Center for Austrian Studies

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/

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

Das Beamtentum im Wandel der Zeit Therese Garstenauer erforschte an der University of Minnesota die Sozialgeschichte des öffentlichen Dienstes in Österreich.

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!

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.

CALL FOR PAPERS! The University of Minnesota's Center for Austrian Studies invites abstracts (up to 250 words) for individual papers or sessions for the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference's annual meeting to be convened in Toronto October 31-November 2, 2024.

Papers are encouraged from across the disciplines that focus on Central Europe, broadly conceived to include all of the German-speaking lands, Poland, as well as all the areas historically connected with the Habsburg Monarchy. The deadline for abstracts is APRIL 22.

Find more information here:

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Due to unfortunate circumstances, this week's events with Dr. Carlos Eire have been canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience and look forward to seeing you at future CAS events!

This Thursday, Anselm House will be welcoming the distinguished Dr. Carlos Eire from Yale University to give a lecture on... flying friars?! Drawing from his recent book "They Flew: A History of the Impossible", Dr. Eire will explore accounts of miracles from early modern history, suggesting a new way of encountering the impossible within history. Lecture at McNamara Alumni Center, starting at 7:00 p.m. Check our website for full details: anselmhouse.org/impossible

Check out this upcoming conference on philosophy and political theory in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth! This is the final conference of the project "Polonica Philosophica Orientalia," headed by Dr. Steffen Huber of Uniwersytet Jagielloński.

The conference will be held in Vilnius from 1 to 4 July, 2024. Applications can be sent to [email protected] by 15 March!

Next Thursday!

We are looking forward to Dr. Adair Rounthwaite's (PhD '13) talk next week. She is a professor at the University of Washington-Seattle and will be speaking about her new book., This Is Not My World. This event is organized by Center for Austrian Studies.

https://cla.umn.edu/austrian/news-events/events/not-my-world-art-and-public-space-socialist-zagreb

The CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2024 International Comenius Conference (Naarden/Amsterdam, 14-16 November 2024) is open until February 29! Topics may include, but are not limited to, educational theory, Comenius's religious ideas, his anthropology, his cosmology, and his educational legacy.

Call for Papers | Comenius Museum Call for papers voor wetenschappelijke conferentie 14 tot 16 november Naarden en Comenius Museum.

TWO film showings at The Main Cinema are coming up that may be of interest to CAS followers!

First, Oscar-nominated film "THE ZONE OF INTEREST" is now showing. The film depicts the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife, Hedwig, as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. TOMORROW, February 10, at 11am, Sheer Ganor, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, will be sharing her expertise on German-Jewish history, the Holocaust, and historical memory at the Cinema Club screening.

Tickets for "THE ZONE OF INTEREST": https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=846230~163a5c15-c3ae-4635-ba12-bbe995cbeb29&epguid=603c9bfe-0dda-4adc-b900-cca91026a983

Second, from February 15-18, rare archival films from around the world will be showing in Minneapolis, presented by Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour (https://mspfilm.org/2024-il-cinema-ritrovato-on-tour/). On Saturday, February 17, at 2pm, watch "PETER," a 1934 German-language exile comedy. A narrowly escapist comedy, "Peter" features the work of several Jewish artists banned from German screens.

Tickets for "PETER": https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=839735~163a5c15-c3ae-4635-ba12-bbe995cbeb29&epguid=603c9bfe-0dda-4adc-b900-cca91026a983

Don't miss the opportunity to see these thought-provoking films right here in Minneapolis!