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CAS congratulates Dr. Lonnie Johnson on his retirement, Fulbright Austria's long-serving Executive Director

CFP: International Conference of the PhD Students in History

CAS chairing a panel at the American Historical Association (AHA) conference in NYC

Announcing the CAS Fall 2019 Public Events calendar

Hot off the Presses! New monograph in the CAS series on Austrian and Habsburg Studies from Berghahn Books

Join us August 24-25 at the International Conference on the 1944 Slovak National Uprising

Bruce Pauley, CAS Supporter and Leading Scholar in Austrian History Wins Grinnell College Alumni Award

At the Airport: On CEU's Forced Move to Vienna

CFP: Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology -- submit by June 15!

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