Vienna 1900. Birth of a Visionary Movement – Opening Panel
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MAY 2 | 6.30 PM
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Vienna 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.
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. On this page you will find information about the first day of the conference, May 2nd, 2024.
PROGRAM DAY 1: May 2nd, 2024 – Evening Panel, 6.30 pm-8 pm
Welcome Remarks
Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Sebastian Schütze, Rector of the University of Vienna
Art, Culture and Society in Contemporary Vienna
Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science
Helga Rabl-Stadler, Special Representative for International Cultural Policy, Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
Misha Glenny, Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
Linda G. Mills, President of New York University
Moderator: Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna and VICCA
Reception to follow
About the Participants
Sebastian Schütze has been Rector of the University of Vienna since October 1, 2022. Following important academic positions at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute for Art History) in Rome and Queen’s University in Kingston/Canada, he has been Professor of Modern Art History at the University of Vienna since 2009 and Dean of the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies there since 2018. He is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the art and cultu-ral history of Italy, the history of collections in Vienna and Central Europe and the productive interactions between literature and the visual arts. He is particularly interested in making the results of his research accessible to the general public through international exhibitions. Image Credits: Johannes Hloch
Veronica Kaup-Hasler is a cultural and theatre scholar, dramaturge, cultural manager, politician and, since 2018, Executive City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science of the City of Vienna. Before entering the political stage, she has been the director of contemporary arts festival steirischer herbst in Graz/Austria from 2006 to 2017. Previous positions include the Basel Theatre, the Wiener Festwochen and the artistic directorship of the Theaterformen festival in Hanover and Brunswick (2001-2004). Veronica Kaup-Hasler was a member of various artistic juries, from 2008-18 member of the University Board of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She has also been a lecturer at several arts universities in Europe. Image Credits: Katarina Šoškić
Helga Rabl-Stadler is an Austrian politician, entrepreneur, and former President of the Salzburg Festival from 1995 to 2021. She studied law, journalism and political sciences, and graduated as a Doctor of Law. After her studies, Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler lived in Vienna, and worked as a journalist specialized in economy and domestic politics for the major Austrian newspapers Die Presse and Die Wochenpresse. Since starting her professional career, she has been a trailblazer for women in leadership positions, and was the first female leader of many positions she held: From 1974 to 1978, she was the first female journalist to write an editorial column for the daily newspaper Kurier. From 1983 to 2008, Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler was co-owner and partner of the family business Modehaus Resmann in Salzburg and Linz. In 1983, she became a member of the Austrian Parliament for the party Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP) and from 1985 to 1988, she was the first female Vice President of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce. From 1988 to 1995, she was the first female President and Financial Advisor of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce, overseeing 250 employees. Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler became the first female President of the Salzburg Festival in 1995, a position she held until 2021. During her tenure as President, a new festival building – the Haus for Mozart – was built, she created an efficient system for private funding for the Festival and introduced the biggest public screening series world-wide, which gives the inhabitants of Salzburg as well as tourists visiting the city the opportunity to see Festival productions on 40 evenings of the year. Since 2022, Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler is the Special Representative for International Cultural Policy at the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs. Image Credits: ORF Günther Pichlkostner
Misha Glenny is the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, one of Austria’s leading advanced research institutes. A former BBC Central Europe Correspondent who covered the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the wars in the former Yugoslavia, Misha is a sought-after keynote speaker on the geo-politics of cyber security and organised crime. His best-selling non-fiction book, McMafia – about the globalisation of organised crime – was adapted into a major TV drama series on BBC1 and AMC. Misha is also the author of an acclaimed one-volume history of the modern Balkans. An alumnus of the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC and the Berggruen Institute in LA, he has taught as a visiting professor at the LSE, Columbia University and University College London. He has contributed to the Financial Times, the New York Times, The New Yorker, The NYRB, the Guardian and newspapers, magazines and academic journals around the world. Image Credits: Teresa Walton
Linda G. Mills, JD, LCSW, PhD, is the 17th president of New York University and the Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor of Social Work, Public Policy, and Law. Mills is also a fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Her research funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice has reshaped the treatment of domestic violence and her restorative justice-based programs are currently being adopted in several jurisdictions. She is a widely published author of articles appearing in Harvard Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Journal of Experimental Criminology, among others. Her books have been published by Princeton University Press, University of Michigan Press, Springer, and Basic Books. As a filmmaker, she has produced award-winning documentaries that have debuted at Tribeca Film Festival and screened worldwide. Image Credits: Hollenshead, Courtesy NYU Photo Bureau
Oliver Rathkolb, currently Professor at the University of Vienna Department of Contemporary History, chairperson of the academic committee of the House of European History (European Parliament, Brussels); author of several books focusing on contemporary history; editor and co-editor of several studies concerning interdisciplinary questions of contemporary history and communications/media history; managing editor of the journal “zeitgeschichte” and the publication series “Zeitgeschichte im Kontext”; his prize-winning study The Paradoxical Republic: Austria 1945–2020 was published in 2021 by Berghahn Books (New York/Oxford). Image Credits: Parlamentsdirektion Ulrike Wieser