Vienna 1860 to 1914: Creativity, Culture, Science and Politics

As part of the three week festival, "Vienna: City of Dreams," sponsored by New York City's famous Carnegie Hall, the Chumir Foundation held a symposium in late February examining the intersection of arts, politics and war in Vienna over the past 150 years. In three separate panel discussions, participants from Austria, the United States and Canada explored human creativity in "fin-de-siecle" Vienna as well as the roots of societal breakdown between two world wars; the progression of discrimination and atrocities in Vienna's Nazified cultural and scientific establishments as well as the ethical steps taken in recent decades towards remembrance and reconciliation; and what history teaches about contemporary conditions and the appropriate ethical responses to global risks.

Panel 1: Vienna 1860 to 1914: Creativity, Culture, Science and Politics

February 24, 2014
New York City

Presented by: Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera, University of Vienna, City of Vienna, Salzburg Festival, The American-Austrian Foundation, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Foreign Policy Association, Munk School of Global Affairs (with hyperlinks if possible)

Panel participants:
Eric Kandel, Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Christian Meyer, Dominique Meyer

Moderator: Carol Off