Where is academic journal braggadocio?
As @buck65.bsky.social never said about us...
Doing the heavy lifting and you’e pouring the coffee
Riding in an orange Bugatti with Lauren Shehadi
Doing foreign karate, We're prominent like the Kennedys
Our biggest enemies don't even know that they're enemies
New CFP: “The Violent 1950s: Towards a New History of the Global ‘Postwar’ Decade,”conference in Washington in Feb. 2027, deadline for proposals Friday, June 12 www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
youtu.be/AxvukDChay8
Born in Sopron, Kingdom of Hungary, made films with Ernst Lubitsch in France, was cinematographer of noirish *T-Men* & *An American in Paris*
... the great John Alton quit Hollywood while at the top, and traveled and lived around the world with his wife.
Oh dear. Oh my.
A piece of classical music beyond the canonical favorites: Symphony No. 4 ( #Easter Eve) of Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859-1951)
"It was in Hamburg, on Good Friday, 1904, that I began to write my fourth symphony, deeply moved by the spirit of Easter Week"
REV-EX: Noble Begierden. Eine Geschichte des europäischen Kunstmarkts
https://arthist.net/reviews/52098
Stefan Sterzinger
Still time for anyone -- including Austrian music legend Stefan Sterzinger, "the pharmacist of anarchy" -- to submit Research Grant application for research/project promoting understanding of historic relationship between U.S. and (Habsburg) Austria.
More:
botstiberbiaas.org/march-31-202...
Olive Moorefield
Kira Thurman writes that in the 1950s “there were more African American opera singers at the State Opera House than there were white American singers.”
Here, Pittsburgh-born Olive Moorefield, a frequent and much-celebrated performer with Marcel Prawy at the Volksoper. And still living.
Back then travel to U.S. was less complicated, and Czech illustrator Alfonse Mucha moved several times between two continents (1904-1910).
He taught in New York and Philadelphia and was visiting professor at Art Institute of Chicago.
Of course... Czechs and Chicago.
I voted, and now I'm heading to Pardubice for a week-long Erasmus teaching visit!
One of my lectures will be open to the public, so come by if you're in the area. Also, if you're in town and up for a coffee, I'd love to meet!
Some good discussion taking place around the performance of Florence Price's "Rainbow Waltz" at the Vienna New Year's concert.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
www.diepresse.com/20553596/neu...
For further study...
While it is repeatedly said in *The Third Man* that Anna Schmidt, the grieving girlfriend of Harry Lime, holds a very professionally forged passport, the actual document reads... "Republique d'Autreich"(?).
Hot off the press:
🧛 Peter Mario Kreuter (IOS) forscht zum Ursprung des Vampir-Mythos – und finanzierte seine Doktorarbeit mit einem Auftritt bei "Wer wird Millionär?". Heute gehört er zu den gefragtesten Vampirforschern. Das #LeibnizMagazin hat ihn für ein Porträt im Wiener Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv getroffen. ⬇️
"Der gebürtige Wiener Billy Wilder..."
So geht die @nzz.ch nach all diesen Jahren mit der österreichisch-amerikanischen Geschichte um.
www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/t...
I'm looking forward to this lecture next Thursday evening, about a French surgeon who treated Anne of Austria's breast cancer using a remedy he is rumoured to have learned about while working in the Jesuit mission to the Wendat near Lake Huron in the 1640s. Streaming and in person. Link below!
Not exactly the day the music died, but sad to know comic Mozart vendors will soon be banished from Michaelerplatz.
FYI
Ausländer hatte eine sehr interessante und wichtige Beziehung zu den USA – nicht nur zu New York, sondern auch zu Minneapolis und anderen Städten.
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Excellent Finding Aids online for preparing an application for a GHI Research Fellowship or just checking their holdings.
www.germansociety.org/horner-library
Looking ahead to forthcoming issue of *Journal of Austrian-American History*
Articles on 1952 Vienna performance of *Porgy and Bess,* Otto Habsburg in wartime New York, American disorganization in post-1945 Austria, and more.
As Captain Beefheart used to say, "I cannot go back to your frownland."
From the "steppes of Hungary"
"Sheriff James Martin & deputies were tried in 1898 for killing one miner but acquitted after defense attorneys characterized miners as 'invaders from the Steppes of Hungary' who had come to America to destroy peace and liberty"
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
I guess this means they will miss the Vienna Philharmonic performing at the Kennedy Center in March.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
📢 CfP: The Yugoslav Wars & Post-Cold War Europe
📍 Regensburg, December 9–11, 2026
We invite proposals for presentations on all aspects of the Yugoslav Wars. 🔗 www.ifz-muenchen.de/aktuelles/au...
This conference is organised jointly with @leibniz-ios.de and @humboldtuni.bsky.social
