VIDEOS
Want to learn more about Austrian-American history? Watch the following videos produced by the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies to improve your understanding of the historic relationship between Austria and the United States.
BIAAS Videos
If Passports Could Talk #3 | Christoph Kapeller
January 2024
Today’s guest is renowned architect Christoph Kapeller. In this episode, he reflects on his journey from southeastern Austria along the border with Slovenia, to busy streets across the United States, and sunny days in the historic Egyptian city of Alexandria.
If you would like to find more from Christoph Kapeller, you can find his work at the following links:
| CK Architecture: https://www.ck-architecture.com/ | CK Photography: https://cargocollective.com/ck-imaging |
Philip Otterness – German Migrant Encounters with Native Americans in Colonial North Carolina
November 2023
Philip Otterness is an emeritus professor of history at Warren Wilson College, in North Carolina. Otterness has conducted research and written extensively on the history of Germanic peoples Colonial America and the early United States. His book, Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York (2004) can be found, here.
Zoltán Ginelli – Semiperipheral Whiteness: Habsburg Colonialism in Hungarian “Indian Play”
November 2023
Zoltán Ginelli is an independent researcher and a critical geographer, historian of science and global historian. His research is in the geographies of knowledge, world-systems analysis, and the histories of geography, colonialism and racism, with a focus on the historical relations between Eastern Europe and the Global South or the Third World. Learn more about him and his work, here.
Austrian & American Slang Words | 2023 ASA Conference Bonus Video
October 2023
Enjoy this bonus clip from our interviews with the attendees of the 2023 Austrian Studies Association (ASA) Conference at Lafayette College in Easton, PA.
The full set of interviews can be watched, here.
Meet the Attendees | 2023 Austrian Studies Association Conference
September 2023
The 2023 Austrian Studies Association (ASA) Conference took place April 14-16 at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. In this video, get to know the attendees and their interests a bit more!
The 2023 ASA Conference held academic panels on “Reimagining Space, Place, and Belonging in Austrian History, Politics, Literature, And Film.”
Markéta Křížová – Native North American on Display in Prague, Second Half of the 19th Century
September 2023
Markéta Křížová presenting, “Native North American on display in Prague, second half of the 19th century.” Křížová is a professor and vice dean of international relations at the Charles University of Prague’s Centre for Ibero-American Studies. Her research has focused on early-modern intellectual history, European overseas expansion, the colonial history of America, migrations, cultural encounters and competitions (Moves, 2023).
2023 Annual Lecture | A Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
August 2023
The Board of Advisors and staff of the Botstiber Institute held their annual meeting in Washington, DC, on Friday, May 19, evaluating more than two dozen proposals for grant support during a day-long meeting. That evening, they traveled to the Austrian Embassy for the Annual Botstiber Lecture, where this year historian Larry Wolff dazzled a large crowd, including the new Austrian Ambassador, Petra Schneebauer, with a multi-media presentation about his new book, The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy (2023).
Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo – Native America in the Archive of José Fernando Ramírez (1804-1871)
August 2023
Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo presenting on, “Between Native America and the Second Mexican Empire: Travels, Connections, and the Material Archive of José Fernando Ramírez (1804-1871).” Aristondo is assistant professor of early modern and 19th century Latin American and Iberian studies at Villanova University. His research interests include environmental history, slavery, political ecology, literature, and history of science.
Alexander McCargar – Plumes of Power: The Native American in Habsburg Festival Culture before 1700
August 2023
Alexander McCargar presenting on, “Plumes of Power: The Native American in Habsburg Festival Culture before 1700.” McCargar is a scenic designer and a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna. McCargar has conducted significant research on the history of scenic design and festival culture. You can learn more about his work, here.
Julia Secklehner – The Roma and Hans Larwin’s ‘Indians’ in Interwar Austrian Visual Culture
July 2023
Julia Secklehner presenting on, “Painting ‘Indians’: Hans Larwin’s Genre Paintings and the ‘Other’ in Interwar Austrian Visual Culture.” Secklehner is a Research Fellow at Masaryk University’s Department of Art History. She is a specialist in the history of modern art and visual culture in Central Europe.
Robbie Richardson – The “Kunstkammer” as Contact Zone: Indigenous Knowledge in Habsburg Collections
July 2023
Robbie Richardson providing the keynote address at the “Habsburg Encounters with Native America” conference. Richardson is an assistant professor of eighteenth-century British and transatlantic literature and culture at Princeton University. He is also a member of the Pabineau Mi’kmaq First Nation.
Annual BIAAS Lecture 2022: A. Wess Mitchell on US-Austrian Relations & The Russo-Ukrainian Conflict
July 2022
At this year’s annual lecture presented by the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies, A. Wess Mitchell shares his insights on the current state of Austrian-American relations. As the former US Assistant Secretary of State to Europe & Eurasia, Mitchell provides an informed perspective on what the conflict in Ukraine could mean for the two countries before answering audience questions on the topic in a Q&A.
Anna Freud and “The Conscience of Society”
May 2020
Drawing on a wealth of still and video archival materials, this 15 minute digital exhibit brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education. Out of the cultural and political ferment of inter-war Vienna emerged the Hietzing School, founded in the 1920s by Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham.
“A Lifetime Engagement with Austria” an Interview with Harry Carl Schaub
March 2020
Over the course of his distinguished career, Harry Carl Schaub served as Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Austria to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, partnered at the law firm Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, and authored a celebrated biography of the Austrian Abwehr General Erwin Lahousen. He recounts his myriad experiences in this interview by Professor Frank Trommler.
2019 Cultural Politics and Propaganda Conference – Günter Bischof
July 2019
Günter Bischof is a member of the Board of Advisors at the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and is the Marshall Plan Chair and Director of Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans. He has taught contemporary American and European history at UNO since 1989. He has served as a guest professor at various universities across Europe, North America and the Middle East.
2019 Cultural Politics and Propaganda Conference – Siegfried Beer
July 2019
Siegfried Beer is the Chair of the BIAAS Board of Advisors. He is professor for Late Modern and Contemporary History (ret.) at the University of Graz. In 2004 he founded the Austrian Center for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (ACIPSS) whose semi-annual Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (JIPSS) he edited until 2018.
4-Part Interview with Dr. Anton Pelinka: The History of US-Austrian Relations
July 2019
Dr. Anton Pelinka, a professor of political science and nationalism studies, shares his insights regarding US-Austrian relations since WWII with Dr. Gary Cohen, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Minnesota.