Austrian Studies Association Conference 2023
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA
14-16 April 2023
The Max Kade Center for German Studies in the Department of Languages and Literary Studies hosts the annual interdisciplinary
REIMAGINING SPACE, PLACE, AND BELONGING IN AUSTRIAN HISTORY, POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND FILM
This conference is dedicated to the scholarly examination of historical, political, literary, and cinematic works from Austria that celebrate its linguistic and cultural diversity while also dealing with the complexities of belonging and displacement, diaspora, and migration.
Co Organizers: Barbara Kosta (U of Arizona) and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Lafayette College)
Sponsorship: Austrian Cultural Forum NY, Botstiber Foundation, Max Kade Foundation, the Offices of the President and Provost, and Departments of Languages & Literary Studies, History, Film and Media Studies, Jewish Studies, and International Affairs.
We thank the Austrian Cultural Forum NY, the Botstiber Foundation, and the Max Kade Foundation for generously supporting the conference participation of guest authors and graduate students.
THURSDAY, April 13 OPENING RECEPTION
6:00 – 8:00 PM Max Kade Haus, 606 McCartney Road, Easton PA
FRIDAY, April 14
7:30 AM REGISTRATION & Continental Breakfast
Farinon Bldg. – Marlo Room
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SESSION I – EXILE I
8:00 – 9:15 AM Farinon Bldg. – Marlo Room
Moderator: Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (Lafayette College)
Peter Lubrecht (New York), “Lost Literati: Journalists Victor and Anni Polzer”
Sarah Paintiz (Butler University), “Something New, Something Gained? Three Exile Poets in New York”
Anna Souchuk (DePaul University), “Elfriede Jelinek’s Exile: Considering the Refugee Experience in and out of Austria”
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SESSION II – IMAGINING SPACE AND PLACE IN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE
9:20 – 10:35 AM (parallel) Farinon Bldg. – Marlo Room
Moderator: Michael Burri (Haverford-Bryn Mawr College)
Joseph Moser (West Chester University), “Political Populism in Doron Rabnivoci’s Novel Die Einstellung (2022)“
Sɫawomir Piontek (Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität, Poland), “Der europäische Mythos in der österreichischen Literatur des 21. Jahrhunderts, oder wie sich Robert Menasse Europa vorstellt und was daraus für Österreich resultiert. Überlegungen zu Robert Menasses neuesten Romanen”
Pam Saur (Lamar University), “Placelessness in Gerhard Roth’s Last Novel Die Imker (2022)”
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SESSION III – VIENNA I
9:20 – 10:35 AM (parallel) Hogg Hall – Interfaith Chapel
Moderator: David Luft (University of Oregon)
Alexander Vari (Marywood University), “Historical Replicas, Geographical Simulacra and Mechanical Wonders: Amusements Parks and Their Role in Globalizing the Urban Popular Culture of Vienna and Budapest, 1890-1914”
Tim Corbett (Vienna), “Ghosts of Old Vienna: The Contemporary Cityscape and the Haunted Urban Aesthetics of the Past”
Iris Luppa (London Southbank University), “‘Alt-Wien’ at the Universal Backlot: The Cinematic Re-imagining of Vienna in Max Ophuls’ Letter from an Unknown Woman (US, 1947)”
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SESSION IV – TRANSNATIONAL DISLOCATIONS
10:40 – 11:55 AM (parallel) Hogg Hall – Interfaith Chapel
Moderator: Imke Meyer (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Bernhard Doppler (Universität Paderborn), „Option für alte oder neue Heimat. Die Südtiroler Auswanderungskampagne 1939 im Tiroler Volksstück“
Winfried R. Garscha (Dokumentationszentrum des österr. Widerstands, Vienna), “‘My community used to be the human race; is Jewishness now suddenly supposed to replace humanity?’ Discourses of Belonging and Identity in Ruth Maier’s Diary”
Laura A. Detre (West Chester University), “The Misrepresentation of Hedy Lamarr and the book Ecstasy and Me”
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SESSION V – LITERARY PROVOCATIONS
10:40 – 11:55 AM (parallel) Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
Moderator: Geoffery Howes (Bowling Green State University)
Helga Schreckenberger (University of Vermont), “Challenging the Monolingual Paradigm: Vladimir Vertlib’s Schimons Schweigen (2012)”
Aviv Hilbig-Bokaer (New York University), “Epilepsy as Form in Thomas Bernhard’s Amras (1964)”
Elke Nicolai (Hunter College),“Social Commentary on the Rise of Fascism in Austria: The Writings of Veza Canetti”
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12:00 – 12:20 PM Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
Address by ASA President Teresa Kovacs and announcement of ASA awards
Announcement by Melina Tsiamos, ACFNY Deputy Director, and Kevin McNamara, Botstiber Foundation Managing Director of grants for graduate students
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12:25 – 1:25 PM LUNCH
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SESSION VI – THE WORK OF THEATER AND PERFORMANCE
1:30 – 2:45 PM (parallel) Hogg Hall – Interfaith Chapel
Moderator: Anna Souchuk (DePaul University)
Brian Hensley (Indiana University), “Nervous Modernism and Hofmannsthal’s Elektra”
Peter Höyng (Emory University), “On Jelinek’s Absence on Stages in North America: A Comparative Look at Cultural and Institutional Differences”
Katharina Schmid-Schmidsfelden (Indiana University), “Baden im Wolfgangsee: Rethinking the Relationship of Theater and Assembly through Christoph Schlingensief’s Chance 2000”
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SESSION VII – HABSBURG AUSTRIA
1:30 – 2:45 PM (parallel) Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
Moderator: Sarah Painitz (Butler University)
Heather Morrison (SUNY, New Paltz), “William Bolts: A Skilled Impostor’s Use of Varied Identities and the Spectacle of Power” in Habsburg Colonial Trade”
Andrea Seidler (Universität Wien), „Fremd-Sein in der Habsburger Monarchie: Das Beispiel des Daniel Cornides (1732-1787)”
Uta Degner (Universität Salzburg), “A Sense of One’s (and the Other One’s) Place: Johann Nestroy’s ‘Lokalpossen’“
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SESSION VIII – MINORITY CULTURES: ROMANI REPRESENTATIONS
2:50 – 4:25 PM (parallel) Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
Moderator: Barbara Kosta (University of Arizona)
Lorely French (Pacific University), “‘Romane Thana’: Romani Places in Ceija Stojka‘s Writings and Visual Arts”
Tim Olin (Central College) “’Nomad Swarms’ or ‘New Farmers’?: Roma in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy”
Fanny Orbán (Andrássy University Budapest), “Representations of Ethnicities of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Movie-Operettas”
Lawrence Alexander, (University of Cambridge), “Performing MSM Migrant Sex Work in Patric Chiha’s Brüder der Nacht (2016)”
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SESSION IX – LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
2:50 – 4:05 PM (parallel) Hogg Hall – Interfaith Chapel
Moderator: Joseph Moser (West Chester University)
Yaroslava Kovalova (University of Glasgow), “The Linguistic-Philosophical Epistemes in Elias Canetti’s Autobiographical Trilogy Die gerettete Zunge (1977), Die Fackel im Ohr (1980) and Das Augenspiel (1985)”
Katja Maierhofer (Universität Wien), “Knowledge Production in the Second Republic of Austria with special regard to ‘Language and Space’ as a notion of Linguistic Interest”
Christine Le Jeune (University of Florida), “Welcome to Our World”: Tourism Imaginaries and the (Re)/(Un-) Shaping of Place and People in Tyrol”
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4:15 – 5:00 PM BREAK
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5:00 – 5:15 PM TALK by Dr. Lydia Skarits, Head of Sector “Mobilität und Kooperation” – Österreichischer Akademischer Austauschdienst (OeAD)
Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
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5:20 – 6:45 PM READING by author and playwright PHILIPP WEISS, with an Introduction by Barbara Kosta (Univ. of Arizona)
Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
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Evening free
SATURDAY, April 15
7:30 AM REGISTRATION & Continental Breakfast
Farinon Bldg. – Marlo Room
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SESSION X – VIENNA II
8:00 – 9:15 AM Pardee Hall 429 – Max Kade Center
Moderator: Alex Hildebrandt (Moravian University)
Richard “Tres” Lambert (Gettysburg College), “Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt”: Hermynia zur Mühlen and Cultural Belonging in Red Vienna”
Swaantje Otto (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland), “The Non-Belonging of the ‘Naive’: Marianne from Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald and Horvarth’s Female Characters in the Viennese Interwar Period”
Tom Hedley (Trinity College Dublin), “Null mit Null multiplizieren” Modern Mathematics, Metamorphosis and “die neue Frau” in Mela Hartwig’s Bin ich ein überflüssiger Mensch? (1931)
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SESSION XI – EXILE II
9:20 – 10:55 AM (parallel) Pardee Hall 429 – Max Kade Center
Moderator: Dennis Johannßen (Lafayette College)
Ellen Pilsworth (U of Reading, UK) “‘Nicht nur die Juden geht es an’: Bruno Heilig’s writings and the Shoah in Austria“
Wiebke Sievers (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna), “Postmigrant Literary History: Pathways into a New Society”
Gideon Remez & Isabella Ginor (Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “An Austrian Patriot Malgré Lui: Max Eitingon in the Habsburg Army, World War I”
Maria Naganowska (Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität, Poland), „Die Verhandlungen der Zugehörigkeit im Roman Die Rückkehr von Ernst Lothar—eine Relektüre der Neuauflage”
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SESSION XII – AUSTRIA IN THE LENS OF FASCISM
9:20 – 10:55 AM (parallel) Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
Moderator: Britta Kallin (Georgia Institute for Technology)
Laura Morowitz (Wagner College), “The Nazi Erasure of the Fin de Siècle City: From Vienna 1900 to E.M. Emo’s Wien 1910”
Marie-Josée Lavallée (University of Montréal), “Forging the Austrian Nation in 1918-1919: The Case for the Anschluss”
Eric Grube (Boston College), “What’s in a Nazi Name? Anschluss, Altreich, & Austria, 1938-1945”
Mikkel Dack (Rowan University), “Denazification and Political Storytelling in Allied-Occupied Austria”
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SESSION XIII – AUSTRIAN SPATIAL IDENTITIES
11:00 – 12:15 AM (parallel) Hogg Hall – Interfaith Chapel
Moderator: Gerald Steinacher (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
David Luft (Oregon State University), “Intellectual History and Re-imagining Austrian Space”
Christian Karner (University of Lincoln, UK), “A church, a Street Magazine, and a Canal: On Some of Austria’s rarely Noticed lieux de mémoire”
Christian Hütterer (Parlamentsdirektion, Vienna), “The Parliament Building–an Austrian lieu de mémoire?”
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SESSION XIV – TRANSNATIONAL DISLOCATIONS II
11:00 – 12:15 AM (parallel) Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
Moderator: Elizabeth Ametsbichler (University of Montana)
Ivett Rita Guntersdorfer (Bowling Green SU / Salzburg), “The Interculturalist Author?—The European Understanding of Carl Markus Gauss”
Geoffrey C. Howes (Bowling Green State University), “Foreign at Home, At Home Abroad: Displacements in Marianne Jungmaier’s Fiction”
Marton Marko (University of Montana), “Utopian Shores: Water, Fluidity, and Anti-National Space in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Poetry”
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12:15 – 1:30 PM LUNCH
Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
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SESSION XV – INTERTEXTUAL ENCOUNTERS
1:30 – 2:45 PM (parallel) Pardee Hall 429 – Max Kade Center
Moderator: Elke Nicolai (Hunter College)
Birthe Hoffmann (University of Copenhagen), “Fremdheit und Ambivalenz–Familienähnlichkeiten zwischen Grillparzer, Stifter und Kafka”
Ekaterina Grineva (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder), “Imposter Phenomenon of the Baroque in Austrian Literature of the 1920s”
Daniela Roth (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax), “Tyll ist gekommen”: The Narr, Trauma, and the Truth in Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll (2017)”
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SESSION XVI – ELFRIEDE JELINEK
1:30 – 2:45 PM (parallel) Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
Moderator: Uta Degner (Universität Salzburg)
Britta Kallin (Georgia Institute of Technology), “Heimat Austria? Belonging to Austria?: Elfriede Jelinek’s Texts and the Austrian Nation”
Helga Kraft (University of Illinois, Chicago), “Elfriede Jelinek dekonstruiert die Struktur des Fremden in ‚Der fremde! störenfried der ruhe eines sommerabends der ruhe eines friedhofs’ (1967)“
Björn Treber (University of Minnesota), “Aesthetics of Placelessness. Spectral Reflections and Bloody Rootlessness in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Kinder der Toten (1995)”
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SESSION XVII – DISORIENTATIONS
2:50 – 4:05 PM (parallel) Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room
Moderator: Teresa Kovacs (University of Indiana)
Imke Meyer (University of Illinois, Chicago), “Inside Out: Space in Adalbert Stifter’s Turmalin”
Heidi Schlipphacke (University of Illinois, Chicago), “Against Belonging: An Aesthetics of Disorientation in Barbara Albert’s Film Licht”
Susanne Hochreiter (Universität Wien), “Von Rissen, Spalten, und Löchern: Aspekte von Raum und Zeit bei Raphaela Edelbauer und Marie Gamillscheg”
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SESSION XVIII – SONIC AFFILIATIONS and THE SENSES OF BELONGING
2:50 – 3:45 PM (parallel) Pardee Hall 429 – Max Kade Center
Moderator: Peter Höyng (Emory University)
Hanja Dämon (King’s College, London), “Belonging” and ‘Re-imagined spaces’ in Unproduced Works by the Austrians Bruno Granichstaedten and Ernst Angel“
Ryan Hellenbrand (University of Wisconsin-Madison), „Vom Brenner bis Salurn, vom Vinschgau bis nach Osttirol: “Contemporary Südtiroler Musicians and the Sound of Autochthony”
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4:10 – 4:45 PM – POSTER SESSION
Pardee Hall 429 – Max Kade Center
Julia Lückl (Universität Wien), “Verscharrte Verbrechen, verdrängte Geschichte. Zur Transformation eines Topos in der österreichischen (Gegenwarts-) Literatur”
Franziska Przechatzky (Universität Wien), “Queering Bachmann: Coming-out in “Ein Schritt nach Gomorrha“
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4:45 – 5:30 PM – BREAK
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5:45 – 7:45 PM – FILM SCREENING
ONE MORE STEP WEST IS THE SEA (90 min.)
2021 Documentary about the beat poet ruth weiss
followed by Q & A with Thomas Antonic (Director) and Robert von Dassanowsky (Belvedere Film)
LANDIS CINEMA, William C. Buck Hall
219 N 3rd St, Easton, PA
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Evening free
SUNDAY, April 16
8:00 AM – Continental Breakfast
All sessions on Sunday are held in the Farinon Bldg – Marlo Room.
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SESSION XIX – LITERARY EVOCATIONS
8:30 – 9:55 AM
Moderator: Helga Schreckenberger (University of Vermont)
Eva Kuttenberg (Pennsylvania State University, Erie), “Erinnerungs- und Erzählkultur in Austrian Fictions of Memory: Hanna Sukares Staubzunge (2015) und Anna Mitgutschs Die Annäherung (2016)“
Anita McChesney (Texas Tech University), “’Das ist nicht das Ende der Geschichte’: Reconceptualizing Victimhood in Eva Menasse’s Dunkelblum (2010)“
Jackie Vansant (University of Michigan-Dearborn), “Probing Identities in Maja Haderlap’s Engel des Vergessens (2011)“
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SESSION XX – POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS – DEFINING AUSTRIA
10:00 – 11:15 AM
Moderator: Christian Karner (University of Lincoln, UK)
Michael Burri (Bryn Mawr/Haverford College), “Bruno Kreisky and Heinrich Drimmel: The Shaping of Foreign Cultural Diplomacy towards the United States in Early Second Republic Austria”
Peter Meilaender (Houghton University), “Dietrich von Hildebrandt on Engelbert Dollfuss: The Catholic Philosopher and the Catholic Statesman”
Máté Zsolt (University of Pécs), “Austria’s grand opening – The international cooperation of the 1956 Hungarian refugee crisis”
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SESSION XXI – MULTIMEDIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF AUSTRIAN SPACES
11:20 – 12:55 PM
Moderator: Barbara Kosta (University of Arizona)
Ted Dawson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), “Senses of Belonging: Sonic and Visual Mediation of Group Identity in two Early Novellas of Felix Salten”
Armin Langer (University of Florida), “‘Der Tschusch ist da’ (the immigrant has arrived): Vienna from the Perspective of Austro-Turkish Rap Duo Esrap”
Nikhil Sathe (Ohio University) “Reimagining Austria in the Comic Serial Austrian Superheroes”
Oliver Speck (Virginia Commonwealth University), “Running in Circles: Austrian Road Movies”
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1:00 PM – FINAL REMARKS by the Conference Organizers