle Vienna, and Contemporary European Thought

Heidi Rauscher Tilghman, University of Washington:
Viennese Longings: Berlin and Chicago in the Modernist Imagination

Sabrina K. Rahman, University of California, Berkeley:
Austria on Parade: The Staging of Ethnicity in the 1908 Imperial Jubilee

Session VIIb:President’s Room, Brantly Hall
Moderator: Gerlinde Ulm Sanford

Pam Saur, Lamar University:
Austria in Péter Esterházy’s Postmodern Hungarian Novels

Mari Tarvas, Pädagogische Universtät Tallinn (Estland):
Veränderungen des Österreichbildes in Estland

Istvan Gombocz, University of South Dakota:
Remembering, Forgiving, and Nostalgia in Sándor Márai’s Novel Embers

Coffee Break

Session VIII: Del Brown Room, Turner Hall
Panel: Belonging and Otherness in Multiethnic Austria
Moderator: Robert Weigel
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Geoffrey Howes, Bowling Green State University:
The Madness of Count Chojnicki: Habsburg Cultural Pessimism in Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch

Margy Gerber, Bowling Green State University:
Emigrant/Immigrant Experience as an Ever-Changing Silhouette. Vladimir Vertlib’s Quest for an Austrian Heimat

Nikhil Sathe, Ohio University:
Family Ties?: Images of Eastern Europeans in Recent Austrian Film

Christina Guenther, Bowling Green State University:
Vienne Multiehtnicity at the Turn of the 21st Century: A Comparison of Ruth Beckermann’s Homemad(e) and Doron Rabinovici’s Ohnehin

Author Reading: Martin Pollack

DINNER: University Center Room 326

Session
Moderator: Geoffrey Howes

Patricia Simpson, Montana State University:
Edges of the Empire: “Ceremonial” Hatred in Arthur Schnitzler’s The Road into the Open

Edna Epelbaum, New York University:
The Act of Transgression: Elfriede Jelinek and the Politics of the Burgtheater

Gerlinde Ulm Sanford, Syracuse University Österreich, österreichisch: was bedeutet das heute im Ausland?

Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr:
Austrian Contemporary Film Production, New Political, Social and International Topics, Trends, and Implications. Major Austrian Film Festivals (Diagonale, Viennale, etc.)