The 100th anniversary of the Sarajevo murders will see a major international conference at the University of Southampton (UK).
"SARAJEVO 1914: SPARK AND IMPACT".
This conference will explore the roots and repercussions of 'Sarajevo 1914' in the context of the Habsburg monarchy's South Slav Question.
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EARLY MODERN HISTORY AND PERIOD STUDIES
Claremont McKenna College - Visiting Professor of European History
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Acting College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean Raymond Duvall has appointed Howard Louthan, professor of history at the University of Florida, as the next permanent faculty director of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his appointment as CAS director, Louthan will be a full professor in the university’s Department of History.
CFP: People & Things on the Move: Migration and Material Culture
Women Chroniclers and Historians in the Renaissance
Renaissance women, most of them nuns, wrote histories and memoirs. This panel will explore convent chronicles and other forms of historical writing by women during the Renaissance and Early Modern Period. In particular we hope to highlight women whose chronicles and histories pre-date the Reformation.
Please send proposals (150-word abstracts), along with brief narrative CVs, to Kathleen Comerford, kcomerfo@georgiasouthern.edu, by May 16, 2014.
E i n l a d u n g zum S y m p o s i o n
Bewältigte Vergangenheit?
Die nationale und internationale Historiographie
zum Untergang der Habsburgermonarchie
7./8. Mai 2014: Stiftskaserne, Stiftsgasse 2A, 1070 Wien
9. Mai 2014: ÖAW, Theatersaal, Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Wien
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The journal East European Politics & Societies and Cultures has just announced The Michael Henry Heim Translation Prize: full details below. Please
consider submitting a translation, and free to share the call for submissions with anyone who might be interested.
Wendy Bracewell
Co-Editor | East European Politics & Societies and Cultures
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The MICHAEL HEIM TRANSLATION PRIZE will be awarded for the first time in 2014, and annually thereafter, for the best collegial translation of a
James Martin Skidmore, Gabriele Mueller, eds. Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Film and Media Studies Series. Waterloo Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. ix + 302 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-55458-225-9.
Peter Tscherkassky, ed. Film Unframed: A History of Austrian
Avant-Garde Cinema. Austrian Film Music Books Series. New York
Columbia University Press, 2012. 368 pp. $38.50 (cloth), ISBN
978-3-901644-42-9.
Andrew Barker. Fictions from an Orphan State: Literary Reflections of Austria between Habsburg and Hitler. Rochester Camden House, 2012.
205 pp. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57113-531-5.
Reviewed by Andreas Lixl (University of North Carolina - Greensboro)
Published on H-German (April, 2014)
Commissioned by Chad Ross
Beyond Berlin and Weimar: Austrian Literature 1918-1938
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