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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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Situating German Film Stock

This workshop brings together media scholars and archivists to examine the German film stock industry’s twentieth-century history through this transnational lens.

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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

Upcoming Events

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January 27, 2022

"Yellow Star, Red Star: The Appropriation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Communist Eastern Europe"

The 2022 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture