Center for Austrian Studies

02/24/2025

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12/18/2024

The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies recently spoke with Judith Eiblmayr, who was the UMN Visiting Fulbright Professor from Austria in 2015-16. Eiblmayr discussed the life and work of the famed architect, Elizabeth Scheu-Close, who was born in Vienna and spent much of her professional career in Minneapolis.

In this episode, we are joined by Judith Eiblmayr, a distinguished Austrian architect and insightful writer on the history and evolution of architecture.Our conversation highlights the extraordinary life and legacy of Elizabeth Scheu-Close, a trailblazing Austrian-American architect. Born in 1912 Vi...

10/22/2024

Pardon the typo, but for those interested: on Monday, October 28th (NOT Tuesday, 10/29), Günter Bischof (Professor of History, Emeritus and Former Director, Center Austria) will be giving a talk on the fall of the Berlin Wall via Zoom.

10/16/2024

After a multi-year hiatus following the pandemic and subsequent staffing changes at the Center, a new issue of the Austrian Studies Newsmagazine (ASN) is now available in a digital-only format.

09/09/2024

Please join our colleagues in Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch, University of Minnesota on September 13th for a hybrid event with author Hadija Haruna-Oelker, who will discuss her book, "The Beauty of Difference."

Hadija Haruna-Oelker (she/her), prize-winning German author, journalist, and podcaster, will discuss her book "The Beauty of Difference"

08/19/2024

As CAS returns to its regular programming and posting in preparation for the upcoming academic year, we are pleased to announce details for our annual Kann Lecture, to be held on September 26th at 11:30 A.M. (Central Time).

This year's speaker is Hillel J. Kieval (Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis).

Further details for the HYBRID talk can be found on our website or via the graphic below.

Please R.S.V.P. for this hybrid event: https://z.umn.edu/2024Kann

07/12/2024

The Museum of Russian Art in South Minneapolis will be holding an event with Dr. Oleksandr Komarenko (Visiting Professor of History at the University of Minnesota) next week.

Details here:https://tmora.org/event/dr-oleksandr-komarenko-the-russian-ukrainian-ongoing-war-roots-causes-stages-prospects/

06/18/2024

From last week: Austrian newspaper Die Presse featured Therese Garstenauer (2023-24 Fulbright Visiting Professor from Austria at the University of Minnesota) and her research on Austrian civil servants during the final years of the Habsburg Monarchy and into the First Austrian Republic

Therese Garstenauer erforschte an der University of Minnesota die Sozialgeschichte des öffentlichen Dienstes in Österreich.

05/10/2024

CAS recommends an exciting new publication from University of Chicago Press: Katya Motyl's "Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894-1934."

"Embodied Histories" explores the radical transformation of gender and sexuality that took place in Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It does so by considering the figure of the New Woman.

The book shows that while most people did not overtly identify as New Women, many of them took part in everyday, bodily practices––what Motyl refers to as the "practices of new womanhood"–– that subverted conventional femininity.

Set in modernizing Vienna from the fin de siècle to the interwar period, the book traces the embodied histories of these practices and how they came to transform what it meant to be a woman for years to come. In this way, the book reveals that changes in gender and sexuality not only occur from the top-down, but also from the bottom-up, and significantly, from the body-up.

An interdisciplinary work of scholarship, "Embodied Histories" draws on the more recent material turn in history, as well as on the paradigm shift in feminist history and theory that considers gender as lived and embodied and rethinks the body as endowed with its own agency. It further engages in historical imagination, the method of informed, research-based speculation, to bring some of the everyday embodied practices of new womanhood to life.

If you would like to purchase a copy (or encourage your library to do so), please see this link: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo212070473.html

For a 30% discount, use the code UCPNEW at checkout!

04/22/2024

THIS FRIDAY: Workshop and discussion with Prof. Therese Garstenauer (University of Vienna; UMN Fulbright Visiting Professor)!

Please join WCHWGS (Workshop for the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality) and the Center for Austrian Studies this Friday (April 26th) from 3:30-5:00p in Heller Hall 1229 for a discussion of a working paper written by Professor Garstenauer. The title:

"What kind of careers did women in (post-)Habsburg government employment have?"

If you plan to join the discussion, please email [email protected] and [email protected] for a copy of the working paper, as well as access information to Heller Hall.