We submit the project proposal to the 2018 rendition of the "Polaritäten in der Wissensgesellschaft" program run by the Styrian Government titled "Provinz Denken."

We receive the official notification that the Styrian Government will grant "Interpreneurship" the funding we applied for--€ 99,117.00.

Click here for the announcement by the Styrian Government.

After taking some hurdles along the way, the project officially launches on October 1, 2019--one month later than originally planned.

Our project partners of the Center for Entrepreneurship welcomed the current Ambassador of the United States of America to Austria for a talk on Austro-American relations, focusing on entrepreneurship.

We publish the call for articles for our major research output in this one-year project, a special issue of the Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, scheduled for publication in 2021.

For additional information, see here.

Our interdisciplinary lecture series starts. The lecture series brings together a variety of perspectives from different fields and thus is a key ingredient to the success of this project.

For further details, see here.

Together with one of our partners, the Austro-American Society for Styria, we visit Mile's Diner.

The undergraduate seminar "'The Business of America is Business': The American Entrepreneurial Spirit and Popular Culture" taught by Steve Rabitsch and Michael Fuchs starts. For details, see here.

Trevor Traina, Ambassador of the United States of America to Austria, visits Graz for a talk on "America's Role in the 21^st Century," which was followed by a discussion moderated by Roberta Maierhofer. We took the chance to interview the Ambassador.

The global spread of the coronavirus has, unfortunately, forced us to cancel the "Entrepreneurial Filmmaking and Film Studies" undergraduate seminar James Forsher was slated to teach in April and May.

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the campus of the University of Graz has been shut down, which transforms the undergraduate seminar on American entrepreneurship into an online course from one week to the next. A general lockdown (to start on Monday) will keep us from realizing some of our planned activities.

Today, Michael was supposed to deliver a paper at the European Assocation for American Studies conference in Warsaw; however, as we all know, there's restrictions on international travel etc. in place. Find the abstract for what he would've talked about today (and will likely discuss at next year's conference).

Tracey Salisbury, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University Bakersfield, gives a virtual guest talk titled "From the Kitchen Table to Wall Street: A Brief Study of African American Entrepreneurs."

James Forsher, filmmaker and retired academic, gives a virtual guest talk on Jewish entrepreneurs in early Hollywood.