Abstract
F. O. Mattheissen’s remarks at the opening of the Salzburg Seminar high- lighted the importance of both understanding and the free intermingling of cultures. These would be the key challenges for the collaborative network that brought scholars together from across Europe and America; how could the group create a free exchange of ideas and scholarship while maintaining an understanding of “America” that the US government could support? The Salzburg Seminar created a space for European scholars to work toward an understanding of America years before national American Studies associations were created. As a result, contacts made through the seminar also had the potential to influence the later development of the national associations.
“We hope to reach the kind of understanding that can come only from the free intermingling of cultures.”
—F. O. Mattheissen, July 15, 19471
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H. Bungert, “Importing the United States, Exporting Internationalism: The First Forty Years of the EAAS 1954–1994,” in K. Versluys (Ed.), The Insular Dream; Obsession and Resistance (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 95), 128.
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Fisher, A. (2013). Navigating from the Salzburg Seminar to EAAS. In: Collaborative Public Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137042477_2
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