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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 Empire.

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The Center for Austrian Studies 2022 Dissertation Prize

Information about the Center for Austrian Studies 2022 Dissertation Prize

Two Exciting Summer Events

Book Discussions of Maria Todorova's The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins and Georg B. Michels' The Habsburg Empire under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian…

Julian Gillilan Receives the CAS Summer Research Grant

First Year Graduate Student Focusing on Habsburg Nostalgia in German-Language Literature Receives CAS Summer Funding

As Another Year Draws to a Close...

A year-end thank you from the Center for Austrian Studies

Scott Spector: A Czernowitzer Challah: Jews and the Austro-Hungarian Empire around 1900

Until World War I, Austria-Hungary encompassed a vast territory from Czernowitz to Trieste and from Salzburg to Transylvania. What held these diverse peoples and places…

Upcoming Events

November 04, 2021

Four Towns that Moved: Mass Mining and the Transformations of Lives and Landscapes in the 20th Century

Public lecture by Eagle Glassheim, Department of History, University of British Columbia

November 15, 2021

Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet and the Job of the Translator

Public lecture by writer and translator Damion Searls