Conference Program

Monday, May 6, 2002

Panel I: 5:00-7:30 pm Grand Opening: Setting the Context

• Chair: Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
• Reinhold Wagnleitner, University of Salzburg: The American Empire of Fun: The Foreign Politics of American Pop Culture Hegemony
• Michael Hochgewschwender, Tübingen University: The Americanization of Postwar Germany
• Armin Thurnher, Vienna: Vienna and its Americanization
• Anton Fink, Vienna: Austrian Banking and Finance - Why Americanization Took so Long: A Personal Perspective

7:30-8:00 pm Presentation of 10 Years of Contemporary Austrian Studies

Reception to follow.

Tuesday, May 7

Panel II 8:30 - 10:30 Postwar Beginnings

• Chair: Karl Roider, Lousiana State University - Baton Rouge
• Emil Brix, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna: Quo Vadis? Cultural Discourses About Austria's Central European Identity
• Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans and Martin Kofler, University of Innsbruck: Postwar Occupation, the Marshall Plan, and Austria's Secret rearmament as "Westernizing" Agents
• Jürgen Nautz, Kassel University, University of Vienna: "An Embarrased Mission": The Early Discussions about Private Ownership and Property Rights and the Process of Westernization in Austria

10:30 - 11:00am Coffe Break

Panel III: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Business

• Chair: Hermann Freudenberger, Tulane University
• Helmut Lackner, Technical Museum, Vienna: Travel Accounts from the U.S. and Their Influence on Taylorism, Fordism and Productivity in Austria
• Andre Pförtner, Bern: The Americanization of Austrian Business Culture
• Matthias Fuchs, University of Innsbruck: The Impact of U.S. Management on Austrian Management Cultures in Tourism

1:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch

Panel IV 2:00 - 4:00 pm Politics

• Chair: Michael Huelshoff, University of New Orleans
• Anton Pelinka, University of Innsbruck, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: The Intellectual Influences of American Political Science on Austria's Politikwissenschaft
• Fritz Plasser, University of Innsbruck: Americanization of Austrian Politics and Politicians: An Assessment

Wednesday, May 8

Panel V: 8:30 - 10:30 am Daily Life, Gender and Media

• Chair: Bernard Cook, Loyola University, New Orleans
• Reinhard Sieder, University of Vienna: From Herbert Marcuse to New Fatherhood: Discourses and Life Projections in Private Life since the 1960s
• Ingrid Bauer, University of Salzburg: Westernizing/Americanizing Austrian Women: From the 1950s to the 1960s
• Eric Frey, Vienna/University of New Orleans

10:30 - 11:00 am Coffe Break

Panel VI: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Popular Culture

• Chair: Katinka Nowotny, Vienna / New Orleans
• Anna Schober, University of Vienna: Hollywood-Movies and the Alteration of Styles and Worldviews
• Monika Bernold, Vienna / University of Vienna: The Path to the West: television and  in the 1950s and 1960s

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

Panel VII: 2:00-4:00 am Literature, Music, Art

• Chair: Inge Fink, University of New Orleans
• Maria-Regina Kecht, Rice University: "Wo ist daheim?": America in the Narrative Identity Constructions of Contemprary Austrian Literature
• Kurt Drexel, University of Innsbruck: American Jazz in Ernst Krenek's Opera "Jonny spielt auf"
• Christina Hainzl, University of Salzburg: American Painting: The New York Museum of Modern Art's International Program in Austria

 Evening: 7:00 pm Concluding Dinner

• Master of Ceremony: Gordon "Nick" Mueller, University of New Orleans, Director of Center Austria, President of the National D-Day Museum.
• Keynote Speaker: Hannes Androsch, CEO, AIC Androsch International Management Consulting GmbH: The Westernization of Austria: A Personal Perspective

Conference Participants Biographies:

Dr. Hannes Androsch.
CEO of AIC Androsch International Management Consulting GmbH, Vienna, Austria

Representative from a Vienna district in the Austrian Parliament (1967-1981); Federal Minister of Finance and Vice-Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (1974-1981), CEO of Creditanstalt Bankverein, Austria's premier bank (1981-1988); World Bank consultant, since then in private consulting and entrepreneur.

Dr. Ingrid Bauer
Associate professor of Modern History and Gender History, Institue of History, University of Salzburg, Austria

"Die Amis, die Ausländer und wir. Zur Erfahrung und Konstruktion von Eigenem und Fremden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg." Walz- Migration-Besatzung: historische Szenarien des Eigenen und des Fremden. Band 6, publication series of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture zum Forschungsschwerpunkt Fremdenfeindlichkeit. Ed. Ingrid bauer, Joseph Ehmer, Sylvia Han. Klagenfurt, 2002, 300-361.

Dr. Monika Bernold
Hertha Firnberg Research Fellow, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Austria.

" Adressing the Public: Consumtion, television and the Family in Austria in the 1950s and the 1960s." With Ellmeier Andrea, in: Nava Mica, Blake Andrew, MacRury Lain and Richard Berry, eds., By this Book. Studies in Advertising and Consumption. London/New York: Routledge 1997; Shaping Gender Identities in Written Life Stories". In: Maynes Mary Yo, Grander Margarete, Good Davis, eds., Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cross Disciplinary Perspectives. New York: Berghahn 1996.

Dr. Günter Bischof
Professor, department of History and Executive Director, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans.

Austria in the First Cold War 1945-1955: The Leverage of the Weak. New York: St. Martin's 1999. With Wolfgang Krieger, eds., Die Invasion der Normandie 1944. Internationale Perspektiven. Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2001. "Das Amerikanische Jahrhundert: Europas Niedergang - Amerikas Aufstieg," Zeitgeschichte 28 (March/April 2001), 75-95; Co-editor of Contemprary Austrian Studies (10 volumes).

Dr. Emil Brix
Head of Department for Cultural Programming, Austrian federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs; deputy Chairman of the Institute for the danuibe region and Central Europe, and Secretray General of the Austrian Research association, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Bernard Cook
Professor of History, Loyola University New Orleans; Director of Loyola's Summer Study Program at leuven, Belgium.

Dr. Kurt Drexel
Assistant Professor, department of Musicology, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Dr. Robert Dupont
Adjunct Professor of History and Dean of Metropolitan College, University of New Orleans

Dr. Anton Fink
Managing Director and Partner, Institutional Asset Management, Bank Gutman AG, Vienna Austria

Dr. Inge Fink
Retained Instructor of English, University of New Orleans

Dr. Hermann Freudenberger
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans

Eric Frey, MPA
Marshall Plan Endowed Chair (2001/2002), University of New Orleans, Economics Editor, der Standard, Vienna. Vienna Correspondent for the Financial Times (London) since 1995

Dr. Matthias Fuchs
Assiatant Professor, Institute for General Management and Tourism Mangement, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Mag. Christina Heinzl
Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Dr. Michael Hochgeschwender
Associate professor, Seminar for Contemprary History, Tübingen University, Germany

Dr. Michael Huelshoff
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of New Orleans

Dr. Maria-Regina Kecht
Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of the Rice Center for the Study of Languages, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Dr. Martin Kofler, MA
Contemporary History Editoe, Studienverlag Innsbruck, Austria

Dr. Helmut Lackner
Deputy Director of the Technical Museum of Vienna, Austria

Dr. Gordon "Nick" Mueller
Professor of History and Director of CenterAustria, Metropolitan College, University of New Orleans; President and CEO of the national D-day Museum, New Orleans

Dr. Jürgen Nautz
Lecturer, department of Law and Social Sciences, Kassel University, Germany. Assistant Professor of Economic History, Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria

Mag. Katinka Nowotny, MA
TV journalist for Austrian Television ORF, German Television ZDF, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Anton Pelinka
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Dr. Andre Pförtner
Scientific Consultant, Investment Department, Eisgenössische Bankenkommission, Bern, Switzerland

Amerikanisierung der Betriebswirtschaftslehre im deutschsprachigen Raum. Versuch der Nachzeichnung eines historischen Prozesses unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Verhältnisse in Österreich und der Schweiz. Frankfurt: Deutsche Hochschulschriften, 2001.

Dr. Fritz Plasser
Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Das Österreichische Politikverständnis. Von der Konsens- zur Konfliktkultur? Vienna, 2000.

Dr. Karl A. Roider
Professor of History, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Maria Theresia (editor). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1973. Austria's Eastern Question, 1700-1790. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. Baron Thugut and Austria's Response to the French Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Dr. Anna Schober
Lecturer, Institute for Contenporary History, University of Vienna, and the "Modul Visuelle Kultur, technical University of Vienna, Austria. Fellow of the Cultural Studies-Fund of the Austrian federal Ministry of Science.

Blue Jeans. Vom Leben in Stoffen und Bildern. Frankfurt/New York: Campus verlag, 2001. With Hauer G., Muttenthaler R. and Wonisch R., Das inszenierte Geschlecht. Feministische Strategien im Museum. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1997. Montierte Geschichten. Programmatisch inszenierte historische Ausstellungen. Vienna: J&V, Dachs Verlag, Edition Wien, 1994.

Dr. Reinhard Sieder
Professor, Department of Social and Economic History, University of Vienna,  Austria

Books and articles on the history of family life; working class, youth culture, methodology and theory in social and cultural history

Dr. Armin Thurnher
Editor-in-Chief, "Falter", Stadtzeitung Wien, Vienna, Austria

Das Trauma, ein Leben. Österreichische Einzelheiten. Munich:DTV, 1999. Heimniederlage. Nachrichten aus dem neuen Österreich. Vienna: Zolnay, 2000.

Dr. Reinhold Wagnleitner
Associate Professor of Modern History, University of Salzburg, Austria

With May, Elaine T., eds. Here, There and Everywhere:The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture. Hannover: University Press of New England, 2000. With Blair, John G., eds. Empire: American Studies. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1992. With Maschl, H. Mazohl-Wallnig, B. and Wank, S., eds., The Mirror of History: Essays in Honor of Fritz Fellner. Santa Barbara, Oxford: ABC-Clio Inc., 1988.