🎉 Congratulations to CEU’s Robyn Dora Radway (CEU Department of Historical Studies @historicalstudies.bsky.social) for winning the 2025 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize for her monograph Portraits of Empires! 📚 Read more: cla.umn.edu/austrian/new...

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.

The 56th edition of the Austrian History Yearbook has officially been published! For now you can read its 10 research articles and 58 book reviews online while we eagerly anticipate the journal's physical publication. #History #AcademicSky #Austria #Vienna #Europe www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wie heißt es so schön, in eigener Sache: Ich habe gerade die Druchfahnen meines neuen Buches durchgesehen. Es wird Anfang September bei Böhlau erscheinen und stellt den Abschluss meines "Trümmerfrauen"-Projekts dar:

The 2026 Austrian Studies Association Conference will take place in Salzburg, and the call for proposals has just been announced: www.austrian-studies.org/conference/c...

In a review essay for our upcoming AHY, Minnesota's JB Shank reviews Martin Mulsow's latest English-language contribution to his large-scale project to reconceptualize historical perspectives on Europe's Enlightenment. Check it out on FirstView! #History #Enlightenment #AHY tinyurl.com/Shank-Mulsow

A popular joke about an imagined inhabitant of #CentralEurope hinges on their ambivalence to the shifting national boundaries around them. Born in Hungary, apprenticed in Czechoslovakia, fought in Hungary, became a Soviet citizen, and settled in Ukraine, all while never leaving their home town.

Žiga Oman's article in the forthcoming AHY adds to increasing historical attention on emotions and formalized violence in early modern Europe. #History #Emotion #Austria #AcademicSky #Violence #AHY www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

really delighted by this excellent review of my book on the Italian Empire & the Great War in the Austrian History Yearbook: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... many thanks to @stergarr.bsky.social for kindly bringing it to my attention

The idea of Austrian "Trümmerfrauen" and their sacrifices reconstructing post-WWII Vienna has provided a positive reconstruction myth and opportunities to valorize the suffering of former National Socialists as themselves victimized. But who actually cleared the rubble from postwar Vienna? #History

In The Last Peasant War, Jakub S. Beneš presents a history of the largely forgotten peasant revolution that swept central and eastern Europe after World War I—and how it changed the course of interwar politics and World War II. Out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Our first 2025 article is now available to read on FirstView! Pavel Soukup explores the construction and deployment of sermons promoting the anti-Hussite crusade in 1467. The article shows how religious leaders integrated calls to crusade into their pastoral duties. #History tinyurl.com/AHY-Soukup

In preparation for the online publication of new AHY articles to be featured in our upcoming 2025 edition, revisit #AHY2024 Explore gendered perspectives on dynastic politics, new approaches to pre-modern violence, and innovative work on food and migration crises! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...