Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Forum on Contemporary Europe Stanford University




Austrian & Central European Program

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2006-Present

The Forum on Contemporary Europe's Austrian & Central European Program seeks to advance relations between the United States and Austria and Central Europe. In collaboration with the University of Vienna, it will bring together students and faculty from Stanford University and the University of Vienna to broaden understanding and research.

At Stanford University, the Forum on Contemporary Europe is the formal Stanford program, through the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, to host the annual Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor at Stanford University.  The annual Distinguished Chair Professorship is nominated and awarded by the University of Vienna.  The Chair is formally appointed to Stanford University as a visiting Distinguished Professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.  The Distinguished Chair Professorship is open to faculty in all fields represented by Stanford University's seven schools, including Law, Medicine, Business, Earth Sciences, Education, and Humanities and Sciences.  The Forum on Contemporary Europe and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies facilitate the Chair's teaching in the appropriate School and department at the University.

Past and currently awarded Chair Professorships upon receiving their Stanford appointment at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies have been affiliated at Stanford in a wide range of schools and departments including the School of Law, German Studies, Comparative Literature, Music and Sociology.  The annual Chair also works closely with the Forum on Contemporary Europe

In addition, two fellowships will be awarded each year for one Stanford student and one University of Vienna student for a study exchange. The program will also initiate annual workshops in which faculty from one host university will travel overseas to work with their colleagues. These workshops will switch venues each year to give both universities the opportunity to host the event. Advanced graduate student fellowships to support short-term research at the University of Vienna in Austria are also available under the Austrian & Central European Program.

The Austrian & Central European Program was formally inaugurated on October 11, 2006 with the visit of the Austrian ambassador to the United States, Dr. Eva Nowotny.

Distinguished Austrian Chair Professorship

The endowment for the Distinguished Austrian Chair Professorship was established in 1977. This year the Forum is pleased to welcome Professor Astrid Fellner (English and American Studies, University of Vienna) as the 2008-2009 Distinguished Austrian Chair. Professor Fellner will teach in the Department of Comparative Literature during the Winter and Spring quarters of 2009. She is preceeded by former Distinguished Austrian Chairs Andreas Wiebe (Law, 2007-2008), and Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl (Music, 2006-2007).


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