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Das Center New Orleans an der Universität Innsbruck ist das Partnerschaftsbüro für die Universitätspartnerschaft zwischen der Universität Innsbruck und der University of New Orleans (USA). Diese Partnerschaft besteht offiziell seit 1983, informell bereits seit 1976.

Das Center New Orleans wurde 2010 mit dem Auftrag gegründet, den Rektorsbeauftragten bei der Pflege der Partnerschaft zu unterstützen und diese Partnerschaft zu fördern, sowie sämtliche Aktivitäten, die im Rahmen der Partnerschaft stattfinden, auf Innsbrucker Seite zu koordinieren. Dazu zählen u.a. ein äußerst erfolgreicher Studierenendenaustausch, der es jedes Semester zahlreichen Innsbrucker Studierenden ermöglicht an der University of New Orleans (UNO) zu für ein oder zwei Semester zu studieren.

Das CNO erteilt Informationen rund um das Studium, den Bewerbungsprozess, den Aufenthalt und Stipendienmöglichkeiten. Es bearbeitet die Bewerbungen und leitet diese an das Center Austria, dem Partnerschaftsbüro an der UNO, weiter.

Das CNO unterstützt organisatorisch und logistisch den Austausch von Gastprofessoren/innen sowie die Abhaltung von gemeinsamen Veranstaltungen (Symposien, Tagungen, etc.) sowie gemeinsame Publikationen. Es informiert Lehrende der Universität Innsbruck über Möglichkeiten der Forschung und Lehre an der UNO und an anderen Universitäten in den USA.

Das CNO hielt Kontakt zur UNO Austrian Alumni Association, einer Vereinigung von ehemaligen Studierenden an der UNO, und half bei der Organisation und Durchführung von gemeinsamen Aktivitäten und Veranstaltungen. Diese sollte helfen, ehemalige Innsbrucker Studierende - ganz im Sinne des „Alumni Gedankens“ - an ihre Alma Mater zu binden und langlebige persönliche Netzwerke zu knüpfen.

Das CNO sieht sich als Kommunikations- und Koordinationsplattform im transatlantischen akademischen Austausch.

• 1976

  Dr. Gordon "Nick" Mueller opened the first UNO International Summer School in Innsbruck.

• 1979

  UNO History Department offered a graduate fellowship to Günter Bischof, the first Innsbruck degree seeking student at UNO.

• 1981

  First Staff Exchange: Anton Pelinka teaching Comparative Political Science.

• 1982

  First joint Symposium:

  - Federalism and State Rights (New Orleans)
  - Unions and Democracy (Innsbruck)

  Inception of Austrian Student Program (February semester break) headed by Ellen Palli (UIBK Political Science Department) and Charles Hadley (UNO).

  Dr. Erich Thöni becomes International Honorary Citizen of New Orleans.

• 1983

  Signing of the Official Partnership Treaty between UIBK and UNO.

  Conferences:

  - Tourism and Culture (New Orleans)
  - Economics and Politics of Health Care (Innsbruck

• 1984

  Conferences:

  - Energy and Security Concerns in the Atlantic Community (New Orleans)
  - New Directions in Economic and Security Policy (Innsbruck)

• 1985

  Conferences:

  - Economics and Politics of Industrial Policy (New Orleans)
  - Religion and Politics (Innsbruck)

• 1986

  Conferences:

  Neutrality: Changing Concepts and Practices (New Orleans)
  International banking: The Politics of the Financial Economics Issues (Innsbruck)

• 1987

  Conferences:

  - New Immigrants and Old Minorities (New Orleans)
  - Migration: Comparative Aspects in Europe and the United States (Innsbruck)

• 1988

  Conferences:

  - Education, Technology and Economic Development (New Orleans)
  - Permanent Education between New Illiteracy and High-Power Technology (Innsbruck)

• 1989

  Conferences;

  - From Woman to Mother: The New Politics of the Cradle. EC Internal Market and European Integration (New Orleans)
  - EC Internal Market and European Integration (Innsbruck)

• 1990

  Conferences:

  - European Economic Integration (New Orleans)
  - Urban Development: The American Agenda and the European Experiment (Innsbruck)

• 1991

  Inception of the Transatlantic Lectures Series.

• 1992

  Launch of Contemporary Austria Studies, an interdisciplinary yearbook series.

  CAS Volume 1: Austria in the New Europe. Edited by Günther Bischof and Anton Pelinka.

  Conference: Comparative Urban Revitalization Strategies (New Orleans)

• 1993

  Conference: Austria 1949 - 1961 (Innsbruck)

  CAS Volume 2: The Kreisky Era in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof and Anton Pelinka

• 1994

  Conference: Ethnic Minorities (New Orleans)

• 1995

  Sister City Agreement between Innsbruck and New Orleans

  Conference: Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity (New Orleans)

  CAS Volume 3: Austria in the Nineteen Fifties. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Rolf Steininger.

  CAS Volume 4: Austro-Corporatism: Past, Present, Future. Edited by Günter Bischof and Anton Pelinka.

• 1996

  Conference: Financial Aspects of Sports: An International Perspective (New Orleans)

• 1997

  Fall Foundation Center Austria, Appointment of Dr. Mueller as Director

  Inception of the Academic Year Abroad (AYA) program under Director Margaret Davidson

  CAS Volume 5: Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity. Edited by Günter Bischof and Anton Pelinka.

• 1998

  Conference: The Marshall Plan in Austria - An Economic and and Social History (New Orleans)

  CAS Volume 6: Women in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Erika Thurner.

• 1999

  Dr. Erich Thöni Universitätsbeauftragter für internationale Beziehungen

  Conference: Tourism and Festivals (Innsbruck)

  CAS Volume 7: The Vranitzky Era in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Ferdinand Karlhofer.

• 2000

  Farewell of Dr. Nick Mueller, Appointment of Günter Bischof as Executive Director of Center Austria

  Inception of the City of Innsbruck -University of New Orleans Art Exchange under Mayor Hilde Zach.

  Conference: Satchmo Meets Amadeus: New Orleans and Salzburg - Two Cities and Their Sounds of Music (New Orleans)

  CAS Volume 8: The Marshall Plan in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Dieter Stiefel.

• 2001

  Founding of the "Freunde der University of New Orleans" Association.

  Conference: Austria and the EU: A Five Year Assessment (Innsbruck)

  CAS Volume 9: Neutrality in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Ruth Wodak.

• 2002

  Conference: The Westernization-Americanization of Austria in the 20th Century (New Orleans)

  New Orleans blues singer Marva Wright was invited to perform at the fourth New Orleans Festival in Innsbruck under the Transatlantic Lectures Series.

  CAS Volume 10: Austria in the European Union. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Michael Gehler.

• 2003

  Conference: Towards a European Constitution? Historical, political, and Comparative Aspects: Europe-US (Innsbruck)

  CAS Volume 11: The Dollfuss/Schuschnig Era in Austria: A Reassessment. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Alexander Lassner.

  CAS Volume 12: The Americanization/ Westernization of Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka.

• 2005

  Hurricane Katrina.

  "Freunde der University of New Orleans" renamed to Austrian UNO Alumni Association.

  CAS Volume 13: Religion in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Hermann Denz.

  CAS Volume 14: Austrian Foreign Policy in Historical Context. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Michael Gehler.

• 2006

  Conference: Satchmo Meets Amadeus

  CAS Volume 15: Sexuality in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Dagmar Herzog.

• 2007

  Conference: Acadiens and Cajuns

• 2008

  Conferences:

  - The Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
  - Representations of the Marshall Plan in the Media Vienna

  CAS Volume 16: The Changing Austria Voter. Edited by Günter Bischof and Fritz Plasser.

• 2009

  Two Sessions on Insights into Oxygen Sensing and Signaling in the American Physiological Society Annual Meeting

  CAS Volume 17: New Perspectives on Austria and WWII. Edited by Günter Bischof, Fritz Plasser and Barbara Stelzl-Marx.

• 2010

  Foundation of Center New Orleans staffed by student assistant Christina Sturn..

  International Student Mobility Workshop

  CA Volume 18: The Schuessel Era in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof and Fritz Plasser.

  CA Volume 19: From Empire to Republic: Post World War I Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof, Fritz Plasser and Peter Berger.

• 2011

  Staff Exchange:

  • Dr. Christina Anthenhofer (UIBK, History)

  Taught: Survey Lecture on High Middle Ages, Seminar on Rennaisance Women. Research for her book project Fetish as a Heuristic Category. History Reception - Interpretation (2011), research on her habilitation project on material culture in the Middle Ages and the Rennaisance.

  • Dr. Margaret "Mary" Niall Mitchell (UNO, History-American Studies)

  Participated on a J. William Fulbright Fellowship in the Department of American Studies at UIBK. Taught: 19th Century U.S. History, History Workshop on Slavery, U.S. Cultural History. Shared her research on fugitive slaves and race with students at the University of Salzburg.

  “Austrian UNO Alumni Association" renamed to “University of New Orleans Austrian Alumni Association” (UNOAAA/UNOtripleA).

  Innsbruck Conference on World History: The Role and Function of the Global City.

  CAS Volume 20: Global Austria. Edited by Günter Biscof, Fritz Plassner, Anton Pelinka and Alexander Smith.

• 2012

  CAS Volume 21: Austrian Lives. Edited by Günter Bischof, Fritz Plassner and Eva Maltschnig.

• 2013

  Farewell to Christina Sturn.

  UNO Coordinator Dr. Christina Anthenhofer, Marion Wieser, Eva-Maria Fink (Coordinator)

  Conference: The Life and Work of Günther Anders: Émigre, Iconoclast, Philosopher, Literateur

  CAS Volume 22: Austria's International Position after the End of the Cold War: Edited by Günter Bischof and Ferdinand Karlhofer.

• 2014

  Enduring Cultures: Indigenous Responses to Changing Environments in the 21st Century

  Excursion Architecture: Terraforming MississippiI Delta and the Gulf of Mexico Uunder the Influence of Natural Forces and Infrastructural Landscapes.

  CAS Volume 23: 1914 Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I. Edited by Günter Bischof and Ferdinand Karlhofer. Guest Editor: Samuel R. Williamson Jr.

  End of the Austrian Student Program

• 2015

  Center Austria moves to the new International Center and is renamed Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies.

  Staff Exchange:

  • Dr. Andreas Oberprantacher (Uibk, History)

  Taught European Intellectual History and Radical Democratic Thought. Held a Guest lecture on the Euopean Refugee Crisis at Trinity College in Hartfort, Connecticut. Finalized Anthology on Subjectivation in Political Theory and Contemporary Practices for Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Dr. Günter Bischof (UNO, History)

  Taught a survey lecture on American History after the Civil War and the seminar The United States as an Occupation Power and American Techniques of Nation Building. Did archival research at the National Archives in Vienna and the State Archives in Innsbruck and Bregenz for his book project The Marshall Plan in Austria.

  Cities and Landscapes Symposium.

  CAS Volume 24: Austrian Federalism in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Günter Bischof and Ferdinand Karlhofer.

  End of the Art Exchange.

• 2016

  Staff Exchange:

  • Dr. Gerhard Rampl (Uibk, Linguistics)

  Taught Introduction into the Romance Languages in Europe and a research seminar on Romance Heritage in Louisiana Place Names where students helped populate a web GIS application with etymological explanations of place names of romance origin.

  CAS Volume 25: Austrian Studies Today. Edited by Günter Bischof and Ferdinand Karlhofer.

• 2017

  Staff Exchange:

  • Spring/Summer: Dr. Andrea Mostermann (Uibk, History-American Studies)

  Taught Slavery in North America and Atlantic History. Conducted archival research for her manuscript A Microhistory of a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Slave Ship.

  • Dr. Doris Eibl (Uibk, Romance Studies)

  Taught a survey lecture course on The History of French Literature and the seminar Literature's Knowledge in the 19th., 20th. and 21st. centuries. Worked on her research project Emancipation in Exile: Surrealist Women Artists and Writers in Mexico.

  • Fall/Winter: Dr. Olivier Bourderionnet (UNO, Foreign Languages)

  Taught a survey lecture on Chanson Francaise in the Twentieth Century and French Cinema. Conducted research on Textmusik in der Romania at the Institut Francais's archival fund.

  CAS Volume 26: Migration in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof and Dirk Rupnow.

• 2018

  Appointment Dr. Gerhard Rampl

  Farewell of Doris Gruber, Student Assistant.

  CA Volume 27: Austrian Environmental History. Edited by Patrick Kupper and Marc Landry.

• 2019

  International Symposium on Disability Studies & Participation in Higher Education (Innsbruck)

  Hanna Rofner becomes Student Assistant at Center New Orleans.

  February:

  • UNO – Joint Research Exchange Program: Dr. Achleitner & Faculty of Engineering.

  May:

  • Conference UNO: Debates about Immigration: American and European Experiences in a Comparative Perspective

  June:

  • Symposium UIBK: Disability Studies & Participation in Higher Education

  Guest Professors (Winter/Fall):

  • Dr. Ryan Gray (UNO: Anthropology-Archeology)
  • Dr. Harald Stadler (UIBK: Archeology))

  Center Austria Fellow

  • Jacqueline Wieser (German and Media Studies)

  Nick-Mueller-Fellow

  • Andreas Hofbauer (English and American Studies)

  Guest Scientists:

  • October: Sabine Schrader (UIBK: Romance Languages, Film Studies)
  • December: Dr. Mark Kulp (Geology)

  CAS Volume 28: Democracy in Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof and David M. Wineroither.

• 2020

  Guest Professors:

  - Summer/Spring: Günter Bischof (UNO: History & Philosophy)
  - Winter/Fall: Eva Pfanzelter (UIBK: Contemporary History)

  CAS Volume 29: Myths in Austrian History: Construction and Deconstruction. Edited by Günter Bischof and Marc Landry. Guest Editor: Christian Karner.

• 2021

  Farewell of Hannah Rofner, BA.

  CAS Volume 30: Visual Histories of Austria. Edited by Günter Bischof. Guest Editors: Martin Kofler and Hans Petschar.

• 2022

  Leonie Kaupert becomes Student Assistant and Coordinator of CNO in February

  CA Volume 31: The Austrian Second Republic. Edited by Marc LAndry and Eva Pfanzelter.

• 2023

  Water Research Exchange (Innsbruck)

  Inception of the History Exchange Podcast Series by Marc Landry and Eva Pfanzelter.

  CAS Volume 32: Covid-19 and Pandemics in Austrian History. Edited by Marc Landry and Dirk Rupnow.

• 2024

• 2025

  Online-Symposium: Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on Public Transportation