Lectures, talks and symposia

Max Perutz Lecture

Max Perutz Lecture

8 February 2012, 5.00pm
The Master and Fellows of Peterhouse College are this year resuming the Max Perutz Lectures in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum London. The annual lecture honours Max Perutz (1914 –2002), a former Fellow of ...
A Dangerous Method

A Dangerous Method. Private showing and conference discussion of David Cronenberg's film about Spielrein, Jung and Freud

11 February 2012, 10.00am
Confederation for Analytical Psychology presentsA DANGEROUS METHOD(This conference is offered as the fourth Andrew Samuels Lecture. Andrew was the founder chair of CAP which is an organisational member of the United Kingdom Council ...
Going Under with Glenn Gould

Going Under with Glenn Gould

14 February 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Our annual birthday celebration of Austria's maverick novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) once again promises enlightenment and entertainment. His celebrated novel Der Untergeher (The Loser) is an extended meditation on (amongst other ...
Jews, Politics and Austria

Jews, Politics and Austria. Zeitgeist and Testimony - Arthur Schnitzler

15 February 2012 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
‘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 jointly with the Leo Baeck Institute ...
Dance in Eighteenth century opera: Gluck, Mozart and Idomeneo

Dance in Eighteenth century opera: Gluck, Mozart and Idomeneo

17 February 2012, 7.00pm
The Early Dance Centre, an umbrella organisation dedicated to promoting the enjoyment, performance and study of Early Dance, has invited Irene Brandenburg (University of Salzburg) to give a special talk on Dance in Eighteenth century ...
LSE Annual Austrian History Lecture: Archduke Franz Ferdinand and England

LSE Annual Austrian History Lecture: Archduke Franz Ferdinand and England . Annual Austrian History Lecture

27 February 2012, 6.30pm | London School of Economics and Political Science
‘You know, I really like the Archduke’, King George V is said to have commented after entertaining Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife at Windsor inNovember 1913, just eight months before they were assassinated at ...

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