Conferences - 2023

Bruno Kreisky Workshop in Minneapolis

April 19-20, 2023

The Austrian Centers of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and New Orleans, together with the Botstiber Foundation and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, organized a workshop in Minneapolis from April 19 - 20, 2023, entitled “Reassessing Bruno Kreisky’s Contributions to Postwar History.” With the leading scholars in attendance, including Oliver Rahtkolb and Wolfgang Petritsch, as well as the next generation of young scholars contributing (Aschheim, Grad-Steiner, Beitl), the meeting was a great success.

The above group photo has everyone in attendance:

Front: Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, Prof. Oliver, Rahkolb, Günter Bischof (Director, Center Austria, UNO), Anna Graf-Steiner (Graz), Howard Louthan (Direktor, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Gary Cohen (Former Director, Center for Austrian Studies);

Back: Saskia Jasoltowski (Visiting Professor from Unit., of Graz), Matthew pul Berg (John Carroll Univ,, Cleveland), Michael Burri (Botstiber Foundation), Lonnie Johnson (Former Director of Austrian Fulbright Program), Kevin McNamara (Botstiber Foundation), Daniel Aschheim (Israeli Consulate, Chicago)

Institute for European Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Europe and United States: Global partnership, shared values

Panel Discussion, March 1, 2023 11 a.m

Featured Speaker:  Othmar Karas, First Vice President, European Parliament, Brussels

Moderators:  Jeroen Dewulf, Director, Institute of European Studies; Wolfgang Petritsch, President, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation

Chair:  Andreas Altmann, Rector & Visiting Professor, MCI | The Entrepreneurial School

Sponsors:  Institute of European Studies, Haas School of Business, Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, MCI | The Entrepreneurial School

Join us for a conversation with Othmar Karas, first Vice President of the European Parliament, organized in collaboration with MCI | The Entrepreneurial School and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Event Contact:  ies@berkeley.edu
Access Coordinator:  Ray Savord,  rsavord@berkeley.edu,  510-642-4555
Webcast:   Available March 1, 2023: Webcast