PROGRAM
Open Panel Discussion
Plenarsaal (Rathaus Innsbruck)
German (with English translation)
Music: Unicombo
Zur Einführung: New Orleans in Bildern und Musik
(ehemalige Innsbrucker Studierende an der University of New Orleans)
Music
Podiumsdiskussion: Innsbruck und New Orleans. Die beiden Partnerstädte und ihre Herausforderungen für die Zukunft
mit Robert Dupont (University of New Orleans), Gerhard Fritz (Stadtrat Innsbruck),
Bart Lootsma (Universität Innsbruck), Mark Romig (New Orleans, City’s tourism
marketing commission)
Moderation: Nina Schröder (RAI/Bozen)
Music
Kleine Erfrischung
(sponsored by the University of New Orleans - Center Austria and
the University of Innsbruck)
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Wir danken den Förderern
© REAGENT by Stefan Hitthaler
19.30
Location
Language
Organizers
Christina Antenhofer (University of Innsbruck/Center New Orleans)
Günter Bischof (University of New Orleans/Center Austria)
Robert Dupont (University of New Orleans)
Ulrich Leitner (University of Innsbruck)
Coordination & Contact
Center New Orleans
Eva-Maria Fink, Marion Wieser
Johnny DeMaine
Universität Innsbruck
Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3, 1. Stock, A-6020 Innsbruck
Tel: +43 512 507-39200
E-Mail: center-new-orleans@uibk.ac.at
© BfÖ 2015
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CITIES AND LANDSCAPES
Considering New Orleans and Innsbruck
as Multiple Landscapes
University of Innsbruck –
University of New Orleans Annual Symposium
June 24 – 26, 2015
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Location
Aula, Hauptuni (Main University Building), Innrain 52, Innsbruck
Music
Unicombo
10.30
Coffee Break (Thüringsaal, 1st Floor)
11.00
Panel 2: The City as Material Reality
Chair: Gerhard Rampl
Reading the Historical Cityscape: A Spatial Analysis of New Orleans’ French Quarter
Richard Campanella – Tulane University (Historical Geography)
Matchpoint Innsbruck
Bart Lootsma – University of Innsbruck (Architectural Theory & Building History)
The Olympic Games in Innsbruck: Planning, Infrastructure and Landscape
Transformations
Wolfgang Meixner – University of Innsbruck (History)/Arnold Klotz – University of
Innsbruck (Architect and Planner)
13.00
Lunch Break
14.30
Panel 3: Cities as Micro-Landscapes
Chair: Doris Eibl
Ultra. Ethnographic Encounters in the Micro-Landscape of Soccer Fans
Jochen Bonz – University of Innsbruck (European Ethnology)
Restructuring Landscapes of Informality in Gentrifying New Orleans
Renia Ehrenfeucht – University of New Orleans (Planning and Urban Studies)
16.00
Coffee Break (Thüringsaal, 1 Floor)
16.30
Panel 4: City and Environment
Chair: Patrick Kupper
Friday, June 26, 2015
Location
Claudiasaal, Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3, 2nd Floor, Innsbruck (Old Town)
9.00
Panel 5: City Landscapes as Images of the City
Chair: Stefan Ehrenpreis
Culture Is Big Business: An Anthropological Case Study about the Commodification
of Culture in New Orleans
Bernhard Bauer – University of Vienna (Ethnology & Anthropology)
Innsbruck: “The Capital of the Alps”. Mountains as the City’s Landscape of Taste
Simone Egger – University of Innsbruck (European Ethnology)
10.30
Coffee Break (Thüringsaal, 1st Floor)
11.00
Panel 6: “In-Between-Towns” – The Hidden Sides of the City
Chair: Niels Grüne
From the Bayou to the Table: The Role of the Croatian American Community in
Louisiana‘s Seafood Industry
Reneé Bourgogne – University of New Orleans (Urban Studies)
Essential but Invisible: Migration as Part of Urban and General History
Dirk Rupnow – University of Innsbruck (Contemporary History)
12.30
Lunch Break
14.00
Panel 7: Cities as Social and Semantic Spaces
Chair: Robert L Dupont
Rerouting Risk: Flood Protection and Conflicts on the Lower Mississippi River
Craig Colten – Lousiana State University (Geography)
Saving the City from Sex Deviates: Preservationists, Homosexuals, and Reformers
in the French Quarter, 1950 – 1962
Alecia P Long – Louisiana State University (History)
Land Consumption, Agricultural Land and the Meaning of ‘Productive Parks’ in the
Case of the River Inn-Valley North Tyrol, Austria
Wolfgang Andexlinger – University of Innsbruck (Design)
Psychiatric and Pastoral Landscapes in Tyrol in the 19th Century (with a Comparative
View on Louisiana)
Maria Heidegger – University of Innsbruck (History)
Coastline / Terraforming. The Loss of Land and How a New Infrastructured Land-
scape Influences the Human Habitat
Stefano de Martino/Gerald Haselwanter – University of Innsbruck (Design)
15.30
Coffee Break (Thüringsaal, 1st Floor)
16.00
Panel 8: Poster Session
Chair: Claudia Posch
18.45
Keynote
Introduction: Christina Antenhofer
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Location
Claudiasaal, Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3, 2nd Floor, Innsbruck (Old Town)
The (felt) Body of the City – Feeling Urban Spaces –
Jürgen Hasse – Prof. of Geography and its Didactic University of Frankfurt
Dangerous and Endangering Spaces: Images of Innsbruck in the Records of the
Youth Welfare Service
Flavia Guerrini – University of Innsbruck (Educational Studies)
9.00
Panel 1: The Historical Reading of Cities
Chair: Günter Bischof
Between Land and Water: The Ambiguous Landscape of New Orleans
Robert L Dupont – University of New Orleans (History)
Conference Dinner (by invitation only)
(sponsored by the University of New Orleans – Center Austria)
Location: Schwarzer Adler, Kaiserjägerstraße 2
Collective Mobilities and the Production of Smooth Space: Reclaiming Space for
Bicycling in Innsbruck
Philipp K. Wegerer – University of Innsbruck (Strategic Management, Marketing &
Tourism)/Florian Timmerman – University of Innsbruck (Geography)
20.30
Innsbruck as Historical City
Julia Hörmann-Thurn und Taxis – University of Innsbruck (History)
schaug – shifting perspectives on linguistic landscapes
Dominik Unterthiner, Stephanie Baur, Alexander Topf – University of Innsbruck
(li.lab – laboratory for linguistic landscapes)
17.15
Concluding Remarks (Christina Antenhofer, Günter Bischof)
15.45-16.30
Arrival of participants and registration
Music
16.30
Welcome and Introduction
Interaction between Universities and Cities: Univercities
Rector Tilmann Märk (University of Innsbruck)
Music
17.00
Welcome
Vice Mayor Sonja Pitscheider (City of Innsbruck)
Günter Bischof (University of New Orleans)
Christina Antenhofer (University of Innsbruck)
17.30
Presentation Art Project: REAGENT by Stefan Hitthaler
Ulrich Leitner (University of Innsbruck)
Music
18.00
Theoretical Approaches to the Field
Chair: Christina Antenhofer
Unitown-University Town Network
Gastone Ave - University of Ferrara (Strategic Planning & Urban Marketing)
Space, Power, Transgression: Decolonizing Spatial Relations
in the Age of Postcolonial Globality
Nikita Dhawan - University of Innsbruck (Political Science)
19.15
Keynote
Introduction: Günter Bischof
The Mysteries of New Orleans: Culture Formation and
the Layering of History
Berndt Ostendorf – Prof. Emeritus University of Munich
20.30
Opening Art Project and Reception
(sponsored by the City of Innsbruck and the University of Innsbruck)
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