The Center for Austrian Studies

2005-06 Annual Report the 2005-06 staff

Director: Gary B. Cohen, professor of history, University of Minnesota. Education: B.A., University of Southern California, 1970; M.A., Princeton University, 1972; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1975. He was a historian at the University of Oklahoma from 1976 to 2001 prior to taking the CAS directorship in August 2001. His publications include two books, The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (1981), and Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918 (1996). In addition to serving as director, he is executive editor of the AHY and the CAS book series.

Acting Director: David F. Good, professor of history and director of the Center from 1990-96, served as interim director for spring semester 2006 while Gary B. Cohen was Front row, left to right: Daniel Pinkerton, Linda Andrean, Nicole Phelps. Back row, left to on sabbatical. In additon to his regular duties, Good right: Gary B. Cohen, Annett Richter, Silke Stern, David F. Good. Not pictured: Arnold Lelis enlisted the advisory board’s aid in creating a draft and Jules Gehrke. (photo by Sabine Engel) document that will serve as the Center’s blueprint for the future. Editor: Administrative Manager: Daniel Pinkerton, M.F.A. in playwriting, Linda Andrean, B.A. in Anthropology and History, contents M.A. in European history, has worked at B.S. in Secondary Education, came to the CAS in Staff 2 the Center since 1990. He has edited the June 2004 after twenty years of service in the U the Austrian Studies Newsletter since January of MN Academic Health Center, including work The Director’s View 3 1992 and the Annual Report since 1991. He for the Cancer Protocol Review Committee, the Publications 5 also assists the director in special projects Medical School, and the School of Public Health. such as writing grants, website design, and At CAS, she oversees the Center’s administrative Events 8 preparing graphics for AHY. and financial affairs, and is involved with program Faculty 10 planning, fundraising, and student and community Student Support 12 outreach. Research Partners 13 Student Staff: Support & Collaboration 14 Jules Gehrke, a Ph.D. candidate in British history, took over as website editor when Arnold Lelis departed, was involved in the CAS website redesign, and began work on the forthcoming Making a Gift 15 Center volume based on the “Baroque Cities” conference. BMBWK Assistantship 16 Arnold Lelis, a Ph.D. candidate in medieval European history, was editor of the CAS website, editorial assistant for the volume The Enivronment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe and the Austrian Studies Newsletter. In January, he took a position as visiting assistant professor at the University of Hawaii, Hilo. Nicole Phelps, a Ph.D. candidate in Habsburg history, was assistant editor of the Austrian History Yearbook and editorial assistant for the Austrian Studies Newsletter. Annett Richter, a native of Halle, Germany, and a Ph.D. candidate in musicology, coordinated the fall conference, was an assistant editor for the Austrian Studies Newsletter, and was assistant book review editor of the Austrian History Yearbook. Silke Stern, CAS/BMBWK Research Fellow, was funded by Austria’s Federal Ministry for Education, Science, and Culture, and is a Ph.D. candidate in history. She coordinated the lecture series, the ACF competitions, and, with Linda Andrean, the Austrian student events.

the director’s view

The Center for Austrian Studies faces a great challenge each year in constructing fresh, innovative programs that will showcase new research in Austrian and Central European studies and finding ways to support education in this field, while continuing successful activities from previous years. All this must be carried out within tight budgetary constraints. The difficult financial situation we expect for the next three or four years obliges CAS to be as innovative as possible in the content of our programs, while finding ever more creative ways to execute them. The market value of the CAS endowment fell dramatically with the broader decline in U.S. equities between mid 2001 and early 2003, but recovered much of its lost ground by spring 2006. In the meantime, the University of Minnesota Regents have adopted more con- servative endowment policies including a new income formula, so that the yield of the CAS endowment will remain near its low ebb for several more years. The Center must increase its efforts to secure grants for new ventures and to attract substantial contributions to support programs, fellowships, and basic operations.

The year that was By any fair measure, the Center’s programming during 2005-06 was remarkable in its range and variety. CAS was eager to diversify its public events, and during the past year we sponsored, in addition to our on-campus lectures, a chamber music concert and Lieder recital in St. Paul and an evening short story reading by a major Austrian writer, Josef Haslinger. The noted historian of Austrian Galicia and modern Ukraine, John-Paul Himka, gave the annual Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture in September 2005, as well as a histrical lecture at a local Ukrainian Orthodox church. In late October, CAS, aided by a number of other units at the University of Minnesota, mounted a moving Sunday afternoon public presentation of readings, artworks, and music focusing on the lessons of survival and forgiveness offered by Holocaust survivor and revered emeritus professor of pediatrics at the university, Dr. Robert O. Fisch. A unique evening event in late April with Horst Rechelbacher, nutritional products entrepreneur, art collector, continuing exchange of professors and graduate teach- and ecological activist, drew a large and appreciative Twin Cities audience. ing assistants with various Austrian universities enriches CAS continued to advance scholarship by engaging in research collaborations wherever pos- instruction in many departments on the Twin Cities cam- sible. We cosponsored an international conference in Minneapolis in April 2006 with the Wirth pus. Each year since 2002, a visiting Austrian Fulbright Institute of Austrian and Central European Studies in Alberta, and we will join our Canadian professor has come with sponsorship from the Austrian- colleagues for the second part of that program in Edmonton in September. Together with the American Fulbright Commission, the College of Liberal Minnesota Center for German and European Studies and the Immigration History Research Arts, and CAS. In fall 2005, Gilg Seeber from Innsbruck Center, CAS also hosted a research workshop in April 2006. taught in political science. During the 2005-06 academic CAS contributes in important ways to teaching students at the University of Minnesota. Our year, Sari Fordham, a Minnesota graduate student in Eng- lish, taught American English for a semester in Salzburg, while Tina Weiden from the University of Salzburg taught OUR mission German on the Twin Cities campus. With assistance from CLA, its new Institute for Advanced Study, and the The Center for Austrian Studies Department of Political Science, CAS welcomed the emi- • serves as a focal point in the United States for the study of Austria nent political scientist Peter Gerlich from the University and the Central European lands with a common Habsburg heritage of Vienna for 2005-06 after hurricane Katrina interrupted across disciplines in the humanities, the social sciences, the applied his residency at the University of New Orleans. With help sciences, and the fine arts; from the University of Minnesota’s international services • analyzes Austrian perspectives as a powerful tool for understanding and the Carlson School of Management, CAS also wel- the new Europe in the age of the European Union; comed two exchange students from the University of Inns- bruck who had intended to study in New Orleans. • connects scholars, students, and an international community to The Center for Austrian Studies is particularly proud resources in Austria, Central Europe, the EU, and Minnesota; of its scholarly publication activity, which continued to • reaches out to a local, national, and international community of grow last year. Article submissions to the Austrian History educated nonacademics, bringing an awareness of Austria and the new Yearbook remain strong, thanks in great part to its editors’ Europe and its relevance to American life. acumen. During this last academic year, Charles Ingrao of The Center pursues its mission through a variety of activities that promote Purdue University completed nearly a decade of outstand- research, education, and training in the field and by serving as an ing service as article editor. Pieter Judson of Swarthmore international clearinghouse for information and scholarship. College has succeeded him. Also in the past year, Daniel please turn to page 4 the director’s view from page 3

Unowsky of the University of Memphis succeeded Our administrative manager Linda Andrean LOOKING AHEAD Catherine Albrecht of the University of Balti- kept the Center running smoothly despite our In the next few years we look forward to more as book review editor for the Yearbook. hectic schedule and reduced budget. She managed increasing the Center’s outreach to the Minnesota A new volume, The Environment and Sustain‑ program logistics, financial reports, and personnel community as well as to a broader national and able Development in the New Central Europe, edited matters. She convened our group of Austrian and international audience. Programmatically, we want by Zbigniew Bochniarz and Gary B. Cohen, Central European exchange students in the fall to give increased attention to migration from Aus- appeared in June 2006 in the book series Austrian and helped organize their activities. She developed tria and the neighboring Central European coun- and Habsburg Studies, which Berghahn Books new outreach and fundraising initiatives for CAS, tries to the United States and to the experience publishes in association with CAS (see p. 7). conceived the idea for “Dear Dr. Fisch,” and did and contributions of those immigrants in the US As director of CAS, I also serve as associate heroic work in planning, organizing, and rehears- over the last century and a half. The Center also editor of the series Central European Studies, ing the event (see p. 9). expects to focus in the next two years on studies published by Purdue University Press. In autumn The CAS editor and website coordinator, of the changes in public services and public policy 2005, Daniel Unowsky’s The Pomp and Politics of Daniel Pinkerton, continued his work of many occurring with the increasing integration of small Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg, Aus‑ years in producing a range of attractive brochures, European states such as Austria in a new united tria, 1848‑1916 was published. In early 2006, my pamphlets, and announcements for all CAS pro- Europe—trends some call “the end of the welfare own The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in grams as well as two highly informative issues of state. “ Prague, 1861‑1914, came out in a revised second the Austrian Studies Newsletter. In her final year as For all that the Center has accomplished in this edition. assistant editor of the Austrian History Yearbook, past year, I am profoundly grateful to the members Nicole Phelps brought marvelous skill and effi- of its staff as well as to the faculty and adminis- how do we do it ALL? ciency to the tasks of working with authors, copy- trative colleagues in the CAS Advisory Commit- It is a great tribute to the skill, energy, and dedi- editing, and formatting all the copy. Annett Rich- tee, the College of Liberal Arts, and other parts of cation of the Center’s staff that they executed such ter displayed great dedication in doing the logisti- the University of Minnesota; to our friends in the a wide range of programs this past year with suc- cal work to prepare the “Religion and Authority“ Twin Cities community; and to colleagues in Aus- cess and aplomb. Special gratitude is due my faculty conference and in taking on some of Nicole Phelps’ tria, elsewhere in the United States, and around colleague and former CAS director, David Good, AHY duties before succeeding her. Arnold Lelis the world who have contributed their talents, who graciously agreed to return as interim director and Jules Gehrke dispatched important tasks efforts, and support. I trust that I can count on during spring 2006 while I was on sabbatical leave. in helping edit the Center’s working papers and their help in the future. David devoted much care and effort to the Center, volumes of essays, and tended the CAS website. going far beyond serving as an interim placeholder. Our doctoral fellow from Austria, Silke Stern, He initiated several important projects, including CAS/BMBWK Research Assistant, coordinated the event with Horst Rechelbacher. the CAS lecture series and the Austrian Cultural Forum prize competitions.

Springtime in St. Paul with participants from the symposium on Religion and Authority, plus our own Annett Richter, right. (Photo: Linda Andrean.) publications

The publication of volume 37 marks important milestones in the life of theAustrian History Yearbook. Editor Charles Ingrao and book review editor Catherine Albrecht are giving up their duties after many years of outstanding service. Ingrao began to work with outgoing editor Solomon Wank in 1996 and took on full responsibility for the articles beginning with volume XXVIII. Ingrao has been tireless in recruiting articles for the Yearbook, and he has succeeded splendidly in increasing submissions and broadening the topics and approaches represented. Now other projects and responsibilities demand his attention. All of us in the field of Austrian and Habsburg history are greatly indebted to him for the leadership he has given over so many years. His successor as editor, Pieter M. Judson of Swarthmore College, is already at work editing submissions for future volumes of the Yearbook. Catherine Albrecht has served as the book review editor since 2000, when she succeeded Hugh Agnew. Albrecht brought to the task her considerable knowledge of historians of Central Europe, both in North America and Europe, as well as her gifts of patience, discipline, and powers of persuasion. After nearly seven years of excellent service to the Yearbook, she is answering the call of her scholarly, teaching, and administrative responsibilities at the University of Baltimore. Daniel Unowsky at the University of Memphis has already begun editing book reviews for future volumes. —excerpted from Gary B. Cohen’s introductory note in vol. 37

contents

Twentieth Annual Robert A. Kann Articles Memorial Lecture Coping with Rebellion: Was There a “Habsburg Society” in Cities, Mortgagee Lords, and Austria-Hungary? Crown Administrators in by Ernst Bruckmüller the Habsburg Vorlande, 1517–25 by Ludolf Pelizaeus Twenty-First Annual Robert A. Kann From Persecution to Memorial Lecture Pragmatism: The Habsburg Roma in the A Central European Diaspora under Eighteenth Century 2005 Rath Prize the Shadow of World War II: Galician by David Crowe The Rath prize is awarded annually for Ukrainians in North America Eighteenth-Century Hungary: the best article published in the Austrian by John-Paul Himka Traditionalism and the Dawn of History Yearbook. It is funded by the Modernity estate of the longtime Habsburg scholar Forum: The Sinews of State Building by Gabor Vermes and founder of the AHY, R. John Rath Bureaucracy, Officials, and the State Why the Slovak Language Has Three (1910-2001), and by contributions in his in the Austrian Monarchy: Stages of Dialects: A Case Study in Historical memory. The winner for Vol. 36 (2005) Change since the Eighteenth Century Perceptual Dialectology was Jaroslav Miller, for “Early Modern Ur- by Waltraud Heindl by Alexander Maxwell ban Immigration in East Central Europe: A Macroanalysis.” According to the prize Commentary: An Eighteenth-Century From Apalachicola to Wilkes-Barre: committee, “Miller conveys to the reader Engine of Reform Austria (-Hungary) and Its Consulates the complexities of urban society and of by Ernst Wangermann in the United States of America, the migratory processes contributing to Commentary: Power and Professionalism 1820–1917 by Rudolf Agstner the renewal and growth of urban popula- by Alan Sked Arbeitspflichtin Postwar Vienna: tion . . . [his] article provides genuinely Commentary: Hungarian Contradictions Punishing Nazis vs. Expediting new insights and also opens the path for by Attila Pók Reconstruction, 1945–48 future investigations.” by Matthew Paul Berg This year’s prize committee consisted of Gerald Stourzh, chair, University plus reviews of 33 books of Vienna; Cathleen Giustino, Auburn to order AHY: Worldwide e-mail: [email protected] University; and Paula Sutter Fichtner, Brooklyn University (emerita). website: www.berghaHnbooks.com publications publications AUSTRIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER 2005-06

TheAustrian Studies Newsletter, an English- language publication founded in 1989 and edited by Daniel Pinkerton since 1992, is a clearinghouse for information about the Center’s activities and the people who participate in them, as well as scholarly activities and opportunities around the globe. ASN is published twice annually and and mailed free of charge to 3,000 subscribers around the world. It includes lively, thought-provoking interviews, feature articles, and reviews of books and cultural events. Its readership consists of: • students who are introduced to interdisciplinary study of the region by receiving information about scholars, activities, and opportunities for funding and study abroad; • scholars who learn about international conferences, postdoctoral fellowships, archival holdings, and the work of colleagues in other countries and disciplines; • an educated public that learns about current developments in scholarship, current events in the region, and the relationship between the two. The 2005-06ASN included an interview with the Austrian Ambassador to the United Above, left to right: Anne Schwanwilms (Carlotta Nardi) and Robert Hale (Herzog Antoniotto Adorno) States, Eva Nowotny, a feature article on Vienna’s in the 2005 Salzburg Festival production of the opera Die Gezeichneten, by Franz Schreker. The ASN Museumsquartier, and regular reports from SAHH, sends a critic to this annual festival of theatre, music, and opera as part of our ongoing coverage of Central HABSBURG, the Wirth Institute, and CenterAustria. European culture. (Photo by Bernd Uhlig, courtesy Salzburg Festival.)

After a long, hot summer’s worth of work, we launched a beautiful CAS Website renovated for 2006 and beautifully organized new Center website in August 2006. This much- needed makeover is the first since 2001, which is a lifetime in web years. The URL remainswww. cas.umn.edu. We did not change our website simply for looks, The new website look. Graphic design by Paul Coroneos. although the new site is We were assisted in our efforts by the College more attractive. We had of Liberal Arts, which provides free design and a unique feel that visually reflects the Center’s mission. two important concerns: construction assistance to any department that needs it. Allison Lindberg from the Center for German and first, the structure was The CAS team (Daniel Pinkerton, David Good, Gary European Studies proofed and commented on pages. not as intuitive as it could Cohen, and Jules Gehrke) worked with Karen Bencke All buttons on the new homepage are located on the be, and second, some and her Web Team at the CLA Office of Information left, and just below the picture (we have a different one pages and links were sadly Technology, CLA-OIT designer Paul Coroneos, and for each section) is the word “home,” your return ticket. out of date. Kelly O’Brien of External Relations to create a site with Our upcoming events also appear on the homepage. publications publications monograph ser i e s Our monograph series, based on past CAS symposia, reflects the broad geographical, temporal, and intellectual scope of the Center. In 1996, the Center for Austrian Studies and Berghahn Books initiated a series, “Austrian History, Culture, and Society,” now called “Austrian and Habsburg Studies” and under the general editorship of Gary B. Cohen. Six volumes have been published previously: Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, From World War to Waldheim, Rethinking Vienna 1900, The Great Tradition, Creating the “Other,” and Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe. This year, The Center for Austrian Studies and Berghahn Books published an addition to the series. It is based on the fall 2002 CAS conference held at the University of Minnesota.

Contents: Introduction: Legacies, Challenges, and New Beginnings Zbigniew Bochniarz and Gary B. Cohen

1. From Communism to Climate Change: The Sustain- ability Challenge and Lessons from Central Europe Robert Wilkinson

Part One: The Environment as Policy Priority 2. Assessing Sustainability of the Transition in Central European Countries: A Comparative Analysis Sandra O. Archibald and Zbigniew Bochniarz 3. Sustainability and EU Accession: Capacity Development and Environmental Reform in Central and Eastern Europe Stacy D. VanDeveer and JoAnn Carmin 4. The Sustainability of Clusters and Regions of Austria’s 10. The Western Bug River: UNECE Pilot Project Accession Edge James B. Dalton, Jr. Edward M. Bergman 11. Wastewater Treatment in the Postcommunist Danube River Basin Part Two: The Economics of Sustainable Development Igor Bodík 5. Greenhouse Gases Emissions Trading in the Czech Republic Part Four: Agriculture and Rural Development Jiřina Jilková and Tomáš Chmelík 12. “Thinking Unlike a Mountain”: Environment, Agriculture, and Sustainability 6. Ecological Reform in the Tax System in Poland in the Carpathians Olga Kiuila and Jerzy Śleszyński Anthony J. Amato 13. New Approaches to Sustainable Community Development in Rural Slovakia Part Three: Water Policies and Institutions Slavomíra Mačáková 7. The Czech Republic: From Environmental Crisis to 14. Sustainable Development in Moravia: An Interpretation of the Role of the Sustainability Small-Town Sector in Transitional Socioeconomic Evolution Václav Mezřicky Antonín Vaishar and Bryn Greer-Wootten 8. The Tisza/Tisa Transboundary Environmental Disas- 15. Building Local Sustainability in Hungary: Cross-Generational Education and ter: An Opportunity for Institutional Learning Community Participation in the Dörögd Basin Eszter Gulácsy, László Pintér, and Jim Perry Judit Vásárhelyi 9. Austria and the EU Water Framework Directive Wilhelm R. Vogel events events Religion and Avthority in Central Evrope from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.

Part I. Political and Social Developments. University of Minnesota, April 21-22, 2006

The Center hosted the first of two conferences on religion and authority in partnership with the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta. Gary Cohen and Franz Szabo, directors of the respective research centers, organized the conference, with an assist from Howard Louthan of the University of Florida. Prominent historians from North America and Europe presented their latest reseach and engaged in lively scholarly discussions. Part two will be held at the University of Alberta in late September of 2006. Cosponsored by the CLA Scholarly Events Fund, the European Studies Consortium, the Center for Early Modern History, the Center for German & European Studies, the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, and the Department of History. PROGRAM 1. Confessionalization and State Joseph Patrouch, Florida Building in Medieval and Early International University. Modern Central Europe David Luebke, University of Robert von Friedeburg, Erasmus Oregon. University, Rotterdam. 4. Raison d’etat, Religion, Thomas Brady, University of and Tolerance in the Polish- California, Berkeley. Lithuanian Commonwealth John Theibault, independent scholar, Pawel Kras, Catholic 2005-06 LECTURE SERIES New Jersey. University of Lublin. Paul Knoll, University of september 8. Recital. Wolfgang David, october 18. Lecture. Nicole Phelps, Lunch. Speaker: James D. Tracy, Southern California. violin, and David Gompper, piano. history, Univ. of Minnesota. University of Minnesota. “One Law, Cosponsored with the School of Music. “Contested Citizenship and Wartime One Ritual? The Lipsius-Coornhert Mikhail Dmitriev, Moscow september 13. Lecture. Eva Faber, Experience: Impressment and Debate in Light of Contemporary Lomonosov State University & history, Univ. of Graz. “Austria’s Internment in Austria-Hungary and Events.” Central European University. Southeastern Frontier in the 18th the US during World War I.” Century: Confronting the Peoples and november 2. Lecture. Mitchell 2. Confessionalization, Religious 5. Raison d’etat, State Cultures of the Adriatic.” Ash, history, Univ. of Vienna. “The Religion, Pietas Austriaca/ september 19. Lecture. Franz A. J. Sciences in Germany and Austria Diversity, and Society in Early Pietas Bohemica Szabo, director, Wirth Institute for during the Nazi Era: Can there be Modern Central Europe, I Austrian and Central European Studies, ‘Good’ Science in an Evil Regime?” Graeme Murdock, University of David Mengel, Xavier Univ. of Alberta. “The State as Agent november 17. Lecture. Gilg Seeber, Birmingham. University. of Change: Austria and Prussia in the Statistics, Univ. of Innsbruck, 18th Century.” Cosponsored with the Austrian Fulbright Visiting Professor, Debra Kaplan, Yeshiva University. Robert Bireley, S. J., Loyola University, Chicago. Center for Early Modern History. political science, Univ. of Minnesota. Michael Chisholm, independent september 19. Lecture. John-Paul “Who Participates? Voter Turnout in scholar, Trento. Himka, history, Univ. of Alberta. Austria and the EU.” 6. Concluding observations Regina Pörtner, University of “Ukrainian Icons of the Last Judgment December 8. Lecture. Peter Gerlich, Gary Cohen, and the Emergence of a National political science, Univ. of Vienna; Wales, Swansea. University of Minnesota Movement.” St. Constantine Parish visiting fellow, IAS, Univ. of School Auditorium. Minnesota. Cosponsored by IAS. 3. Confessionalization, Religious Howard Louthan, october 5. Lecture. Sven Rossel, February 8. Lecture. John A. Rice, Diversity, and Society in Early University of Florida Scandinavian literature, Univ. of musicology, Rochester, Minn. “Mozart Modern Central Europe, II Franz A. J. Szabo, Vienna. “‘To Travel is to Live’: Hans in the Theatre.” Cosponsored with the Christian Andersen’s Visits to Austria.” School of Music. Petr Mat’a, Geisteswissenschaftliches University of Alberta Cosponsored with the Dept. of German, Zentrum für Geschichte und Kultur Scandinavian, and Dutch. continued on page 11 Ostmitteleuropas. events events Dear Dr. Fisch On October 23, the Center held a special community outreach event at the Ted Mann Concert Hall. “Dear Dr. Fisch: Children’s Letters to a Holocaust Survivor” was a multimedia presentation based on Hungarian Holocaust survivor Dr. Robert O. Fisch’s book of the same title. Fisch, Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, is a native of Budapest, a world-renowned pediatric researcher, a gifted artist, and the author of three books for children about the Holocaust. The event featured slides of Fisch’s art and readings by him. In addition, students from South High School read responses that students had written to his work. The Hmong Boys and Girls Dance Team also performed, as did the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Orchestra, James Riccardo, conductor and solo violinist. This enormous undertaking was produced by the Center’s administrative manager, Linda Andrean. “Dear Dr. Fisch” was cosponsored by the European Studies Consortium; the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; the Yellow Star Foundation; the Academic Health Center, Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences; the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch; the Ingber Aronson Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund; the Center for Violence Prevention and Control, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health; the College of Education and Human Development; Immigration History Research Center; Institute for Advanced Study; Institute for Global Studies; Department of History; Minnesota Hungarians; the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA); the School of Social Work; the Center for Jewish Studies; the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center; the Department of American Studies; the Department of Right: Dr. Robert O. Fisch Anthropology; and the Department of Women’s Studies. autographing copies of his book at “Dear Dr. Fisch.”

An Evening with Horst Rechelbacher On April 29, the Center, in cooperation with the College of Liberal Arts and Intelligent Nutrients, Inc. presented a second special community outreach event, “Austrian Art and Eco-Preneurship: An Evening with Horst Rechelbacher.” Held at Intelligent Nutrients in Minneapolis, the event consisted of dinner and a talk by noted Austrian Horst Rechelbacher.

Horst has lived and worked in the Twin Cities since 1965. He is founder of the Aveda Corporation, which he sold to Esteé Lauder, and a new company, Intelligent Nutrients, an organically-based food and nutraceutical corporation. He is an avid collector of art and antiques (many of which were on display that night), an active environmentalist, a philanthropist with an interest in spirituality and medicine, an author, an artist, and an international business leader. His talk touched on many of these subjects. David F. Good and Horst Rechelbacher. faculty program that holds its classes in the Philosophi- symposium of the Internationale Robert-Musil Many members of the University of Minnesota cal Faculty of Charles University. In 2006, she Gesellschaft, Literaturhaus, Berlin, in October faculty have a scholarly and/or teaching focus on conducted a 2-week workshop and gave a read- 2005. She published a book, The Void of Ethics: topics related to the Center’s mission. Some of these ing. She was one of several American writers at Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity scholars, along with current projects and activities a conference on Polish and American poetry in (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 2006). connected with Austria, Central Europe, and the Krakow, June, 2006. This was sponsored by the Center, are listed below. University of Houston and was held in Jagiello- Leslie Morris (German studies, director, Center nian University. for Jewish Studies) published “Translating Czer- Zbigniew Bochniarz (director, Center for Nations nowitz: The Non-Place of East Central Europe” in Transition) coedited and cowrote the introduc- William Hanson (philosophy) taught a course in in Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, special tion to the latest CAS volume, The Environment symbolic logic at Webster University, Vienna, in issue on Austria, Spring 2006. She also published and Sustainable Development in the New Central summer 2005. He was also a member of the CAS “Folg mir nicht nach mein Bruder: Rose Auslän- Europe (New York: Berghahn, 2006), with Gary Advisory Board. ders Übertragungen von Gedichten Itzik Man- Cohen. gers” in Helmut Braun, ed., Mein Atem heißt jetzt Jasper Hopkins (philosophy) published “Nicholas - Rose Ausländer: sprachmächtige Zeugin des 20. Michael Cherlin (School of Music) is completing of Cusa’s Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Aphorisma Verlag, 2006). a monograph, Schoenberg’s Musical Imagination Canterbury,” in Peter J. Casarella, editor, Cusanus: She also taught German 3520, “Death in Vienna” (Cambridge University, forthcoming). He is also The Legacy of Learned Ignorance (Washington in fall 2005. writing a chapter for the forthcoming Cambridge D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 2006). Companion to Schoenberg, Joseph Auner and Jen- Rick McCormick (German studies) taught nie Shaw, eds. Michal Kobialka (theatre arts) published an courses on German and Austrian film and contin- article, “Tadeusz Kantor’s Practice: A Postmod- ued to work on a research project about feminist Gary Cohen (CAS director, history) published ern Notebook,” in Performing Arts Journal, 28, cinema in Germany and Austria since the 1970s. a revised second edition of The Politics of Ethnic 1 (January 2006). He also presented a keynote Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 (Purdue, address at a conference in Amsterdam, April, Eric S. Sheppard (geography) published a coed- 2006). He also published a chapter, “Jan�� Havrá�-� 2006: “Delirium of the Flesh: ‘All the Dead Voices’ ited volume, Leitner, Peck, and Sheppard, ed. nek: učitel mimoř�ádn��ý�ch�� kvalit” [�Jan�� Havrá�nek:�� in the Space of the Now” (Kantor/Beckett). Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers (see mentor extraordinaire], in Magister Noster. Leitner, above). He also coauthored two chapters. Sborník statí věnovaných in memoriam Prof. PhDr. Sonja Kuftinec (theatre arts) gave the follow- Janu Havránkovi, CSc. [Magister Noster: Studies ing invited presentations in 2005-06: “From dedicated to Prof. PhDr. Jan Havránek, Csc., in Ethnics to Ethics: Theatrical Facilitations in the memoriam], ed. Michal Svatoš, Luboš Velek, and Balkans and Other Spaces,” UC Davis, May, Alice Velková (Prague: Karolinum/Charles Uni- 2006; “Theatre, Facilitation, and Nation Forma- visiting faculty and versity, 2005). He continued as executive editor tion in Jerusalem and the Balkans,” University of of the AHY, general editor of the Austrian and California, Santa Barbara, and the Considering research fellows Habsburg series (Berghahn), and associate editor Calamity Conference, Northwestern University, of the Central European Studies series (Purdue). both October 2005. She also presented the juried The Center for Austrian Studies helps to bring In the former capacity, he edited and wrote the paper, “Accidental Witnessing in Macedonia,” outstanding faculty members to the University introduction to The Environment and Sustain‑ at the Theatre of the Oppressed conference in of Minnesota. Whether teaching or pursuing re- able Development in the New Central Europe, Los Angeles May 2005. She published “Bridging search, they enrich the lives of students and faculty with Zbigniew Bochniarz. In the latter capacity, Haunted Places: Performance and the Production members. he edited and wrote the foreword for Daniel of Mostar,” in Opening Acts: Performance in/as Unowsky’s The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Communication, ed. Judith Hamera (Thousand In Fall 2005, Fulbright Visiting Professor Gilg Imperial Celebrations in Habsburg Austria, 1848- Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005), and has Seeber (political science, Innsbruck) taught in the 1916 (Lafayette IN: Purdue, 2005). an article accepted for publication in 2007. In political science department, Martin Löschnigg summer 2005, she also worked with Bridging (English, Graz) taught in the English department, Stephen Feinstein (director, CHGS, history) Boundaries International, an American organiza- Eva Faber (history, Graz) was a visiting research edited a book, Absence/Presence: Critical Essays tion dedicated to bringing together youth from Fellow at CAS, and Peter Gerlich (political sci- on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust (Syracuse different ethno-religious backgrounds in Bosnia- ence, University of Vienna) was a Visiting Fellow University, 2005). He edited and wrote material Hercegovina. She led a three-week program in at the U of M’s new Institute for Advanced Study. for two museum catalogues, Daisy Brand (North- Mostar and Neum for 15 youths. Gerlich started the 2005-06 academic year as a vis- ern Clay Center, Minneapolis;Tweed Museum, iting professor at the University of New Orleans. Duluth; Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Helga Leitner (geography) published a coedited In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he and his fam- Falls) and William Pachner: Landscapes of Crisis volume: Helga Leitner, Jamie Peck, and Eric S. ily were forced to flee the city, and, through the ef- (Florida Holocaust Museum, 2005). He also con- Sheppard, ed. Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban forts of CAS director Gary Cohen, the College of tributed to “Holocaust Aftermaths,” a television Frontiers. (New York: Guilford, 2006). She also Liberal Arts, the Institute for Advanced Study, and production of TPT Channel 17, Minneapolis-St. coauthored two chapters in the book. the Department of Political Science, he was able to Paul, and continued to teach Holocaust history. come to Minnesota. Patrizia McBride (German studies) was on sab- Patricia Hampl (English, creative writing) is a batical in the 2005-06 academic year. She gave a In Spring 2006, Peter Gerlich was a visiting pro- member of the permanent faculty of the Prague conference paper, “Walther Rathenau und Robert fessor in the Department of Political Science, and Summer Program, a month-long creative writing Musil,” at “Robert Musils Drang nach Berlin,” the Eva Faber continued as a visiting research fellow.

10 faculty classes Fulbright Visiting Professors The courses below contained a major component dealing On August 10, 2001, Steven Rosenstone, with Austria, the Habsburg Empire, or the Central European dean of the College of Liberal Arts, signed successor states in a wider European context, were taught by an agreement creating the first Fulbright visiting Austrian faculty, or both. The university also offered Visiting Professorships (FVP) at the language classes in beginning and intermediate Polish and University of Minnesota. Lonnie Johnson, all levels of German. Minnesota-born executive secretary of the Austrian Fulbright Commission, and FALL 2005 Gerhard Weiss, then-interim director Cultural Studies & Comp Lit 3412: Psychoanalysis and of CAS, helped negotiate the agreement. Literature, Part I: The Essential Freud The FVP, which is funded by CLA, CAS, Geography 3161: Europe: A Geographical Perspective the Austrian Fulbright Commission, German 1601: Fleeing Hitler: German & Austrian Filmmakers and individual departments, is not a department-specific chair. It “floats” between Europe & Hollywood from department to department, year to German 3520: Death in Vienna year—from German to political science to History 3721: History of Europe, 1900-1945 geography. CLA students and colleagues History 3722: History of Europe, 1945-1991 benefit, as the FVP creates expanded History 3727/Jewish St 3521: History of the Holocaust course offerings with fresh points of History 5900: Central and Eastern Europe, 1890-1953 view, and new transatlantic research History 8920: Research Seminar in Central European History collaborations are fostered. Gilg Seeber, 2005 FVP Hist of Science 8910: History of Modern Physical Sciences Past FVPs: Philosophy 8600: Workshop & Seminar in Philosophy of Fall 2002: Hubert Lengauer, German studies, University of Klagenfurt Science Spring 2004: Gabriele Mras, Philosophy, Vienna University of Economics Political Sci 3477: Politics & Society in the New Europe Fall 2004: Walter Matznetter, Geography, University of Vienna Political Sci 4410: European Public Opinion Fall 2005: Gilg Seeber, Political Science, University of Innsbruck

SPRING 2006 Anthropology 4043: Archaeology of Northern Europe Geography 3161: Europe: A Geographical Perspective 2005-06 lecture series from page 8 German 3604: Introduction to German Cinema History 3547: The Ottoman Empire February 17. Lecture. Michael Lorenz, History 3721: History of Europe, 1900-1945 musicology, Univ. of Vienna. “Mozart: History 3722: History of Europe, 1945-1991 New Possibilities for Source Studies.” History 3727/Jewish St 3521: History of the Holocaust Cosponsored with the School of Music. History 3728: Race, Nation, and Genocides in the Modern February 22. Lecture. Poul Houe, German, Univ. of Minnesota. “Arthur World Schnitzler and Georg Brandes: A Literary History 5789: Problems in Historiography & Representation Correspondence.” Cosponsored with the of the Holocaust Dept. of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch. Music 5950: Schubert’s Harmonic Practice March 26. Lieder recital. Mike Schmidt, Music 5950: Opera History: A Contextual Approach baritone, winner, “Voices of Vienna” Philosophy 5601: History of the Philosophy of Science Scholarship. With Susan Heiserman, Philosophy 8600: Workshop in the Philosophy of Science piano. Political Sci 3051: Power and Choice March 27. Lecture. Manfred Frühwirth, Political Sci 4461: European Government and Politics Univ. of Economics, Vienna; Schumpeter Political Sci 5410: Environmental Policy in Germany and Fellow, Harvard Univ. “Real Options in Europe Business Valuation.” Cosponsored with Dept. of Finance, CSOM, and Dept. of Pub Affairs 5531: Strategies for Sustainable Development: Applied Economics. Theory & Practice March 30. Lecture. Eagle Glassheim, history, Univ. of British Columbia. MAY SESSION & SUMMER 2006 “Most, the Town that Moved: Coal, Economics 4307, 4337: Comparative Economic Systems Communism, and Modernity in Post-War Geography 3161: Europe: A Geographic Perspective Czechoslovakia.” History 3721: History of Europe: 1900-1945 April 13. Reading. Josef Haslinger, History 3722: History of Europe, 1945-1991 Austrian essayist and novelist. Migratory Manfred Frühwirth History 5960: Genocide & Human Rights Birds: A reading from his new collection of Music 5950: The Symphony, 1740-1840 short stories.

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Above: the CAS Student group on their October 2005 trip to Lake Superior. CAS STUDENT ACTIVITIES During the academic 2004-05 year CAS launched a new social group for students interested in Austria. Linda Andrean from the Center and Kristin Vogtenhuber, an Austrian doctoral GRANTS and scholarships candidate at the University of Minnesota, came up with the idea. The Center sponsors competitions for grants every year for University of Minnesota Together, Linda and Mirjam Marits, the BMBWK Research students. This year, the Center awarded aVoices of Vienna Scholarship to Minnesota Assistant from Austria, developed a group consisting of students art history graduate student Elizabeth Cronin. This award was created and funded by from Austria and the surrounding countries as well as American Kathryn and Wilbur C. Keefer in honor of William E. Wright, founding director of students who have studied in Austria. CAS. The Grants Committee consisted of history professorThomas Wolfe, German This year was an especially important one because several studies professor emeritus Gerhard Weiss, and CAS director Gary Cohen. Austrian students at the U of M were evacuees from hurricane The Center also facilitates a graduate teaching assistant exchange with the University Katrina—they were attending the University of New Orleans of Salzburg. During the 2005-06 academic year, Sari Fordham, a Minnesota graduate when disaster struck, and units of the U of M, at Gary Cohen’s student in English, taught American English in Salzburg, while Tina Weiden from the suggestion, found space for them. In 2005-06, events organized University of Salzburg taught German at the University of Minnesota. by Linda and Silke Stern, the 05-06 BMBWK Research Asistant (see p. 16), included: • A CAS-sponsored trip to Lake Superior and Split Rock undergraduate minor in austrian Lighthouse in early October. • A CAS-sponsored trip to Northfield, including visits to St. & central european studies Olaf College and Carleton College. An undergraduate minor in Austrian & Central European Studies was approved in • Erika and Herb Kahler hosted their annual holiday the 2003-04 academic year, to take effect in the 2004-05 academic year. This minor, celebration on December 6, St. Nikolaus Day. Following on last a program of the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, gives students a year’s success, it had nearly 50 attendees, including a table of window not only on Austria, but also on the changing world of the new democracies of children (some were children of students). The Kahlers provided Central and Southeastern Europe. It draws on the resources of the CLA faculty and the the wonderful smoked turkeys as well as other delightful dishes. CAS. The faculty listed on page 10 are among the resources available, and the courses “Nikolaus” also made an appearance and handed out traditional listed on page 11 are among those available to students minoring in Austrian & Central Austrian gift bags. European Studies. Students must pass a German language proficiency exam, complete • A farewell party in May for the students before they went junior-level German Conversation and Composition (German 3011W), and complete at their various ways. CAS director Gary Cohen presented each least one Topics in Austrian/Central European Culture course taught by the Department attendee with a gift to remember the Center and their stay at the of GS&D (German 3520). University of Minnesota. 12 student support research partnerships CSOM Central European partnerships In 1996, the Carlson School of Management (CSOM) established an Executive MBA Program at the Warsaw School of Economics (WEMBA). Since 1997, CSOM has been a partner with Austria’s prestigious Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU) in programs that focus on comparative business practices between Western nations and the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe. The Vienna Seminar, established in 1997, has two groups of students who take classes separately at CSOM and WU each spring, then meet together for two weeks in Vienna to analyze a real-life case study and make presentations to executives from the firm studied. In 2005-06, 22 Carlson MBA students and 10 WU students participated. The Vienna Executive MBA Program at WU, established in March 2000, is codirected by CSOM’sMichael Houston and WU’s Bodo Schlegelmilch. It is a 14-month modular course of study that includes case studies, projects, and international field studies in the United States and Eastern Europe. In January 2006, the VEMBA program moved to the Palais Lichtenstein, where all offices and classrooms are now located. In 2005-06, 25 students participated in the program. In the Vienna Summer Program, an international faculty (including members of CSOM) teaches 150 students from around the world about the challenges facing the economies of Eastern and Central Europe. In 2005-06, 11 MBA students from CSOM participated. In 2005-06, CSOM developed a further innovation in teaching. Some 120 MBA students from Austria, China, Poland, and the US were organized into 10 “virtual teams” to create business plans for introducing new products into a global marketplace. They then met face-to-face (some for the first time) at CSOM in the spring to present the plans. Project organizers say no other business school in the world offers this opportunity. Immigration History Research Center Minnesota Population Center The IHRC is an interdisciplinary center in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) Minnesota. Founded in 1965, it promotes research on migration with an emphasis on immigration fosters connections among population researchers to the U.S. The IHRC is proud to have built one of the largest and most important collections of across disciplines and opens up new opportunities materials on U.S. immigration and refugee life to be found anywhere in the world. Its researchers come for large-scale collaborative research projects. It from all parts of the country as well as from abroad. assists investigators in developing new projects and Many of the holdings at IHRC concern migration from Central and East Central Europe. CAS and provides technical and administrative support. the IHRC have collaborated on conferences, and the IHRC has cosponsored numerous speakers in In 2004, the National Institutes of Health the CAS Lecture Series. MPC (above), IHRC, and CAS have jointly brought demographic historians awarded the MPC a major grant to undertake a from Austria to the university. The three research centers, along with Austrian scholars, are currently five-year initiative to create integrated and fully drafting a proposal for a research project comparing 19th-Century migration within the Habsburg documented samples of over fifty European Empire to migration from the Habsburg Empire to the United States during the same period. censuses and micro-censuses from the 1960s to the present. The final integrated microdata series, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies IPUMS-Europe, is provisionally scheduled for release in 2009. It will be available via the world Established in 1997, CHGS is a focal point for mobilizing university resources in the Twin Cities wide web to researchers from many disciplines for outreach to precollege teachers and nonprofit organizations. CHGS works on campus with CAS; around the world. the Center for German and European Studies; the Center for Bioethics; the Departments of History, Central Europe was well represented at the Sociology, Art History, and German, Scandinavian, and Dutch; the Law School; and others. IPUMS-Europe workshops held in Barcelona CHGS works with a number of off-campus organizations: Jewish-Christian Learning Center of the (Jul 25-27, 2005) and Paris (Jun 7-9, 2006). University of Saint Thomas, Gustavus Adolphus College, Jewish Community Relations Council for Delegates from five of the official statistical Minnesota and the Dakotas, Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Center for Victims of Torture, and others. agencies—Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Director Stephen Feinstein and staff speak at local high schools and middle schools. CHGS sponsors Hungary, Romania, and Slovenia—took leading university-level courses on the Holocaust and genocide, and a range of activities on and off campus. roles in lending methodological expertise for Highlights of 2005-06 included collaborating with CAS on “Dear Dr. Fisch” (see p. 9), hosting the the construction of the pan-European database. annual conference of the Association of Holocaust Organizations, and creating a curriculum guide and High precision samples for the 1970-2000 web site for In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre’s Holocaust-themedA Company of census rounds for Austria, the Czech Republic, Angels. CHGS also wrote curriculum and informational sheets for the oratorio “To Be Certain of the Dawn: A Commemoration of the Children,” by Stephen Paulus, which was presented by the Minnesota Hungary, and Romania were entrusted to the Orchestra to commemorate Kristallnacht and the Holocaust. CHGS hosted a Teachers’ Workshop on Minnesota Population Center. Dissemination of the Holocaust and Rescue, in conjunction with Hennepin County Technical College and the Center the integrated Romanian samples is scheduled for for Global Studies at the U of M. CHGS also helped organize “The Ceramic Art of Daisy Brand, 2006, followed by Hungarian samples in 2007. Holocaust Survivor,” at Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, Tweed Museum, UM Duluth, and Hearst The principal investigator isRobert McCaa; Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, Iowa. co-investigators are Steven Ruggles, Miriam King, Deborah Levison, and Matthew Sobek. Center for German & European Studies CGES was established in 1998 as a consortium of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Its mission is to promote new knowledge about Europe, foster transatlantic�� relations, and educate the�� next generation of American experts on Germany and Europe. It receives major support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and matching funds from both universities. The staff of this interdisciplinary center, including director Eric Weitz and program coordinator Sabine Engel, have worked closely with CAS on both a formal and an informal basis, including joint funding of conferences, seminar speakers, and other scholarly and public events, including the “Borderlands” workshop, which continued into 2005-06. In 2005-06, CGES organized “American & German Healthcare,” a transatlantic experts’ roundtable on health care policy, at the U of MN. Featured speakers included Germany’s Federal Minister of Health, Ulla Schmidt. The program resulted in a television special on Twin Cities Public Television, which is available as a DVD. CGES research initiatives included a 9-month interdisciplinary project on “Genocide, Holocaust, and the Law” that brought together faculty and graduate students at the U of M with their counterparts at Whittier Law School. Participants met weekly via a live video link. Lead faculty at the U of MN was Stephen Feinstein , director, CHGS. CGES outreach events included a retrospective of films of the Marshall Plan. The Walker Art Center cosponsored, and the four screenings there drew capacity audiences. 13 support and collaboration Support Collaboration Austrian Government Minnesota The Center deeply appreciates the assistance of MinisterElisabeth Gehrer, outreach interim Sektionsleiter Markus Pasterk, and his successor, Sektionschef Peter In 2005-06, the Center collaborated with a wide range of units at Kowalski, of the Austrian Ministry for Education, Science, and Culture. We the University of Minnesota, in the Twin Cities, and in the State of gratefully acknowledge the support and help of Sektionsleiter Emil Brix, of the Minnesota to present programs to a wider community. Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna, AmbassadorEva Nowotny of the Aus- On-campus organizations included the European Studies Consortium, trian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Austrian consul general in Chicago, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Center for Early Robert Zischg; and the honorary Austrian consuls in the Twin Cities, Ronald Modern Studies, Office of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences; Bosrock and Herbert Kahler. At the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, the Academic Health Center, the Department of German, Scandinavian, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, director, and Ernst Aichinger, deputy director, and Dutch, the Center for Violence Prevention and Control, the Division gave invaluable assistance. of Environmental Health Sciences, the School of Public Health, the College of Education and Human Development, the Immigration History Other Sources of Support Research Center, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Institute for The Center owes a debt of gratitude to its many institutional and individual Global Studies, the Department of History, the Center for Advanced supporters. The University of Minnesota’sCenter for German and European Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA), the School of Social Work, Studies, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, the University of Minnesota Human CLA Scholarly Events Fund; Departments of German, Scandinavian, & Rights Center, the Department of American Studies; the Department of Dutch, History, Political Science, Spanish & Portugese, and Theatre Arts Anthropology; and the Department of Women’s Studies. Off-campus groups included the & Dance; and the School of Music, as well as Minnesota Hungarians; Minnesota Hungarians, Ingber Aronson Immigration Law Firm Endowment Fund, the Yellow Star the Minnesota History Center; the European Studies Consortium (Title Foundation, Intelligent Nutrients, and the German Section, Department VI Grant), Department of Finance, CSOM, the Department of Applied of Modern Languages, Hamline University. Economics, and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Minnesota funded CAS programs in 2005-06. Individual donors are gratefully student and faculty exchanges acknowledged on page 15. The Center also appreciates the ongoing support of The Center also worked withthe Carlson School of Management, the College of Liberal Arts, its dean, Steven J. Rosenstone, associate dean, James Global Campus, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Office of A. Parente, Jr., CLA development officers Mary Hicks and Diane Walters, and International Programs to facilitate student and faculty exchanges. Lyndel King, director of the Weisman Art Museum. Erika Kahler, community liaison to the Minnesota Advisory Board, along with her husband, Herbert Kahler, assisted the Center on many occasions. North America This year, the Center would particularly like to thank James Parente, Jr., Institutions. TheWirth Institute for Austrian and Central Euro- associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, director of the Ann Waltner, pean Studies at the University of Alberta, Franz A. J. Szabo, director, Institute for Advanced Study, and John Sullivan, chair of the Department of continued to be a valued partner, collaborating with the Center on a Political Science, for their assistance in bringing Peter Gerlich to the University major conference (see p. 8) and contributing to the ASN. The Center also of Minnesota (see p. 10). We would also like to thank Michael Houston, cooperated with CenterAustria, the Center for Austrian Culture and acting dean of the Carlson School of management, and Kay Thomas, director Commerce at the University of New Orleans; its director, Günter Bischof of International Student and Scholar Services, for their assistance in helping began writing a regular column for the ASN in 2005-06. Austrian students find an academic home at CSOM in 2005-06. Professional Organizations. The Center continued to work closely with the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History (SAHH). In CAS Advisory Committee every issue the ASN publishes “SAHH News,” written by the executive Chair: William Hanson, Philosophy Gary B. Cohen, director, CAS secretary of the SAHH (in 2005-06, Howard Louthan of the University Michael Cherlin, School of Music Evelyn Davidheiser, director, of Florida). CAS, through Louthan and Pieter Judson (Swarthmore) John Freeman, Political Science Institute for Global Studies also worked with members of the American Historical Association, the David F. Good, History Stephen Feinstein, director, Center for American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Michael Houston, Carlson Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the German Studies Association (GSA) to encourage them to form School of Management Michael Hancher, chair, English panels including Austrian papers for their annual meetings. CAS is also Sonja Kuftinec, Theatre Arts Erika Kahler, Community Liaison affiliated with theHABSBURG Discussion Network. and Dance Lyndel King, director, Weisman Art Helga Leitner, Geography Museum Leslie Morris, German, Scandinavian, Mary Jo Maynes, chair, History International and Dutch Ray Wakefield, interim chair, In Austria, its partners included the Austrian Academic Exchange Glenn Pederson, Applied Economics German, Scandinavian, & Dutch Service (ÖAD) and the Austrian Fulbright Commission, executive Eva Nowotny, Austrian Ambassador secretary, Lonnie Johnson. The Austrian Fulbright Commision, the Ex officio: to the United States Center, CLA, and individual departments combine to facilitate and Ernst Aichinger, deputy director, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, director, fund the annual Fulbright Visiting Professorship (see p. 11). Karl- ACF New York ACF New York Franzens-University, Graz, is our partner in a regular faculty exhange. The Laura Dale Bischof, University Eric Weitz, director, Center for University of Salzburg, and its Program in American Studies, maintains a Libraries German and European Studies graduate TA exchange. 14 making a gift

Dear Friends, doors to more students and ensure that the As most of you know, the Center for Center will continue to thrive. Austrian Studies does not offer degrees. So One of the Center’s goals this year is why does the Center offer scholarships and to raise $100,000 to endow the William fellowships? These funds are for exceptional E. Wright Fellowship in Central European students who are enrolled in or wish to enroll History. Professor Wright, founder and first in a University of Minnesota degree-granting director of the Center for Austrian Studies, program, such as history or music, and wish taught in the Department of History at to focus on Austria, the Habsburg Empire, or Minnesota from 1957 to 1993. He is an its successor states. internationally known scholar of early modern Competition for these students is powerful Austrian and Central European history who among our peer universities around the mentored many of today’s young scholars. Diane Walters world. To stay in the running and attract the The William Wright Fellowship will provide best and brightest to Minnesota, the Center financial support for one or more graduate must be able to offer competitive levels of students each year to pursue graduate studies 2005-06 scholarship and fellowship support. in Central European history at the University Individual Donors When talented students who would like to of Minnesota. As an added incentive, the study here end up elsewhere, it’s most often University’s 21st Century Graduate Fellowship Kann Memorial Lecture Fund because they’ve had a “better offer”—not of match will double the impact of the gift by higher quality, but of more money. Students matching the annual payout of the fund. Under $500: of moderate means without scholarship or This means the funds generated from the John W. Boyer, Louis Gebhard, fellowship support don’t have many good endowment when it reaches the $100,000 Robert Gutman, Charles C. Herod, options. They often take on daunting levels mark will be about $10,000, not $5,000. Solomon Wank of debt, work far too many hours to do their If you were ever a student, friend, or best work in school, or don’t attend at all. colleague of Professor Wright, you will no William E. Wright Faced with the challenges of paying for their doubt wholeheartedly endorse this tribute Fellowship Fund education, those who are offered generous to Professor Wright by former student David Under $500: aid packages by other top universities simply Steele (MA, public affairs; MA, PhD, history): John & Helena Barber, George P. take their dreams elsewhere. “As a graduate student working under Blum, David Braslau, Fritz Cocron, Bill’s sharp eye, I learned how to think Gary Cohen, Otmar M. & Ingrid There is a solution. By endowing a like a historian and to write and express Drekonja, Herman Freudenberger, fellowship or scholarship, you enable my ideas more effectively. But, much Marsha L. Frey, Frank D. Hirschbach, the Center to recruit and support these more important than that, Bill taught Albert Hoffman, Mary L. Klas, outstanding students. You give these students me by quiet example how to lead a Russ & Barbara Krauss-Chrisensen, a chance. principled professional life guided by Albert Milgrom, Donald & Joyce We are grateful to the many friends of the high standards of personal integrity and Pusch, James Shedel, Irma Wachtler, Center who have given generously, enabling a commitment to old-fashioned values Gerhard Weiss, William E. Wright students to work directly with the Center like hard work and decency to others.” and to travel abroad for language study $500-$1,000: and research. We are also grateful to those If you would like to join us in keeping David Good of you who have supported the Center’s Professor Wright’s quiet example alive, I The General Mills Foundation gave faculty in their research and teaching and encourage you to contribute generously to $500 in funds to match individual gifts. enabled important partnerships with people, the William E. Wright Fellowship in Central Will your employer match your gift? organizations, and communities both here European History. If you would like to learn and abroad. The response to our call for more about endowing a named fellowship or CAS Scholarship Funds strengthening the Kann Memorial Lecture scholarship, or about other ways to support Charlotte M. Seguin Fund, which brings an internationally the Center for Austrian Studies, please feel renowned historian of Austria and Central free to contact me at 612-625-4324 or Kathryn and Wilbur C. 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Beginning with the 1992-93 between the United States academic year, Austria’s Federal and the Habsburg Empire past FELLOWS Ministry for Education, Science, in the nineteenth and early and Culture (BMBWK) twentieth centuries. 92-93: Sonja Kröll, began awarding a fellowship Along with Administrative University of Salzburg to a doctoral student from an Manager Linda Andrean, 93-94: Manfred Blümel, Austrian university to come to Silke coordinated activities University of Vienna the University of Minnesota for Austrian students at the 94-95: Thomas Burg, for nine months of research University of Minnesota University of Vienna and/or classes. In exchange and other Twin Cities 95-96: Thomas Winderl, for a stipend, the student colleges as well as American University of Vienna works part time at the Center students interested in 96-97: Rudy Weissenbacher, on projects related to the Austria—for example, University of Vienna Center’s programs. Over the tours of the Twin Cities and 97-98: Anita Eichinger, years, evolving CAS priorities outstate Minnesota. Silke University of Vienna and the talents and interests also coordinated the ACF of individual recipients have dissertation and book prize 98-99: Johanna Ortler, increased the variety of duties competitions and designed University of Vienna and the importance of the CAS/ flyers for the lecture series. 99-00: Stefan Riegler, BMBWK research fellows. In Off campus, Silke followed University of Graz turn, these outstanding students in the steps of Mirjam Marits 01-02: Stephan Hametner, have created opportunities and Manuela Steinberger, University of Vienna for themselves and helped the living in what has now 02-03: Harald Stelzer, Center accomplish its goals. become “the CAS/BMBWK University of Graz Reasearch Assistant 03-04: Manuela Steinberger, This year’sfellow was Silke apartment,” in a house next University of Graz Stern, a Ph.D. candidate in to CAS RA Arnold Lelis and 04-05: Mirjam Marits, history at Karl-Franzens- several TAs from Germany. University of Graz University, Graz. Her research examines the relationship Left: Silke Stern. 16