INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE at the INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC& ROMANCE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Polemical Austria The Rhetorics of National Identity Friday, 21 May 2010
Co-Ordinators: Anthony Bushell (Bangor) and Martin Liebscher (IGRS, London)
Venue: Room ST 274/275 Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU (Access via 32 Russell Square)
Programme
10.00 Anthony Bushell (Bangor): Welcome and Introduction
10.05 R.J.W. Evans (Oxford): Polemics about Austria: the 18th and 19th Centuries
10.40 Coffee
11.10 Rudolf de Cillia (Vienna): Die diskursive Konstruktion österreichischer Identität/en in den Gedenkjahren 1995 und 2005
11.45 Geoff Howes (Bowling Green): ‘In this land where such ailments are rampant’: Madness and Austrian Identities
12.20 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Jürgen Weber (Venice): Austrian Communism and the Concept of ‘Austria’
14.35 Anthony Bushell (Bangor): Austrian Identity and the Art of Retrospective Justification
15.10 Tea
15.40 Heide Kunzelmann (London): Polemik als ästhetisches Wertungsinstrument in der österreichischen Nachkriegszeit
16.15 Allyson Fiddler (Lancaster): Performing and Protesting Austria in the Wake of the 1999 Elections
16.50 Concluding Discussion
Further Information and Registration Details To attend, please register by Friday, 7 May: Email: jane.lewin@sas.ac.ukTel: 020 7862 8966
For further information on the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, please contact: Email: martin.liebscher@sas.ac.uk Tel: 020 7862 8959 or visit the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre website
This event is sponsored by Bangor University and the Austrian Cultural Forum, London