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Award of Honorary Doctorate to Evelyn Torton Beck
Mon 20 Sep 2021 | 4:00 pm
Joseph Haydn Hall
Anton-von-Webern Platz 1
1030 Vienna
The mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, honors Women’s and Gender Studies scholar Evelyn Torton Beck, a pioneer in Women's and Gender studies, with an Honorary Doctorate.
The renowned Vienna-born scholar and researcher receives the award for her outstanding academic pursuits and her commitment towards initiating the scholarly discussion across a rich spectrum of issues relevant to scientific and societal critique and closely associated with art.
Evelyn Torton Beck was born in Vienna in 1933 and was compelled to emigrate, fleeing from the Nazi regime, at the age of 6. She studied comparative literature and received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969.
In 1982, she accepted a professorship in Comparative Literature, German and Women's Studies at that same university. In 1984, she received an appointment at the University of Maryland in Washington, D.C., where she established the Women's Studies program. Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1982, 1989) represents one of her most successful publications.
After retiring in 2002, she received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Fielding Graduate University in 2004, where she remains an Alumni Fellow at the Creative Longevity and Wisdom Project.
Her work on voice, language, translation – she translated from Yiddish into English with Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer – social justice in theory and practice, multiculturalism, sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, and lookism, as well as the healing effects of art, continues to be groundbreaking. A pioneer on so many levels, she also wrote poetry, painted and still dances to this day.
Evelyn Torton Beck lives in Washington, D.C.
Evelyn Torton Beck, Ph.D. Comparative Literature; Ph.D Clinical Psychology, Professor Emerita, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland
Program
Entrance
Daniel Castoral (*1993)
mdw Fanfare
quinTTTonic
Kerstin Gruber & Marlene Kogler – Trompete, Stephanie Weichinger – Horn, Sarah Schreiner – Posaune, Anna Guggenberger – Tuba
Einstudierung: Leonhard Paul
Speeches
Ulrike Sych, Rektorin der mdw
Johannes Marian, Vorsitzender des Senats
Vally Weigl (1894–1982)
New England Suite
II. Main Interlude
Shino Moroto – Klavier
Enikö Cseh – Flöte
Irini Liu – Violoncello
Gerda Müller, Vizerektorin für Organisationsentwicklung, Gender & Diversity
Florian Tanzer
Videoportrait: Evelyn Torton Beck
Laudatory Speech
Doris Ingrisch, Institut für Kulturmanagement und Gender Studies, mdw
klezmer reloaded
Wedding Sher
Maciej Golebiowski – Klarinette
Alexander Shevchenko – Bajan (Knopfakkordeon)
Presentation of certificate
Acceptance Speech
Evelyn Torton Beck, Professor Emerita Department of Women’s Studies, University of Maryland
Gaudeamus igitur
Webern Kammerphilharmonie und WebernKammerchor (Aufnahme 2017)
Ethel Smyth (1858–1944)
The March of the Women
Songs of Sunrise, No. 3
Sopran | Loma Döring, Susanna Hoppe, Viktoria Jetzinger, Lucia Parisotto, Edina Szigeti
Mezzosopran | Magdalena Brandauer, Anna Hiptmair, Alma Hiptmair, Elisabeth Koch, Viktoria Pratscher
Alt | Theresa Allinger, Johanna Kampl, Cordelia Karner, Elisabeth Kirchner, Andrea Steger
Leitung | Elisabeth Kirchner
Studierende des Anton Bruckner Instituts für Chor- und Ensembleleitung sowie Tonsatz in der Musikpädagogik
Mag. David Hausknecht – Klavier
Einstudierung: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Johannes Hiemetsberger
look up
- "An Honorary Doctorate from the mdw: Interview with Evelyn Torton Beck" by Doris Ingrisch
mdw-WebMagazin October 2021 - The Ceremony can be re viewed up at mdwMediathek.
Contact
Mag.a Birgit Huebener
huebener@mdw.ac.at
phone: +43-1-71155-6071