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Globalization and Multiculturalism in Modern Austrian Literature
University of Vermont, April 10-13, 2003

Tentative Program Schedule

Thursday, April 10

6:00 p.m. Reception at Fleming Museum

8:00 p.m. Keynote-Address

Friday, April 11

8:00 a.m. Registration: Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building
Coffee

8:30 a.m. Welcome
Donna Kuizenga, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences

Opening Remarks
Helga Schreckenberger, Conference Organizer

                                           Session 1
                                           Globalization, Multiculturalism and Austrian Identity: Cultural Implications
                                            Moderator: Wolfgang Mieder, University of Vermont

9:00 a.m. Katherine Arens, University of Texas: Why Austrian Studies isn’t German Studies:
A Once and Future Tale.

9:45 a.m Heidi Thilgman, University of Washington: Verlagspolitik and Austrian Identity: The
Case of Jochen Jung Revisited.

10:30 a.m. Allyson Fiddler, Lancaster University: Hybridity in FP÷ Heartland--A
Carinthian Case Study.

11:15 a.m Bernhard Doppler,Universit”t Paderborn: Zum Beispiel CafÈ. Stichproben zum Funktionswandel

des Wiener Cafehauses und der Wiener Cafehaus-Literatur.

12:00 p.m. Lunch

                                             Session 2
                                             Multiculturalism and Austrian Identity: Who is Austrian?
                                             Moderator:

1:00 a.m. Christina Guenther, Bowling Green State University: Doron Rabinovici’s Poetics of
Geography: Mapping Jewish Identity in Contemporary Austria.

1:45 a.m. Maria Regina Kecht, Rice University: “Nicht ganz echte ÷sterreicher”? Hybridity and
Displacement in Recent Austrian Fiction.

                                             Session 3
                                             Globalization and Austrian Identity: Transcending the Regional
                                             Moderator: Linda DeMeritt, Allegheny College

2:30 p.m. Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College: On Regional and Transnational
Identities in Ingeborg Bachmann's Drei Wege zum See.

3:15 p.m. Maximilian Aue, Emory University: Das Verlassen des Festlands: Zur Problematisierung
–sterreichischer Identit”t in Sabine Grubers Aush”usige.

4:00 p.m.                               Coffee Break

                                              Session 4
                                              Globalization and Austrian Identity: The Experience of Exile

4:15 p.m. Elisabeth Attlmayr, Wien/Bowling Green State University: Zwischen den Stationen:
Exilerfahrung in Vladimir Vertlibs Zwischenstationen.

5:00 p.m. Eva Kuttenberg, Albion College: Wien-New York-Wien

6:00 p.m. Reading

7:00 p.m. Dinner

Saturday, April 12

8:00 a.m. Coffee

                                               Session 5
                                               Multiculturalism in Literature
                                               Moderator: Helmut Pfanner

8:30 a.m.                               Pamela Saur, Lamar University: Jospeh Roth’s Multicultural Provicialism.

9:15 a.m. Robert Weigel, Auburn University: Multiculturalism in the Poetry of Karl Lubomirski.

10:00 a.m. Esther Schneider Handschin: Kulturvielfalt und Kulturtransfer in Peter Handkes Roman
Der Bildverlust oder Durch die Sierra de Gredos.

10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

                                               Session 6
                                               The Aesthetic Implications of Globalization
                                                Moderator: David Scrase, University of Vermont

11:00 a.m. Theodore Fiedler, University of Kentucky: Defending the Local, Attacking the Global:
Handke’s Imaginary Yugoslavia.

11:45 a.m. Thomas Eder, Wien: Mimesis and Metaphor as New Aesthetic Forms and their Influence on
Globalized Epistemic Processes.

12:30 p.m. Lunch

                                               Session 7
                                               Globalization and Popular Culture
                                               Moderator:

1:30 p.m. Gerlinde Sanford, Syracuse University: EAV or The Power of Humor and Satire.

2:15 p.m. Gerd Schneider, Syracuse University: “So sieht sie aus die sch–ne Welt des globalen
Kapitalismus” oder Warum ist Johannes Mario Simmel ein Bestsellerautor?

3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

                                               Session 8
                                               Globalization and Media Art
                                               Moderator: Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont

3:15 p.m. Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State University: Subverting Global Frequenzies: Experimental Radio in
ORF’s Kunstradio Program.

4:00 p.m. Margarethe Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College: Navigating Fluid Cultural
Territories: Contemporary Austrian Literature and the Internet-“Salon” HOUSE.

5:00 p.m. MALCA-Meeting

6:00 p.m. Reading by Lilian Faschinger

7:00 p.m. Dinner

Sunday, April 13

Session 9
Multiculturalism, Globalization and the Austrian Film

Moderator: Dennis Mahoney, University of Vermont

8:00 a.m. Coffee

8:30 a.m. Hilary Hope Herzog, University of Kentucky: The Global and the Local in Ruth
Beckermann’s Films and Writing.

9:15 a.m. Dagmar Lorenz, University of Illinois, Chicago: The Brief Illusion of Escape. The Precarious

Position of the Woman Traveler in Woman Traveler in Ruth Beckermann’s Film Ein fl¸chtiger

Zug nach dem Orient.

10:00 a.m. Gundolf Graml, University of Minnesota: Tourism as Contact Zone: Gender and Ethnicity in
Florian Flicker’s Film “Suzie Washington” (1998)..

10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan, Dearborn: The Threat of
Globalization or Censuring Austria in Hollywood.

11:45 a.m. Mary Wauchope, San Diego State University: “Spectator Positioning in Nikolaus
Geyrhalter’s Elsewhere.

12:30 p.m. Closing Remarks

12:45 p.m. Lunch

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