Lectures, talks and symposia

Traces: ‘Out of Austria’- Remembering the Austrian Centre

22 May 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Marietta Bearman, Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove, Anthony Grenville, Marian Malet and Jennifer Taylor, all members of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London ...

“Before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper comes a man…”: Kafka, Narrative and the Law

23 May 2012, 6.30pm

'The complexity of my condition: an Austrian, a Jew'. This diary entry by Arthur Schnitzler in 1913 serves as epigraph of our lecture series Jews, Politics and Austria organised together with the Leo Baeck Institute ...

The English Garden in Europe

23 May 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

The idea of the English Landscape Garden – naturalistic in form but pictorial and associative, with many styles of garden building from classical to rustic – spread right through Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

9th International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature

24 – 25 May 2012 | Ingeborg Bachmann Centre

This annual conference offers postgraduate students working in the field of Austrian literature the opportunity to present their work and discuss aspects of it with colleagues and other specialists. The ninth meeting will take place ...

Joseph Woelfl Symposium & Concerts

25 – 26 May 2012 | Austrian Cultural Forum London

The two-day symposium celebrates the 200th anniversary of the death of the celebrated Austrian composer and piano virtuoso Joseph Woelfl (1773–1812). Nine Musicologists from Great Britain, Austria, France, Germany, Poland and Thailand will ...

Austrian Literary Documentation of Serving and Deserting the Wehrmacht

30 May 2012 | Institute of German and Romance Studies

This talk is given by Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller from the IGRS and Research Fellow Peter Pirker (University of Vienna). Historian Peter Pirker will introduce and discuss interdisciplinary literary projects related to cases of ...

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Research Fellowships for 2013/2014

The IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) are accepting applications for Senior and Research Fellowships for the academic year 2013/2014. Download details here.

Austrian Database for Scholarships and Research Grants

www.grants.at, Austria's most comprehensive database for scholarships and research grants in German and English language now features grants and scholarships for the academic year 2012/2013 as well as summer 2012.