Listen to Center Austria director Günter Bischof talk about the Cold War exhibit on NPR:

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wwno/local-wwno-868589.mp3

The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies announces the availability of grants for projects that promote an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria. Grants may be awarded for research and writing projects, for literature, poetry and music projects, for seminars, institutes, lectures, translations, for the production of films and television programs, and the like. Grants will range from $5,000 to $25,000 unless a compelling case is made for larger grants. Applications must be submitted by March 31, 2010. For further information, see www.botstiber.org.

Judith KopfCenter Austria congratulates Judith Kopf on completing her Master’s Degree in French in the Department of Foreign Languages. Judith came to UNO as the 2008/9 Fulbright Lecturer in German, a position supported by UNO’s College of Liberal Arts and Office of Research, the Austrian Fulbright Commission, and Center Austria.

Judith taught German language classes and enrolled in the French Master Program which she successfully completed on October 30th, 2009.

How Austrian is Austrian Literature?

By: Gregor Thuswaldner, Ph.D., Gordon College

When: November 3, 2009, 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Where: Liberal Arts Lounge

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Photo: W. Palli

“1989 – Year of Miracles: The End of the Cold War from an Austrian Perspective” - the travelling exhibit Dr. Bischof is curating for the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York - opened at the National World War II Museum on October 24. It will be on display until November 8 during the opening of the new Salomon Victory Theater during the weekend of November 5-8. The Botstiber Institute for Austrian- American Studies is the principal sponsor of the exhibit.

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Please find a review of the Austrian Science Talk 2009: "Under Crisis Conditions - Using Research and Technology as a Means to Step Out of the Crisis", which took place in New Orlerans at Bridges, the publication of the Office of Science and Technology at the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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View the keynote speech presentation by Dr. Bischofsberger

Center Austria has collaborated with the World Affairs Council of New Orleans (WACNO) over a number of years in joint programming. WACNO moved to the campus of UNO this fall and Center Austria has agreed to intensify our programming partnership in the future. We are looking forward to bringing interesting and important events and discourses about the world at large to the UNO campus and the metropolitan New Orleans area to educate the public about word affairs to create a more informed citizenry. Center Austria’s partnership will extend particularly to European Studies programs.

The Schüssel Era in Austria

Günter Bischof and Fritz Plasser, Editors
Contemporary Austrian Studies, Vol. 18
ISBN-10 1-60801-999-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-60801-009-7
382 pages • $40.00

Featuring essays by Peter Gerlich, Fritz Plasser/Peter Ulram, Heinrich Neisser, Reinhard Heinisch, Heinrich Niesser, Johannes Ditz, Josef Leidenfrost, Anton Pelinka et al., as well as a FORUM on the “disturbing creativity” of Austrian artists, book reviews and the review of Austrian politics.

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To order your personal copy, visit our website at unopress.org, or mail your check for $40.00 payable to UNO Press to:

UNO Press
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Education Building Suite 210
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(504) 280-7457 • unopress@uno.edu

Beginnning with volume 18, Contemporary Austrian Studies is published as a joint venture by University of New Orleans Publishing and Innsbruck University PressAll UNO Press books are available from online booksellers as well as your local bookstore. Distributed to the trade in the USA by National Book Network.

"The State of Transatlantic Relations: Austria, the European Union, and the United States."

by Dr. Christian Prosl, Ambassador of Austria to the United States

When: October 1, 2009, 10:00 - 11:30 am.

Where: Earl K. Long Library, Room 407, University of New Orleans Lakefront.

Christian Prosl studied Law and French Language/Literature at the University of Vienna (1964–1969) and holds a doctorate in Law; he continued his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Genève. In his long career as a diplomat, he served as the First Secretary in London, the Counselor for Economic Affairs in Washington, D.C, and the General Consul in Los Angeles. He also served as Austrian Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and became the Ambassador to the United States of America in May 2009.

Under Crisis Conditions
Mit Forschung und Technologie aus der Krise

When: 1. – 3. Oktober 2009
Where: Renaissance Arts Hotel New Orleans
700 Tchoupitoulas Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 USA

>> View full program at the Office of Science & Technology (in German)