The North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop Series is proud to announce the inauguration of the Konrad Jarausch Essay Prize for Advanced Graduate Students. In recognition of the longstanding commitment to graduate education of Konrad H. Jarausch, who is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the History Department of the University of North Carolina, this prize will serve to celebrate and cultivate outstanding new talent in the field of Central European history.

Fall 2018 includes: Interviews with Michael Rothberg and Gordon Anderson; Eva Hudecova on the assassination of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová in Slovakia; Vicko Marelić on the Habsburg lighthouses on the Adriatic Sea; Kurt Bednar on the demise of Austria-Hungary; Young scholars features with Mary Kirchdorfer and Avraham Shaver; CAS third seminar fellows workshop; Barbara Lawatsch Melton on the 2018 Salzburg Festival; Updates from ACFNY; News from the Wirth Institute and Center Austria; Central Europe: Undergraduate Yearbook, an online journal dedicated to undergraduate research. Book Reviews: "The World of Prostitution in Late Imperial Austria," and "The Economy of Ethnic Cleaning: The Transformation of the German-Czech Borderlands after World War II."

The Nineteenth Annual Czech & Slovak Studies Workshop will be held at UT-Austin on April 5-6, 2019. The program committee welcomes papers on Czech and Slovak topics, broadly defined, in all disciplines. In the past our interdisciplinary conference has drawn participants from colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Areas of interest have been: anthropology, architecture, art, economics, education, film, geography, history, Jewish studies, literature, music, philosophy, politics, religion, society, sociology, and theater. New work in progress is appropriate for our workshop format. Each speaker is typically allotted a 50-minute slot divided between a presentation and active discussion. Junior faculty and advanced graduate students are particularly encouraged to participate.

New volume co-edited by Silke Antje Niklas, CAS's 2018-2019 BMBWF Doctoral Research Fellow

300 word abstracts of individual papers (including keywords and a bio-note of 100 words) or panel proposals (including 300 word description of the panel, keywords, bio-note(s) of the convenors, paper topics and university affiliations of all speakers) addressing one or more above issues should be submitted by 1 March 2019 to the following e-mail address: martina.pranic@ff.cuni.cz. The notices of paper or panel acceptance will be e-mailed and further information about the venue, registration, accommodation and logistics will be publicized by 1 June 2019.

The Translated Jew brings together an eclectic set of literary and visual texts to reimagine the transnational potential for German Jewish culture in the twenty-first century. Departing from scholarship that has located the German Jewish text as an object that can be defined geographically and historically, Leslie Morris challenges national literary historiography and redraws the maps by which transnational Jewish culture and identity must be read.

Bálint Varga’s book The Monumental Nation: Magyar Nationalism and Symbolic Politics in Fin-de-siècle Hungary was awarded the Richard G. Plaschka Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for Outstanding Scientific Work in “Eastern European, East-Middle European or Southeastern European History.   

Herbert Kahler, who was a long-time friend of the Center for Austrian Studies, passed away at the age of 82 on October 23.

A reasonable array of lectures and discussions