Chancellor Tomothy Ryan (left) transfers degree.left to right: Andreas Somogyi (Austrian Embassy), Guenter Bischof (Center Austria), Hannes Androsch, Renate Platzer (Androsch International Consulting), Professor emeritus Schneider (Technical University of Vienna and Dr. Androsch's brother in law), Ingrid Sauer.

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When: Monday, July 6, 2009, 6 pm.
Where: Andechs Gallery, Innrain 1, Old Town Innsbruck, Austria

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Opening remarks by:

Hilde Zach, Mayor, City of Innsbruck
Lawrence Jenkins, Chair, Fine Arts Department, University of New Orleans

Exhibit running from July 7 - July 22, 2009.
Tuesday-Friday: 3-7 pm.
Saturday: 10 am - 1 pm.

Dr. Hannes Androsch
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Students from Innsbruck celebrated the end of the semester at a Center Austria good bye party. Center Austria wishes all of them fun for their travels throughout the States and a safe trip home.

Foto: Jonas Werth

Dr. Tanja Stampfl

Tanja Stampfl is graduating in May from Louisiana State University of Baton Rouge with a PhD in English. She wrote her dissertation on "(Im)Possible Encounters, Possible (Mis)Understandings between the West and Its Other: The Case of The Maghreb."

In August she will enter professional life and teach as an Assistant Professor in English (world literature) at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Tanja is a native of the South Tyrol (Northern Italy) and first came to the University of New Orleans in August 2000 by of the UNO exchange program with the University of Innsbruck. In the fall of 2001 she was enrolled in the English graduate program at UNO and completed her Master’s degree in May 2003, earning the coveted “Outstanding Graduate Student” award from the UNO English Department that year. During the academic year 2003/4 she worked as an adjunct instructor in English at UNO. She also taught Italian for the UNO Summer School in Innsbruck for the past couple of summers. She is married to Andre Martinez, the coordinator of the UNO Summer School in Innsbruck.

Prof. Andrea Grisold
Vienna University of Economics and Business

When: Tuesday, April 21, 2009; 2:00 pm
Where: UNO Kirshman Hall Auditorium 122

Michael S. Maier
Ministry of Science Research Fellow, Center Austria, The University of New Orleans

When: April 21, 2009, 12:30 – 1:30pm
Where: The University of New Orleans, Liberal Arts Lounge, LA 197

Klaus Hödl received his PhD in History from the University of Graz. He is the Executive Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz and the Editor of transversal, a journal of Jewish studies. He has received a Fulbright Fellowship and was a Simon-Dubnow- Fellow in Jewish History at the University of Leipzig as well as a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest and at the European Forum at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has lectured at the Universities of Graz, Basel/Switzerland and at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He is the author of 5 books, among them Vom Shtetl an die Lower East Side: Galizische Juden in New York (Vienna 1991), and 5 anthologies as well as numerous articles.

 

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