CALL FOR PAPERS:

WHAT: Annual Conference of the Austrian
Studies Association (new name for the Modern
Austrian Literature and Culture Association)

WHEN: Opening welcome: Thursday, 26 April 2012

Sessions: Friday and Saturday, 27-28
April 2012 (overflow to Sunday, 29 April, only if
necessary)

WHERE: Long Beach, California, organized by Nele
Hempel-Lamer of the Department of Romance,
German, Russian Languages and Literatures,
California State University, Long Beach.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Harald
Friedl [http://www.dok.at/person/harald-friedl/]

Barbara
Neuwirth [http://www.barbara-neuwirth.com/]

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AEIOU: GLOBAL AUSTRIA

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AEIOU, the unofficial motto of the
Habsburg dynasty, claimed that the whole world
was subject to Austria (Alles Erdreich ist
Österreich untertan). In 1951, an alternate
motto was suggested: Austria Europae Imago, Onus,
Unio: Austria is Europe's double image, burden
and unification. This conference seeks to explore
images of Austria on the world stage, images in
Austria of that world stage, and cultural ties
that reach between Austria and other cultures.

Abstracts in any field and era of
Austrian Studies will be welcomed;
interdisciplinary and transnational work is
strongly encouraged. Papers addressing the work
of Barbara Neuwirth or Harald Friedl within the
larger theme of the conference are also of
particular interest. The designations "Austria"
and "Austrian" are, moreover, intended to include
cultural references in any of the languages and
nations that were associated with or subject to
earlier forms of the nation, including the Holy
Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ostmark.

The conference program committee will
assemble panels by culture/language, discipline,
era, and problem to encourage new ways to think
about a political entity that rarely behaved like
a Western nation-state over the millennium of its
existence and about the cultures that it
fostered, either at home or abroad.

SUBMIT ABSTRACTS BY 15 SEPTEMBER 2011

LENGTH: max. 400 words, with the title counted
separately, and a biography of less than 200
words suitable for an introduction

SUBMIT the abstract and biography in the body of
an email sent to globalaustria@gmail.com (NO
ATTACHMENTS ACCEPTED). Full panels of three
papers may be proposed; organizers reserve the
right to add to these panels.