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From: GUENTER BISCHOF <[log in to unmask]>
The Westernization/Americanization of Austria in the Twentieth Century
Joint Annual Symposium:
University of New Orleans/Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce and
University of Innsbruck
New Orleans, 6 - 8 May 2002
Lindy C. Boggs International Conference Center,
UNO Research and Technology Park, Lakefront
Monday May 6, 2002
Panel I: 5:00 - 8:00 pm: Grand Opening: Setting the Context
Chair: Gunter Bischof, University of New Orleans
Reinhold Wagnleitner, University of Salzburg:
The American Empire of Fun: The Foreign Politics of American Pop Culture
Hegemony
Michael Hochgeschwender, 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
Reception to follow
Tuesday May 7, 2002
Panel II: 8:30 am-10:30 pm: Postwar Beginnings
Chair: Karl Roider, Louisiana 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/Martin Kofler, Innsbruck:
Postwar Occupation, the Marshall Plan, and Austria's Secret Rearmament as
"Westernizing" Agents
Jurgen Nautz, Kassel University/Vienna University
"'An Embarrassed Mission': The Early Discussions about Private Ownership
and Property Rights and the Process of Westernization in Austria"
10:30 - 11:00 am: Coffee Break
Panel III: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Business
Chair: Hermann Freudenberger, Tulane University
Helmut Lackner, Vienna
Travel Accounts from the U.S. and Their Influence on Taylorism, Fordism
and Productivity in Austria
André Pfoertner, Bern
The Americanization of Austrian Business Culture
Matthias Fuchs, University of Innsbruck:
The Impact of US 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, 2002
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: Discoures and Life Projections in
Private Life since the 1960s
Ingrid Bauer, University of Salzburg:
Westernizing/Americanizing Austrian Women: From the 1950s to the 1970s
Eric Frey, University of New Orleans/Vienna:
Americanizing Influences in the Austrian Media
10:30 - 11:00 am: Coffee Break
Panel VI: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm: Popular Culture
Chair: Katinka Nowotny, New Orleans - Vienna
Anna Schober, University of Vienna:
Hollywood-Movies and the Alteration of Styles and Worldviews
Monika Bernold, University of Vienna:
The Path to the West: Television in the 1950s and 1960s
12:30 - 2:00 pm: Lunch
Panel VI: 2:00 - 4:00 pm: 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
Contemporary 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
Wednesday Evening: 7:00 pm: Concluding Dinner
Master of Ceremony: Gordon "Nick" Mueller
Keynote Speaker:
Hannes Androsch, Vienna:
The Westernization of Austria: A Personal Perspective
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