Impacts: Does Academic Exchange Matter?
Cultural Diplomacy, Scholarly Internationalism, and American Studies since World War II
November 18-19, 2010
Amerika Haus, Friedrich Schmidt Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
Conference Program as pdf-file
The aim of this conference organized under the auspices of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Fulbright Program in Austria in 1950 is to highlight ongoing research on the various topics related to academic exchange and to stimulate further reflection on the state of cultural diplomacy, scholarly internationalism, and the their ultimate impacts on foreign relations.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
09:00-10.00 Welcome and Introductions
Jan Krc, Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Vienna, and AAEC Board Member
Dr. Josef Leidenfrost, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Culture
Dr. Lonnie Johnson, Executive Director, AAEC
Dr. Thomas König, Programming and Planning Committee
10:00-11.00 Keynote Lecture
Liping Bu (Alma College, Michigan): Cultural Exchange and International Relations: What's Unique about the United States of America?
Coffee Break (on-site)
11.30-13.00 Panel I: Histories of Academic Exchange
(Chair: Thomas König)
(Chair: Thomas König)
Kurt Tweraser (University of Arkansas): The "Operational Code" of Senator Fulbright and International Education: Belief Systems, National Missions, Political Context abstract
Andrew Hannon (Yale University): “We Are Beginning to Move Again”: Academic Exchange in the New Lefts, Cultural Studies and American Studies abstract
Reinhild Kreis (Augsburg University): Promoting the United States: American Cultural Centers in West Germany after the Re-education Period abstract
George H. Blaustein (Harvard University): Why American Civilization? The Salzburg Seminar, American Literature, and Academic Exchange abstract
13.00-14.30 Lunch Break
14.30-16.00 Panel II: Cultural Encounters: East and West
(Chair: Tereza Stöckelova)
(Chair: Tereza Stöckelova)
Therese Garstenauer (HU Berlin): Exchanges with Obstacles: Soviet and ‘Western’ Social Scientists abstract presentation
Jonathan Rosenberg (City University of New York): Instrumental Diplomacy: U.S. Symphony Orchestras and the East-West Struggle abstract
Gretchen Sylvia Simms (University of Cape Town): The 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow and the Soviet Artistic Reaction to the Abstract Art abstract
14.30-16.00 Panel III (breakout): Managing Cross-Cultural Encounters
(Chair: Walter Grünzweig)
(Chair: Walter Grünzweig)
Timothy K. Conley (Bradley University) / Astrid M. Fellner (Saarland University)/Klaus Heissenberger (University of Vienna): Exchange Matters—Transatlantic Dialogues and the Shaping of Cultural Encounters abstract presentation
Alyssa Lonner Howards (Wake Forest University): Teaching American Culture to Experts: The Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program abstract
Hildegard Mader / Doris Wagner (WU Vienna): Does Academic Exchange Influence Austrian Students’ Perceptions of the US? - Practical Experiences from WU abstract presentation
Coffee Breaks (on-site)
16.30-18.00 Panel IV: Different Players and Other Places
(Chair: Claudia Schwarz)
(Chair: Claudia Schwarz)
Juliette Dumont-Quessard (University Paris III): From Intellectual Cooperation to Cultural Diplomacy: The Brazilian and Chilean Experiences (1918-1946) abstract
Alice Garner / Diane Kirkby (La Trobe University, Melbourne): Moving Rights Along: The Australian-American Fulbright Exchange and Indigenous and Civil Rights abstract
Ryan Touhey (St. Jerome’s University): Missed Opportunities? Canada's Public Diplomacy Initiatives in India 1947-62 abstract
Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University): Cultural Exchange and the Corporate Sector: Public Diplomacy in an Era of Globalisation abstract
16.30-18.00 Panel V (breakout session): Forty Years of Experience:
The Austria-Illinois Exchange Program
(Chair: Sonja Wentling)
Bruce Murray (Austria-Illinois Exchange Program/WU Vienna): Austria-Illinois Exchange Program: Internationalization of Academic Culture from a Grassroots Perspective abstract presentation
Mara R. Wade/Robert Jenkins (University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign): Forty Years of Austria Illinois Exchange Program—Building an Integrated Program abstract
Robert Pahre (University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign): The Vienna Diplomatic Program and its Role in the Development of the European Union Center (EUC) at Illinois abstract presentation
Whitney C. Kay (University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign): Student Perceptions of Language Learning During a One-Month Study Abroad Program abstract presentation
Reception: Amerika Haus
19.00-20.00 Screening of Georg Steinböck’s documentary Fulbright at
Sixty: The Austrian-American Fulbright Program, 1950-
2010
Sixty: The Austrian-American Fulbright Program, 1950-
2010
As part of the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Austria-American Fulbright program, the Austrian-American Educational Commission asked Georg Steinböck, an Austrian documentary filmmaker, to produce Fulbright at Sixty. This forty-five minute film in English and German (with English subtitles) is based on interviews with different generations of Austrian Fulbrighters from the 1950s to the present and recent U.S. grantees as well as historical footage, photos, and archival material. It provides an overview of the origins and objectives of the Fulbright program and gives Fulbright grantees an opportunity to tell the story of the Austrian-American program in their own words.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
09.00-10.00 Keynote Lecture
Walter Grünzweig (TU Dortmund): Fulbright, Dialogue and Globalization: The Future of International Educational Exchange.
Coffee Break (on-site)
10.30-12.00 Panel VI: Policy Perspectives
(Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova)
Richard P. Horwitz (University of Rhode Island): Principles in Assessing Academic Exchange abstract presentation
Roberta Maierhofer (University of Graz): Competition versus Cooperation: International Relations in Times of Global Change abstract
Gesa Bälz / Gerold Heinrichs (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany): A Looming Research Area in Asia? abstract presentation
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break
13.30-15.00 Panel VII: The Role of Exchanges in Austria and Germany
(Chair: Oliver Rathkolb)
Siegfried Beer (University of Graz): Academic Exchange and Interaction with American Institutions of Higher Learning Impacting on Austrian Historiography and Teaching at Austrian Universities since 1945 abstract presentation
Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg): "Sissi", "The Third Man" and Nazi Crimes – Austrian Images in the US abstract
Christian H. Stifter (Austrian Archives of Adult Education in Vienna): „Struggle for Austrian Minds“? Cultural Exchange Programs within the strategic context of US-Reorientation after 1945 abstract
Christina Schwartz (University of Tübingen): Back to the roots – and beyond... The importance of international exchange in the focus of German University Rectors' speeches 1945-1950 abstract
Coffee Break (on-site)
15.30-17.00 Panel VIII: Academic Exchange Today
(Chair: Friedrich Stadler)
(Chair: Friedrich Stadler)
Ulla Kriebernegg (University of Graz): Securing America's Future by Soft Power: The Impact of Studying Critical Languages abstract
Andreas Stadler (Austrian Cultural Forum New York): The Austrian Cultural Forum New York: Lighthouse and Carrier Rocket presentation
Peter Ertl / Elke Wagner (ASCINA Alumni): Academic Mobility Impacts – An Austrian Perspective abstract presentation
Closing remarks: Lonnie Johnson, Executive Director, AAEC
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This conference is being organized with the support of the Austrian-American Education Commission, Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, and the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy, Vienna, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna.
Advisory Committee
Prof. Oliver Rathkolb, Chair, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
Univ. Doz. Dr. Margit Reiter, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
Prof. Friedrich Stadler, (joint appointment for History and Philosophy of Science) Institute of Contemporary History, Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna
Prof. Reinhold Wagnleitner, Institute of History, University of Salzburg
SC Mag. Barbara Weitgruber, MA, Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, Chair of the Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission),
Programming and Planning Committee
Dr. Lonnie R. Johnson, Austrian-American Educational Commission (Fulbright Commission), Vienna
Dr. Thomas König, Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna
Dr. Claudia Schwarz, Institute of American Studies, University of Innsbruck
Dr. Tereza Stöckelova, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Science, Czech Republic
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