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Support for graduate student research to further progress toward degree completion

The Center for Austrian Studies is able to offer a limited number of Summer 2018 Research Grants of $4,000. The grants are intended to provide financial support to currently…

This interdisciplinary workshop focuses on the phenomenon of rural Jewries in their relationships to urban ones, focusing on Central Europe, Eastern (Central) Europe, as well…

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…

CAS announces its regular series of presentations by scholars in a wide variety of disciplines.

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…

CAS launches new journal to promote undergraduate research

It is our true pleasure to announce the successful dissertation defense of Kiley M Kost.

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…

The History of the European Travel Commission (1948-2018) marks the 70th anniversary of the organization

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

Since 1992, the BMBWF Fellowship has been developing scholars and expanding horizons by giving Austrian graduate students a 10-month residency with a generous stipend at the…

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)…

The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities.…

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…

The Center for Austrian Studies will hold a competition for the 2019 Center for Austrian Studies Dissertation Prize.
The purpose of this competition is to encourage North…

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…

The Czech Academy of Sciences awards a prestigious award to former CAS Director and Emeritus Professor of History, Gary Cohen.

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

Our annual Rath Prize for the best article in the Austrian History Yearbook and the Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize competitions have finished. The winner of the Rath…