Lectures, talks and symposia archive

The 'Faust' Problem: Music and Madness in Mahler's Vienna

9 March 2010, 7.00pm | Freud Museum London

By Gavin Plumley Introduced and chaired by Anthony Cantle 100 years ago this summer, Gustav Mahler saw Freud for a one-off consultation in the Dutch town of Leiden. Mahler had just discovered that his wife ...

Holocaust remembrance and responsibility in Austria. Hannah Lessing lecture

3 February 2010, 6.00pm | The Residence of the Austrian Ambassador

Hannah Lessing has been General Secretary of the Austrian National Fund since 1995. During her tenure she has overseen the distribution of compensation payments to former Austrian Nazi victims and the disbursal of the $210m ...

IGRS Seminar Series 2010 Measuring the World: 20th Century Austrian Writers Abroad

21 April 2010, 4.00pm

Wednesday 20 January: Night Work (Die Arbeit der Nacht, 2006) by Thomas Glavinic An ordinary man wakes up on a seemingly ordinary day to find that he is the last man alive. His response and ...

The Fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ and the Culture of Europe 1989 – 2009

26 – 27 November 2009 | Austrian Cultural Forum London

2009 marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the "Iron Curtain". This conference will commemorate this event by focusing on its impact on European culture. The end of communism has tended to be discussed ...

‘Haydn-Spaß’ - Recital and Reading. Haydn for Young and Old.

18 November 2009, 6.00pm | University of London

The Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature celebrates the 200th anniversary of Haydn’s death with a recital by the Matteo (formerly Escher) String Quartet from the Sun, Tost and Apponyi quartets. Haydn’s music ...

Creative Quarter. with Fritz Urschitz and Bernadette Schett

13 November 2009 | Austrian Cultural Forum London

The Cultural Forum will participate for the first time in the Exhibition Road Cultural Group project Creative Quarter, offering students a day of free workshops, talks and performances to find out about different education and ...

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News

First European Centre for the History of Physics opened in Styria

Under the name “echophysics“ (European Centre for the History of Physics), the first European institution of this kind has opened in the sumptuous baroque Palace of Pöllau near Hartberg (Styria) on 29 May 2010.

1938-2008: Legacies and Lessons in post-war Austria

Over the last decade, important new research has been undertaken on Austrian history during the period 1938 - 1945 and the post-war era. Through a series of public lectures, organised by the Austrian Embassy London, in co-operation with the Wiener Library and the Austrian Cultural Forum London, eminent Austrian scholars and experts presented new research and shed some light on the questions raised. These lectures can now be viewed online at www.doew.at/frames.php?/post-war_austria.html