The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at The University of New Orleans hosted the Annual Conference of the Austrian Studies Association from April 12-15, 2022. The Austrian Studies Association (formerly the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association, MALCA) continues traditions started in 1961 as the only North American association devoted to scholarship on all aspects Austrian, Austro-Hungarian, and Habsburg territory cultural life and history from the eighteenth century until today.

The 2022 Annual Conference, “War and Democracy in Austrian History and Culture,” brought together some 100 scholars from across the United States and Europe in person at the National World War II Museum’s recently opened Higgins Hotel to present their latest research in areas ranging from literature to history and political science. Official Austria was represented on-site through the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, the Embassy’s Press- and Information Service, and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.

The complete conference program is available here.