- VIENNA 1900by Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Birth of a Visionary Movement
A CONFERENCE
INVITATION
MAY 2 & May 3, 2024
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street, 10022 New YorkVienna 1900 has become a hallmark for the city’s outstanding innovative capacities in formulating modern thought and highlighting the paradoxes of modernity. Renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain will present the latest research on this topic and reflect on potentialities for cultural and societal innovation in the 2020s.
The two-day conference features three events:
- Opening Panel on May 2, 2024 at 6.30 PM
- Morning Panels on May 3, 2024 from 9 AM to 2.15 PM
- Concert: The Long Impact of Viennese Modernism – Children’s Songs And Forbidden Songs from Persecuted Composers on May 3, 2024 at 6.30 PM
A two-day conference of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts (VICCA), the Vienna Library in the Town Hall, and topos.ORF.at (The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.
- Vienna Pre-1900by Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Expert-Interview Series at ORF RadioKulturhaus
Oliver Rathkolb and ORF-Journalist Katharina Gruber conduct a series of interviews with experts of various fields – from medicine and politics to art – on how they assess the changes their disciplines went through in Vienna pre-1900, and the consequent affects on modernism.
Media-Coverage:
ORF Topos on the first interview with Herwig Czech and Daniela Finzi, including a video recording of the whole discussionORF news on the second interview with Bettina Hering and Norbert Christian Wolf
Program:
22.01.2024: Herwig Czech (Medizinische Universität Wien) and Daniela Finzi (Sigmund Freud Museum Wien) on The History of Medicine and Psychoanalysis
20.03.2024: Bettina Hering (Vienna) and Nobert Christian Wolf (Universität Wien) on Literature
22.04.2024: Barbara Boisits (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Christian Glanz (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien) on Music
10.06.2024: Peter Eigner (Universität Wien) and Hans Petschar (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) on Economic and political framework of art 1900
26.09.2024: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel (Museum für angewandte Kunst) and Johannes Wieninger (Vienna) on Applied Arts and Design
17.10.2024: Monika Platzer (Architekturzentrum Wien) and Werner Telesko (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) on Art and Architecture
21.11.2024: Katharina Prager (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus) and Andrea Winkelbauer (Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien) on Women artists and salonières in Vienna pre-1900
10.12.2024: Johannes Feichtinger (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Marianne Klemun (Institut für Geschichte) on The History of Science
In cooperation with ORF TOPOS, Ö1, and in collaboration with ORF RadioKulturhaus
- Democracy has a futureby Wiener Institut für Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte
Matinée im Burgtheater, March 17th, 2024
Ensemble-members of the Vienna Burgtheater – Annamária Láng, Tobias Moretti, Martin Schwab und Marie-Luise Stockinger – present excerpts from literary texts by contemporary authors of eight European countries which were part of two studies (2019, 2022) on authoritarian attitudes and democracy. The results of the latter study (2022) – a survey on views on national history, democracy and its principles, and authoritarianism in their respective conutries and Europe at large – will be presented, followed by an expert panel discussion.
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo (France)
Sabine Gruber (Italy)
Michal Hvorecký (Slovakia)
Dorota Masłowska (Poland)
Terézia Mora (Hungary)
Kathrin Röggla (Germany)
Antonia Scurati (Italy)
Gerhild Steinbuch (Austria)
Tena Štivičić (UK)Panel discussion: Misha Glenny (Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM), Cathrin Kahlweit (Correspondent Süddeutsche Zeitung for Central- and Eastern Europe, Political Scientist), Sylvia Kritzinger (Professor at the Department of Government, University of Vienna) and Oliver Rathkolb (Professor at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, and Chairman of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts, VICCA)
Moderated by Markus Müller-Schinwald (Ö1)
pdf (in German, English version to be published in autumn 2024)
Media Coverage
In cooperation with the Burgtheater and the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna
Sponsors:
Alfred Landecker Foundation Berlin; Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt/Main, Association for the Academic Reappraisal of Contemporary History; Culture Department of the City of Vienna; National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, and Zukunftsfonds.