Friday, November 5, 2010

Impacts: Does Academic Exchange Matter? Cultural Diplomacy, Scholarly Internationalism, and American Studies since World War II

This free conference, sponsored by the Austrian-American Educational Commission, is scheduled for November 18-19, 2010 at the Amerika Haus, Friedrich Schmidt Platz 2, 1010 Vienna (U-2 Station: Rathaus).

A description of the conference from the website follows:

The aim of this conference organized under the auspices of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Fulbright Program in Austria in 1950 is to highlight ongoing research on the various topics related to academic exchange and to stimulate further reflection on the state of cultural diplomacy, scholarly internationalism, and the their ultimate impacts on foreign relations.

Conference participants are required to register free of charge in advance at staff@fulbright.at.  More information with full schedule details is available at http://www.fulbright.at/impacts.html

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