THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18
09:00-10.00 Welcome and Introductions
10:00-11.00 Keynote Lecture
Liping Bu (Alma College, Michigan): Cultural Exchange and International Relations: What's Unique about the United States of America?
11.30-13.00 Panel I: Histories of Academic Exchange
(Chair: Thomas König)
Kurt Tweraser (University of Arkansas): The "Operational Code" of Senator Fulbright and International Education: Belief Systems, National Missions, Political Context
Andrew Hannon (Yale University): “We Are Beginning to Move Again”: Academic Exchange in the New Lefts, Cultural Studies and American Studies
Reinhild Kreis (Augsburg University): Promoting the United States: American Cultural Centers in West Germany after the Re-education Period
George H. Blaustein (Harvard University): Why American Civilization? The Salzburg Seminar, American Literature, and Academic Exchange
14.30-16.00 Panel II: Cultural Encounters: East and West
(Chair: Tereza Stöckelova)
Therese Garstenauer (HU Berlin): Exchanges with Obstacles: Soviet and ‘Western’ Social Scientists
Jonathan Rosenberg (City University of New York): Instrumental Diplomacy: U.S. Symphony Orchestras and the East-West Struggle
Gretchen Sylvia Simms (University of Cape Town): The 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow and the Soviet Artistic Reaction to the Abstract Art
14.30-16.00 Panel III (breakout): Managing Cross-Cultural Encounters
(Chair: Walter Grünzweig)
Timothy K. Conley (Bradley University) / Astrid M. Fellner (Saarland University)/Klaus Heissenberger (University of Vienna): Exchange Matters—Transatlantic Dialogues and the Shaping of Cultural Encounters
Alyssa Lonner Howards (Wake Forest University): Teaching American Culture to Experts: The Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program
Hildegard Mader / Doris Wagner (WU Vienna): Does Academic Exchange Influence Austrian Students’ Perceptions of the US? - Practical Experiences from WU
16.30-18.00 Panel IV: Different Players and Other Places
(Chair: Claudia Schwarz)
Juliette Dumont-Quessard (University Paris III): From Intellectual Cooperation to Cultural Diplomacy: The Brazilian and Chilean Experiences (1918-1946)
Alice Garner / Diane Kirkby (La Trobe University, Melbourne): Moving Rights Along: the Australian-American Fulbright Exchange and Indigenous and Civil Rights
Ryan Touhey (St. Jerome’s University): Missed Opportunities? Canada's Public Diplomacy Initiatives in India 1947-62
Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University): Cultural Exchange and the Corporate Sector: Public Diplomacy in an Era of Globalisation
16.30-18.00 Panel V (breakout session): Forty Years of Experience: The Austria-Illinois Exchange Program (Chair: Sonja Wentling)
Bruce Murray (Austria-Illinois Exchange Program/WU Vienna): Austria-Illinois Exchange Program: Internationalization of Academic Culture from a Grassroots Perspective
Mara R. Wade/ Robert Jenkins (University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign): Forty Years of Austria Illinois Exchange Program—Building an Integrated Program
Robert Pahre (University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign): The Vienna Diplomatic Program and its Role in the Development of the European Union Center (EUC) at Illinois
Whitney C. Kay (University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign): Student Perceptions of Language Learning During a One-Month Study Abroad Program
19.00-20.00 Screening of Georg Steinböck’s documentary Fulbright at Sixty: The Austrian-American Fulbright Program, 1950-2010
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
09.00-10.00 Keynote Lecture
Walter Grünzweig (TU Dortmund): Fulbright, Dialogue and Globalization: The Future of International Educational Exchange.
10.30-12.00 Panel VI: Policy Perspectives
(Chair: Libora Oates-Indruchova)
Richard P. Horwitz (University of Rhode Island): Principles in Assessing Academic Exchange
Roberta Maierhofer (University of Graz): Competition versus Cooperation: International Relations in Times of Global Change
Gesa Bälz / Gerold Heinrichs (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany): A Looming Research Area in Asia?
13.30-15.00 Panel VII: The Role of Exchanges in Austria and Germany
(Chair: Oliver Rathkolb)
Siegfried Beer (University of Graz): Academic Exchange and Interaction with American Institutions of Higher Learning Impacting on Austrian Historiography and Teaching at Austrian Universities since 1945
Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg): "Sissi", "The Third Man" and Nazi Crimes – Austrian Images in the US
Christian Stifter (Archive of Austrian Adult Education): „Struggle for Austrian Minds“? Cultural Exchange Programs within the strategic context of US-Reorientation after 1945
Christina Schwartz (University of Tübingen): Back to the roots – and beyond... The importance of international exchange in the focus of German University Rectors' speeches 1945-1950
15.30-17.00 Panel VIII: Academic Exchange Today
(Chair: Friedrich Stadler)
Ulla Kriebernegg (University of Graz): Securing America's Future by Soft Power: The Impact of Studying Critical Languages
Andreas Stadler (Austrian Cultural Forum New York): The Austrian Cultural Forum New York: Lighthouse and Carrier Rocket
Peter Ertl / Lilia Jimenez-Ertl / Julia Puaschunder / Elke Wagner (ASCINA Alumni): Academic Mobility Impacts – An Austrian Perspective
Closing remarks: Lonnie Johnson, Executive Director, AAEC