Annual Meeting of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association:
Globalization and Multiculturalism in Modern Austrian Literature
and Culture
University of Vermont, April 10-13, 2003
Program Schedule
Thursday, April 10
6:00 p.m. Reception at the Fleming Museum
Marble Court
8:00 p.m. Keynote Address (Fleming Museum
Auditorium)
Wolfgang Müller-Funk, Universities of Vienna and
Birmingham: Polyphem’s Children.
Modernity and Postcolonialism: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and Joseph Roth.
Friday, April 11
8:00 a.m. Registration, Memorial Lounge,
Waterman Building
Coffee
8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks
Helga Schreckenberger, Conference Organizer
Session 1 (Memorial Lounge)
Globalization, Multiculturalism and Austrian Identity:
Cultural Implications
Moderator: Linda DeMeritt, Allegheny College
8:45 a.m. Katherine Arens, University of Texas:
Why Austrian Studies isn’t German
Studies: A Once and Future Tale.
9:15 a.m. Heidi Thilgman, University of Washington:
Verlagspolitik and Austrian Identity:
The Case of Jochen Jung Revisited.
9:45 a.m. Discussion
10:05 a.m. Coffee
10:15 a.m. Allyson Fiddler, Lancaster University,
UK: Hybridity in FPÖ Heartland:
A Carinthian Case Study.
10:45 a.m. Bernhard Doppler, Universität Paderborn:
Zum Beispiel Café. Stichproben zum
Funktionswandel des Wiener Cafehauses und der Wiener Cafehaus-Literatur.
11:15 a.m. Discussion
11:45 a.m. Welcome
S. Abu Rizvi, Associate Dean, College of Arts and
Sciences
11:50 p.m. Lunch
Session 2 (Memorial Lounge)
Multiculturalism and Austrian Identity: Who is Austrian?
Moderator: Raymond Burt, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
1:30 p.m. Christina Guenther, Bowling Green
State University: Doron Rabinovici’s
Poetics of Geography: Mapping Jewish Identity in Contemporary
Austria.
2:00 p.m. Maria Regina Kecht, Rice University:
“Nicht ganz echte Österreicher?
Hybridity and Displacement in Recent Austrian Fiction.
2:30 p.m. Discussion
2:50 p.m. Coffee
Session 3 (Memorial Lounge)
Globalization and Austrian Identity: Transcending
the Regional
Moderator: Liz Ametsbichler, University of Montana
3:00 p.m. Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College: On Regional
and Transnational Identities
in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Drei Wege zum See.
3:30 p.m. Maximilian Aue, Emory University: Das Verlassen
des Festlands: Zur
Problematisierung österreichischer Identität in Sabine
Grubers Aushäusige.
4:00 p.m. Hilary Hope Herzog, University of
Kentucky: The Global and
the Local in Ruth Beckermann’s Films and Writing.
4:30 p.m. Discussion
5:00 p.m. MALCA Business Meeting
6:00 p.m. Kathrin Röggla
7:00 p.m. Dinner (Waterman Manor)
Saturday, April 12
8:00 a.m. Coffee
Session 4 (Memorial Lounge)
Multiculturalism in Literatur
Moderator: Wolfgang Mieder, University of Vermont
8:30 a.m. Pamela Saur, Lamar University: Joseph
Roth’s Multicultural Provincialism.
9:00 a.m. Robert Weigel, Auburn University:
Multiculturalism in the Poetry of Karl Lubomirski.
9:30 a.m. Esther Schneider Handschin, University
of Birmingham, UK: Kulturvielfalt und
Kulturtransfer in Peter Handkes Roman Der Bildverlust oder
Durch die Sierra de Gredos.
10:00 a.m. Discussion
10:20 a.m. Coffee
Session 5 (Memorial Lounge)
The Aesthetic Implications of Globalization
Moderator: David Scrase, University of Vermont
10:45 a.m. Theodore Fiedler, University of Kentucky:
Defending the Local, Attacking the Global:
Handke’s Imaginary Yugoslavia.
11:15 a.m. Thomas Eder, Wien: Mimesis and Metaphor
as New Aesthetic Forms
and Their Influence on Globalized Epistemic Processes.
11:45 a.m. Discussion
12:05 p.m. Lunch
Session 6 (Memorial Lounge)
Globalization and Popular Culture
Moderator: Rebecca Thomas, Wake Forest University
1:30 p.m. Gerlinde Sanford, Syracuse University:
EAV or The Power of Humor and Satire.
2:00 p.m. Gerd Schneider, Syracuse University:
“So sieht sie aus die schöne Welt
des globalen Kapitalismus” oder Warum ist Johannes Mario
Simmel ein
Bestsellerautor?
2:30 p.m. Discussion
Session 7 (Memorial Lounge)
Globalization and Austrian Identity: The Experience of
Exile
Moderator: Helmut Pfanner, Vanderbilt University
2:50 p.m. Elisabeth Attlmayr, Universität
Innsbruck: Zwischen den Stationen:
Exilerfahrung in Vladimir Vertlibs Zwischenstationen
.
3:20 p.m. Eva Kuttenberg, Albion College: Wien—New
York—Wien.
3:50 p.m. Discussion
4:10 p.m. Coffee
Session 8 (Memorial Lounge)
Globalization and Media Art
Moderator: Helga Schreckenberger, University of Vermont
4:30 p.m. Margarethe Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette
College: Navigating Fluid Cultural Territories:
Contemporary Austrian Literature and the Internet –“Salon”HOUSE
.
5:00 p.m. Daniel Gilfillan, Arizona State University:
Subverting Global Frequencies:
Experimental Radio in ORF’s Kunstradio Program.
5:30 p.m. Discussion
6:00 p.m. Lilian Faschinger
7:00 p.m. Dinner
Sunday, April 13
8:00 a.m. Coffee
Session 9 (Memorial Lounge)
Multiculturalism, Globalization and the Austrian Film
Moderator: Dennis Mahoney, University of Vermont
8:30 a.m. Maria Luise Caputo Mayr, Temple University:
Global Aspects of the Austrian Film.
9:00 a.m. Mary Wauchope, San Diego State University:
Spectator Positioning
in Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Elsewhere.
9:30 a.m. Discussion
9:50 a.m. Coffee
10:00 a.m. Jacqueline Vansant, University of Michigan,
Dearborn: The Threat of Globalization
or Censuring Austria in Hollywood.
10:30 a.m. Gundolf Graml, University of Minnesota:
Tourism as Contact Zone:
Gender and Ethnicity in Florian Flicker’s Film Suzie
Washington (1998).
11:00 a.m. Dagmar Lorenz, University of Illinois,
Chicago: The Brief Illusion of Escape:
The Precarious Position of the Woman Traveler in Ruth
Beckermann’s Film
Ein flüchtiger Zug nach dem Orient.
11:30 a.m. Discussion
12:00 a.m. Closing Remarks
12:30 p.m. Lunch