Trans-Aesthetics. Crossing Central Europe
International Conference of the
Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies
University of Alberta, Edmonton
in cooperation with the
Art Gallery of Alberta, exhibition REARVIEW MIRROR: New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
April 1-3, 2012
Program
Sunday April 1st, 2012
16.00: Public Art Lecture Series featuring Jan Edler (realities:united), Art Gallery of Alberta (#2 Sir
Winston Churchill Square), Ledcor Theatre
The Public Art Lecture Series is presented by the Art Gallery of Alberta with support from the Edmonton
Arts Council.
Monday April 2nd, 2012
8.30-9.00: Senate Chamber, room 326, Arts and Convocation Hall, U Alberta
Welcome: Joseph Patrouch, Director, Wirth Institute of Austrian and Central European Studies;
Lesley Cormack, Dean, Faculty of Arts
Introduction: Helga Mitterbauer, Carrie Smith-Prei, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural
Studies)
9.00-10.00: Senate Chamber
Agatha Schwartz (University of Ottawa) and Helga Thorson (University of Victoria): The Aesthetics of
Change: Women Writers of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Imre Szeman (University of Alberta): History without End(s): Imre Madách’s The Tragedy of Man (Az
Ember Tragédiája)
10.00-10-30: Coffee Break, Faculty Lounge, room 320
10.30-12.00: Senate Chamber
Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania): Vienna, Budapest, Berlin: Freud’s Intellectual Networks
and the Establishment of Psychoanalysis
Orsolya Papp-Zipernovszky (University of Pecs/Wirth Institute): Secrets of a Soul (1926): A First-phase
Psychoanalytic Representation on Human Subjectivity
Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Alberta): How The Golden Fleece (Zolotoe runo, 1906-1909) was
Invented
12.00: Opening Ceremony of the exhibition 150 Years Croatian National Theatre by His Excellency, the
Croatian ambassador to Canada, Mr Veselko Grubišić, followed by a presentation about the role
of the theatre in Croatian culture by Katarina Žeravica
12.30-14.00: Lunch, Faculty Lounge
14.00-15.30: Senate Chamber
Katarina Žeravica (University of Osijek/Wirth Institute): German Travelling Theatre Companies: A Cultural
Link between Osijek and Other Cities in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Mario Martinec (Zagreb/Ottawa): Connections between German and Croatian Impressionism (Example
of the painter Bela Čikoš Sesija)
Sarah McGaughey (Dickinson College): Kitchen Stories: Literary Reflections on the Interior in the Early
Twentieth Century
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break, Faculty Lounge
16.00-17.00: Senate Chamber
Gregor Kokorz (University of Chicago): Border, Trans-border and Unification – Music and its Divergent
Roles in the 19th-Century Habsburg Territories
Kornél Zipernovszky (Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest): Who Started the Charleston Craze In
Austria? – The Jazz Age Through Hungarian Eyes
18.00: Reception at the Fairmont Hotel MacDonald, Jasper Room
19.00: Dinner at the Fairmont Hotel MacDonald, Jasper Room
Tuesday April 3rd, 2012
9.00-10.30: Senate Chamber
Friederike Eigler (Georgetown University, Washington): Rewriting German-Polish Border Regions in
Contemporary Europe
Waclaw Osadnik (University of Alberta): Wir sind Lockvögel Baby by Elfriede Jelinek in Polish: Some
Remarks on Translation of Cultural Contexts
Bianca Bican (University of Cluj-Naboca): Political and Cultural Implications in Literary Reception during
Communist Romania
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break, Faculty Lounge
11.00-12.00: Senate Chamber
Irene Sywenky (University of Alberta): Negotiating Urban Palimpsests: The Politics of Cultural Mediation
in Today’s East Central Europe
Laura Bohn (Wheaton College): Habsburg Translingual Identity in Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne
Eigenschaften and Terézia Mora's Alle Tage
12.00-14.00: Transfer to the Art Gallery of Alberta (#2 Sir Winston Churchill Square; register at the desk
in the foyer), Lunch, Allan E. Scott Boardroom (4th floor, Art Gallery of Alberta)
14.00-15.30: Boardroom
Raluca Cernahoschi (Bates College): Climbing the Ladder, Playing the Game: Thoughts on a Narrative
Motif in Kafka, Roth and Szábo
Susan Ingram (York University): After the Wall is Before… the Enlightenment: Linklater’s Refashioning of
Vienna’s Baroque Imaginary
Markus Reisenleitner (York University): Policing Murky Depths and Glowing Peaks: Competing
Imaginaries of Central European Crossroads in SOKO Kitzbühel and SOKO Donau
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break, Boardroom
16.00-17.00: Boardroom
Stefan Simonek (University of Vienna): An Intertextual Approach to “Laibach”
Maryna Chernyavska (University of Alberta): Nostalgic Dreams of the Former Crownland
17.30: Ledcor Theatre, -1 floor, Art Gallery of Alberta
Special Artist Talk by Taras Polataiko, in conjunction with the current AGA exhibition REARVIEW MIRROR:
New Art from Central & Eastern Europe
19.00: Reception, Lecdor Theatre Foyer, Art Gallery of Alberta, hosted by University of Alberta
International; welcome by Britta Baron (Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President International)
20.00: Optional Dinner at the AGA’s Zinc Restaurant (at participants’ expense)