Name: VIENNA 1900. BIRTH OF A VISIONARY MOVEMENT – OPENING PANEL
Start: 2024-05-02T06:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-02T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Austrian Cultural Forum New York

$VIENNA 1900. BIRTH OF A VISIONARY MOVEMENT \u2013 OPENING PANEL$

Join us for the opening panel of a two-day conference with renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain.
About this Event

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 DAY 1: May 2nd, 2024 – Evening Panel, 6.30 pm-8 pm

Welcome Remarks

Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Sebastian Schütze, Rector of the University of Vienna

Art, Culture and Society in Contemporary Vienna

Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science
Helga Rabl-Stadler, Special Representative for International Cultural Policy, Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
Misha Glenny, Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
Linda G. Mills, President of New York University

Moderator: Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna and VICCA

Reception to follow

Please find more information on the ACFNY website.