Commission The North Atlantic Triangle

18–20 November 2021
International Conference
POLARIZATION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC TRIANGLE

From 18 to 20 November an international interdisciplinary conference on the current topic "Polarization in the North Atlantic Triangle" takes place in the Johannessaal in the main building of the Austrian Academy of Science. Speakers from Europe and the USA will talk about the tensions and conflicts in societies on both sides of the Atlantic. In view of the rules in force as a result of the pandemic, the number of participants who will be present in person is also limited this time. However, there is the possibility of online participation, for which a registration is also requested. The access data will be sent before the conference begins. More details on the OeAW event calendar.

PROGRAM
CONFERENCE BROCHURE

2020

29-31 October 2020

International conference on "Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement: Affirmative and Critical Approaches in the Humanities from Both Sides of the Atlantic" (Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3, Veranstaltungsraum 1).

Due to the restrictions during the pandemic, the number of participants is strictly limited and we ask for your registration by Oct. 23. Online participation is also possible. Please register to receive a link to the conference livestream.

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2019

28-30 March 2019
International Conference with 24 speakers on the topic of
„Cultural Politics and Propaganda: Mediated Narratives and Images in Austrian-American Relations“ (Sitzungssaal der ÖAW).
A collection of essays based on this conference is currently being prepared. It will be edited by Siegfried Beer and Waldemar Zacharsiewicz and is expected to appear in 2020.

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2018

On 14 June the commission convened an international interdisciplinary workshop on “Traveling Ideas and their Mediators : Transatlantic Elective Affinities”, which took place in the Austrian Academy of Sciences. On this occasion members of the commission and foreign experts dealt with this topic in eight lectures. The President of the Royal Society of Canada, Chad Gaffield, spoke on “Embracing Transatlantic Research Collaboration in a new Era. Reflections from Canada”.
The papers read at the workshop are currently being prepared for publication. The volume is edited by Herta Nagl-Docekal and Waldemar Zacharsiewicz and is to appear in the first half of 2020.

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2017

On 15 November the commission convened a workshop on the topic “Wien als Ort der Begegnung, des Ideenaustausches und der Rückkehr” (Vienna as a Place of Encounters, Exchange of Ideas and Return). It offered an opportunity to present five books published by the commission and its members in the previous years, including the new collection of essay entitled “Return from Exile : Rückkehr aus dem Exil”.

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2016

The commission organized a panel with four speakers at the International World Congress of Comparative Literature, which was convened in Vienna in July 2016, and in cooperation with the organizers of this congress prepared and introduced one of the keynote lectures of the Congress. It was given by the well-known Dutch imagologist Joep Leerssen in the ceremonial hall of the Academy on 22 July 2016. 

Two members of the commission were also involved in the preparation of section 18 of the Triennial Conference of the International Association of University Professors of English, which was held in London (25 to 29 July 2016). A special issue of the academic journal Anglistik based on the papers read in this section of the conference has been prepared by commission members Martin Löschnigg and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz in collaboration with Sherrill Grace, a foreign member of the Austrian Academy. The special issue contains nine essays, which show how plays, poems and fictional narratives mirror the First World War; it appeared late in 2018.

Another international conference with 29 speakers was convened by the commission in December 2016 on the topic “Ideas Crossing the Atlantic: Themes, Normative Conceptions, and Cultural Images” (2- 4 December 2016). The collection of essays based on the conference was brought out by the publishing house of the Academy of Sciences in September 2019. It was edited by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher.