When: Sunday, December 2, 2018, 9:00 am - 12 pm
Where: The Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, The National World War II Museum
Upcoming: Lecture - Social Media Communication of the Far-Right in Europe
Mayor of New Orleans Honors Center Austria
Workshop: Death and Thyme (Tod und Thymian): Thomas Bernhard, Austria's Enfant Terrible
Summit of Austrian-American Organizations
Lecture by Christian Karner
Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Association for Teachers of German
High Ranking Representative of the German Embassy Visits UNO
From left: Dr. Marc Landry, Valerie Wittig, Pia Köstner, Arvid Enders, David Ikic, Dr. Kevin Graves, Gertraud Griessner, Dr Guenter Bischof
Mr. Arvid Enders, Minister Counselor and Director of the German Information Center at the German Embassy in Washington, DC, spoke with UNO faculty, students, and staff about possible joint projects at UNO's Marshall Plan Center for European Studies.
Deutsch Foundation Travel Grants Awarded
The Center at the GSA Annual Conference
The center was well-represented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association (GSA), which was held in Pittsburgh, PA from September 27-30, 2018. Center Austria Director Günter Bischof and Associate Director Marc Landry were both in attendance and actively took part in the conference.
Student Group Visits National World War II Museum
The student group with Dr. Mueller
A group of University of Innsbruck students at UNO toured the National World War II Museum and were welcomed by Dr. Mueller, the museum’s founding director and CEO, who previously had also served as Center Austria’s inaugural director.
2018 Meeting of Austrian Centers
The 2018 meeting of Austrian centers was organized by the the Wirth Center at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The final day of the meeting was held at Lake Louise in Banff National Park. Attending for Center Austria were associate director Mark Landry, Center Austria Fellows Bela Teleky and Bernhard Achhorner, and Günter Bischof (Director).
From left: Marc Landry, Bela Teleky, Bernhard Achhorner, Günter Bischof.
Welcome New Students!
Lunchtalk
Dr. David Wineroither
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Senior Research Advisor, Faculty for Public Administration, National University for Public Service, Budapest
The Politics of Populism in “Central Europe”: Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
When:
Monday, September 10, 2018, 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Where:
Seminar Room, International Center 118
Fall 2018 Calendar
UNO Center Austria Prize in Transatlantic History 2018
Center Austria congratulates Dietmar Riedl, recipient of the 2018 UNO - Center Austria Prize in Transatlantic History. His work, Die Behandlung des Holocaust im Nürnberger Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher und die Wahrnehmung in der deutschen Nachkriegsöffentlichkeit, also won Best Paper at historia.scribere 10.
