CAS Events
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).**
**DATE CHANGE** Thursday, October 24th, 2024 - Virtual Lecture at 3:15 P.M. with Georg Michels (Professor of History at UC-Riverside; 2023 CAS Book Prize Winner) with James Tracy (Professor Emeritus - History, University of Minnesota) - "Religion and Violence in the 17th century Habsburg/Ottoman borderlands". Register Here. NOTE: this event is in conjunction with HIST 8960: Religion and Violence in the Early Modern World; outside participants will be allowed to observe the lecture and course discussion; readings will be distributed to registrants in advance.
Sunday, October 27th, 2024 - In-Person Lecture at Mia at 2:00 P.M. with Howard Louthan (CAS Director; Professor of History). "Saints, Traitors, and Heretics: the Charles Bridge and Its Statues in Baroqiue Prague." Location: Pillsbury Auditorium (Minneapolis Institute of Art). Please register via Mia's website and/or contact the Center for Austrian Studies at casahy[at]umn.edu if you wish to attend.
Friday, November 22nd, 2024 - Hybrid Event at 12:15 P.M. - Ute Lotz-Heumann (Professor of History, Heiko A. Oberman Chair of Late Medieval and Reformation History, and Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies at the University of Arizona). "How to Make a Holy Well: Attributing Meaning and Establishing Practices at Healing Water Sites in Early Modern Germany." Location: Heller Hall 1210. Register Here. Co-sponsored by the Center for Premodern Studies
Monday, December 2nd, 2024 - In-Person Lecture - Dr. Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger (Director, Austrian Cultural Forum New York). "Vienna - A Center of Diplomacy." Time and Location TBD.
