VIENNA 1900 - VICCA

Birth of a Visionary Movement

A CONFERENCE

MAY 2 & May 3, 2024

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street, 10022 New York

Vienna 1900 has become a hallmark for the city’s outstanding innovative capacities in formulating modern thought and highlighting the paradoxes of modernity. Renowned experts from Austria, the US and Great Britain will present the latest research on this topic and reflect on potentialities for cultural and societal innovation in the 2020s.

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from left to right: Linda G. Mills, president of NYU; Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science; Prof. Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna; Helga Rabl-Stadler, former President of the Salzburg Festival; Misha Glenny, Rector of the Instititue for Human Sciences, Vienna
Welcome speech by the Rector of the University of Vienna, Sebastian Schütze. from left to right: Linda G. Mills, President of NYU; Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science; Prof. Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna; Helga Rabl-Stadler, former President of the Salzburg Festival; Misha Glenny, Rector of the Instititue for Human Sciences, Vienna
Welcome speech by the Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum NY, Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger. from left to right: the President of NYU, Linda G. Mills; and the Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science, Veronica Kaup-Hasler
in the audience, among others (from left to right): Conductor Maria Alsop, Prof. Denise Kandel, Prof. Eric Kandel, Dr. Lydia Rathkolb, Dr. Claus Müller
first panel on music, from left to right: Prof. Christian Glanz, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; Prof. Rubén Gallo, Princeton University; Leon Botstein, President of Bard College; moderator Gerald Heidegger, chief editor TOPOS, ORF.at
second panel on design and architecture, from left to right: Richard Cockett, The Economist, London; Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, MAK Vienna; moderator Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna; Mechtild Widrich, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Anita Kern, German University in Cairo
third panel on psychoanalysis and literature, from left to right: Daniela Finzi, Scientific Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna; Prof. Alys George, Stanford University and ifk fellow; George Makari, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY; Katharina Prager, Vienna City Library at the Town Hall; and moderator Gerald Heidegger, chief editor TOPOS, ORF.at
from left to right: Daniela Finzi, Scientific Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna; Prof. Alys George, Stanford University and ifk fellow; George Makari, Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, NY; Katharina Prager, Vienna City Library at the Town Hall; and moderator Gerald Heidegger, chief editor TOPOS, ORF.at
from left to right: Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Misha Glenny, Rector of the Instititue for Human Sciences, Vienna; Helga Rabl-Stadler, former President of the Salzburg Festival; Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna Executive City Councilor for Cultural Affairs and Science; Sebastian Schütze, Rector of the University of Vienna; Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna; Melina Tsiamos, Austrian Cultural Forum New York
Evening Concert performed by Soprano Lydia Rathkolb (right), former soloist Vienna State Opera and pianist Thomas Lausmann (left), The Metropolitan Opera