The University of Salzburg and the Stefan Zweig Centre

January 24-25, 2014
Salzburg, Austria

The University of Salzburg’s American Studies Department invites scholars from various disciplines including literature, cultural studies, transatlantic studies, theater studies, musicology and art history to a two-day conference reflecting on America’s relationship with Austria. This second in a series of conferences on Austrian-American relations focuses on the years between the end of the First Austrian Republic and the close of Austria’s U.S. occupation.

Panels, papers and presentations might treat the following themes:

• Comparative imagology and representations of the American/Austrian Other in literature, film, song and other media
• Ties between literary and political transatlantic relations involving Austria and the U.S.
• Issues of immigration and emigration
• Literary presentations of Austrian culture, politics, literature or psychoanalysis in the U.S.
• Mid-century English-language translations of Austrian literature
• Austrian authors on the American stage or in American film
• Images of Austria in the American imagination/ Images of America in the Austrian imagination
• American military fictions, film, or nonfictional texts set in Austria

Proposals for 20-minute papers or presentations should include a title, abstract (300 words maximum) and a brief personal biography, sent as a Word document in English or German, to the conference organizers by May 1, 2013:
Professor Dr. Ralph J. Poole ralph.poole@sbg.ac.at
Dr. Joshua Parker joshua.parker@sbg.ac.at

Notification of acceptance will be made by May 14.