Study Abroad
AIEP 40th-Anniversary Conference
Change through Exchange:
Promoting Global Leadership via Academic Exchange
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
27 and 28 October 2011
Please join us in celebrating four decades of academic exchange, as well as helping us to plot our future course with renowned speakers, colleagues, students, and friends! The conference is free and open to the public. While advanced registration is not required, we request it for our planning.
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Program Overview
Thursday, 27 October-Friday, 28 October 2011
Thursday, 27 October
Levis Faculty Center
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2:30 Registration
3:00 Welcome
Wolfgang Schlör, Interim Associate Provost for International Affairs
Barbara Sporn, Vice Rector, Research, International Affairs, and External Relations, Vienna
University of Economics and Business
Bruce Murray, Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures, AIEP Director
3:15-4:45 Academic Exchange: A Transatlantic Perspective
Address: Thomas Schnöll, Consul General, Republic of Austria
“Transatlantic Relations – Prospects for Advancing Cooperation” Abstract
Panel Discussion: Academic Exchange in the Humanities: Historical Foundations, Current Initiatives, and Transatlantic/Global Perspectives
Smith Music Hall – Memorial Room
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7:30-10:30
Concert/Lecture Gesprächskonzert
William Kinderman, Professor, School of Music
Von der ironischen Karikatur zum genialen Kunstwerk: Beethovens Diabelli-Variationen (Transformations of the "Cobbler's Patch": Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations as an Artistic Microcosm)
Friday, 28 October
66 Library Auditorium
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8:30 Registration
9:15-10.45 Global Issues and the Role of the Humanities
Film screening: Josef Haslinger, Nachtasyl: Heimat der Heimatlosen (Night Asylum: Home for the Homeless). ZDF, 2010.
Keynote Lecture: Josef Haslinger, Austrian author, Professor, University Leipzig
“Narrating Integration: One Story at a Time” Abstract
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 Discussion
Business Instructional Facility: Deloitte Auditorium
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2:00-3:15 The Business of Environmental Sustainability and Academic Exchange
Keynote Lectures:
Don Fullerton, Gutgsell Professor of Finance and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Illinois
“The Contrary Claims of a Cranky Conservationist” Abstract
Sigrid Stagl, Professor, Institute for the Environment and Regional Development, WU Wien
“Sustainability Entrepreneurship” Abstract
3:15-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-5:00 Academic Exchange and Global Leadership: Visions for the Future
Address: Dr. Lonnie Johnson, Executive Director, Austrian-American Educational Commission, Vienna
“`Change through Exchange´: Promoting Global Leadership via Academic Exchange" Abstract
Vienna:
Barbara Sporn, Vice Rector, Research, International Affairs, and External Relations, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Lottelis Moser, Head, Office for Research Services and International Relations, University of Vienna
Illinois:
Barbara Hancin-Bhatt, Assistant Dean and Director, International Programs, LAS
Christine Gozdziak, Assistant Dean, International Programs, College of Business
5:00-5:15 Concluding Remarks: Bruce Murray