Annual Art Exchange

UNO Fine Arts Gallery

The University of New Orleans and the City of Innsbruck present the annual art exhibition.

The young artists are

• Roland Maurmair
• Philipp Haselwanter
  

When: Opening reception: 7 November 2007, 4:00 pm

Where: UNO Fine Arts Gallery, The University of New Orleans 

ACADIENS ET CAJUNS

University of New Orleans and University of Innsbruck Annual International Symposium, Innsbruck, Austria

Politique et culture de minorities francophones en Amerique du Nord

Cosponsored by

• Canadien Studies Centre
• LFU Innsbruck
  
• Centre d’Etudes Canadiennes
  
• University of Moncton

and with the support of the U.S. Embassy, Vienna and the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research.

When: September 06-07, 2007

Where: University of Innsbruck, Austria

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Guest Lecture

Austria’s economic and social performance 2000-2006 within a European Context

• Dr. Andrea Grisold (Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna)
• Dr. Wolfgang Maderthaner (Director of the Austrian Society of Labor History)

When: 25 September 2007, 4:00 p.m.

Where: Center Austria, ED 128, The University of New Orleans 

Book Presentation

European Union’s Enlargement: Opportunity or Risk?

• Dr. Martin Sajdik (Ambassador of Austria to China, Mongolia and North Korea)
• Dr. Michael Schwarzinger (Head of the Unit for the European Council and the General Affairs Council, Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs)

When: 17 September 2007, 4:00 p.m.

Where: Earl K. Long Library # 407, The University of New Orleans

Lecture

Competing memories? Remembering the Holocaust and the Gulag in European post 1989 identity

• Dr. Andreas Pribersky (Marshall Plan Chair, UNO and Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna)
• Dr. Alla Rosca (Visiting Fulbright Professor, UNO, Professor of Political Science, Moldova State University)

When: 12 November 2007, 3:00 pm, Austrian wine reception to follow

Where: Earl K. Long Library # 407, The University of New Orleans 

Center Austria 10th Anniversary GALA

Keynote Address
"Nation Building in the Balkans in the 21st Century"

By  Dr. Erhard Busek

• Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe for the European Union
• Chairman of the Institute for the  Danube Region and Central Europe
• President of the European Forum Alpbach
• Former Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister of Science and Education, and Federal Minister of Education of the Republic of Austria.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2008
12:00 Noon 11:30 a.m. Reception

Plimsoll Club, 30th Floor World Trade Center
2 Canal Street New Orleans

Register: Center Austria, UNO 504.280.3223, camc@uno.edu

Please make check in the amount of $30 payable to Center Austria - UNO

10 Years Anniversary of Center Austria Party

Join us for Center Austria‘s 10th Birthday Party!

When: Friday, February 8, 2008, 4-6 p.m.

Where:  Geoghegan Grand Ballroom, Homer Hitt Alumni, 
                The University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans 

Toasts:

• Dr. Timothy P. Ryan Chancellor, The University of New Orleans
• Dr. Karlheinz Töchterle Rektor, University of Innsbruck
• Dr. Eva Nowotny Austrian Ambassador to the United States
• Dr. Gordon H. „Nick“ Mueller Founding Father of Center Austria, President and CEO, The National WWII Museum

Light buffet and drinks will be served; Music by UNO‘s Louis Armstrong Quartett

RSVP: please call Sandra Scherl/Center Austria at: 504.280.3223 or email: sscherl@uno.edu by February 1, 2008.

Attire: business casual.

Reunion: 10 Years Academic Year Abroad in Innsbruck

When: Saturday, February 9th, 12-4 pm

Where: The University of New Orleans, Lakefront Campus 

Workshop

The Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire

• Dr. Wolfgang Zach

When: 22 February 2008, exact time tba

Where: Center Austria, ED 128, The University of New Orleans > directions 

Lecture: The Politics of the Nobel Prizes

• Professor Helge Pharo, University of Oslo, Norway.
  

When: Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 3:00 pm

Where: Center Austria, Conference Room, ED 128, The University of New Orleans

“Satchmo Meets Amadeus”

Music Workshop

Sponsored by the City of Innsbruck & with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

When: March 12 - 16, 2008

Where: Performing Arts Center, The University of New Orleans 

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International Symposium

Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968

University of New Orleans (3-4 April, 2008)

 

A UNO CenterAustria Ten Year Anniversary Conference
with the Eisenhower Center for American Studies
in Cooperation with the Boltzmann Institut für Kriegsfolgenforschung  Graz, Austria

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Lecture

The Red Army in the Post-War Occupation of Austria 1945-1955

• Barbara Stelzl-Marx,
  Ludwig Boltzmann Institut fuer Kriegsfolgen-Forschung, Graz, Austria
  

When: 10 April 2008, exact time tba.

Where: The University of New Orleans, exact location tba

International Conference, Vienna, Austria

Images of the Marshall Plan:

Film, Photographs, Exhibits, Posters

Sponsored by Austrian Marshall Plan Anniversary Foundation & Schumpeter Society

When: May 19 - 20, 2008

Where: AWS Vienna, Ungergasse 

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