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INGEBORG BACHMANN CENTRE FOR AUSTRIAN LITERATURE at the INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES University of London School of Advanced Study Friday, 30 November 2007 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Vienna's imperial legacy, its present-day marketability as a centre for cultural tourism, and its undoubted political and artistic primacy amongst Austria's relatively modest number of urban centres, have meant that many aspects of Austrian life still remain unknown to external observers. Vienna's very familiarity to the outside world has impeded a more profound critical understanding of life beyond the city's borders. This multi-disciplinary conference brings together scholars from the UK, Austria, and Slovakia, whose research, be it diachronic or synchronic in approach, aims to provide new insights into the multifaceted nature and diversity of Austrian society. PROGRAMME 10.00 Anthony Bushell (Bangor): Welcome and Introduction: How Many Austrias are There? Where are They and When were They? 10.15 Wolfgang Weber (Innsbruck): In Search of the Traitors: Denazifying Austrian and German Provinces 1945-1949 10.55 Coffee 11.25 Allan James (Klagenfurt): Minority Languages in the Provinces: Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Territoriality 12.05 Robert Knight (Loughborough): Slovene/German/Austrian in the Carinthian Heimat: the Politics of Assimilation 1945-1960 12.45 Lunch (own arrangements) 14.15 Jill Lewis (Swansea): Forging Consensus: Political Culture in Occupied Austria, with Special Reference to Upper Styria 14.55 Dagmar Kostálová (Bratislava): Deutsche und slowakische Presse in Preßburg in der Aufklärungszeit 15.35 Tea 16.15 Juliet Wigmore (Salford): Danubian Fields: the Junkyard of History, the Hope of Renewal. Elisabeth Reichart's Das Haus der sterbenden Männer 16.45 Concluding Discussion Attendance at the workshop is open to all. Registration not required. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr Martin Liebscher, Ingeborg Bachman Centre Coordinator, at the IGRS. Tel: 020 7862 8959. Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Venue: Room ST 273, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 How to find us: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/contact/findus.html <http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/contact/findus.html> A l l w e l c o m e INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES University of London School of Advanced Study Room ST272, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Telephone: +44 (0)20-7862 8966 Fax: +44 (0)20-7862 8672 Email: jane.lewin @sas.ac.uk Website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk <http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/>