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Book Presentation and Austrian Student Research Reports; Sponsored by the European Studies Program, the Department of History, and the Wolfsonian at Florida International University. Dr. Heinz Fassmann and Dr. Gerhard Hatz from the University of Vienna, and Dr. Joseph F. Patrouch, FIU, will introduce the faculty members new book on contemporary Vienna Understanding Vienna: Pathways into the City. (Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2007). 8 students from the University of Vienna and the Technical University of Vienna will also discuss various themes associated with the city in the past and in the present. These themes include: Building an imperial residence: Vienna historical development, 1683-1914; the making of Vienna. Constructing and marketing the image of an imperial residence; Protecting and performing an imperial residence; Deconstructing the image: From a functional city center to Theme Park Viennaland?

Professors Fassmann, Hatz, and Patrouch will be on hand at the Wolfsonian’s Dynamo Café and Bookshop following the presentations for discussion and book signing.

The visit of the Austrian delegation to the Wolfsonian-FIU is part of a multi-year collaboration between the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna and the Department of History at Florida International University.

This presentation will be held in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wolfsonian titled Vienna between Empire and Republic, curated by Nicolae Harsanyi of the Wolfsonian and Joseph F. Patrouch. The curators will deliver lectures on the topic on April 22, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at the Wolfsonian. This lecture is also organized in conjunction with the New World Symphonys 25-27 April performances of Franz Schuberts 6th Mass and Alban Berg, Lyric Suite, part of the orchestra, In Context Festival Series.

A related exhibit, Austrian Art: The Golden Age of Emperor Franz Joseph is open at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach.

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