1914 - Preludes and Echoes
The 2014 Conference of the Austrian Studies Association will find its focus in the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, the "Great War."
Paper proposals are welcome that take up the culture and society of the Great War in Austria-Hungary and Central Europe, what led up to it, and how it has continued to echo in history, film, art, memorials, textbooks, city planning, literature, memory. Topics may touch on any facet of Central European and Austrian culture in the Great War, including the immediate successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (e.g. Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland) or their later evolutions (e.g. the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Ukraine, etc.). Papers with interdisciplinary methodology and/or transnational focuses are particularly encouraged, as are contributions from any discipline that focus on this moment, its sources, and/or its later legacies.
Conference Organizer: Katherine Arens, U of Texas at Austin
Submit full abstracts of ca. 250 words, with a title and a short (200 word) biography suitable for an introduction IN THE BODY OF AN EMAIL (NOT as an attachment please) to the conference email address: 2014asaconference@gmail.com
Individual papers or full panels of 3-4 papers submitted as a block may be proposed; the conference committee may request modifications.
Acceptances by: 1 October 2013
Please note: submissions are NOT restricted to the conference topic; appropriate open panels will be assembled, space and interest permitting. In addition, graduate student submitters should add a note if they would like to apply for travel funds from the ASA (and a travel fund supported by the ACFNY-Austrian Cultural Forum New York).
Presenters are required to be members of the Austrian Studies Association by subscribing to its journal.
Conference Venue: AT&T Conference Center U of Texas at Austin
Papers may be given in German or English; the conference will support standard media (audio, DVD, PowerPoint); a publication with selected papers from the conference is planned.
Conference website will be attached to: http://www.austrian-studies.org/
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Contact:
Katherine Arens
U of Texas at Austin