On March 8, Walter Russell Mead, Hudson Institute/Bard College, spoke at the Amerika Haus.  The event was moderated by Konrad Kramar, Foreign Affairs Editor at Kurier. President Trump won the election on a wave of support from a loose cultural coalition of Americans who have been a major force in American politics since the victory of Andrew ... Read More»

On March 2, Professor Paul Freedman, from the University of Virginia, discussed what were the factors that led to President Trump’s victory and why did so many experts get it wrong? What role did gender, income, and education play in the outcome? What role did the media play?   Apart from Professor Freeman, Professor Heinz Gärtner, ... Read More»

Richard Wike, Director of Global Attitudes Research at the Pew Research Center led the panel discussion at the Amerika Haus. He was joined by Christoph Hofinger, SORA Institute for Social Research and Consulting and Eva Zeglovits, IFES – Institute for Empirical Social Studies. The program was moderated by Austrian journalist Gianluca Wallisch from the daily ... Read More»

On September 20, the U.S. Embassy organized a discussion with Daron Shaw, University of Texas at Austin. He talked about how the rise of digital and social media has changed both politics and society immensely. How did democracy work in the digital age and what does that mean for campaigning? Daron Shaw explained how the ... Read More»

Georgetown Professor Dr. Stephen Wayne gave a series of talks in Vienna, Graz and Krems. He focused on the possible impact of the upcoming elections on U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Dr. Wayne also discussed the foreign and domestic policy positions of the principal candidates, and what policies we might expect to see from the eventual winner. The ... Read More»

Hans Noel , co-author of “The Party Decides”, an influential book on presidential nominations, participated in a panel discussion on how the 2016 election is changing how political scientists view nominations, and what scholars expect to happen on Election Day. At Georgetown University Professor Noel teaches and researches on parties, elections, political history and political methodology.  He ... Read More»

Politico Europe executive editor Matthew Kaminski spoke about the U.S. election campaign and the role of the media. The talk was moderated by the Austrian journalist Thomas Vieregge from Austria’s daily Die Presse. Prior to joining POLITICO, Matthew Kaminski was a member of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board in New York where he wrote editorials, opinion columns ... Read More»

The annual Milton Wolf Seminar – a two-day conference for media practitioners, diplomats, academics, and students to share their perspectives, formulate new ideas, and identify areas where further research is needed – took place from April 4-6, 2016 in Vienna. This year’s seminar focused on “The Paris Effect: Journalism, Diplomacy, and Information Controls.” The Milton Wolf Seminar is ... Read More»

Kelly Gibson , communication expert at Hamburger Gibson Creative, has lots of experience with the use of the media in campaigns throughout the U.S. In her presentation she showed video ads from the presidential candidates as well as ads produced by independent-expenditure only committees (Super PACs) . Ms. Gibson talked about the financing situation of each candidate, how much money they have ... Read More»