2 JULY 2024
18.30 WELCOME
Elisabeth Röhrlich, Vice Dean
Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
18.40 OPENING KEYNOTE SESSION
Siegfried Beer, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
“Diplomacy, Intelligence and Agency. Researching American Post-War Operatives in Austria”
3 JULY 2024
8:45 OPENING REMARKS
Peter Becker, University of Vienna
Michael Burri, Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
9.00 THE TECHNICAL EXPERT
Chair: Michael Burri, Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
Franz Adlgasser, Austrian Academy of Sciences
“William B. Causey. Technical Adviser to the Austrian Government, 1919–1923”
Tibor Glant, University of Debrecen
“Quaker Relief Operations in Hungary After the Two World Wars”
Clara-Anna Egger, University of Vienna
“‘I found I could not escape the impact of my Austrian experiences… I had to work for peace.’ Peacebuilding in Austria after the Great War”
Respondent: Lucile Dreidemy, University of Vienna
11.00 STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION AND REBUILDING
Chair: Máté Rigó, Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich
Andrew Behrendt, Missouri University of Science and Technology
“Red, White, Blue—and Especially Green: Situating American Tourists in Postimperial Austria, 1918-1938”
Gábor Egry, Institute of Political History, Budapest
“Agents of the “‘Irresistible Empire’? American Relief, State Assessment and the Transformation of Consumption Culture”
Dagmar Hájková, Masaryk Institute and Archive
“On the request of Alice Masaryk: First American Social Workers in Czechoslovakia”
Respondent: John Deak, University of Notre Dame
12.30 CONFERENCE LUNCH
14.30 STATE INITIATIVES
Chair: Matthew Berg, John Carroll University
Sebastian Cody, Open Media
“An Investigation by Army Counterintelligence in Salzburg 1946”
Günter Bischof, University of New Orleans
“Marshall Plan Agents in the Economic Reconstruction of Post-World War II Austria”
Hans Petschar, Austrian National Library
“Yoichi Okamoto and the US Information Service in Austria 1945 – 1954”
Respondent: Philipp Ther, University of Vienna
17.00 KEYNOTE SESSION
Nathan Marcus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“Americans as League of Nations Agents in Interwar Austria”
4 July 2024
9.00 CULTURE, DIPLOMACY, AND EXCHANGE
Chair: Markus Schweiger, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation
Alison Clarke, University of Applied Arts Vienna
“Design Diplomacy: Austrian-American Dialogues and Cold War Strategies”
Lonnie Johnson, Former Executive Director, Fulbright Austria
“U.S. Government ‘Exchange of Persons’ Programs in Postwar Austria: Smith-Mundt and Fulbright Program Grantees as Agents of the American Culture”
James McSpadden, University of Nevada Reno
“American Librarians in Postwar Vienna: Democrats, Censors, and Entrepreneurs”
Respondent: Eva-Maria Muschik (University of Vienna)