SYMPOSIUM - VIENNA’S HISTORY AND LEGACY OF THE PAST 150 YEARS

SYMPOSIUM VIENNA’S HISTORY AND LEGACY OF THE PAST 150 YEARS Presented By And FEBRUARY 24, 27 & 28, 2014 THIS PROGRAM IS PART OF THE CARNEGIE HALL FESTIVAL VIENNA: CITY OF DREAMS Dear Friends, On behalf of our Foundation and our co-presenters, I welcome you to this Symposium, “Vienna’s History and Legacy of the Past 150 Years”, part of the Carnegie Hall Festival “Vienna: City of Dreams.” The Chumir. [...] The discussion will explore the causes of that creativity's demise, the politicization of the arts and the potential role and responsibility of arts and artists in constructive social initiatives to reduce tensions and divisiveness. [...] Should, we expect better or different behavior from the creative community than from the general public? Is the difference between the diplomatic or social bridging use of art and its propagandistic misuse solely in the eye of the beholder? The panel will consider the constructive potential of the arts as a tool of diplomacy and for the harmonious integration of diversities - healing, bridging and. [...] BACKGROUND The panel will consider the long history of anti-Semitism in Austria, the period of open immigration of the reign of Emperor Franz Josef, as well as the political upheavals and instabilities that followed the Treaty of Versailles that dismantled the Habsburg Empire and ended World War I. [...] These include worries, shared by the Western Allies, over the advance of communism, 11 the appeal for Austria of reducing reparation demands, the extended occupation of Austria postwar and the dissolution of the war crimes tribunal at the end of the Allied occupation in 1955.