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Center for Austrian Studies 2024-2025 Events

**Please Note: event details are subject to change. Please check the specific event pages as they are updated for the most current information; for questions regarding events CAS co-sponsors, please contact that event's main organizer(s).**

Monday, January 27th, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. on Zoom Sarah Cramsey (Professor of Central European History, Director of Austrian Studies Centre, Leiden University) - "The Other Holocaust: Care, Children and the Jewish Catastrophe.” Co-organized with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, with support from the Badzin Fund for Holocaust and Genocide Education. 

Thursday, January 30th at 7:30 P.M. at The Main Cinema (Minneapolis) - Opening-night film screening of “Edelweiss” (Dir: Anna Gaberscik; 2023) with post-film Q&A with the director and Professor Jamele Watkins (Dept. of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch - University of Minnesota). Organized by the Black Europe Film Fest 

Friday, February 28th at 12:15 P.M. in Heller Hall 1210 - Phil Haberkern (Associate Professor of History, Boston University) - “Persecution, Exile, and the Transvaluation of Trauma in Early Modern Christianity” . Co-organized with the Center for Premodern Studies

Thursday, March 20th at 4:00 P.M. (Blegen Hall 250) - Jonathan Singerton (Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) - “A Spiritual Lacuna? Austria-Hungary’s Religious Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century."

Wednesday, March 26th at noon in Social Sciences 710 - Maximilian Brockhaus (Marietta Blau Graduate Fellow - Center for Austrian Studies) - “Educate, Enlighten, Entertain: Educational broadcasting and the uses of Mass Media in the US and Europe"

Friday, April 4th - Martin Tschiggerl (Fulbright Visiting Professor) at 2 P.M in the 216 Pillsbury Drive Building - Room 135 - “From Smallpox to Covid-19 – A short history of the German Anti-Vaccination Movement since the late 19th Century.” Co-sponsored by the Departments of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

Tuesday, April 22nd at 4:00 P.M. - Ana Grudnicka (Evelyn Dunbar and Ruth Dunbar Davee Fellow, Newberry Library) - Working title: "​Making Peace in Times of Conflict: Architecture and Piety in Early Modern Central Europe"

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