Ehrenschutz: Bundespräsident Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Wissen, Kreativität und Transformationen von Gesellschaften

Patron: President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer

KCTOS: Knowledge, Creativity and Transformations of Societies

 

H O M E Konferenzablauf  
H O M E

1.11. Sektion:

American and Austrian Literature and Film: Influences, Interactions and Intersections

Sektionsleiter | Section chair: Donald G. Daviau (University of California at Riverside / Kirchberg am Wechsel)

Ort | Place: VHS Brigittenau, Raffaelgasse 11, 1200 Wien, Raum | Room 220

Samstag | Saturday, 8.12. | 8 December || 09:00 – 18:00
09:00 – 09:30
Pamela Saur (Lamar University, Texas):
Two Tales of Gothic Guilt Nathaniel Hawthornes’s Novel The Marble Faun and Adalbert Stifter’s Story Das alte Siegel
09:30 – 10:00 Liz Ametsbichler (University of Montana):
Fräulein Else: Schnitzler’s Novella Adapted for the American Stage
10:00 – 10:30 Nikolaus Unger (University of Warwick, UK):
The Influence of Walt Whitman and Emile Verhaeren in Stefan Zweig’s Pre-1914 Conception of Cultural Modernism
10:30 – 11:00
Kaffeepause | Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30
Todd C. Hanlin (University of Arkansas):
Translations as Bestsellers: Vicki Baum, Franz Werfel, and Stefan Zweig in American Literature
11:30 – 12:00
Jörg Thunecke (Sherwood Press):
Vicki Baum’s The Mustard Seed (1953): The American Way of Life
12:00 – 12:30
Helga Schreckenberger (University of Vermont):
Simon Brenner-Romane: Österreichische Versionen der amerikanischen Kriminalromane der „Hard-Boiled School“
12:30 – 14:00
Mittagspause | Lunch
14:00 – 14:30
Paul F. Dvorak (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond):
Peter Henisch and the Influence of American Popular Culture
14:30 – 15:00
Felix Tweraser (Utah State University, Logan, UT):
“Our Man in Vienna”: Friedrich Torberg’s Journal Forum – and the Popularization of American Letters in Austria
15:00 – 15:30
Frances M. Sharp (University of the Pacific):
American Writers Reading Bernhard
15:30 – 16:00
Kaffeepause | Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30
Joseph W. Moser (Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania):
Austrian and American Diversity in Lilian Faschinger’s Wiener Passion
16:30 – 17:00
Donald G. Daviau (University of California, Riverside):
Hermann Bahr and Walt Whitman: Kindred Spirits
17:00 – 17:30
Gerlinde Ulm Sanford (Syracuse University):
Mark Twain in Vienna
17:30 – 18:00
Schlussdiskussion | Concluding general discussion