Help sending Int'l Dostoevsky Symposium fees to Austrai

[George Fowler]

Greetings!
     I am experiencing difficulty in wiring participation and housing fees
to Gaming, Austria for the 9th International Dostoevsky Symposium, to be
held at a monastery there from July 30-Aug. 6. Has anyone actually
succeeded in doing this? Or can anyone offer an alternative suggestion?
     Here's the problem. To reserve rooms for the conference, we are
supposed to transfer money directly to the account of the guest house by
May 31. The information letter specifies no checks or drafts, due to high
collection fees. Information about the transfer is provided (I repeat it
below). I am trying to send a total of $600, $400 for my wife Maria
Pavlovszky and myself plus $200 for my colleague Nina Perlina. I use a
large bank with international connections, Bank One, and submitted all the
given info to their international dept. They are unable to execute the
request, because they cannot find wire routing information for this
(apparently very small) provincial bank, which is apparently not listed in
standard directories. I have called two Austrian banks in New York AND the
Austrian Consulate General in Chicago, without any success at finding out
anything that Bank One could use. I am hampered by not knowing anything
about banking at all, let alone international banking.
     Has anybody actually done this already??? If so, perhaps the receipt
or confirmation you got back from your bank would show the necessary
routing information or otherwise help my bank. If you have something like
this, I would GREATLY appreciate it if you could fax it to me at
812-855-2107. Then I could take it in to the bank and shove it in front of
their nose. One possibility is that this is a small branch of a larger
bank, and it would be possible to wire the money to the central bank (but I
don't even know what it would be called!).
     Alternatively, can anybody suggest another reliable method of getting
money to this bank? And quickly?
     Here's the information provided to conference participants:

Bank: Raiffeisenkasse Gaming
Bank code: 32.800
Name of the account: Kartausen-Betriebsgesellschaft Ges.m.b.H.
Number of the account: Nr. 114.298

Thanks very much!!!

George Fowler

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