2016 April 15-16: Austrian Modernism and the Habsburg Myth

A colloquium held at the Yale University. Organized by the Yale German Department. Sponsors: [1]. Stefan Zweig Centre of Salzburg. [2]. Yale Beinecke Library. [3]. Yale Kemp Fund. [4]. Yale European Studies Council. [5]. The Austrian Cultural Forum New York

Friday, April 15: W. L. Harkness Hall 207

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Welcoming Address: Kirk Wetters (Yale)

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Introduction: Klemens Renoldner (Stefan Zweig Centre)

Panel 1: "Austria Circa 1918: Myths and Concepts, Cultural and Political. Moderator: Marci Shore (Yale) <lst type=bracket start=3> Werner Michler (Salzburg): Austria, A World of its Own - Literary Models from the Totalizing to the Fragmentary Clemens Peck (Salzburg): Utopian Habsburg Around 1900 (from Chicago to Jerusalem) Konstanze Fliedl (Vienna): The Impressionist in Ourselves: Myths of the Fin de Siecle