Lectures, talks and symposia

London: The Soul of the Streets

London: The Soul of the Streets. with Iain Sinclair, Andrea Zimmerman and Ken Worpole

23 May 2013, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
In conjunction with Hubert Blanz's Homeseekers exhibition. London’s buildings, and the stories they contain, are central to the work of Iain Sinclair, Andrea Zimmerman and Ken Worpole. In this event they respond to ...
Mahler on Film

Mahler on Film. presented by Gavin Plumley

2 June 2013, 10.30am | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Many people's first experience of Mahler is in the cinema. Luchino Visconti's conspicuously sublime Death in Venice (1971) provided a version of the composer – death-addled, neurotic – which has prevailed. Ken Russell parodied Visconti ...

Postgraduate Conference 2013

3 – 4 June 2013 | Ingeborg Bachmann Centre
This annual conference offers postgraduate students working in the field of Austrian literature the opportunity to present their work and discuss aspects of it with colleagues and other specialists. Conference participants will also be invited ...
Haydn IN England; Haydn ON England

Haydn IN England; Haydn ON England. The ‘Shakespeare of Music’ in Piccadilly

4 June 2013, 7.00pm
Dr Derek McCulloch reveals Haydn’s observations on life in England and London in the 1790s as recorded in his ‘Notebooks’ and Correspondence Aided and abetted on period instruments by CAFE MOZART
Emily Atkinson soprano ...

Europe – Why Bother? . Artists and Intellectuals respond to Europe

17 June 2013
Europe – Why Bother? Artists and Intellectuals Respond to Europe, organized by EUNIC London, a network of foreign cultural institutes and embassies, with the support of the European Commission Representation in the United Kingdom, is a ...
Nelkengasse: The Flight of the Moldau Family

Nelkengasse: The Flight of the Moldau Family

25 June 2013, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
In Vienna 1938-1945, the buildings No 4 and 6, Nelkengasse represent a particularly tragic location in the 6th district. In these houses, many so-called Sammelwohnungen were installed – group flats where Jewish families lived following ...

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