Social programme
On Monday, Oct 15, you can choose between attending EITHER a performance at the Vienna State Opera OR a concert of the Vienna Mozart Orchestra at the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein OR a performance of Sister Act on one of Vienna’s traditional stages for musicals.
For the Mozart/Strauss concert as well as “Sister Act” we have been able to make reservations for a limited number of seats in different categories. So you can book these when registering for the conference. Your credit card will be billed with the total of all your items.
Unfortunately, the State Opera does not offer this option, so you must make your booking directly on its homepage. Please find the link to the Vienna State Opera booking system here.
Go to Monday, Oct 7 and book the category you prefer. You can do this easily after registering as a new customer, which will take you only a few minutes. Payment can be made via credit cards and the tickets can be picked up under your name at the evening box office half an hour before the performance begins. You will be requested to show the credit card used for booking and your ID card or passport.
If you prefer culinary delights to cultural ones, you can join one of the group dinners that are traditionally organized on the evening of the first day. Each group will be accompanied by a member of the local organizing committee and should not exceed 15 people. You can make your choice from a variety of restaurants and wine bars (“Heurige”) listed below. If you wish to attend the group dinners, please tick off your favourite place when registering. Please mind that all Monday evening activities are at your own expense.
In the course of your registration it is possible to sign up accompanying persons for all social events.
Sunday, October 14, 2012 ...... ...
Welcome Reception @ NHM
Sunday, October 14, 2012
19.00
Address @ meeting point:
Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Vienna
Monday, October 15, 2012 ...... ...
Cultural Programme und Restaurants
WIENER MOZART ORCHESTER
Vienna Musikverein Vienna
Bösendorferstraße
1010 Vienna
Monday, October 15, 2012
20:15 - End: approx. 22:00
The Vienna Mozart Orchestra plays concerts with internationally renowned singers and soloists. Enjoy single movements from symphonies and solo concertos as well as overtures, arias and duets from Mozart’s most popular operas in the magnificent Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. Listen to “The Blue Danube Waltz” and “The Radetzky March” in the city where they were composed and performed for the first time.
You can book your tickets via the conference registration form. For further information click here!
THE NUTCRACKER
Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2
1010 Vienna
Monday, October 15, 2012
19:30 - End: approx. 21:30
Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet "The Nutcracker" choreographed by Nurejew and performed by the VSO-ballet in the Vienna State Opera will certainly provide a unique experience. For tickets please go to the website!
Sister Act
Ronacher
Seilerstätte 9
1010 Vienna
Monday, October 15, 2012
19.30
Based on the smash hit movie of the same name, this fabulous, family-friendly, feel-good show is packed with songs inspired by Motown, funk, soul and disco!
No more tickets available - contingents have already been closed!
(Musical in german language)
Restaurant / Option 1: Gösser Bierklinik
Steindlgasse 4
1010 Vienna
Monday, October 15, 2012
19.30
The building housing this traditional Viennese Restaurant was originally known as “The Golden Dragon”. Located at Steindlgasse 4 in the heart of the city it has been a traditional landmark for several centuries. Up to the present day the “Gösser Bierklinik” has reflected 300 years of history in its substance and furnishing. According to the State Office for Historical Monuments of Vienna, the Gösser Bierklinik is the oldest still operated restaurant in Vienna. The Gösser Bierklinik is the number one address for beer connoisseurs in Vienna no matter whether they prefer their beer fresh from the tap or specialty bottled beers. The menu offers delicious soups, large entrees or small snacks, vegetarian or "meaty" dishes as well as tempting desserts. For further information click here!
Meeting point:
19:00 Juridicum entrance hall
15 minutes walk
Restaurant / Option 2: Grinzing Heuriger Rudolfshof
Cobenzlgasse 8, Grinzing
1190 Wien
Monday, October 15, 2012
19.30
Named after the late Habsburg Prince Royal Rudolf, whose tragic love story is still the object of books and movies, the „Rudolfshof“ is among Vienna’s finest wineries. Is is located in a historic building with an inner courtyard dating back to the 18th century and its country stile dining areas will make you feel snug and cosy. Listening to traditional Viennese live music, you can enjoy first quality dishes and home-made sweets and excellent local wines. For further information click here! (Webpage in German.)
Meeting point:
19:00 Juridicum entrance hall
approx. 30 minutes with public transport (tram D / bus 38A)
Restaurant / Option 3: „Das alte Zechhaus“ (Historic Winery in the outskirts of Vienna)
Monday, October 15, 2012
19.45
In order to enjoy the unique atmosphere of this place, we have to start out fairly early as we need to take a train ride of 30 minutes and a ten minutes‘ walk from the station to the restaurant. For the same reason you will not be back to your hotels before half past eleven p.m. So it may be an option that the adventurous ones among you should go for.
The "ZECHHAUS" was first mentioned in 1549 and has been used by winemakers for wine conservation since 1570. The house has been owned by the same family since 1905 and the original character of the building has been preserved to the present day, including a medieval attic. Appropriately enough, the menu offers a broad variety of traditional country style food. For further information click here!
Meeting point:
18:15 (!) Juridicum entrance hall
90 minutes (public transport, train ride and 10 min walk)
Restaurant / Option 4: Café Central
Herrengasse 14
1010 Wien
Monday, October 15, 2012
19.30
This famous traditional café with its 130 year history was first opened in 1876 and at the turn of the 20th century it was a popular meeting point for leading minds in the world of art, literature, politics and science such as Arthur Schnitzler, Sigmund Freud, Peter Altenberg and Leo Trotzki. Meanwhile, the legendary literature café has become a meeting point for all ages. Unique architecture combined with the best coffee specialities, classic Viennese cuisine and finest home-made pastries make every visit a special experience. For further information click here!
Meeting point:
19:00 Juridicum entrance hall
6 minutes walk
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 ..... ...
Conference Dinner and Guided Tour of the University of Vienna
University of Vienna, Main Library
Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Guided Tour: 17:30 or 18.30 (duration: approx. 1 hour)
Conference Dinner: 19.30
Free for participants
Guided Tour of the Vienna University - EUR 5,-- for accompanying persons
Conference Dinner - EUR 39,-- for accompanying person
Meeting point for guided tour
Main entrance hall University of Vienna
Wednesday, October 16, 2012 ..:. ...
„Walk through the Old Town of Vienna“
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
14.00 - approx. 2 hours
Price per person incl. guide and admission fee
EUR 19,--
min. 10 / max 25 participants
This walk takes you to some very special places of historic Vienna that cannot be shown to visitors in the course of a regular sightseeing tour. Starting at Josefsplatz, we pass the Imperial Palace, the winter residence of the Imperial family. After a walk through the Volksgarten we reach Pasqualati House, where the famous composer Beethoven lived for more than 8 years. Subsequently, our walk leads us via Herrengasse and Graben to St. Stephen’s Cathedrale. The majestic glory of numerous cultural and historical highlights as well as quaint old lanes and hidden yards will give you an unforgetable insight into the rich and charming heritage of historic Vienna.
Meeting point:
13:50 Juridicum entrance hall
Unfortunately this tour has to be cancelled due to insufficient numbers of participants. Fees already paid will be refunded.
„Historical Tour of Vienna including Schönbrunn Palace“
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
14.00 - approx. 3 hours
Price per person incl. guide and admission fee
EUR 39,--
min. 10 / max 25 participants
To provide you with a first impression of the city, we start our tour at Ringstrasse. This boulevard with an approximate length of 4 km was created in the course of the city’s first expansion in the middle of the 19th century in the area of the former Glacis. We will see buildings like the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Natural History, the City Hall, the Burgtheater, the Parliament, the University, and many more. The highlight of our excursion is a tour through Schönbrunn Palace, the summer residence of the former Imperial House of Austria.
Meeting point:
13:50 Juridicum entrance hall
Unfortunately this tour has to be cancelled due to insufficient numbers of participants. Fees already paid will be refunded.
„Panoramic Danube“
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
14.00 - approx. 3,5 hours
Price per person incl. guide and admission fee
EUR 39,--
min. 10 / max 25 participants
Get to know Vienna from a new perspective combining a bus tour with a little river cruise. Starting out from Ringstrasse we pass the Stadtpark, the Hundertwasserhaus on our way to the Prater Amusement Park with its Giant Ferris Wheel. Passing Lassallestraße and Reichsbrücke we head for the Danube Island and the city beach Copa Cagrana, the Danube Park, the Danube Tower and the United Nations Headquarters. Afterwards you are taken to Grinzing, an urban district well-known for its wine (Heuriger). Then we continue our tour via the Höhenstrasse to the Kahlenberg. From this vantage point you have a terrific panoramic view of the hilly Vienna Woods and vineyards in the foreground and the metropolitan skyline in the background. The final highlight of the tour is a little river cruise on the Danube and the Danube Canal back to the city centre.
Meeting point:
13:50 Juridicum entrance hall
Unfortunately this tour has to be cancelled due to insufficient numbers of participants. Fees already paid will be refunded.
Guided Library Tour
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
14.00
min. 10 / max 25 participants
The library tour will take you to two of the most impressive libraries in Vienna:
- the Central library of Vienna - Vienna Public Libraries
Directly above the underground station Burggasse-Stadthalle one finds the new library, opened in 2003. A supporting structure spanning three stories makes the building look as if it were suspended above the tracks of the old Otto Wagner station pavilions. It is located directly between the two lanes of the Vienna “Gürtel," one of the busiest roads of the city. The generous open staircase of the library links the bulding to the tent-like roof of Urban-Loritz square, which was renovated a few years ago – it conveys a cosmopolitan feeling and signals free access to the knowledge stored in the library. The cafés in the glass rotunda represent casual and communicative urbanity. The library, 150 meters long and 26 meters wide, offers a usable area of 6,000 square meters and provides access to 240,000 pieces of print media (books, scores, trade journals) as well as to 60,000 electronic media items (CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs and videos).
- the Austrian National Library
The Baroque State Hall of the Austrian National Library is one of the world’s most beautiful historic libraries. Habsburg Emperor Charles VI (1685/1711 – 1740) ordered the construction of this jewel of secular Baroque architecture for his Court Library. The State Hall was built from 1723 till 1726 according to the plans of the famous court architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, and carried out by his son Joseph Emanuel. The ceiling frescoes were completed in 1730 by the court painter Daniel Gran. From outside the State Hall stretches along the whole front of Josef’s Square. Two side wings and a cupola space give the interior a three-part structure. The wings are divided by two massive pair of columns, the “pillars of Hercules”, that present Charles VI’s motto “Constantia et fortitudine” (by persistence and courage) as well as his pretensions to power in Spain. With its historic holdings in a library hall that is unparalleled in presenting the universality of knowledge, the Austrian National Library is among the world's most important libraries.
Meeting point:
Juridicum entrance hall
All correspondence concerning the scientific programme of the congress should be sent to:
Helmut Hartmann
Head Central Office
Austrian Academic Consortium
Bennogasse 26
1080 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 1 4035 158 56
Requests concerning registration, accommodation and travelling:
Gerry Schneider
Eventmanagement
University of Vienna
Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna, Austria
phone: +43 1 4277 175 26