CAS Events
Center for Austrian Studies 2025-2026 Events
Spring 2026 Events:
Wednesday, January 21st - at 7:30 P.M. at the Minnesota JCC Sabes Center Minneapolis - Community Lecture with Jack Zipes (Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Emeritus). “Never-Ending Tales: Antisemitism, Jewish Creative Resistance, and a Literature of Hope.” NOTE: this event is organized by the Center for Jewish Studies, and co-sponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Department of English, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies, University of St. Thomas. Please contact the Center for Jewish Studies with questions regarding this event.
Tuesday, February 24th, 2026 at 12:00 noon in Social Sciences 710 - Lecture with Rudolf Meer (Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor). “The Starry Heaven Above Me.” Approaches to Kant’s Philosophy of Objects.” Organized by the Center for Austrian Studies, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Global Studies and the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science.
Tuesday, March 3rd at 12:00 noon in Social Sciences 710 - Lecture with Rivka Saltiel (Visiting Professor from the University of Graz). "Infrastructuring Care: Feminist Approaches to Caring Urbanism." Organized by the Center for Austrian Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society.
Thursday, March 5th 2026 at 5:30-7:30 P.M. in 216 Pillsbury Drive SE, Room 135. Lecture with Nicholas Baer (Associate Professor of German, University of California - Berkeley). "Failing Upwards: On Perfection in Global Film and Media Theory." Organized by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, and co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Center for Austrian Studies, and Graduate Minor in Moving Image, Media, and Sound.
Monday March 23rd 2026 - Monday, March 23rd at 2:30 P.M. (Elmer L. Andersen Library 120) Lecture with Andrea Bohlman (Associate Professor, Department of Music at the University of North Carolina). "Colonial Boots, After All: Poland and the Case for Music Colonialisms Out of Plain View." Co-organized with the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and the UMN School of Music
Wednesday, April 15th at 7:30 P.M. at the Minnesota JCC Sabes Center Minneapolis - Community Lecture with Hannah Pollin-Galay. “What Did People Talk about in the Warsaw Ghetto? Yiddish Words of the Holocaust.” NOTE: this event is organized by the Center for Jewish Studies, and co-sponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, Department of History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program at the University of St. Thomas, Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies, University of St. Thomas. Please contact the Center for Jewish Studies with questions regarding this event.
**Date Change** Tuesday, April 21st at 12:00 noon in Social Sciences 710 - Lecture with Amelia Glaser (Professor of Comparative Literature, UC-San Diego). “The Composition of Soil: The Holocaust and Holodomor in Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry.” Organized by the Center for Austrian Studies and co-sponsored by the Centers for German and European Studies, Holocaust & Genocide Studies, and Jewish Studies, and the Departments of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature & German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.
**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).**
