Past Lecture Series

Friday, September 9. Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture. John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley, “Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?” Cosponsored by the Department of History.

Friday, September 16; 22-23. Online Conference. Criminalization-Surveillance-Resistance: Roma and Policing from the Holocaust to the Present. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the Institute for Global Studies.

Wednesday, October 12. Public Discussion. University of Minnesota History Book Club. Theuerdank: The Illustrated Epic of a Renaissance Knight. Discussion with Jonathan Green (University of North Dakota), Howard Louthan (University of Minnesota), and Elaine Tennant (University of California, Berkeley).

Thursday, October 20. Carl Sheppard Memorial Lecture in Medieval Art History. Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania, “The ‘Last Knight’? Maximilian I on the Threshold of Early Modernity.” Presented by the Center for Medieval Studies.

Thursday, October 27. James Ford Bell Lecture. Michael Gaudio, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota, “Speaking Images: The Art of Travel Literature in Early Modern Europe.” 

Monday, October 31. Public Lecture. Guenter Bischof, Department of History and Director, Center Austria, University of New Orleans and Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, University of Graz, Austria, “Austria and the Cold War.” Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Department of Political Science. 

Wednesday, November 9. Co-sponsored Event. Iuliana Matasova, Department of Foreign Literature, Tara Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. "Ukraine [and the West] according to Its Popular Music."

Thursday, November 10. Reception and Book Discussion. Kurt Bednar, Transatlantic Relations and the Great War: Austria-Hungary and the United States.

Friday, December 2. Public Lecture. Stephanie Leitch, Art History, Florida State University), “The Adjustable Feather Skirt in 16th-century Travel Narratives.” Presented by the Center for Premodern Studies.

Tuesday, December 6. Brown Bag Research Discussion. Petra Aigner, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria; Department of Sociology, Fulbright Fellow, University of Minnesota. 

Monday, January 30th. Virtual Lecture with Dr. Andreas Kranebitter (Incoming Director, Documentation Center for Austrian Resistance, Vienna).  “Surveying Mass Murder: GIs and the Production of Sociological Knowledge about the Nazi Concentration Camps.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

Thursday, February 23rd. On-Campus Panel Discussion - with 2022 CAS Fellows (Nikoleta Sremac; Sociology, Björn Treber; German, Nordic Slavic & Dutch), and current CAS BMBWF Graduate Fellow (Hannah Myott; University of Vienna, Social and Cultural Anthropology). **NOTE: EVENT WAS CANCELED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER**

Tuesday, March 14th. Community Lecture with Michael Lower (Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, UMN Dept. of History). “West Ham United 0-5 Hakoah Vienna: How an All-Jewish Team Defeated the English at Their Own Game, Conquered Austrian Soccer, and Defied the Nazis.” Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 

Wednesday, March 22nd. On-Campus Lecture with Viktoria Pötzl (Assistant Professor of German Studies, Grinnell College). “A Jewish Writer’s Longing for Equality: Klara Blum’s Journey Eastwards” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.

Friday, April 7th. On-Campus Lecture with Valerie Kivelson (Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan). Presented by the Center for Premodern Studies and the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. Co-sponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Wednesday, April 19th. On-Campus Conference and Workshop. “Bruno Kreisky: A Reassessment.” Cosponsored by Center Austria (University of New Orleans) and the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies. NOTE: Public portions of the workshop will take place in Social Sciences 710.

Tuesday, April 25th. On-Campus Lecture with Ke-chin Hsia (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Indiana University-Bloomington). "The Austrian Experience: The Welfare State, Citizens, and Soldiers across the 1918 Divide."

Museum Exhibition. “The YMCA and Relief for War Victims during WWI.” The Bell Gallery in the Elmer L. Andersen Library. Curated by Ryan Bean (Kautz Family YMCA Archives), Lena Radauer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), and Dylan Mohr (PhD Candidate, CSCL, UMN).

Kann Memorial Lecture. Nancy M. Wingfield, “Democracy’s Violent Birth: The Czech Legionnaires and Statue Wars in the First Czechoslovak Republic.” 

Public Forum. Daniel J. Philippon, Professor of English, University of Minnesota, and Alexa Weik von Mossner, Professor of American Studies, University of Klagenfurt,  “Contemporary Developments in the Environmental Humanities.”

Public Lecture. Sara Jackson, Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Public Lecture. Theodora Dragostinova, Department of History, The Ohio State University, “Bulgarian Cultural Diplomacy in the West: Between Ideology and Universal Values.” Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Center for German & European Studies.

Public Lecture. Eagle Glassheim, Department of History, University of British Columbia, “Four Towns that Moved: Mass Mining and the Transformations of Lives and Landscapes in the 20th Century.”  Cosponsored by the Department of German, Nordic, Scandinavian & Dutch, the Center for German & European Studies, the Environmental Humanities Initiative, and the Department of History.

Book Talk. Damion Searls, “Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet and the Job of the Translator.”  Cosponsored by the Department of German, Nordic, Scandinavian & Dutch, the Center for German & European Studies, and the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. 

Book Talk. Jack Zipes, Professor Emeritus, German Studies/Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota. “Bambi, Animal Rights, and the Lonely Destiny of Jewish Outsiders and Minority Groups”

European Studies Roundtable (CAS Summer Fellows and CGES Mears Fellows)

Public Forum. “Leisure, Gender, and Science in Austrian and British Spa Towns”

Lecture. “Bambi, Animal Rights, and the Lonely Destiny of Jewish Outsiders and Minority Groups”
Jack Zipes, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch, University of Minnesota

Public Forum. European Studies Graduate Student Roundtable

Lecture. “Film Fermentation”
Jurij Meden, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna

Public Forum. European Studies Graduate Student Roundtable

Lecture. “Queer Budapest: Sex, Society, and the Illiberal State, Past and Present”
Anita Kurimay, Bryn Mawr College

Public Roundtable. “Local Reverberations of the War in Ukraine”

Public Roundtable. “The War in Ukraine and the Refugee Crisis: History and Present”

Public Forum. European Studies Graduate Student Roundtable

Lecture. “Recoding - Re-writing – Reproduction. The (R)evolution of Translation as a Scientific
Concept” Michael Tieber, University of Graz

Monday, September 21. Kann Memorial Lecture. "Against the World: The Collapse of Empire and the Deglobalization of Interwar Austria." Tara Zahra, Homer J. Livingston Professor of East European History and the College, Department of History, University of Chicago. Presented with the support of individual donors to the Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture fund, cosponsored by the Department of History; part of the greater North American Austrian Centers' fall event program collaborative.

Thursday, October 1. Lecture. "Warfare and Religion in Medieval Japan and Medieval Catholic Europe." Philippe Buc, Professor, Medieval History, University of Vienna. Organized by the Center for Medieval Studies.

Tuesday, October 6. Book Talk. "Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp." Sara J. Brenneis, Professor of Spanish, Amherst College. Presented with the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; cosponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (Western Washington University), the Center for Inter-American Studies of the University of Graz (Austria), and the Centro Sefarad-Israel (Madrid).

Tuesday, October 20. Lecture. "Geneva Attacks: Violence, Just War and the Calvinist Tradition." Graeme Murdock, Associate Professor, History, Trinity College, Dublin. Organized in conjunction with HIST 8900: Religion and Violence in the Premodern World. 

Friday, October 30. Keynote Lecture. "Tourism and the 75th Anniversary of the Austrian Second Republic: An Interdisciplinary Approach." Gundolf Graml, Professor of German and Assistant Dean for Global Learning, Agnes Scott College. Organized in conjunction with the "Tourism, Sports, and Politics in the 19th-21st Centuries" Seminar Fellows Program.   

Tuesday, November 17. Community Lecture. "Joseph Süss Oppenheimer ('Jew Süss'): The Rise and Fall of an Eighteenth Century Court Jew."  Yair Mintzker, Professor of History, Princeton University. Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies. 

Wednesday, February 3. Lecture. “Central European Porcelain Between Mercantilism and the ‘Free’ Market.” Suzanne L. Marchand, Department of History, Louisiana State University. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Center for German & European Studies.

Thursday, February 11. Lecture. “Europe’s Battery: The Alps in the Fossil Fuel Age.” Marc Landry, Department of History, University of New Orleans. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and HIST 1365, “Global Tourism and the Environment.”

Thursday, February 18. Lecture. “Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth.” Magda Teter, Department of History and Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies, Fordham University. Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Cosponsored by: Department of History, Center for Austrian Studies, Medieval Studies, Jewish Community Relations Council: Minnesota & the Dakotas.

Friday, February 19. Roundtable Discussion. Join the editors and contributors to the Journal of Austrian Studies special issue on Czernowitz as they discuss the city’s enduring historical, literary, and cultural significance. Editors: Leslie Morris, University of Minnesota; Joseph Moser, Westchester University. Contributors: Amy Colin, Andrei Corbea-Hoisie, Laura Detre, and Meyer Weinshel. Presented by the Journal of Austrian Studies, the Center for Austrian Studies, and the Center for Jewish Studies. 

Thursday, March 4. Lecture. “What is the Role of Yiddish in Holocaust Education?” Meyer Weinshel, CHGS Education Coordinator and a Ph.D. candidate in Germanic studies at the University of Minnesota. Presented by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Center for Austrian Studies.

Tuesday, March 9. Lecture. “Polyphemus’ Supper: Surviving War in 17th-Century Europe.” Tryntje Helfferich, Department of History, The Ohio State University. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Monday, March 15. Lecture. “A Czernowitzer Challah: Jews and the Austro-Hungarian Empire around 1900.” Scott Spector, Rudolf Mrázek Collegiate Professor of History and German Studies, University of Michigan. Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies. Cosponsored by: the Center for Austrian Studies, Department of German, Nordic, Scandinavian & Dutch, and the Center for German & European Studies.

Tuesday, March 30. A Group Discussion of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Poetry. “Poetry of the Soul: Ephemerality and Eternality.” Ross Etherton, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota, and Travis R. Pickell, Associate Director of University Engagement, Anselm House. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Anselm House. 

Tuesday, April 13. Lecture. “Vanishing Vienna: Reflections on Absence after Genocide.” Frances Tanzer, Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History, Clark University. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the Department of History.

Friday, September 20. Lecture. "Reimagining the History of Climate Science." Deborah Coen, history, Yale University. 3:35pm, 101 Tate Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the History of Science and Technology Program, cosponsored by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World.

Tuesday, October 1. Workshop. “Habsburg Urbanisms: Eastern European Architectural History” with architectural historians Kimberly Zarecor and Vladimir Kulic from Iowa State University, Bruce Berglund, Gustavus Adolphus, and Eva Špacková, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. 1:30pm, 435 Blegen Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Monday, October 14. Lecture. “Shame, Sympathy, and the History of Illegitimacy in Vienna, 1880-1930.” Britta McEwen, history, Creighton University. 4:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Thursday, October 24. Lecture. "Incremental Love: Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012)." Eugenie Brinkema, contemporary literature and media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 3:30pm, Crosby Seminar Room, 240 Northrop. Presented by the Institute for Advanced Study, the Moving Image & Media Studies Graduate Group, and the Center for German and European Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Friday, November 1. Lecture. “Ottoman Vienna: An Urban History of the 18th-century Habsburg Monarchy.” David Do Paço, history, Sciences Po University, Paris. 12:15pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Center for Early Modern History, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Tuesday, November 5. 35th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture. "Maria Theresa and the Love of her Subjects." Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Professor of History and Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. 4:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, with the support of individual donors to the Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture fund, cosponsored by the Department of History.

Wednesday, November 20. Lecture. “Negotiating Faith, Religious Consent and Peacemaking in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe.” Christina Traxler, history, University of Vienna and UMN Fulbright Visiting Scholar (Fall 2019). 12:20pm, 155 Blegen Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Monday, November 25. Roundtable. "Peter Handke and the Nobel Prize." 12:30pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, and the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Wednesday, December 4. Lecture. “The Anatomy of Two Biographies: Emperor Franz Jozef and Peasant Samuel Mozolak.” Kenneth Janda, Emeritus Professor, political science, Northwestern University. 11:15am, 120 Blegen Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Tuesday, January 28. Public lecture. "What the Miracle Means: Olympic Hockey and the Transformation of Sports in America and Central Europe." Bruce Berglund, historian, Gustavus Adolphus. 4:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Department of History.

Friday, February 21. Campus workshop. "Black Labor and Aid: Viennese Naturalists’ Reliance on Enslaved and Free Black Populations in Colonial Settings." Professor Heather Morrison, history, State University of New York at New Paltz.  2:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Space is limited; RSVP required for precirculated paper, with preference given to UMN registrants. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies in conjunction with the Atlantic Workshop Seminar.

Tuesday, February 25. Public lecture. "From Paris to Budapest (and back): French-Hungarian Cultural Transfers from the Nineteenth-Century to the Interwar Period." Professor Alexander Vari, history, Marywood University. 5:00pm, 28 Folwell Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies in conjunction with FREN 5350: Social Space and Everyday Life, cosponsored by the Department of French and Italian.

**CANCELED**
Wednesday, March 18. Gallery talk and reception. “Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture” exhibit organized by the Goldstein Museum of Design. Remarks by author Jane King Hession, historian and emeritus professor Gary Cohen, and Roy Close, son of Lisl and Win Close. 4:00pm, 225 Rapson Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Goldstein Museum of Design, cosponsored by the Department of History.

**MOVED TO ONLINE FORMAT**
Friday, April 3. Public lecture. "Alchemy, knowledge, and the digital humanities: Reimagining a seventeenth-century alchemical masterpiece." Professor Tara Nummedal, history, Brown University. 12:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Rescheduled from a later date. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Early Modern History, and Center for Medieval Studies, cosponsored by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

**POSTPONED**
Friday, April 10. Public lecture. "Perspectives for a Global Intellectual History." Professor Martin Mulsow, German, University of Erfurt.  12:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Center for Early Modern History, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

**MOVED TO ONLINE FORMAT**
Monday, April 13. Webinar. "The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas.” Professor Janek Wasserman, history, University of Alabama. 6:20pm lecture, via Zoom at https://umn.zoom.us/j/427203392. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies in conjunction with HIST 3419: History of Capitalism, cosponsored by the Department of History.

**CANCELED**
Friday, April 24. Public lecture. "Dissemination and the Uses of the Jewish Past: The Role of The Present in the Production of History." Professor Magda Teter, history, Fordham University. 12:15pm.  Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

**CANCELED**
Friday-Sunday, May 1-3. Conference. "The YMCA and Relief for War Victims during WWI." 120 Andersen Library. Organized by PhD graduate student Dylan Mohr (cultural studies and comparative literature) together with Lena Radauer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), in conjunction with the exhibition running March 23 - June 12 at Andersen Library, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and others.

Friday, September 14. Lecture. Gregor Thuswaldner, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Humanities at North Park University in Chicago, and President of the Austrian Studies Association. “Stefan Zweig and the ‘Tragedy of European Thought’.” 1:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, and Anselm House.

Wednesday, October 3. 34th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture. Larry Wolff, Silver Professor of History and Director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. “Operatic Representations of Habsburg Ideology: Ottoman Themes and Viennese Variations.” 4:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, with the support of individual donors to the Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture fund.

Thursday, October 11. Lecture. Hasan Hasanović, Srebrenica genocide survivor and Curator at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Centre. 6:00pm, Cowles Auditorium. Presented by the Institute for Global Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Friday, October 26. Workshop. Natalie Lettner, Art Historian at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. “Who wants to look at naked old ladies?” 1:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Departments of Art History, and German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Wednesday, November 7. Lecture. Cathleen Giustino, Mills Carter Professor of History, Auburn University. “Recovering Julia’s Things: Jewish Property Claims and the Hard Road to Restitution in Postwar Czechoslovakia” 5:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Center for Jewish Studies.

Friday, November 16. Conference keynote. Mary Lindemann, President of German Studies Association, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Miami. “The Ecological and Environmental Consequences of the Thirty Years War: Longue durée and histoire événementielle.” 12:15pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, and Center for Early Modern History.

Thursday, November 29. Brown Bag Lecture. Eva Hudecova, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota. “Russia's Disinformation Campaign and Neocolonialist Tendencies in Slovakia and Across Eastern Europe.” 12:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Tuesday, December 4. Brown Bag Lecture. Karin Liebhart, Fulbright Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota. “'Defend Europe': Social Media Communication of the 'Hipster Right'.” 12:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Department of Political Science, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Thursday, February 14. Lecture. Barbara Falk, Associate Professor, Department of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College. "Dispatches from the Past to the Present: The Relevance of Cold War Politics Today." 4:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Department of Political Science.

Thursday, February 21. Lecture. Marcela Perett, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, North Dakota State University. “Late Medieval Populism: Toward a New Understanding of Lollard and Hussite Movements." 4:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Center for Medieval Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies

Tuesday, March 12. Lecture. Sonja Wentling, Professor of History and Global Studies, Concordia College. "A Tale of Two Cities: Concordia Language Village's 'Waldsee' in the Crucible of History and Memory." 4:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the UMN Institute for Global Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, Department of History, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch; and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC). 

Tuesday, March 26. Lecture. Joshua Teplitsky, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stony Brook University. "How One Collector Built History's Most Remarkable Jewish Library: David Oppenheim (1664-1736), Chief Rabbi of Prague." 4:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.

Thursday, April 4. Community Event. Literaturlenz book tour from the Goethe-Institut Chicago with German-language authors. 6:00pm, Upson Room, Walter Library. Presented by the Center for German and European Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Tuesday, April 9. Lecture. Philipp Ther, Professor of Central European History at the University of Vienna, and Visiting Fellow at the Remarque Institute, New York University. “The History of Refugees in an Enlarged Europe.” 4:30pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Department of History, Immigration History Research Center, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for German and European Studies, and Institute for Global Studies.

Wednesday, April 17. Lecture. Gary Cohen, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Minnesota. “Thinking about the Afterlife of the Habsburg Monarchy.” 4:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Department of History.

Friday, April 26. Keynote Lecture. Max Bergholz, Associate Professor, Department of History, Concordia University (Montreal). “Histories of Violence Without Borders." 4:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Mediterranean Collaborative and the Center for Early Modern History, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Thursday, May 2. Lecture. Juergen Pirker, Assistant Professor of Institute for Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz, and Visiting Professor in the Department of History, University of Minnesota. “Memory Politics and Minority Rights in Central Europe (1867-2019).” 12:00pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Department of History.

Wednesday, September 13. Interactive event. Seeking Refuge in a Changing World series kick-off event with multimedia artist Ifrah Mansour. 11:00am-2:00pm, Washington Bridge. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Institute for Global Studies, African Studies Initiative, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights Program, and Immigration History Research Center.

Friday, September 15. Lecture. Euan Cameron, Reformation church history, Union Theological Seminary. “Martin Luther's assault on Judaism: Scripture and Prophecy in the Reformation.” 12:15pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented as part of the Remembering the Reformation series, made possible by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, in cosponsorship with the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Early Modern History, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Religious Studies Program, Department of History, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Tuesday, October 10. Lecture. Andrei Corbea-Hoisie, German studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza-University Iasi (Jassy). “The Jews of Czernowitz in the 19th Century.” 11:45am, 135 Nicholson. Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, and the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Thursday, October 12. Lecture. Wayles Browne, linguistics, Cornell University. “Austria-Hungary: The Center of the Slavic World? Linguistic and Historical Perspectives on the Late Habsburg Empire and its Successor States.” 4:30pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Institute of Linguistics, the Department of History, and the Slavic Languages and Literatures Program.

Thursday, October 19. Lecture. Frances Courtney Kneupper, history, University of Mississippi. “Picturing Antichrist: An Inquiry into the Depiction of Evil in the Fifteenth Century.” 4:00pm, 220 Blegen Hall. Presented as part of the Remembering the Reformation series, made possible by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, in cosponsorship with the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Medieval Studies, Center for Early Modern History, Religious Studies Program, Department of History, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Tuesday, October 24. Lecture. Rachel Batch, history, Widener University. “Klub Tito and the People's War for Freedom: Croatian Americans, Transnationalism, and Political Action during WWII.” 4:00pm, 120 Andersen Library. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Immigration History Research Center, and the Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries.

Friday, November 3. Lecture. Darin Hayton, history, Haverford College. “Astrology from University Lecture to Print Culture.” 3:35pm, 275 Nicholson Hall. Presented as part of the Remembering the Reformation series, made possible by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, in cosponsorship with the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Early Modern History, Religious Studies Program, Department of History, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, and History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program.

Monday, November 6. Lecture. Dominic Lieven, history, Cambridge University. “Empire,  Eastern Europe, and the First World War.” 12:20pm, 20 Mondale Hall. Presented in conjunction with the James Cunningham Memorial Lecture by the Center for Austrian Studies, Department of History, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, Slavic Languages and Literatures Program, and the Institute for Global Studies.

Tuesday, November 7. Lecture. Klaus Hoedl, Jewish studies, University of Graz (Austria). “Similarities and Differences: Jews and non-Jews in Vienna around 1900.” 11:45am, 135 Nicholson Hall. Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Tuesday, November 14. Lecture. Susanne Korbel, cultural studies and contemporary history, University of Graz (Austria). "Jews, Mobility and Sex: Popular Culture between Budapest, Vienna and New York circa 1900." 12:00pm,135 Nicholson Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies.

Thursday, November 16. Lecture.  John Van Engen, history, University of Notre Dame. “Pursuing Religious Life in the Later Middle Ages: Freedom, Obligation, and Custom.” 4:00pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented as part of the Remembering the Reformation series, made possible by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, in cosponsorship with the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Medieval Studies, Center for Early Modern History, Religious Studies Program, Department of History, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Monday, November 20. Community event. "Victor Gruen: Visionary Urban Designer" film screening and panel discussion with architect and former CAS visiting scholar Judith Eiblmayr, Minnesota Design Center director Thomas Fisher, and author Anette Baldauf. 5:15pm, Rapson Hall. Presented by the Minnesota Design Center, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the University of Minnesota Press.

Thursday, November 30. 2017 Kann Memorial Lecture. Franz Szabo, history, University of Alberta. “The Dynamic of Reform in the Habsburg Monarchy during the 18th century: Cameralism, Josephinism and Enlightenment.” 4:00pm, 120 Andersen Library.

Thursday, November 30. Community event. 40th Anniversary reception with music, special guests, and friends of CAS. 5:30pm, Andersen Library Atrium.

Friday, December 8. Lecture. Robin Barnes, history, Davidson College. “Stars, Time, and Sanctity in Reformation Germany.” 12:15pm, 1210 Heller. Presented as part of the Remembering the Reformation series, made possible by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, in cosponsorship with the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Early Modern History, Religious Studies Program, Department of History, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Friday, February 2. Workshop. Howard Louthan, Director of the Center for Austrian Studies and Professor of History, University of Minnesota. "Baroque Culture in the Habsburg Lands." 12:15pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Premodern Workshop and the Center for Early Modern History, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies. 

Friday, February 9. Workshop. Jim Oberly, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. "From Budapest to Shreveport: The Wartime Diaries of Dr. Madi Maria as Imagined Letter-Writing." 12:15pm, 710 Social Sciences. Presented as part of the CAS Work-in-Progress series, cosponsored by the Immigration History Research Center Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Sunday, February 18. Community Event. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, “Babi Yar” & Linda Tutas Haugen's "Anne Frank: A Living Voice" doctoral recital conducted by Ahmed Anzaldúa and Kira Winter, School of Music, University of Minnesota. 4:00pm, Ted Mann Concert Hall. Presented by the School of Music, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Monday, February 19. Lecture. Jennifer Evans, Professor of History, Carleton University (Ontario). "The Nazi Policy against Homosexuals: Policing Behavior in the People’s Community (Volksgemeinschaft)." 2:30pm, 370 Anderson Hall. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, cosponsored by Metropolitan State University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM).  

Monday, February 19. Lecture. Jennifer Evans, Professor of History, Carleton University (Ontario). "Pink Triangle Persecution: In History and Memory." 6:00pm, Founders Hall Auditorium, Metropolitan State University. Presented by Metropolitan State University, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). 

Friday, March 2. Lecture. Jonathan Green, Professor of German, University of North Dakota. "Prophets, Astrologers, and Radicals in Collision." 12:15pm, 710 Social Sciences.  Presented as part of the Remembering the Reformation series, made possible by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, in cosponsorship with the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Early Modern History, Religious Studies Program, Department of History, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Tuesday, March 6. Lecture. Michael Rothberg, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California - Los Angeles. "Inheritance Trouble: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance." 5:00 PM, 120 Andersen Library. Presented as part of the Seeking Refuge in a Changing World series organized by the University of Minnesota's Institute for Global Studies, African Studies Initiative, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights Program, and the Immigration History Research Center. Made possible with support from the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Fund for Justice and Peace Studies of the Minneapolis Foundation and the Wexler Special Events Fund for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. 

Thursday, March 8. Lecture. Susan Faludi, author. "The Darkroom of Identity." 12:00pm, Upson Room, Walter Library. Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Creative Writing Program and the Edelstein-Keller Endowment, Department of English, Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Tuesday, March 20. Lecture. Vance Byrd, Professor of German, Grinnell College. "Panorama or Photography? Adalbert Stifter and Franz Stelzhamer’s Pictures from Everyday Life.” 4:00pm, Folwell 4. Presented by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Center for German and European Studies. 

Wednesday, March 21. Community Event. Literaturlenz book tour from the Goethe-Institut Chicago with German-language authors Robert Prosser (Austria), Ursula Fricker (Switzerland), Fatma Aydemir (Germany). 6:30pm, 1210 Heller Hall. Presented by the Center for German and European Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Friday, March 23. Lecture. Jonathan Lyon, Professor of History, University of Chicago. "The Place of Medieval History in Today's Academia." 12:00pm, 120 Andersen Library.  Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies as part of the 17th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies.

Friday, April 6. Lecture. David Price, Professor of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University. “Why Did Judaism Survive in Early Modern Germany?” 12:15pm, 1210 Heller. Presented as part of the Remembering the Reformation series, made possible by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, in cosponsorship with the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Early Modern History, Religious Studies Program, Department of History, and Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

Friday, April 13. Lecture. Karen Painter, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Minnesota. "Nazis Mourning and Music that Lies." 4:30pm, 235 Blegen Hall.  Presented by the Music and Sound Studies Graduate Student Group, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Thursday, April 19. Symposium. "Seeking Refuge in a Changing World" with keynote address by Maria Cristina Garcia, Professor of History, Cornell University. 9:00am-4:15pm, 120 Andersen Library.  Part of the Seeking Refuge in a Changing World collaboration with the Institute for Global Studies, African Studies Initiative, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Austrian Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights Program, and the Immigration History Research Center. 

Wednesday, April 25. Lecture. Sarah Oberbichler, PhD graduate student of History, University of Innsbruck and 2017-2018 BMWFW Austrian Graduate Fellow. "25 Years of Media Reporting on Immigration in Northern Italy (1990–2015)." 9:45am, Folwell 123. 

Monday, April 30. 2018 Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Lecture. Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan. "Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009." 7:00pm, Humphrey Forum, Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Presented by the Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the Center for German and European Studies.

September 9. Community event. “Herbstfest Heuriger” at the Germanic-American Institute. Organized by the Germanic-American Institute; music cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

September 29. 2016 Kann Memorial Lecture. Pieter Judson, history, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. “Where Our Commonality Is Necessary: Rethinking the End of the Habsburg Monarchy.” 

September 29-30. Symposium. “State and Society in Late Imperial Austria: A Symposium in Honor of Gary Cohen.” Participating historians: John Boyer, University of Chicago; John Deak, University of Notre Dame; Maura Hametz, Old Dominion University; Ke-Chin Hsia, Indiana University; Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland; Daniel Unowsky, University of Memphis; Tara Zahra, University of Chicago. Cosponsored by the Institute for Global Studies, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of History, the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, and the Center for German and European Studies.

October 4. 2016 Carl Sheppard Memorial Lecture. Elizabeth Ross, art history, University of Florida. “Mapping Muslim Jerusalem in Late Medieval German Pilgrimage.” Organized by the Center for Medieval Studies. Cosponsored by the James Ford Bell Library, the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John’s University, and the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World.

October 12. Lecture. Thomas Rassieur, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Minneapolis Institute of Art. “Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation.” Cosponsored by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, the Center for Early Modern History, Anselm House, the Religious Studies Program, and the Center for German and European Studies.

November 7. Lecture. Andrew Pettegree, history, University of St Andrews, Scotland. “Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Making of a Media Phenomenon.” Cosponsored by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World, the Center for Early Modern History, Anselm House, the Religious Studies Program, the Germanic-American Institute, and the Center for German and European Studies.

November 14. Lecture. Johanna Muckenhuber, sociology, University of Graz, and Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota. “Working Conditions and Health: An International Comparison Between 34 European Countries.” Organized by Minnesota Population Center.

December 1. Film and discussion. Minneapolis premiere of Listopad (November): A Memory of the Velvet Revolution (2015), a feature film about 1989 and the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, followed by a panel discussion. 

December 5. Lecture. Jeroen Duindam, history, Leiden University, Netherlands. "Writing a Global History of Dynasty: Choices, Challenges, Chances." Cosponsored by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World and the Center for Early Modern History.

February 3. Lecture. Paul Robert Magocsi, history, University of Toronto. "Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence." Cosponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

February 4. Community Event. "Kultur in der Küche: Authentic Gulasch" cooking class at the Germanic-American Institute. Organized by the Germanic-American Institute; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

February 8. Lecture. Claudia Rapp, Byzantine and Modern Greek studies, University of Vienna. "Byzantium as a Global Culture." Organized by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Center for Medieval Studies.

February 9. Lecture. Ivana Horacek, art history, University of Minnesota. "The Materiality of Representation: Performing the Earthly and Divine at Karlštejn Castle." Organized by the Center for Medieval Studies; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

February 17. Lecture. Heidi Hausse, history, Princeton University. "Exploring the Material World of Mechanical Hands in Early Modern Europe." Organized by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for Early Modern History, and the Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

February 23. Lecture. Carl Niekerk, German, comparative and world literature, and Jewish studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Zemlinsky contra Mahler: Aesthetic Modernism, the Jewish Body, and Alexander Zemlinsky’s Deconstructive Fairy Tales." Organized by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch; cosponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, and the Center for Austrian Studies.

March 6. Lecture. Rachel Greenblatt, history, Wesleyan University. "Jews Reading Christians and Christians Reading Jews: Festival Books from Jewish Prague (1678-1716)." Cosponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.

March 8. Community Event. Literaturlenz book tour from the Goethe-Institut Chicago. Organized by the Center for German and European Studies; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and others.

March 24. Research workshop. Michael Streif, American studies, University of Salzburg, 2016-2017 BMWFW Fellow. "Between Boys: College Theatricals and Male-Male Relations in the Age of the American Revolution." Organized by the Early Modern Atlantic Workshop; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

March 29. Lecture. Juliane Schicker, German, Carleton College. "Drawing Connections between Fin-de-siècle Vienna and the German Democratic Republic: Gustav Klimt and Sighard Gille." Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, cosponsored by the Weisman Art Museum.

March 30-April 1. Symposium. "Remapping European Media Cultures during the Cold War: Networks, Encounters, Exchanges." Sponsored by the Government of Finland / David and Nancy Speer fund; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Institute for Global Studies and others.

April 6. Lecture. Timothy Snyder, history, Yale University. "The Politics of Mass Killing: Past and Present." Organized by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Ohanessian Chair; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and others.

April 27. Lecture. Verena Stern, political science, University of Vienna. "Refugees Welcome? European Border Politics and the Creation of a Crisis." Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Immigration History Research Center, and the Institute for Global Studies.

April 27. Book Release. Annemarie Steidl, University of Vienna, and James Oberly, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. From a Multiethnic Empire to a Nation of Nations: Austro-Hungarian Migrants in the US, 1870-1940. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Immigration History Research Center and the Minnesota Population Center.

May 3. Panel Event. "Conveying the Unspeakable: Art and the History Museum." Organized by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and others.

May 9. Educator Workshop. "Teaching the Holocaust through Art." Organized by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

September 16, 2015. Lecture. Benjamin Frommer, history, Northwestern University. "The Last Jews: Intermarried Families in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia." Organized by the Center for Austrian Studies; cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies.

September 28, 2015. Lecture. Peter Krečič, architectural history, University of Primorska (Koper, Slovenia). "Jože Plečnik, Slovenian Seccesionist Architect." Presented by the College of Design, University of St. Thomas' Art History Department, and The Twin Cities Slovenians; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

October 13, 2015. Artist talk and scholarly panel. Daniel Blaufuks, Portuguese-Jewish media artist/photographer. Featuring Minnesota faculty members Gary Cohen, history; Paula Rabinowitz, English; Alice Lovejoy, film studies; and Leslie Morris, German-Jewish literature. Organized by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and others.

October 23, 2015. Lecture. Dean N. Krouk, Scandinavian studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison. "Sex and Patriarchy in Sigurd Hoel's Psychoanalytic Anti-Fascism." Presented by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

November 5, 2015. Kann Memorial Lecture. Patrick Geary, history, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. "Austria, the Writing of History, and the Search for European Identity." Cosponsored with the Center for Medieval Studies.

November 19, 2015. Lecture. Judith Eiblmayr, architecture, Vienna University of Technology, Fulbright Visiting Professor, geography University of Minnesota. "Is There the 'Perfect' Town? The Rational Grid and the Medieval Maze—Two Systems of Urbanization." Organized by the Center for Austrian Studies; Cosponsored by the Departments of Geography and History, the Urban Studies Program, and the School of Architecture.

December 3, 2015. Lecture. Monica Brinzei, history, Institut d'Histoire et Recherche des Textes, Paris. "Professors and Scholars: Networks and Knowledge at the University of Vienna, 1365-1450." Organized by the Center for Austrian Studies; cosponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies and the Center for Modern Greek Studies.

Thursday, February 4. Lecture. Jeanne Grant, history, Metropolitan State University. “The Many Lives of Jan Hus and Hussitism in Biographies and Appropriations.” Coponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies.

Monday, February 29. Lecture. Hildegard Kernmayer, Germanistik, University of Graz. “Sprachspiel nach besonderen Regeln. Zur Gattungspoetik des Feuilletons.” (Language game according to special rules: the genus poetics of feuilletons) Presented by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch as part of the GSD Roundtable, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

Wednesday, March 23. Lecture. Christopher R. Friedrichs, history, University of British Columbia. “House-Destruction as a Ritual of Punishment: Central Europe and Beyond, 1520-1760.” Cosponsored by the Center for Early Modern History.

Friday, April 1. Lecture. James Van Horn Melton. “Germans in 18th Century British America: A Reassessment.” It was cosponsored by the Center for Early Modern History and the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World.

Wednesday, April 6. Discussion and Screening. Roberta Meierhofer and Patrick McNamara discuss Shifting Perspectives, the project and film.

Friday, April 15. Lecture. Aviva Rothman, social sciences, the University of Chicago. “Johannes Kepler and the Harmonic Ideal.” Cosponsored by the Center for Early Modern History and the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday, April 19. Lecture. Edith Sheffer, history, Stanford University. “‘No Soul’: Hans Asperger and the Nazi Origins of Autism.” Cosponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Wednesday, April 20. Lecture. Martin Baresch, economics, University of Linz. “Fighting Climate Change: Environmental Economics and the Green Paradox.”

Tuesday, April 26. Lecture. Friedrich Schneider, economics, University of Linz. “Environmental Policies in Representative Democracies: What Are the Obstacles?”

Friday, May 6. Lecture. Dominique Reill. “An Adriatic Community: A Legacy or a Lie?” presented by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World.

September 16, 2014. Lecture. Arnold Suppan, history, University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences. "Hitler, Beneš, and Tito: Conflict, War, and Genocide in East-Central and Southeastern Europe." Cosponsored with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research, and Economy.

October 8, 2014. Lecture. John Deak, history, Notre Dame. "The Unraveling of the Habsburg Empire: New Perspectives on Austria-Hungary’s Internal War in 1914."

October 28, 2014. Lecture. Kimberly Zarecor, architecture and architectural history, Iowa State University. "Why Ostrava Is Not Detroit: Communist Legacies in a Post-Communist Industrial City." Cosponsored with the Department of Geography, The University of Pittsburgh Press, and the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation.

November 19, 2014. The 30th Annual Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture. James Tracy, history, University of Minnesota. “Habsburg-Ottoman Wars, 1526-1606: A Clash of Civilizations.” 

February 11, 2015. Lecture. Christian Karner, Associate Professor, Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham. "Signs of the Nation: Resisting Globalization?"

February 25, 2015. Lecture. Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, Univ. of Texas, Austin. "Emperor Rudolf II and the Mysterious Obsession of Collecting." Cosponsored with the Department of Art History

March 11, 2015. Lecture. Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, Univ. of Pennsylvania. "Maximilian I, Charles V, and the Formation of the Habsburg Monarchy." Cosponsored with the Department of Art History 

March 13, 2015. Lecture. Jessica Keating, Assistant Professor of Art History, Carleton College. "Collecting Exotica at Early Modern Habsburg Courts." Cosponsored with the Center for Early Modern History

April 1, 2015. Lecture. Eike D. Schmidt, James Ford Bell Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "Empire & Enlightenment: Sculpture and Decorative Arts in 18th-Century Vienna." Cosponsored with the Department of Art History 

April 14th, 2015. Lecture. Yehudit Shendar, Retired Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator, Yahad Vashem. "The Insatiable Pursuit of Art: Nazi Art Looting - Perpetrators, Victims, Provenance Researchers." Organized by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and others

April 22, 2015. Lecture. Irmgard Wetzstein, Journalism, University of Vienna. "Debating Alternative Gender Identities in Austria: the Case of the Viennese Life Ball 2014."

April 24, 2015. Lecture. Thomas Wallnig, History, University of Vienna, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Stanford University: "Critical Monks: The German Benedictines, 1680-1740." Cosponsored with the Center for Early Modern History

April 30, 2015. Lecture. Carl Neumayr, BMWFW Fellow: "Professor as Profession: A Review of Faculty Surveys, 1960s-Present."

May 15-17, 2015. Symposium. "Gender and Global Warfare in the 20th Century." Organized by the journal Gender & History. Cosponsored with the Departments of History, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, the Center for Austrian Studies, and others. 

October 9, 2013. The 2013 Kann Memorial Lecture. Gary B. Cohen, history, University of Minnesota. "Cultural Crossings in Prague, 1900: Scenes from Late Imperial Austria."

October 17, 2013. The 2013 Ohanessian Chair Lecture. Vahram Shemmassian, director, Armenian Studies Program, California State University, Northridge. "The Musa Dagh Resistance to the Armenian Genocide and Its Impact through Franz Werfel’s Historical Novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh." Cosponsored; event organized by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

October 18, 2013. Lecture. Hans Peter Manz, Austrian Ambassador to the United States. "The Development of Transatlantic Relations: An Austrian Perspective."

October 31, 2013. Lecture. Rainer Köppl, Institute for Theatre, Film, and Media Studies, University of Vienna; Visiting Fulbright Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota. "Vampires in Austria: The true story behind the Austrian Vampire Princess."

December 5, 2013. Panel discussion. "Antisemitism: Then and Now."

February 20, 2014. Lecture. Kalani Michell, German studies, University of Minnesota. "Expanded Cinema at VALIE EXPORT Archive."

March 6, 2014. Lecture. Laura Lisy-Wagner, history, San Francisco State University. "From Istanbul to Vienna: Islam and Central Europe in the Early Modern Period."

March 10, 2014. Lecture. João Vale de Almeida, EU Ambassador to the US. "Transitions in Europe and America and the Future of EU-US Relations."

March 13, 2014. Lecture. Verena Stern, political science, University of Vienna, 2013-14 CAS-BMWF Fellow. "Migration of Somali Refugees in the European Union: An Austrian Case Study."

March 25, 2014. Lecture. Thomas Schmidinger, political science, University of Vienna, University for Applied Science in Vorarlberg. "Rojava: The Second Kurdish Para-State in the Shadow of Syria’s Civil War."

March 28-March 30, 2014. Colloquium. "Theorizing Crisis: The Conceptions of Economy of the Frankfurt School (1924-1969)." Organized by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch. Cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and others.

April 3, 2014. Lecture & performance. Lisa Peschel, theatre history, University of York, UK; Ryan Lindberg & Emily Zimmer, actor/singers; Peter Vitale, piano/accordion. "Laughter in the Dark: Newly Discovered Songs and Sketches from the Terezín/ Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1941-44." Cosponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies.

April 24, 2014. Lecture. Leila Hadj-Abdou, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. "The FPÖ and Religion."

October 17, 2012. Lecture. Thomáš Klvaňa, journalism, political science, Czech Republic. "Czech Republic: Still in Transition? From Communism to EU Accession to Today."

October 31, 2012. Lecture. Thomas Schnöll, Austrian Consul General, Chicago. "The Future of the Eurozone: The European Project at a Crossroads."

November 8, 2012. 28th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture. Nora Berend, history, Cambridge University. "Violence as Identity: Christians and Muslims in Hungary in the Medieval and Early Modern Period."

November 15, 2012. Lecture. Matthias Falter, political science, University of Vienna; 2012 BMWF Fellow. "Parliamentary Discourse on Right-Wing Extremism in Austria since 1999."

February 26, 2013. Lecture. Farid Hafez, political science, philosophy of law, University of Vienna. "From Harlem to Hoamatlond/the Alps: Hip Hop, Malcolm X and Islamic Activism in Austria."

March 11, 2013. Lecture. John Swanson, history, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. "Nostalgic Identities: German Refugees from Hungary on Film."

March 29, 2013. Lecture. Alice Lovejoy, cultural studies and comparative literature, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. "'A Young Workshop': Crafting a Film Culture in the Czechoslovak Army."

April 5-6, 2013. Symposium. "Representing Genocide: Media, Law and Scholarship." 

April 11, 2013. Berthold Molden, history, Marshall Plan Chair, University of New Orleans. "Resistant Pasts: The Intellectual History of Global Anticolonialism."

May 9, 2013. Symposium. Lary May, American studies and history, public lecture to open the symposium "Politics and Popular Culture."

May 10, 2013. Symposium. "Politics and Popular Culture." All-day program begins in the morning with a keynote speech by Reinhold Wagnleitner, history and American studies, "Jazz: The Classical Music of Globalization."

September 15, 2011. Sonja Puntscher- Riekmann, Vice-Rector for International Relations and Communications, University of Salzburg. "European Brinkmanship: How Governments Try to Turn Back the Clock and Harm the Union."

September 22, 2011. Dr. Wendelin Ettmayer and Ambassador Martin Eichtinger, Austrian Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs. Ettmayer’s talk is "The Diplomatic Revolution in Europe: Power Politics and Welfare Thinking in International Relations." Eichtinger presents "New Dynamics in the Danube and Black Sea Region—an Austrian Perspective."

October 5, 2011. Shri Ramaswamy, Professor and Head, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, U of MN. "Renewable Energy, Green Buildings and Energy Efficiency in Austria: Lessons from the US Marshall Program Visit."

October 20-23, 2011. Conference. "Mozart in Our Past and in Our Present." Fifth Biennial Conference of the Mozart Society of America.

October 21, 2011. 27th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. "Representation, Replication, Reproduction: The Legacy of Charles V in Rulers’ Portraits in the Holy Roman Empire."

December 5, 2011. Gundula Ludwig, political science, gender studies, queer theory, Univ. of Marburg, Germany; Visiting Fulbright Professor, Dept. of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS), U of MN. "Thinking Sex and the State: How Turning to State Theory Can Stimulate New Directions for Queer Theory and Vice Versa."

January 12, 2012. Panel discussion. "What is the Future of Renewable Energy in the US and Europe in the Next Decade?" Shri Ramaswamy and Jason Hill, Univ. of MN Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering; Hans C. Kordik, Counselor for Agriculture and Environment, Austrian Embassy, Washington, DC; Marcel Frei, Bachmann Electronic Corp.; David Kolsrud, president, DAK Renewable Energy.

April 10, 2012. Thomas Hörzer, history of medicine, University of Graz, 2012 BMWF Fellow, CAS. Topic: The influenza epidemic of 1919 in Austria and America.

April 19, 2012. Konstantinos Raptis, history, University of Athens. "Nobility in Central Europe during the Late 19th and the First Decades of the 20th Century: The Counts Harrach, 1886-1945."

April 26-28, 2012. Symposium. "European Muslims: Islam and Muslim Communities in Central Europe a Centenary after the Habsburgs Islamgesetz."

September 13, 2010. Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture. Arnold Suppan, Professor of East European History at the University of Vienna, Secretary General of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: "The Nazi Occupation Policies in Bohemia and Serbia: A Comparison."

November 9, 2010. Performance. Oxchil Schütz: "Poetry Slam, Slam Poetry and the Life of a Poet in Germany." Presented in partnership with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

November 17, 2010. Lecture. Brigitte Spreitzer, Karl Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria and Visiting Professor in German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota. "Österreichische Autorinnen und die Psychoanalyse in der Wiener Moderne."

November 18, 2010. Lecture. Nick Karasch, National Park Service. "Minnesota and the Mississippi: Shared History, Shared Future."

February 8, 2011. Lecture. Thomas Schmidinger, Political Science, University of Vienna, BMWK Fellow, Center for Austrian Studies. "Asylum Policy in Austria and its Social Consequences." Cosponsored with the Institute for Global Studies, the European Studies Consortium, and Global REM.

March 3, 2011. Lecture. James Oberly, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire; Annemarie Steidl, University of Vienna: "Understanding the Transatlantic Migration Experience: Austria and Hungary." Cosponsored with the Immigration History Research Center and the Minnesota Population Center.

March 21, 2011. Lecture. Markus Kornprobst, Vienna School of International Studies. "A Balance of Power: The EU, the Balance of Power, and World Politics." Cosponsored with the Center for German and European Studies, European Studies Consortium, and Department of Political Science.

March 31, 2011. Lecture. Bernhard Freyer, 2010-2011 School of Agriculture Endowed Chair in Agricultural Systems, CFANS. "As Time Goes By: The Role of Time in the Organic Agro-Food Chain." Cosponsored with Agronomy and Plant Genetics, CFANS, and Institute for Global Studies.

April 8, 2011. Lecture. Max Preglau, Austrian Visiting Chair Professor 2011, Stanford. "Austria: An Immigration Country Against Her Will." Cosponsored with the Institute for Global Studies.

April 14, 2011. Lecture. Wolfgang Müller-Funk, University of Vienna. "The Image of America in Kafka's Romanfragment." Cosponsored with the German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature.

May 6, 2011. International Symposium. "Migration, Integration, and Discourse in Europe: An International Symposium." Cosponsored by Institute for Global Studies, European Studies Consortium, and Immigration History Research Center.

September 30, 2009. Lecture. Klaus Hödl, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz, Austria. "Jews in Viennese Popular Culture Around 1900." Cosponsored with the University of Minnesota Center for Jewish Studies

October 29, 2009. 25th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture. David S. Luft, history, Horning Endowed Chair in Humanities, Oregon State University. "Austrian Intellectual History before the Liberal Era: Grillparzer, Stiftler, and Bolzano." 

November 6, 2009. Lecture. Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington. "Cultural Performances in Modern Austria: From the Dreamwork of Secession to Orgies Mystery Theatre."

November 10, 2009. Lecture. Franz Kernic, Visiting Austrian Fulbright Professor in Political Science (University of Minnesota); Institute for Political Science, University of Innsbruck; Institute for Strategy and Security Policy, Vienna. "The Rise of Europe Public Opinion and European Foreign and Security Policy."

November 19, 2009. Lecture. Harald Rohracher, Inter-University Research Center for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ), Graz; Assistant Professor, University of Klagenfurt; 2009-10 Schumpeter Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Center, Harvard University. "Social Science Research for Green Technology Development: Experience from Austrian research programs."

January 26, 2010. Lecture. Tara Zahra, University of Chicago. "Prisoners of the Postwar: Refugees, Expelees and Citizenship in Postwar Austria."

February 23, 2010. Lecture. Erhard Busek, Former Vice Chancellor of Austria, Chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, and Rector and Jean Monnet Professor at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. "Twenty Years After the Fall of Communism in Europe." Cosponsored with the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York and Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota. Watch the Lecture

March 24, 2010. Lecture. Friedrich Stadler, Institute for Contemporary History / Institute for Philosophy, University of Vienna. "From 'Methodenstreit' to the 'Science Wars' – Lessons from Methodological and Foundational Debates in the History and Philosophy of Science." Cosponsored with the Center for Philosophy of Science

March 25, 2010. Lecture. Mitchell Ash, Institute for History, University of Vienna. "The Emergence of modern Scientific Infrastructure during the late Habsburg Era 1848-1919."

March 25, 2010. Lecture. Christian Fleck, Institute for Sociology, University of Graz. "Language, Nation State and Diversity: The Case of Sociology in Europe." Cosponsored with the Department of Sociology

April 19, 2010. Roundtable talk. Annemarie Steidl, University of Vienna; Wladimir Fischer, University of Vienna; James Oberly, University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire. "Understanding the Migration Experience: The Austrian-American Connection, 1870-1914 – an Interim Project Report." Cosponsored with the Minnesota Population Center

October 2, 2008. Lecture. Gerald Stourzh, history (Emeritus), University of Vienna. "An Apogee of Conversions: Gustav Mahler, Karl Kraus, and Fin de Siècle Vienna."

October 12, 2008. Sunday Series. A concert by the Voices of Vienna. Germanic-American Institute, St. Paul.

October 17, 2008. Lecture. Laura Stokes, Department of History, Stanford University: "Hagel und Hexen: The Meaning of Weather Magic in the Formation of the Alpine Witch Stereotype." Cosponsored with the Center for Early Modern History

October 20, 2008. Reading and Presentation. Sissi Tax, author, translator, literary editor. "How (Not) to Translate Wittgenstein's Mistress into German." Cosponsored with the Departments of English and German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

November 6, 2008. 24th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture. Siegfied Beer, history, University of Graz.  "A Second Chance: Allied Attitudes and Reconstruction Policies in Post-World War II Austria."

November 10, 2008. Lecture. Anton Pelinka, Director of the Nationalism Studies Program and Professor at the Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest. “Austria, Europe, and the US: A New Honeymoon after the Presidential Elections?”

February 1, 2009. Sunday Series. Marjorie Bingham, educator and consultant. "Women and the Warsaw Ghetto: A Moment to Decide."

February 18, 2009. Lecture. Anselm Wagner, art history, Technical University of Graz; Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota. "Vienna 1900 and the Rise of the 'Sanitary Style' in Architecture: Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and Josef Hoffmann."

Feburary 24, 2009. Lecture. Daniel Gilfillan, German studies, Arizona State University. "Sounding Out Austrian Radio Space: Tactical Media, Experimental Artistic Practice & the ÖRF Kunstradio Project." Cosponsored with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

March 13, 2009. Panel discussion. Ruth Wodak, Linguistics, University of Lancaster, and Michele Lamont, Sociology, Harvard University. "Racism vs. Xenophobia: Transatlantic Perspectives." Cosponsored by European Studies Consortium Title VI Grant

April 5, 2009. Sunday Series. Gloria Kaiser, author, Graz, Austria. "Dona Leopoldina's 1817 Expedition from Austria to Brazil as Portrayed in the Art of Thomas Ender."

April 15, 2009. Lecture. Andrej Rahten, University of Maribor, Slovenia. "Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the South Slav Question."

April 16, 2009. Lecture. Andrej Rahten. "From the Habsburg Monarchy to the European Union: Evolution of National, Regional, and European Loyalties among the Slovenes in the 20th Century."

April 27, 2009. Lecture. Hanspeter Neuhold, law, University of Vienna. "The Balkans as a Security Laboratory after the Cold War." Cosponsored with the School of Law

April 28, 2009. Lecture. Monika Öbelsberger, Thomas Nussbaumer, Mozarteum University, Salzburg. "Perspectives on Wind Music in Austria." Cosponsored with the School of Music.

September 20, 2007. 23rd Annual Kann Memorial Lecture. Mary Gluck, history and comparative literature, Brown University. "Jewish Humor and Popular Culture in Fin-de-siècle Budapest." Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. 

October 16, 2007. Lecture. Maria-Regina Kecht, German Studies, Rice University. "Austrian Women Writers and National Socialism: Creating Literary Space for Forgotten Jews." Cosponsored with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, and the Center for Jewish Studies

November 15, 2007. Lecture. Kurt Remele, University of Graz; visiting professor, University of Minnesota. "Is Faith-Based Morality in Need of Psychotherapy? Religion, Ethics, and the Human Psyche."

November 29, 2007. Lecture. Michael Cherlin, University of Minnesota, School of Music. "'Mondestrunken': Schoenberg's Intoxicating Moonlight."

January 25, 2008. Lecture. Allan T. Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art & Design. "The Jugendstil and the Wiener Werkstätte Movement."

February 7, 2008. Lecture. Josef Melchior, University of Vienna; Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Governing the European Union: Leadership without Leaders?"

February 28, 2008. Lecture. Christian Fleck, University of Graz; Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota. "Towards a Theory of the Talking Class."

March 6, 2008. Lecture. David Walsh, University of Minnesota, School of Music. "Staging Opera in a Eurotrash Culture."

March 10, 2008. Lecture. Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna. "Reflections on the Anschluss of Austria with Nazi Germany."

March 11, 2008. Lecture. David Brodbeck, University of California, Irvine. "From Prague to Vienna: Hanslick and the Music of Smetana"

March 11, 2008. Discussion. "Cosmopolitanism and Jewish Musical Identity in the Habsburg Empire." A dialogue between Philip V. Bohlman, University of Chicago, and David Brodbeck, University of California, Irvine. Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies, CGES, CHGS, CLA, IAS, School of Music, and others.

April 3, 2008. Lecture. Gloria Kaiser, author, Graz (Austria): "Mozart: Perspectives from his Correspondence."

April 15, 2008. Lecture. Andreas Pribersky, University of Vienna: "European Memory Politics after 1989."

April 23, 2008. Lecture. Max Haller, University of Graz: "European Unification as an Elite Process."

September 14, 2006. Lecture. Carola Sachse, history, University of Vienna. "On Men and the Animals: The Vivisection Debate in late 19th Century Germany." Cosponsored with the Program in the History of Science and Technology, the Center for German and European Studies, and the Department of History.

October 9, 2006. 22nd Annual Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture. Herwig Wolfram, history, University of Vienna. "Austria before Austria: The Medieval Past of Polities to Come." Cosponsored with the Center for Medieval Studies

October 17, 2006. Lecture. Claudia Fritsche, Ambassador of Liechtenstein to the US. "Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance: The Growing Role of Multilateral Cooperation." Cosponsored with the Departments of Political Science and Sociology and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute

October 25, 2006. Lecture. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, University of Minnesota Law School and the University of Ulster (Belfast). "The European Legal System Responds to Terrorism: Balancing Human Rights and Security."

November 8, 2006. Roundtable. "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Assessments and Testimony." Charles Gati, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; Robert Fisch, University of Minnesota Medical School; Laszlo Fülop, Minnesota Hungarians. Cosponsored with the Minnesota Historical Society and Minnesota Hungarians. Minnesota History Center, St. Paul.

January 25, 2007. Lecture. Max Preglau, University of Graz; Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "The Rise and Transformation of the European Welfare State."

February 1, 2007. Lecture. Steven Beller, independent scholar. "'To Be or Not to Be': The Ironies and Anomalies of Austrian History."

February 7, 2007. Lecture. Gary B. Cohen, director, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota: "Centuries in the Heart of Europe. Jews in Golden Prague." Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies

February 12, 2007. Roundtable. "Supporting the Arts where the Government Won't: Austria and the U.S. in the 21st Century." Florian Kitt and Rita Medjimorec, Arts University of Graz; Roy Close, Artspace Inc.; Ann Markusen, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota; Sheila Smith, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Cosponsored with the School of Music

March 23, 2007. Forum. "New Trade and Investment Opportunities in Southeastern Europe: Strategies based on the Austrian Experience." Dr. Robert Zischg, Austrian Consul-General, Chicago; Franz Roessler, AustrianTrade Commissioner, Chicago; Gisbert T. Mayr, director, Austrian Business Agency, NY. Cosponsored with the Carlson School of Management International Programs and the Austrian Consulate and Trade Commission, Chicago

April 12, 2007. Roundtable. "The Art of Vienna and its Timeless Appeal." Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, director, Austrian Cultural Forum, NY; Lyndel King, director, Weisman Art Museum; David Ryan, curator of design, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Cosponsored with the Weisman Art Museum

April 16, 2007. Monika Öbelsberger, Mozarteum University Salzburg; Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minneapolis, School of Music. "Girls Sing, Boys Beat the Drums: Gender Issues in Music Education." Cosponsored with the School of Music

September 13, 2005. Lecture. Eva Faber, history, Karl-Franzens University, Graz: "Austria's Southeastern Frontier in the Eighteenth Century: Confronting the Peoples and Cultures of the Adriatic."

September 19, 2005. Lecture. Franz A. J. Szabo, history, University of Alberta, Edmonton: "The State As Agent of Change: Austria and Prussia in the Eighteenth Century." Cosponsored with the Center for Early Modern History.

September 20, 2005. 21st Annual Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture. John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta, Edmonton: "A Central European Diaspora under the Shadow of World War II: The Galician Ukrainians in North America."

October 5, 2005. Lecture. Sven Rossel, Scandinavian literature, University of Vienna: "'To Travel Is to Live': Hans Christian Andersen's Visits to Austria."

October 18, 2005. Lecture. Nicole Phelps, history, University of Minnesota: "Contested Citizenship and Wartime Experience: Impressment and Internment in Austria-Hungary and the U.S. during World War I."

November 2, 2005. Lecture. Mitchell Ash, history, University of Vienna: "The Sciences in Germany and Austria during the Nazi Era: Can There Be "Good" Science in an Evil Regime?" Cosponsored with the Program in the History of Science and Technology.

November 17, 2005. Lecture. Gilg Seeber, University of Innsbruck and Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor in Political Science, University of Minnesota: "Who Participates? Voter Turnout in Austria and the European Union." Cosponsored with the Department of Political Science.

December 8, 2005. Lecture. Peter Gerlich, political science, University of Vienna: "Can Europe Learn from America? The US and the EU in a Comparative Perspective."

February 8, 2006. Lecture. John A. Rice, musicology, Rochester, MN. "Mozart in the Theatre." Cosponsored with the School of Music.

February 17, 2006. Lecture. Michael Lorenz, musicology, University of Vienna. "Mozart: New Possibilities for Source Studies." Cosponsored with the School of Music.

February 22, 2006. Lecture. Poul Houe, German, University of Minnesota. "Arthur Schnitzler and Georg Brandes: A Literary Correspondence." Cosponsored with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

March 27, 2006. Lecture. Manfred Frühwirth, economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business; Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Real Options in Business Valuation." Cosponsored with the Department of Finance, Carlson School of Management, and the Department of Applied Economics.

March 30, 2006. Lecture. Eagle Glassheim, history, University of British Columbia. "Most, the Town that Moved: Coal, Communism, and Modernity in Post-War Czechoslovakia."

September 14, 2004. 20th Annual Robert Kann Memorial Lecture. Prof. Ernst Bruckmüller, University of Vienna. "Late Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Society: Was there One?"

September 20, 2004. Lecture. Brigitte Bailer-Galanda, history, University of Vienna and Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance. "Compensation for Victims of Nazism in and from Austria: A Never Ending Story." Cosponsored with the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

October 14, 2004. Discussion. "Music and the Arts in Post-Communist Croatia and Slovenia: A Conversation with the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet." Cosponsored with the School of Music, the Weisman Museum of Art, and the College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Events Fund

October 22, 2004. Lecture. Tomáš Klvaňa, visiting fellow, Remarque Center, New York University. "Media and the Failure of Civil Society in the Czech Republic." Cosponsored with the European Studies Consortium [Title VI Grant], the Department of Communication Studies, and the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota

November 3, 2004. Lecture. Walter Matznetter, geography, University of Vienna and Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota. "200 Years of Urban Planning in Vienna: Imagination and Reality." Cosponsored with the Department of Geography

November 11, 2004. Lecture. Martin Zagler, economics, Wirtschafts Universität Wien and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Public Finance in the European Union: What the Stability and Growth Pact does to National Budget Policy."

November 18, 2004. Lecture. Gerald Angermann-Mozetic, sociology, Karl-Franzens University, Graz. "The Concept of 'Nation' and Nationalities in Early Austrian Sociology."

January 27, 2005. Lecture. Steven Meyer, Pragmatic C Software Corporation. "The Vienna Circle's Successors in Minnesota and America: The Lakatos-Feyerabend-Kuhn Program."

February 14, 2005. Lecture. Ulrike Peters Nichols, German, University of Michigan. "Looking Back in Pain: Melancholia in Strindberg and Hofmannsthal." Cosponsored with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch.

February 21, 2005. Lecture. Anneliese Rohrer, Die Presse, Vienna, Austria. "The U.S., Europe, and the Trans-Atlantic Political Rift." Cosponsored with the Department of Political Science.

March 10, 2005. Lecture. Elizabeth Cronin, art history, University of Minnesota. "Gabriel Lippmann's Photography: The Pursuit of Color in the 19th Century."

March 22-24, 2005. Film festival. "The Essential Cinema of Peter Kubelka: A festival of the work of Austrian film maker Peter Kubelka, including screenings and discussions with the film maker." Cosponsored with the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

April 5, 2005. Lecture. Joan M. Mohr, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. "Caught in the Bolshevik Revolution: The Czech and Slovak Legion in Russia and Siberia, 1916-1921." Cosponsored with the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota; Czech and Slovak Sokol Minnesota; German Section, Modern Languages, Hamline University; Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota; Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota

April 14, 2005. Lecture. Nikki Carlson, landscape architecture, University of Minnesota. "The Central European 'Black Triangle': Landscape in Transition." Cosponsored with the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Center For Nations in Transition

April 25, 2005. Roundtable discussion. Ambassador Eva Nowotny, Embassy of Austria, Washington D.C.; Professor Guenter Bischof, Center Austria, University of New Orleans; Katharina Wegan, Demokratiezentrum Wien, Austria: "An Early Thaw in the Cold War? The Austrian State Treaty of 1955."

April 26, 2005. Lecture. Thomas Nowotny, political science, University of Vienna and Austrian Wirtschaftsservice, Washington D.C. "Constructing the 21st Century: The US, Europe, and the Task of Global Governance." Cosponsored with the Department of Political Science

April 30, 2005. Symposium. "In Search of Don Giovanni: The Origins, Interpretations, and Legacy of Mozart and Da Ponte's Anti-Hero." Kristi Brown-Montesano, musicology, Los Angeles; Michael Lupu, dramaturg, Guthrie Theatre; James Mandrell, Spanish, Brandeis University; Gretchen Wheelock, music history, Eastman School of Music, Rochester. Copresented with the School of Music Opera Theatre; cosponsored with the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese

September 17, 2003. Lecture. Christopher Friedrichs, history, University of British Columbia. "Towards a Global View of Urban Political Cultures: Thinking about Cities in Early Modern Europe and Asia." Cosponsored with the Center for Early Modern History

September 18, 2003. 19th Annual Robert Kann Memorial Lecture. Robert R. J. W. Evans. "Language and State Building: The Case of the Habsburg Monarchy."

October 8, 2003. Lecture. Elisabeth Kehrer, Consul-General of Austria in Chicago. "A Union of Europe? European Integration from an Austrian Perspective."

October 29, 2003. Lecture. Patrizia McBride, German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. "'In Praise of the Present': Adolf Loos' Modernity."

November 13, 2003. Lecture. Benjamin Frommer, history, Northwestern University. "Confronting the Legacy of Nazism: The Extraordinary Trial of Two Ordinary Women, Prague 1947."

February 4, 2004. Lecture. Alan Gross, rhetoric, University of Minnesota. "Misremembering Austrian Jewry: The Rathaus Exhibit, Vienna 1938."

February 20, 2004. Lecture. Pieter M. Judson, history, Swarthmore College: "Stones or Pebbles? Rethinking the Meanings of Rural Nationalist Violence in Late Imperial Austria." Cosponsored with the Center for German and European Studies.

February 26, 2004. Lecture. Kenneth Calhoon, comparative literature and German, University of Oregon. "Sublimation and Civilized Value: Dracula's Legacy." Cosponsored with the Humanities Institute and the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

March 1, 2004. Lecture. Eduard Mühle, history, Herder Institute, University of Marburg. "Ordering the East: German Historians' Rationales for German Eastward Expansion in the 1930s and 1940s." Cosponsored with the Center for German and European Studies

March 11, 2004. Lecture. Sieglinde Rosenberger, political science, University of Vienna, and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "More Female Politicians, but Less Equality: Shifts in Austrian Women's Politics since the 1990s."

April 15, 2004. Lecture. Annemarie Steidl, history, University of Salzburg, and visiting postdoctoral fellow, Minnesota Population Center. "Relationships between Continental and Transatlantic Migration in the Late Habsburg Monarchy."

April 22, 2004. Lecture. Manuela Steinberger, art and architecture, University of Graz. "A Visual Nation? Political Ideas in Industrial Design in Germany and Austria in the 1930s." Cosponsored with the Center for German and European Studies

May 6, 2004. Lecture. Gabriele Mras, philosophy, University of Economics, Vienna, and Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota. "'The Rise of Analytic Philosophy—The 'Vienna Circle' and its Critique of Metaphysics."

September 12, 2002. Lecture. Edmund M. Kern, history, Lawrence University. "Quotidian Distinctions: Magic, Gender, and Village Discourse in Styria, 1546-1746."

October 10, 2002. Lecture. Fred Stambrook, history, University of Manitoba. "The Golden Age of the Jews of Bukovina, 1880-1914."

October 24, 2002. Lecture. Lilian Faschinger, Austrian novelist and translator - "Of Sevenfold Mankillers, Gagged Priests, Scheming Mothers and Other Austrian Phenomena: Lilian Faschinger's Novel Magdalena the Sinner."

November 7, 2002. Lecture. Gundolf Graml, German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota. "Denn die Fremden sind ja fremd hier: Tourism and Governmentality in 1950s Austria."

November 21, 2002. Lecture. Hubert Lengauer, German, University of Klagenfurt and Visiting Fulbright Lecturer, University of Minnesota. “Is this a Good Land? Self-Image and Self-Critique in Austrian Culture after the State Treaty."

December 5, 2002. Lecture. Tim Malchow, German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota. "Thomas Bernhard's Early Prose and the Specter of Adalbert Stifter: Politics, National Identity, and the Canon of the Young Austrian Second Republic."

January 30, 2003. Lecture. Harald Stelzer, philosophy, University of Graz. "The Role of Democracy in Karl Popper's Social Philosophy"

February 13, 2003. Lecture. Michel Janssen, physics and history of science, University of Minnesota. "Boltzmann, Loschmidt, and Ehrenfest: Three Viennese Physicists on Entropy and Statistics."

February 27, 2003. Lecture. William D. Bowman, history, Gettysburg College - "Suicide in Freud's Vienna."

February 28, 2003. Lecture. Paul Robert Magocsi, professor of history and holder of the Chair in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. "On the Writing of the History of States and Peoples."

March 13, 2003. Lecture. Matti Bunzl, anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. "From Austrian Victims to European Victors: Viennese Jews at the Turn of the Millennium."

March 25, 2003. Lecture. Marsha L. Rozenblit, history, University of Maryland, College Park. "Jews as Germans? The Dilemmas of Jews in Habsburg Austria."

March 27, 2003. Lecture. Maria E. Reicher, philosophy, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz. "A Pathbreaker in Modern Austrian Philosophy: Value and the Emotions in the Philosophy of Alexius Meinong."

April 10, 2003. Lecture. Alison Frank, history, University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Galician California or Galician Hell? The Austrian Oil Industry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."

April 24, 2003. Lecture. Derek Katz, music, Lawrence University. "Leoš Janáček and the Perils of Musical Patriotism."

May 1, 2003. Lecture. Wolfgang Müller, political science, University of Vienna, Schumpeter Fellow at Harvard University. "Coalition Theory and the Life, Death and Resurrection of the Austrian Center-Right Coalition."

October 1, 2001. Lecture. Hans Winkler, J.D., Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "A Search for Justice: Austria, the Holocaust, and the Issues of Assets Recovery and Forced Labor Compensation."

October 10, 2001. Lecture. Peter Moser, Austrian Ambassador to the US "The EU, Austria and the Impact of the EU on the United States."

November 1, 2001. Lecture. Michael Cherlin, music, University of Minnesota. "Gurrelieder: Arnold Schoenberg's Reluctant Farewell to the 19th Century."

November 8, 2001. Lecture. Patrizia McBride, German, University of Minnesota. "Who Needs Politics? Jörg Haider's Freedom Party and the Concept of the Political."

November 29, 2001. Lecture. Matthew P. Berg, history, John Carroll University. "Surviving Liberation in Post-Nazi Austria: Patronage and Everyday Life in the Social Democratic Milieu."

February 14, 2002. Lecture. Louis Rose, history, Otterbein College. "From Art History to Propaganda Studies: Two Exiled Scholars."

February 21, 2002. Lecture. Stephan Hametner, ethnomusicology, Institute of European Folk Music Research, University of Vienna. "An Introduction to Austrian Folk Music and the Truth about Yodeling."

February 28, 2002. Lecture. Leslie C. Morris, German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota. "Translating Czernowitz: City, Text, Ruin."

March 7, 2002. Lecture. Hansjörg Klausinger, economics, University of Vienna. "The Austrian School of Economics and the Gold Standard Mentality in the 1930s."

March 28, 2002. Lecture. Evelyn Kain, art history, Ripon College. "Stephanie Hollenstein (1886-1944): Expressionist Painter, Fascist Patriot."

April 4, 2002. Lecture. Karl Bahm, history, University of Wisconsin. "Imagined Wombs: Germans, Czechs, and the Gendering of National and Class Identities in 19th-century Bohemia."

April 25, 2002. Lecture. Eve Blau, architectural history, Harvard University. "Encoding Identity and DIfference: Otto Wagner's Grossstadt as Form and Idea."

September 26, 2000. Lecture. Judith Martin, geography, director, Program in Urban Studies, University of Minnesota. "The Entrepreneurial City: Thoughts from the Salzburg Seminar."

October 24, 2000. Lecture. Nicole Slupetzky, history, University of Salzburg, Kommission für die neuere Geschichte Österreichs; Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Fall 2000. "Forced Labor in the Province of Salzburg During the Nazi Regime."

November 2, 2000. Lecture. Heinz Slupetzky, geography, University of Salzburg. "The Austrian Alps Without Glaciers? Natural Climatic Changes vs Global Warming."

November 15, 2000. Lecture. Helmut Konrad, history, University of Graz. "Austria and Germany: A Complex Neighborly Relationship."

December 7, 2000. Lecture. Heinz Slupetzky, geography, University of Salzburg. "The Splendor of Snow, Glaciers, and Mountains: Photographic Highlights by a Passionate Photographer from Austria."

February 8, 2001. Lecture. Richard McCormick, German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota. "From Europe to Hollywood and Back: Austrian-born Filmmakers Before, During, and After Exile."

February 15, 2001. Lecture. Leo Riegert, German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota. "Assimilated Jewish Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Austria: The Case of Karl Emil Franzos."

March 8, 2001. Lecture. Eric Hollas, director, Hill Monastic Library, St. John's University. "Austrian Monasteries and the Hill Monastic Manuscripts Library."

March 15, 2001. Lecture. Rosemarie Lester, German studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "An Austrian in Wisconsin, 1856-1860: The Impressions of Franz Hölzhuber."

April 17, 2001. Lecture. Reinhard Neck, economics, University of Klagenfurt; Visiting Professor, Stanford University. "The Growth of the Public Sector in Austria."

September 27, 1999. Lecture. Raul F. Kneucker, Director General, Scientific Research and International Affairs, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Transport. "European Integration: Science and Technology and More Incredible Stories."

October 13, 1999. Lecture. Sarah Kent, history, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. "Franz Joseph in Zagreb in 1895: The Failure of Official Nationality."

October 27, 1999. Lecture. Jürgen Koppensteiner, German studies, University of Northern Iowa and Austrian American Council. "Images of America in Austrian Literature."

December 9, 1999. Lecture. Thomas Emmert, history, Gustavus Adolphus College. "Broken Dreams: Serbia at the End of the Century." Cosponsored with the Institute for Global Studies.

February 3, 2000. Lecture. Matthew Lungerhausen, history, University of Minnesota. "Photography in the fin-de-siécle Austrian-Hungarian-Monarchy: The Case of Hungary."

February 16, 2000. Roundtable discussion. David F. Good, history; Eric Weitz, history; Thomas Wolfe, history; W. Phillips Shiveley, political science; and Helga Leitner, geography; all University of Minnesota. "Austria and the Haider Phenomenon: Democracy, National Identity, and the European Union." Cosponsored with the Center for German and European Studies

February 17, 2000. Lecture. David Buch, music history, University of Northern Iowa. "New Mozart Attributions in the Fairy-tale Singspiel 'Der Stein der Weisen' (Vienna, 1790)."

March 17, 2000. Lecture. Gerhard Orosel, economics, University of Vienna, and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Corporate Vote Trading as an Instrument of Corporate Governance."

April 17, 2000. Reading. Anna Mitgutsch, Austrian author. Reading from her latest novel, Haus der Kindheit (in German). Cosponsored with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch and the Austrian Cultural Institute, New York.

April 27, 2000. Lecture and reading. Wolff A. Greinert, author and critic, "Der Zeit am Wort den Puls zu fühlen: Der Kritiker Piero Rismondo als Zeitzeuge des österreichischen Theaters im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert." Cosponsored with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch and The Austrian Cultural Institute, New York

May 3, 2000. Lecture. Stefan Schmitz, economics, Vienna University of Business and Economics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Rudolf Sallinger Fellow at the University of Minnesota, Department of Economics. "The Global Information Society and the Transformation of Statism: The Case of Austria."

September 27, 1998. Lecture. Paul Polansky, Czech Historical Research Center, Prague and Spillville, Iowa. "Excavating the Roman Holocaust. New Research from the Czech Republic on the Destruction of the Gypsies." Cosponsored with the University of Minnesota Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

November 11, 1998. Lecture. His Excellency Helmut Türk, Austrian Ambassador to the United States. "Austria in the New Europe." Cosponsored with the Department of Political Science and The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute's Freeman Center for International Economic Policy and Stassen Center for International Affairs

November 23, 1998. Lecture. Friedrich Stadler, philosophy, Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Vienna; Vienna Circle Institute; and Visiting Fellow at the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science. "The Case of the Vienna Circle." Cosponsored with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science

January 29, 1999. Lecture. Sonja Kuftinec, theatre, University of Minnesota. "Bosnia: Border Crossings: Creating Theater With Youth in Former Yugoslavia." Cosponsored with the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance

February 18, 1999. Lecture. Patrizia McBride, German, University of Minnesota. "Our Problems Are Not Modern: Robert Musil on National Socialism" Cosponsored with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

March 4, 1999. Lecture. Winifred M. Griffin, German, University of Minnesota. "Elfriede Jelinek: National Identification and Ideology Critique." Cosponsored with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

April 8, 1999. Lecture. Stefan Güldenberg, management, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Building a Learning Organization in the Knowledge Age." Cosponsored with the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management

April 28, 1999. Lecture. Reinhold Wagnleitner, history, University of Salzburg. "The Empire of Fun or Talking Soviet Union Blues: The Sound of Freedom and American Cultural Hegemony in Europe During the Cold War." Cosponsored with the Program in American Studies and the Department of History

May 11, 1999. Lecture. Franz Szabo, history; director of the Canadian Center for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Canada. "New Perspectives on Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze."

September 2, 1997. Reading. Christine Haidegger, author and poet, reading from her novel Amerikanische Verwunderung. Cosponsored with the CAS, presented by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

October 9, 1997. Lecture. Zoltan Kovac, history, Central European University, Budapest; Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC. "'Mercenary Bloodsucker' or Natural Ally? British Foreign Policy Towards the Habsburg Monarchy in the Eighteenth Century." Cosponsored with the Department of History and the Center for Early Modern History

October 13, 1997. Lecture. Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider and Winfried R. Garscha, history, Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes. "Justice and Nazi War Crimes in Austria: The Second Austrian Republic and the Sequels of the Nazi Dictatorship." Cosponsored with the ACI

November 13, 1997. Lecture. András Gerö, history, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and Professor of History at the Central European University, Budapest. "Contradictions of the Newborn Democracies in Central Europe: The Heritage of the Past." Cosponsored with the Department of Political Science

November 17, 1997. Lecture. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, English and American studies, University of Vienna. "American Views of Austria from the Biedermeier Era to the 1930s."

December 4, 1997. Lecture. Kurt R. Fischer, philosophy, University of Vienna. "Philosophy in Austria (and the United States) since 1945." Cosponsored with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science

January 29, 1998. Lecture. Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann, history, Johannes Kepler University-Linz. "Business Women in the Late Habsburg Monarchy."

February 26, 1998. Lecture. T. Mills Kelly, history, Grinnell College. "Without Remorse: Czech National Socialism and the Habsburg State."

April 21, 1998. Lecture. Prof. Adi Wimmer, English, University of Graz. "The Lesser Traumatized: Strangers at Home and Abroad. Memories and Oral Testimonies of Exiled Austrian Jews." Cosponsored with the ACI, the Department of English, and the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

April 27, 1998. Lecture. Gerda Neyer, Institute For demography, University of Vienna, and Austrian Visiting Professor at Stanford. "Gender and the Austrian Welfare State: A Case Study." Cosponsored with the ACI

April 30, 1998. Lecture. Monika Albrecht, editor of Ingeborg Bachmann's Critical Edition "Todesarten"-Projekt, Münster, Germany. “It is yet to be written": Colonization and Magical World View in Ingeborg Bachmann's Fragment of a Novel "Das Buch Franza." Cosponsored with the ACI and the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

May 14, 1998. Lecture. Michael Landesmann, economics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "The Shape of the 'New Europe': Perspectives on East-West European Integration." Cosponsored with the ACI and the Department of Political Science

November 18, 1996. Lecture. Gitta Honegger, theatre history, Catholic University of Washington DC. "Modern Austrian Theater: Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek." Cosponsored with the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

February 20, 1997. Lecture. Christopher Long, architectural history, University of Texas, Austin. "Continuity, Compromise, Concession: Modern Architecture in Vienna Between the Wars."

April 3, 1997. Lecture. Siegfried Beer, history, University of Graz, and Schumpeter Fellow, Harvard University. "Target Central Europe: Anglo-American Intelligence Efforts Regarding Nazi and Early Postwar Austria." Cosponsored with the ACI

May 1, 1997. Lecture. Erna M. Appelt, political science, University of Innsbruck, and Visiting Professor, University of New Orleans. "Women in the Changing European Welfare States." Cosponsored with the ACI and the Dept. of Political Science

May 8, 1997. Lecture. Helga Embacher, history, University of Salzburg, and Visiting Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Minnesota. "Jews in Austria after World War II."

May 15, 1997. Lecture. Anton Pelinka, political science, University of Innsbruck, Visiting Professor, Stanford University. "The De-Austrification of Austria: Changes in Austria's Political Culture." Cosponsored with the ACI and the Dept. of Political Science

May 22, 1997. Lecture. Barbara Boomgaarden, history, Kommission für neure Geschichte Österreichs, University of Salzburg. "Sixty Years of Austrian Cultural Influence in the United States: A Survey."