VIENNA 1900. BIRTH OF A VISIONARY MOVEMENT – MORNING PANELS

Vienna 1900 has become a hallmark for the city’s outstanding innovative capacities in formulating modern thought and highlighting the paradoxes of modernity. Renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain will present the latest research on this topic and reflect on potentialities for cultural and societal innovation in the 2020s.

A two-day conference of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts (VICCA), the Vienna Library in the Town Hall, and ORF.Topos.at (Austrian Public TV), in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

Program May 3rd, 2024 – Morning Panels, 9 am-2.15 pm

Arrivals and coffee, 8.30 am-9.00 am

Panel 1: Viennese Radicalism in Music, 9 am-10.15 am
“Tradition is the passing on of the fire, not the worship of ashes.” (Gustav Mahler)

• Leon Botstein, President of Bard College
• Rubén Gallo, Princeton University
• Christian Glanz, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Moderator Gerald Heidegger, chief editor TOPOS, ORF.at

Coffee break, 10.15 am-10.45 am

Panel 2: New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution in Vienna pre-1900, 10.45 am-12.00 noon

“Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.” (Eric Kandel)

• Richard Cockett, The Economist, London
• Anita Kern, German University in Cairo
• Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) Vienna
• Mechtild Widrich, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Moderator: Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna and VICCA

Light lunch, 12.00 noon-1 pm

Panel 3: Rethinking Traditions and Innovation in Psychoanalysis and Literature during the Viennese Cultural Revolution, 1 pm-2.15 pm
“You’ve taught me to write, yes, almost to think.” (Arnold Schönberg to Karl Kraus, 1911)

• Daniela Finzi, Scientific Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna
• George Makari, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY
• Alys George, Stanford University / ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies (Vienna)
• Katharina Prager, Vienna Library at the Town Hall

Moderator: Gerald Heidegger, chief editor TOPOS, ORF.at

Daytime program ends 2.15 pm

Please find more information on the ACFNY website.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, United States