The International Marshall Plan Center at Dodona Manor in Lynchburg, Virginia, organized a one-week teachers' workshop the last week of October to study the Marshall Plan sites in Austria. CenterAustria's Dr. Bischof helped conceptualize the program and arrange for guest lecturers in Austria. A select group of American and Austrian high school teachers particpated in this workhop. William Eacho, U.S. Ambassador to Austria (at center of picture), welcomed the group in Vienna. John Parauka (seventh from right), the head of the social studies department at Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans (one of the schools in the UNO network of charter schools), was a participant in the workshop. The mission of the workshop is to keep the memory of the Marshall Plan alive in the American and Austrian classrooms for the next generation.

DR. CHRISTIAN STADLER
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Leopold-Franzens Universitaet, Innsbruck, Austria

When: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:30pm
Where: Kirschman Hall, Room 122

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Ursula Groser, Elisabeth and Albin Schutting

Opening:
Saturday, November 14, 2009 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm
UNO St. Claude Gallery | New Orleans

The exhibition "IT IS" by Ursula Groser, Elisabeth and Albin Schutting deals with questions of existence on different levels (in different perspectives). Ursula Groser studies growth and biological processes in her installations and questions human identity in her video works.

Albin and Elisabeth Schutting critically look into the validity of media reports. Their paintings are in communication with each other. This also applies to the series of paintings "victims of torture" by Albin Schutting, which is in opposition to a video by Elisabeth Schutting.

Guenter Bischof, UNO professor of history and director of UNO Center Austria, moderated a panel on "Divided Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain" on Monday, November 9 at 7 p.m. at the Deutsches Haus, 200 S. Galvez Street.

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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> New image gallery: Ben Frankin High School visit

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.

View the Event Report

View the keynote speech presentation by Dr. Bischofsberger