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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · 3d

Please join us and the Center for Premodern Studies to welcome Professor Helmut Reimitz for the upcoming Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture at noon on Oct. 17th (10/7).
Please RSVP using the QR code or link!

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · 7d

Remember to check out this event if you’re in New Prague tomorrow!

Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · 12d

Our friends down in New Prague at the Czech & Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota have a super intriguing event coming up next week. Make sure to check it out!!
More info at www.cs-center.org

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 8d

Rarely seen photos that painstakingly document the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 serve as a reminder of the limitations of authoritarian solutions.

The Day the Soviets Arrived to Crush the Prague Spring, in Rarely Seen Photos

The photographs show the shock and grief of ordinary Prague citizens, as well as residents’ efforts to impede and obstruct the plans of occupying troops.

www.newyorker.com

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · 12d

The UMN Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch is hosting an event this coming Tuesday (09/30)
Make sure to check it out!

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · 12d

The UMN Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch is hosting an event this coming Tuesday (09/30)
Make sure to check it out!

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · 12d

Our friends down in New Prague at the Czech & Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota have a super intriguing event coming up next week. Make sure to check it out!!
More info at www.cs-center.org

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 14d

Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 14d

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner

Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.

www.the-berliner.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21d

‘He should be known as a film music revolutionary’: revitalising the legacy of Czech composer Zdeněk Liška

The electroacoustic pioneer scored dozens of pictures – and communist propaganda. Too successful to be persecuted by the politburo but largely forgotten when he died, his music is being revived by a new archival series

www.theguardian.com

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · 21d

This year's lecture will be given by Professor Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University). The lecture will take place in person in Heller Hall 1210, and on Zoom, at 12:00 noon CDT.

For more details and to R.S.V.P., please go to: z.umn.edu/ReimitzKann

How the East was Lost: Triumphal Rulership, and the Failure of Integration in Carolingian Central Europe

Join the Centers for Austrian Studies and Premodern Studies for the annual Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture with Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University)

z.umn.edu

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · 21d

We are one month away from this year's Kann Lecture co-organized with @umnpremodern.bsky.social, "How the East was Lost: Triumphal Rulership and the Failure of Integration in Carolingian Central Europe."

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IWM Vienna @iwm.at · 26d

Spain’s 20th century was shaped by one man in particular: dictator Francisco Franco (1892–1975). Why does his legacy remain so hard to confront?

➡️ Join @casanovahistory.bsky.social from @unizar.es and Judit Carrera at this year's #VHF to learn more: www.humanitiesfestival.at/casanova

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please join us and the @umnpremodern.bsky.social for our annual Kann Lecture on October 17th (in person and via Zoom): cla.umn.edu/austrian/new...

This year's Kann Lecture will be given by Professor Helmut Reimitz (Princeton). More details can be found below.

How the East was Lost: Triumphal Rulership, and the Failure of Integration in Carolingian Central Europe

Join the Centers for Austrian Studies and Premodern Studies for the annual Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture with Helmut Reimitz (Princeton University)

cla.umn.edu

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 27

How did a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery hand absolute power over to Hitler, someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following?

The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers

The Nazi leader didn’t seize power; he was given it.

www.newyorker.com

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · Aug 22

In other wonderful publishing news: Rex Levang, former Classical Music Director at Minnesota Public Radio, has translated Theodor Fontane's "Count Petöfy" into English. More details on the translation (appearing with Camden House) can be found here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/count-p...

Count Petöfy

First English translation of an unjustly overlooked novel by the great German realist novelist Theodor Fontane.

boydellandbrewer.com

Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · Aug 22

Edited by Günter Bischof and Michael Burri, the volume is one of several outcomes stemming from a conference held at the University of Minnesota in 2023 on Kreisky, who was also instrumental in the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies in 1977.

Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Bruno Kreisky's Foreign Policy: A Reassessment" has been published with Berghahn Books as part of our Center's Austrian and Habsburg Studies book series:
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Bischo...

Bruno Kreisky’s Foreign Policy: A Reassessment | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

www.berghahnbooks.com

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · Aug 22

From our colleague in the Department of History, David M. Perry

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Aug 22

“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”

Opinion | Concentration camps are not just part of our past, but our present and future

From David M. Perry: From Minnesota’s Fort Snelling to Japanese internment camps to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, these camps have become an American tradition.

www.startribune.com

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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social · Aug 20

Join us Sept 17 for a timely webinar on Birthright Citizenship and learn from the experts @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @skantrow.bsky.social @cnacken1.bsky.social William Jones and Cecilia Marquez. Register z.umn.edu/BirthrightCitizen

@umn-amst.bsky.social @umnlawschool.bsky.social

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Salon.com @salon.com · Aug 1

“Genocide prevention is not about trials after the fact. It’s about political leadership at the moment of crisis. And in Bosnia, the world failed that test.”

For survivors of the Bosnian genocide, the war has never ended

Thirty years later,

www.salon.com

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · Jul 29

"The longlist features authors representing four continents and nine countries: Albania, Canada, Hungary, India, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, the UK and USA."

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Jul 29

From fresh voices to Booker Prize alumni, here's everything you need to know about this year's longlist.

thebookerprizes.com/everything-y...

Everything you need to know about the Booker Prize 2025 longlist | The Booker Prizes

From a vast range of global experiences to books brimming with long-held secrets, from fresh voices to Booker Prize alumni, here’s the lowdown on this year’s longlist

thebookerprizes.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 29

Wondering how to respond to partisan & right-wing Freedom of Information requests at your university?

Look no further! The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has a resource just for you—check out their action report & guidelines here⬇️

www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · Jul 23

David Pressman, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary from 2022 to 2025 issues a dire warning:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

www.nytimes.com

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Center for Austrian Studies - University of Minnesota @cas-umn.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Bernhard Weidinger @bweidin.bsky.social · Jul 23

Wichtiger Etappensieg für das @doew.at.
@akranebit.bsky.social: „Die Definition von Rechtsextremismus ist nicht Sache der Beobachteten. Nur weil unsere wissenschaftliche Expertise manchen nicht gefällt, können und müssen wir uns Schmähungen [...] nicht gefallen lassen.“
www.ots.at/presseaussen...

Auszug aus der Presseaussendung des DÖW vom 23.7.2025: " DÖW gewinnt Klage gegen FPÖ-Landesparteisekretär Gruber

Handelsgericht Wien stellt fest: DÖW arbeitet nach wissenschaftlichen Grundsätzen
Wien (OTS) -

Das Handelsgericht Wien hat dem Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) in einer Auseinandersetzung mit dem oberösterreichischen FPÖ-Landesparteisekretär Michael Gruber Recht gegeben. Dieser muss unwahre kreditschädigende Behauptungen über das DÖW widerrufen und unterlassen."

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