In collaboration with the Vienna Institute for Culture and Contemporary History and Arts (VICCA), and the University of Vienna, and with the support of the NYU President’s Office.
October 8, 2026
9:00am: Introduction – Oliver Rathkolb and Stefanos Geroulanos
9:15am: 1848
Pamela C. Nogales (Univ. of Chicago), “Liberty Against Democracy: The Social Question and the Origins of Industrial Democracy”
Oliver Rathkolb (Univ. of Vienna, VICCA), “City Democracy in Vienna from 1848 to the Present Time”
10:45am: 1919
Markus Schinwald (Kunstakademie Karlsruhe), “Viennese Aesthetics – Vienna 1919: Out of Step”
Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU), “Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego and its Receptions”
12:15pm: Lunch (until 12:50pm)
12:50pm: Welcome back
1:00pm: Longer trajectories
James von Klemperer (KPF), “From the Commune to the City: Progressive Public Housing in Vienna & New York, 1930- Today”
Hans Petschar (Austrian National Library), “Transitional City Vienna 1900-2026. A Visual Journey”
October 9, 2026
10:00am: Viennese Refugees Before, During, After World War II
Frances Tanzer (Clark University), “Emigrating Vienna, Popular Performance and the Politics of Refugee Nostalgia after 1938”
Paul Frederick Lerner (Univ. of Southern California), “Totalitarian Communication Studies: Ernst Kris’s Antifascism from Vienna to London to New York”
11:30am: 1945 and after
Cristina Florea (Cornell University), “Whose Democracy? Denazification and the Contest over Democratization in Occupied Vienna, 1945-1955”
Megan Brandow-Faller (CUNY Kingsborough), “Viktor Lowenfeld: Creativity, Democracy and Totalitarianism in a Nuclear Age”
1:00pm: Lunch
3:00pm: 1989-1991 and since
Daniel Kehlmann and Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton), in conversation with Stefanos Geroulanos
4:30pm: Reception
This event is in person only
