When: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 (All day) - Sunday, April 16, 2023 (All day)
Where: 
Farinon Building, Marlo Room
Presenter: 
Coorganizers: Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger and Barbara Kosta (U of Arizona)
Price: 
Free

Conference TitleREIMAGINING SPACE, PLACE, AND BELONGING IN AUSTRIAN HISTORY, POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND FILM

 

 

Conference: Description: This conference is dedicated to the scholarly examination of historical, political, literary and cinematic works from Austria that celebrate its linguistic and cultural diversity while also dealing with the complexities of belonging and displacement, diaspora, and  migration.

Featured Guest Artists: Novelist and Playwright Philipp Weiss <http://www.philippweiss.at/news_en.html> will read from his work on Friday, 4/14 at 5:20PM in Farinon, Marlo Room;

Author and Filmmaker Thomas Antonic <https://ebsn.eu/about-ebsn/members/thomas-antonic/> will show his documentary about the beat poet ruth weiss on Saturday, 4/15 at 5:45PM in the Landis Cinema, Buck Hall. A discussion with the filmmaker and producer Robert von Dassanowsky will follow.

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsored by: 
Austrian Cultural Forum NY, Botstiber Foundation, Max Kade Foundation, Offices of the President and Provost, Depts of Languages & Literary Studies, International Affairs, History, FAMS, Jewish Studies..

Contact information

Name: 
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Phone: 
6109053824
Email: 
lambfafm@lafayette.edu