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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!

Center for Austrian Studies Congratulates the 2019 State History Day Winners!

Interview with Professor Mary Lindemann

Upcoming Events

October 24, 2019

Incremental Love

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Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012) is set in a single restricted location, the Parisian apartment in which a dying, suffering woman is being cared for by her husband. The film plots an obsessive...

November 1, 2019

CEMH Lecture: David Do Paço “Ottoman Vienna: An Urban History of the 18th-century...

Read more about CEMH Lecture: David Do Paço “Ottoman Vienna: An Urban History of the 18th-century Habsburg Monarchy”

“Ottoman Vienna: An Urban History of the 18th-century Habsburg Monarchy” Based on L'Orient à Vienne au dix-huitième siècle (Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2015), this talk is an attempt to...

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Austrian Studies

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