Partners of the Center
The Center for Austrian Studies has both a local and a global impact. It maintains a close working relationship with many organizations at the University of Minnesota, in North America, and in Europe.
Carlson School of Management jointly runs an Executive MBA Program with WU Vienna, and offers a unique dual-degree program structured to accommodate working professionals from throughout Europe and beyond. It is designed to meet the real-world challenges that managers face in demanding industries and business functions with expert insight into management and leadership practice in mature and emerging markets. In addition to interactive classes in Vienna, three international residencies expose students to leading business leaders, senior executives and policy makers.
Center for German & European Studies (CGES) is one of five "Centers of Excellence" supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in the United States. The research, training, and educational programs of CGES improve knowledge among teachers and students, strengthen innovative research, and yield significant economic and policy advantages.
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), founded in 1997 by Dr. Stephen Feinstein, promotes academic research, education, and public awareness of the Shoah, other genocides, and current forms of mass violence. Three concepts form the core of CHGS’s approach: remembrance, responsibility, and progress.
Center for Jewish Studies explores the important questions about Jewish history and culture from antiquity to the modern age. Its acclaimed faculty, path-breaking research, expanding undergraduate program, and focus on deepening ties within the University attest to the success and ongoing promise of our mission: to foster a new understanding of Jewish culture and history.
Center for Premodern Studies advocates for the value of long historical perspectives on human experience, including pressing social and environmental concerns. CPS supports innovative research in early modernity, and the medieval and ancient worlds, while promoting transformative understandings across time, space, and methods. Its members hail from departments across the University of Minnesota and the greater Twin Cities communities of scholars, curators, artists, and artisans.
Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) preserves and promotes the history of the American immigrant experience. The IHRC acts in partnership with various ethnic communities, historical agencies, research specialists, educators, and many others. The IHRC also develops and maintains a library and archival collection, provides research assistance, produces publications, and sponsors academic and public programs.
Institute for Global Studies (IGS) creates an environment for students and scholars at the University of Minnesota to investigate the sets of interrelated processes forming today's increasingly interdependent world. IGS provides a vibrant curriculum for students, brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, and works with the community to create partnerships examining global issues. CAS is one of ten interdisciplinary research centers supported by IGS.
Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender & Sexuality Studies (RIDGS) supports innovative research, teaching, and community-building for scholars engaged with issues of race, indigeneity, gender, and sexuality. RIDGS is dedicated to bringing faculty and students together to pursue lines of inquiry that challenge systems of power and inequality, assert human dignity, and imagine social transformation.
Religious Studies, founded in 2008, brings together courses focused on religion(s) from many departments into undergraduate major and minor programs, and serves as a model of interdisciplinary research and teaching across many religious traditions, geographical regions, and time periods.
Cultural Institutions:
Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)
Select Cultural Organizations:
Czech and Slovak (SOKOL) Minnesota
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) is an agency of the Republic of Austria and part of the Austrian Consulate General in New York. With its architectural landmark building in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, the ACFNY is the cultural embassy of Austria in the United States. It hosts more than 100 free events annually and showcases Austrian contemporary art, music, literature, and academic thought in New York. It also enjoys long-standing and flourishing partnerships with many venerable cultural and academic institutions throughout the United States. News from the ACFNY is frequently included in the Austrian Studies Newsmagazine.
The Austrian Embassy in Washington DC offers a lecture series jointly with Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, as well as a magazine, Austrian Information, which covers all things Austrian-American and has been published by the Austrian Press and Information Service in the United States since 1948.
Austrian Studies Association (ASA), formerly the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA), continues its traditions started in 1961, as the only North American association devoted to scholarship on all aspects of Austrian, Austro-Hungarian, and Habsburg territory cultural life and history from the eighteenth century until today. The ASA publishes a quarterly scholarly journal, the Journal of Austrian Studies.
Institute of European Studies- Program for the Study of Austria (Berkeley University) emphasizes the significant role that the multi-national Habsburg Monarchy played in Europe, along with the meaning that this legacy of transnational governance carried – and might continue to carry – for the wider world. The Program explores the current Austrian Second Republic within the broader framework of regional politics (Alpine and Danubian), as well as within the European Union and transatlantic relations.
Center Austria, the Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans, strives to direct international student and faculty mobility between the University of New Orleans and universities in Austria. Center Austria promotes the communication and extension of Austrian and Central European culture through scholarly and artistic activities and academic partnerships. News from Center Austria is included in the Austrian Studies Newsmagazine.
German Studies Association (GSA) is an interdisciplinary association of scholars in German, Austrian, and Swiss history, literature, fine arts, cultural studies, political science, economics, and more. Its interests span the period from early times to present-day Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
HABSBURG is the online community within H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Network dealing with the culture and history of the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states in central Europe from 1500 to the present. HABSBURG features book reviews, essays, syllabi, discussions, and other scholarly resources.
Society for Austrian and Habsburg History (SAHH) is a subgroup of the American Historical Association and was formed in 1957 to encourage, support, and further the study of Austrian history and the history of the Habsburg monarchy and of its successor states insofar as the relationship between these and the Habsburg monarchy is clear.
Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta is one of the leading centers for Central European Studies in North America and the only such institution in Canada. Their mandate is to sponsor and encourage scholarship on Central European subjects across the broad range of disciplines within the University of Alberta Faculty of Arts and to raise the profile of Central Europe and Central European Studies in Canada. News from the Wirth Institute is included in the Austrian Studies Newsmagazine.
The Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) collaborates closely with the Center for Austrian Studies. The ministry has funded the BMBWF Graduate Research Fellow since 1992 and provides support for research.
Center Austria New Orleans at the University of New Orleans was founded in 1997, and promotes studies on Austria and Europe in America’s Gulf region through fellowships, lectures and symposia. The Center is supported by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation and thus also contributes to keeping the memory of the Marshall Plan alive.
Center for Austrian Studies at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) was established in May 2001 as a joint initiative of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, and the Friends of the Hebrew University in Austria. Its goals are to promote Austrian studies and Austrian culture in Israel at the academic level by means of the Hebrew University and to establish and maintain contacts between Israeli and Austrian scholars and students by organizing symposia, lectures, conferences, and workshops on Austrian issues.
Foundation for Austrian Studies; Central and East European Studies Centre at Leiden University (The Netherlands) was established in 1988, the Foundation for Austrian Studies promotes knowledge about Austria and Central Europe in the Netherlands and stimulates academic exchange.
Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte (Vienna, Austria) at the University of Vienna is the largest university institution in the German-speaking region that deals with the history of Eastern Europe in all its spatial breadth and temporal depth. Since it was founded more than a hundred years ago, the IOG has been conducting basic research on the history of Eastern, East-Central, and Southeastern Europe and Eurasia, taking into account its global historical components. Imparting knowledge about the history of Eastern Europe from the Middle Ages to the present is very important to the IOG and is reflected in a wide range of courses for students and in numerous international conferences.
Institute of European Studies – Programme for the Study of Austria at the University of California, Berkeley was established in 2017 as part of the Institute of European Studies (IES), a leading centre for the study of European affairs and the EU. Historical research and teaching emphasize the role of the multinational Habsburg monarchy in Europe, especially the legacy of transnational administration and its exemplary impact for today.
Mitteleuropa-zentrum at Andrássy Universität (Budapest, Hungary) was founded in 2010. It focuses on the history and culture of the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states.
Österreich-Zentrum in Olomouc (Czechia) was created in 2013. The scientific focus is on the research of the Center for German-Moravian Literature, which has been established at the Olomouc Palacky University since 1997, which deals with German-Moravian literature as a genuine part of Austrian literary and cultural tradition and presents its research results to the general public (book publications, database German-Moravian authors, electronic archive, popular writings, translations into Czech, exhibitions, poetry readings, radio broadcasts). The curriculum of Olomouc German Studies regularly includes courses on German-Moravian and generally Austrian cultural and literary history. Many students are also scientific employees at the office and often devote their theses to the German-Moravian/Austrian focus.
Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta (Edmonton) is the only university institution in Canada dedicated exclusively to the interdisciplinary analysis of Central Europe. Founded in 1998, the Institute acts as an academic and cultural centre that organises lectures, academic conferences, art festivals, symposia, concerts and exhibitions on a regular basis.