It’s been called the greatest moment in sports history. In the forty years since the US Olympic team defeated the Soviets at the 1980 Winter Olympics, the “Miracle on Ice” has had lasting––and surprising––legacies on global sports culture. Historian Bruce Berglund takes an in-depth look at the game’s impact on hockey in Central Europe, on sports culture in the United States, and on the business of media and sports around the world.
Geaturing six articles and two digital projects that cover a range of topics from German diplomats in Istanbul to feud culture in the Holy Roman Empire, from sexology in Weimar Germany to dramatic developments of the Prague Spring.
We congratulate Dr. Lonnie R. Johnson, a native of Minnesota, on over forty years of experience in international education and twenty years serving as the executive director of Fulbright Austria.
What the Miracle Means: Olympic Hockey and the Transformation of Sports in America and Central Europe It’s been called the greatest moment in sports history. In the forty years since the US...
"Black Labor and Aid: Viennese Naturalists' Reliance on Enslaved and Free Black Populations in Colonial Settings" A work-in-progress presentation, attendees are expected to read Heather...
"From Paris to Budapest (and back): French-Hungarian Cultural Transfers from the Nineteenth-Century to the Interwar Period" A lecture by Alexander Vari From the French Anjou princes who sat...
Elizabeth “Lisl” Scheu Close (1912-2011) was Minnesota’s first modern architect and the designer of more than 250 buildings in the state. Born in Vienna, Austria, she was among early...
Gallery talk and tour Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture Wednesday, March 18, 4 PM 225 Rapson Hall (talk) and HGA Gallery (...
The Austrian School of Economics—a movement that has had a vast impact on economics, politics, and society, especially among the American right—is poorly understood by supporters and...
