Events
Upcoming Events
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Past Events
Project Days with BORG Innsbruck
3-day project with students from the BORG Innsbruck
Wednesday, February 3 - Friday, February 5, 2010
(American Corner Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck)
[link to review]
Taking Stock - One Year of the Obama Administration
speaker (video conference): Professor David M. Rowe
Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of International Studies , Kenyon College
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 5.00-6.00 p.m.
Studio A (GeiWi, 2nd floor, Abtielung Neue Medien und Lerntechnologien)
[link to review]
Some Moral Dimensions of Scientific Research
speaker: Professor Cornelius F. Delaney
Professor of Philosophy, Director of Honors Program, University of Notre Dame
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 7.30 p.m.
lecture hall 3 (HS 3) SoWi (Universitätsstraße 15, EG Ost)
[link to review]1. ZiAS Workshop, 14-15 January 2010
(hosted by the Center for Interamerican Studies at the University of Innsbruck)
[invitation, program]Visit by Consul General Heather Guimond at the Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck
Thursday, 19 November 2009, morning
(Consul General Heather Guimond and her assistant Deborah M. Leever used the American Corner on Wednesday, 18 November 2009 to perform American Citizen Services)
[link to review]
Nuclear Expansion, Global Security, and the current State of International Law
speaker: Brad Varley, J.D., M.A.
Legal Councellor
Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 5.15 p.m., room 50105/2 (GeiWi, 1st floor)
[link to review]Measured Sovereigns: A Political / Legal History of Indigenous Peoples in the United States
speaker: Prof. David Wilkins
Professor of American Indian Studies, Political Science, Law and American Studies at the University of Minnesota
sponsored by the U.S. Embassy; in cooperation with the the Austro-American Society Tirol and University of New Orleans Center Austria
Friday, 13 November 2009, 5.30 p.m., Saal University of New Orleans
[link to review]Guantánamo and the Difficulties with Change
speaker: Floo Weißmann
Senior Editor for Politics, Tiroler Tageszeitung
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 6 p.m., 50101
[link to review](Early*) 4th of July Party
American Corner Innsbruck
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 6 p.m., American Corner Innsbruck
open house party with buffet and drinks
[link to pictures and review] [link to invitation]Exploring the Alps by Bike:
Riding the Famous, the Common, and the Forgotten Roads in and Around Innsbruck
speakers: Ashley R. Norris and Jered Gruber
University of New Orleans
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 19.00, 50101/1
in cooperation with the University of New Orleans Center Austria
[link to review]
A Primer on Islamic Banking and Finance
speaker: Prof. Mohammad Kabir Hassan
University of New Orleans
Thursday, 18 June 2009, 19.30, HS 3, SoWi, EG Ost
in cooperation with WuV, Austro-American Society and University of New Orleans Center Austria
[link to review]An Art that Consumes Itself: The Autophagy of Animation
speaker: Prof. Donald Crafton
University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 16.30–18.00, Claudiasaal (Claudiana, Innsbruck Old Town)
in cooperation with the Framing Media Research Group at the Department of American Studies, Innsbruck as part of the "Blending Media" conference
[link to conference pictures]
Blending Media: Defining Film in the Modernist Period
Conference organized by the Framing Media Research Group
at the Department of American Studies, Innsbruck
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 9 and 10, 2009, Claudiana
main speakers:
David N. Rodowick, Harvard University, Donald Crafton, University of Notre Dame, Sabine Sielke, Universität Bonn, Laura Marcus, University of Edinburgh
[link to conference program] (pdf file) [link to conference pictures]4 and 5 June 2009
Official visit by Robert Hugins, Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Vienna and Catherine Marsicek, Information Resource Officer, U.S. Embassy Vienna
Opening of the ZIAS (Zentrum für Interamerikanische Studien)
Thursday, 4 June 2009, 18.00, Claudiasaal, Herzog-Friedrich- Str. 3, 2nd floor
Official opening of the Center for Inter-American Studies
Lecture by Anton Pelinka, panel discussion, art exhibition
[link to program] [link to article on iPoint] [link to article on derstandard.at] [link to ZIAS]Rich Americans Who Never Lived
speaker: Mag. Dr. Claudia Schwarz
University of Innsbruck
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 18.30, Room 50101/1
[link to review]U.S. Hate Crimes and Lynch Laws
speaker: Mag. Karin Walpurga Köll
University of Innsbruck
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 19.00, Room 50109/3
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Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 5.30 p.m.
American Corner Innsbruck
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3 December 2008, 17.00, University of New Orleans-Saal (Main University Building)
'As We Found Them' and 'As They Are Now': The Freedchild and the Future after Slavery
speaker: Prof. Mary N. Mitchell
University of New Orleans
Wednesday, 3 December 2008, 17.00,
[read review]26 November 2008, 18.00, 50109 (GeiWi-Zwischentrakt)
Law's Labor's Lost?
The Ambiguous Image of Marshals and Sheriffs in American History and Popular Culture
speaker: Mag. Andreas Leisner
University of Innsbruck
[read review]5 November 2008, 7.30-10.30 American Corner Innsbruck (Claudiana)
Post-Election Breakfast
in cooperation with the Austro-American Society Tyrol
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27 October 2008, 17.00, Aula (Main University Building)
New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta: Managing Natural Resources in the 21st Century
speaker: Professor Denise REED
University of New Orleans
[more information]
27 August 2008
Visit by Ambassador David F. Girard-di Carlo
[read review] [read text on iPoint]31 July 2008
Visit by Robert Hugins, Counselor for Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Vienna
4 June 2008, 6.30 p.m., Senatssitzungssaal
Winning the White House: The 2008 Election and the Campaign of History
speaker: Prof. Robert Schmuhl
Dept. of American Studies and Journalism, University of Notre Dame, USA
[read review]28 May 2008, 7.00 p.m., HS 1
Political Liberalism: Welfare, Medicine, and Law
speaker: Prof. Cornelius Delaney
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, USA
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Thursday, May 16 and Friday, May 17, 2008, 7.30 p.m., Coffee Room
Woman at a Threshold, Beckoning
by John Guare
performed by the Theater Workshop (Coffee Room Amateur Players)
directed by Linda Quehenberger-Dobbs
[read review] [read text on iPoint]
16 April 2008, 5.00 p.m., Claudiasaal
"Die Entwicklung der ordentlichen Gerichtsbarkeit - Aktuelle Herausforderungen für den Obersten Gerichtshof"
speaker: Hon. Prof. Dr. Irmgard Griss, LL.M. (Harvard)
President of the Austrian Supreme Court
A talk in the field of Law and the Humanities.
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16 January 2008, 7 p.m. room 50101
"Witnessing AIDS in 1980s America: The Doctors' Perspective"
speaker: Mag. Lucia Blasl
A talk in the field of Medical Humanities.
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12 December 2007, 7 p.m., room 50105
"Criminal Profiling: Looking behind the Mask of America's most Cruel Serial Killers"
speaker: Christine Nagel
A talk in the field of Law and the Humanities.
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14 November 2007, 7 p.m. , room 50105
"A Quest for Justice: The American Jury System and Its Representation in American Film"
speaker: Mag. Philipp Prantl
a talk in the field of Law and the Humanities
[read review]12 October 2007, 10 a.m., room 50101
"Justice between Generations: The Debate over Health Care Resources"
speaker: Prof. Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D.
A talk in the field of Medical Humanities.
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22-23 June, 2007, Aula, lecture room 7
Conference: 50 Years of American Studies in Innsbruck: Past and Future
focus on interdisciplinary American Studies; special sections on Medical Humanities, Law and the Humanities and Business/Management and the Humanities
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21 May 2007, 2 p.m., Aula of the University
Opening Ceremony
under the auspices of Ambassador Susan McCaw
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