Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota
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Founded in 1977, the Center for Austrian Studies is the Western Hemisphere's largest and oldest research center promoting scholarship on Austria and the regions and cultures in Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe with links to the former Habsburg Empire.
For those based in and around the Twin Cities metro: this great exhibition at the Science Museum of Minnesota opens on August 21st smm.org/exhibits-exp...
The Martians
Celebrate the remarkable contributions of Hungarian scientists, inventors, and Nobel laureates whose innovation shaped the world we know today.
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It's online! Maureen Healy, Howard Louthan, Katya Motyl, Robert Nemes, Jonathan Singerton, and Daniel Unowsky each share their impressions from last year's CEHC in Vienna on @ahy-history.bsky.social. Read it here! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"Fügenschuh, the rector of the University of Salzburg, which he said has the means to secure the villa, said Austria had a moral obligation to keep it as a place of commemoration for Zweig. The university would see itself as an interim owner until others were able to raise the funds, he added."
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Austrian campaign aims to save writer Stefan Zweig’s Salzburg villa after Porsche tunnel row
Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
No One Is Coming to Save Us
The realization can either break you or liberate you.
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The Austrian-born artist Valie Export passed away earlier this month at the age of 85. Read more about her work and legacy here: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/a...
Valie Export, Who Made Art With Her Naked Body, Dies at 85
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During the summer months, the Center will be posting on Bluesky less often. Please contact us directly about the latest news, future events, etc. at the email address found on our website: cla.umn.edu/austrian
Center for Austrian Studies
The Western Hemisphere's oldest and best-known research center investigating the past, present, and future of Central Europe with a specific focus on Austria and the successor states of the Habsburg E...
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MPR highlights the extraordinary life and work of Elizabeth ("Lisl") Scheu Close, and architectural historian's Jane King Hession's book (published with the University of Minnesota Press) on Close's prolific career after emigrating to the United States from Austria www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Thoroughly Modern Lisl: A new book tells the story of the woman who was Minnesota's first Modern architect
Architectural historian Jane King Hession has been studying the work of Minnesota’s first Modernist architect Elizabeth “Lisl” Scheu Close for decades, even conducting an oral history with the archite...
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Der Amerikaner Jason Reynolds schreibt Kinder- und Jugendromane über Gewalt und Rassismus. Trotzdem ist er überzeugt: Menschen sind von Natur aus gut. Ein Gespräch mit @taz.de. taz.de/Autor-Jason-...
Autor Jason Reynolds im Gespräch: „Du kannst deine Geheimnisse in Bücher flüstern“
Der Amerikaner Jason Reynolds schreibt Kinder- und Jugendromane über Gewalt und Rassismus. Trotzdem ist er überzeugt: Menschen sind von Natur aus gut.
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For those in the Twin Cities: Czech and Slovak Sokol Minnesota is hosting an event with Dr. Thomas Klvana on May 7th in Saint Paul. Details can be found on the image below and on their website. sokolmn.org/all-events/
@pbsnews.org highlighted the work of Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), the Austrian Romani artist and activist. Stojka was a Holocaust survivor, and her artwork continues to be the subject of major exhibitions around the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM0Y...
Art exhibition shines light on Romani persecution during Holocaust
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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If you are on campus today (April 16th), please join the Center for Jewish Studies for this exciting talk with Hanna Pollin-Galay (UMass-Amherst). The Center for Austrian Studies is a co-sponsor. cla.umn.edu/jewish-studi...
From Horse Cadavers to Garden Plots: Concepts of Nonhuman Nature in the Łódź Ghetto
What did “Nature” mean for Jews imprisoned in Nazi spaces? To what extent was “nature” a meaningful category for them in their struggles to survive? How did they relate to flora, fauna, landscape and ...
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Please join us next week for this exciting lecture with Professor Amelia Glaser (UC-San Diego)
We're heading into the final weeks of the spring semester. Our last event for the term will feature Professor Amelia Glaser (UC-San Diego), and will take place on April 21st at 12:00 noon on campus and via Zoom. To register, please click the link here: z.umn.edu/Glaser
The Composition of Soil: The Holocaust and Holodomor in Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry
Please join the Center for Austrian Studies and its co-sponsors for a lecture with Professor Amelia Glaser (UC-San Diego)
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While CAS was closed during the University of Minnesota spring break last week, a review of Cynthia Paces' new book (published by Oxford University Press) appeared in the Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Prague’ Review: History Around Every Corner
Now a picturesque destination for tourists, Prague has been an imperial capital, a flashpoint in religious wars and the site of communist crackdowns.
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REMINDER: The lecture with Dr. Rivka Saltiel is one week from today. Please RSVP via the QR code on the poster or through our Linktree.
Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota@cas-umn.bsky.social · 6mo agoPlease note: next week's lecture with Dr. Rivka Saltiel (Graz Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society) has been rescheduled. It will now take place on March 26th. Details below:
Next Friday, former CAS director Howard Louthan will be giving the 39th Annual Town and Gown Lecture, hosted by the University of Arizona's Division for Late Medieval & Reformation Studies. The lecture will be held online at 1pm CDT. Register here: events.trellis.arizona.edu/en/f44lNu67/...
Please join us next Monday, March 23 at 2:30pm for an event with Andrea Bohlman, Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina. Further details and a link to RSVP can be found through the QR code on the poster or via our Linktree.
Please join the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch for tomorrow's (March 5th) talk with Professor Nicholas Baer (UC-Berkeley). CAS is a co-sponsor of the event. cla.umn.edu/gnsd/news-ev...
Read CAS Director Alice Lovejoy's recent piece in @thenation.com on the similarities between Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Minneapolis in 2026 www.thenation.com/article/arch...
This Minnesota Winter Is the New Prague Spring
I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary.
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Please note: next week's lecture with Dr. Rivka Saltiel (Graz Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society) has been rescheduled. It will now take place on March 26th. Details below:
While high American salaries drive up the cost of living for local populations and make life unaffordable (something this piece glosses over), the data in this article does help contextualize recent waves of emigration from the United States
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.
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Reminder: The event with Rudolf Meer will be tomorrow at noon. Please RSVP if you haven't already.
Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota@cas-umn.bsky.social · 6mo agoPlease join us and our co-sponsors @mcps-philsci.bsky.social and the Institute for Global Studies for an upcoming talk with Rudolf Meer, the University of Minnesota's 2026 Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor. RSVP for the event via the QR code on the poster or the linktree in our pinned post.
From the "steppes of Hungary" "Sheriff James Martin & deputies were tried in 1898 for killing one miner but acquitted after defense attorneys characterized miners as 'invaders from the Steppes of Hungary' who had come to America to destroy peace and liberty" www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
How a 1897 Massacre of Pennsylvania Coal Miners Morphed From a Galvanizing Crisis to Forgotten History
The death of 19 immigrants may have unified the labor movement, but powerful interests left their fates unrecognized until decades later
smithsonianmag.com
For students enrolled at Boston College, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and all University of Minnesota campuses—Crookston, Duluth, Morris, and Rochester—exciting summer funding opportunities are available through the UMN Center for German and European Studies
WorkArt Kunstverein
The WorkArt program places students in internships at art organizations in Germany. Learn more about the program and how to apply.
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Please join us and our co-sponsors @mcps-philsci.bsky.social and the Institute for Global Studies for an upcoming talk with Rudolf Meer, the University of Minnesota's 2026 Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor. RSVP for the event via the QR code on the poster or the linktree in our pinned post.
For UMN graduate students: CAS has posted calls for 2026 summer fellowships, and for a semester-long dissertation completion/research fellowship to be used during the 2026-27 academic year.
A reminder for those interested: Applications for the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies' 2026 intensive summer school are due this Sunday.
Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota@cas-umn.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies is operating its fourth intensive summer school July 6-17th, 2026. The deadline to apply is February 1st, 2026. More details can be found here: www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/e...
A timely and important piece (in German) in @derstandard.at by Maximilian Brockhaus (the 2025 Marietta Blau Fellow at CAS; Ph.D. Candidate in the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna) and Dr. Martin Tschiggerl (2025 UMN Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor)
Immigrant-owned businesses across the state are closing or reducing their hours because staff members — even those who are in the U.S. legally — are worried about being profiled and detained by federal agents since immigration enforcement operations in the state have ramped up.
Minnesota business owners feeling the effects of ICE enforcement actions
Immigrant-owned businesses across the state are closing or reducing their hours because staff members, even those who are in the U.S. legally, are worried about being profiled and detained by federal ...
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