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CAS exclusive: “Professor Robert A. Kann: Historian, Scholar, Mentor”

Fall 2020 CAS Programming

CAS Exclusive: Interview with Charles Ingrao, professor emeritus at Purdue University

CAS Exclusive: "Emperor Joseph's Solution to Coronavirus"

CAS Exclusive: Austrian Fulbrighter reflects on Spring 2020 at UMN-TC

Upcoming UMN Courses Relevant to Austrian Studies

CAS Exclusive: Interview on "Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture"

"Composers of Central Europe" music series

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Central Europe Yearbook -- Call for Submissions

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October 6, 2020

Book Talk: "Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration...

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Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015 is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in...

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Austrian Studies

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