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As Jennifer Hammer Takes on a New Role at IGS, CAS Thanks her for all of her Work at the Center

Landry shows how Europeans moved mountains and earth to transform the Alps into a natural battery in order to make fickle water behave more like the dominant energy source of…

Elizabeth Scheu Close A Life in Modern Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) has been nominated for a Minnesota Book Award!

Marchand's talk told the tale of two porcelain manufactories, the Imperial Viennese Manufactory (WPM) and the privately owned Thuringian firm, Wallendorf, from which sprang…

The CAS Spring Events Calendar includes talks from Sue Marchand, Marc Landry, Magda Teter, Tryntje Helfferich, Scott Spector, Frances Tanzer, and a group/community discussion…

The latest issue includes an interview with Tara Zahra (who delivered our 2020 Kann Memorial Lecture), an update from the Panel for In Rem Restitution, Bertram M. Gordon on…

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing efforts to become a more sustainable institution, beginning in Fall 2020 (and until further notice) we will be issuing the ASN as a…

How to measure goals and outcomes when interrupted by a pandemic: A long to-do-list remains after Covid-19 forces a sudden departure from Minneapolis.

Professor Larry Wolff sat down with CAS to discuss his new book (Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe) as well as the legacies of Woodrow Wilson today.

While demonstrating the ways in which Jewish history was inextricably linked with the history of Europe as a whole, Hacohen’s narrative also underscores the enduring…

The R. John Rath prize is given annually for the best article published in the Austrian History Yearbook. It is funded by the estate of the longtime Habsburg scholar and…

This talk examined the relationship between imperial collapse and anti-globalism in interwar Austria, focusing on popular movements that arose on the right and left to achieve…

“It is rare when a scholar's first book establishes its author in the front rank of his field, and it is rarer still when the book remains a standard work for the balance of…

The North American Austrian Centers are pleased to present and share access to our various headline events for Fall 2020.

Since its inception, the Center for Austrian Studies has offered a regular series of presentations by scholars in a wide variety of disciplines: the humanities, social…

Charles Ingrao is professor emeritus at Purdue University, a prodigious historian of Habsburg central Europe, and an advocate for active resolution in the countries of former…

Before modern medicine,the Habsburg monarchy kept epidemics at bay for more than a century and a half.

Applauding the many people who worked to keep this visiting Austrian family safe, well supplied, and connected in Minneapolis during the Covid-19 outbreak.

A number of Fall 2020 courses offered by the University of Minnesota on topics connected to Austrian Studies.

Lisl Close led a fascinating life and left an indelible mark on Minnesota’s built landscape. History major Olivia Rudek interviews scholar and expert Jane King Hession.