2019 Cultural Politics and Propaganda Conference – Siegfried Beer

March 28, 2019 | Video

Siegfried Beer’s Lecture: “Scrutiny, Synthesis and Policy: OSS/R&A and Austria, 1942 – 1945/50.” “Cultural Politics and Propaganda: Mediated Narratives and Images in Austrian-American Relations (1900-2000)” Conference took place from March 28 – 30, 2019 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. “Culture Politics and Propaganda” was hosted by the North Atlantic Triangle Commission and sponsored by the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS) and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation. Siegfried Beer is the Director of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies.

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