the center for austrian studies 2019-20 annual report the 2019-20 cas staff

2019-20 CAS staff, left to right: Christina Traxler (Fulbright visiting researcher from the University of ), Jacob Smiley, Igor Tchoukarine, Timothy McDonald, Jennifer Hammer, and Howard Louthan Director Editor Program Administrator Howard Louthan specializes in the intellectual Igor Tchoukarine has been editor of the Jennifer Hammer joined the Institute for Global and cultural history of early modern Central Austrian Studies Newsmagazine (ASN) since Studies in January 2015 to manage programming with special attention to religion. His September 2017. Tchoukarine holds a PhD for the Center for Austrian Studies and the Cen- books include The Quest for Compromise, an in history from EHESS (France). He works on ter for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. A UMN examination of toleration in late 16th century Yugoslavia and Central Europe as well as on the alum (Anthropology and Japanese), she went on Vienna, and Converting Bohemia, an exploration history of tourism in the 20th century, and he is to study design history and is currently pursuing of the recatholization of the Czech lands in the author of several articles on these topics. He a Masters in Arts and Cultural Leadership. She the 17th and 18th centuries. His current work replaced Daniel Pinkerton, who was editor of has lived in Japan, , and New York City, examines the religious cultures of 16th century the ASN from 1992 to 2016 and the CAS Annual and has worked in the academic / not-for-profit Poland. Louthan has previously taught at the Report from 1991 to 2017. sector for over 15 years specializing in collections , Warsaw University, and data management, resource development, and the University of Florida. AHY Assistant Editor programming, processing, and communications. Timothy McDonald began serving as the as- sistant editor of the Austrian History Yearbook CAS-BMBWF Fellow contents in September 2019. A PhD candidate in the Peter Wegenschimmel (University of Vienna/ Department of History, he works on modern University of Regensburg) was the 2019-20 Director’s View 3 Russia and is currently writing his dissertation BMBWF Fellow. Please see the back cover for de- tails about the fellowship and Peter. Publications 4 on the expansion and intersection of Russian cultural, religious, and political interests in Ot- Events 5 toman Palestine in the mid-nineteenth century. Faculty 7 Student Support 8 Student employees Partnerships 9 Jacob Smiley is majoring in history and will graduate in the Fall of 2020. His studies are con- Support & Collaboration 10 centrated on Modern Europe and his interests Making a Gift 11 include economic history, the history of the Cold 2019-20 BMBWF Fellow 12 War, and the history of nationalism. After gradu- ation, he plans on pursuing a graduate degree in history. CAS also employed Tyler Ofstad.

2019 2020 2 the director’s view remember the moment vividly. It was the Tues- Europe. Both scholars highlight how Wilson’s heri- day after Memorial Day, and my adult children tage, especially his Southern background, shaped I(now back home due to the pandemic) alerted his understanding of race and ethnicity in the Eu- me to a video going viral on the internet. Like many ropean context. Wilson was generally critical of of you, I could not bring myself to watch the entire immigrants from Eastern Europe including “men clip. But what I saw was enough—a white police of the meaner sort of Hungary and Poland, men officer slowly, methodically, and dispassionately out of the ranks where there was neither skill nor choking to death a Black man who lay prone and intelligence.”1 Neither Phelps nor Wolff wrote their helpless beneath him. I did not know it at that books with the intent to either lionize or demon- moment, but what I was witnessing, an event tak- ize Wilson. Like all scholars, they sought to under- ing place six miles from my home, would trigger a stand and explain. In so doing, they have painted a worldwide movement of protest. portrait of a complex man who though motivated by lofty ideals was also stained by racism. Such moments, of course, have rightly prompted Photo: Lisa Miller so many of us on a personal level to take stock of So let’s return to the question of relevance at CAS. where we stand in light of the persistent inequities This example of Wilson highlights current scholar- issues. Indeed, we launched our speaker series by and injustices that remain stubbornly embedded ship that has real significance today as we collec- addressing one of the most pressing and compli- in our respective societies. They can also help us tively re-examine our past and what values we as a cated matters today, climate change. Debbie Coen, question the relevance of our professional lives. In society want both to cherish and challenge. Some whose prize-winning book, Climate in Motion, fol- our case at the Center for Austrian Studies, how of our presentations this year in Minnesota have lows the history of climate science back into the does running a research center dedicated to the followed this line by tackling topics where moral nineteenth century and discusses the critical role study of Central Europe address any of these prob- questions are central to the analysis. In the fall Brit- that scientists from the Habsburg Empire played in lems? Are we simply academic ostriches with our ta McEwen spoke on the deep-seated problems of those early days. We also hosted a symposium that heads in the sand while we distract ourselves with illegitimacy in late-imperial Vienna, while in the considered the permeability of cultural boundaries self-referential discussions that have little meaning spring Heather Morrison examined eighteenth- through an architectural exploration of Habsburg and utility for the world today? century botanical expeditions to the Americas that successor states (see page 6). relied extensively on unacknowledged Black labor. The tragic death of George Floyd has initiated a There is, however, another lesson we can take from The point here is not that we need public leaders process where societies are looking more criti- the Wilson example that points to a more a gen- who better understand the society and culture of cally at their own past. Here in the US we have eral observation about our work at CAS. Central Europe, though that certainly would not seen renewed attention dedicated to the Civil War hurt. If such an intelligent president as Wilson and the long history of slavery and its troubled af- Phelps and Wolff also illustrate how an astute and stumbled over this terrain, what greater challenges termath. One of the most prominent individuals high-minded individual was utterly unprepared to do political and intellectual leaders face today? now under review has a direct connection with deal with the collapse of the Habsburg and Otto- Rather, we need more generally a return to deep Central Europe. More than any other American of man empires. Though Wilson was the first sitting study, reasoned analysis, and respectful debate. the twentieth century, Woodrow Wilson had the president to visit Europe, he never traveled to the These are the values that undergird the Center for greatest influence shaping this region after the First continent’s eastern half and had no real grasp of Austrian Studies. And though these ideals are most World War. the region’s ethnic diversity and the impossibil- obviously reflected in our intellectual agenda, they ity of creating clearly defined nation-states from are also civic virtues that bear cultivating in our From Zagreb to Warsaw, Wilson’s legacy was pub- such mixed populations. Central Europe, as we troubled times today. licly honored and widely celebrated. A Minnesota all know, is an incredibly complicated region and graduate and former member of the CAS team, one that cannot be understood without signifi- Endnote Nicole Phelps, has written insightfully about US- cant effort and study. That is the reason why CAS 1. Cited in Gary Gerstle, “Race and Nation in the Thought Habsburg relations that culminated at the Paris was created in the first place. We see ourselves as and Policies of Woodrow Wilson,” in Reconsidering Peace Conference, and now our former Kann lec- a venue for careful consideration of very compli- Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, turer, Larry Wolff, has published his timely volume, cated questions and problems. Again, our program and Peace, ed. John Milton Cooper Jr. (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern this academic year drew attention to some of these Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2008), 101.

OUR MISSION THE CENTER FOR AUSTRIAN STUDIES • SERVES as an international leader in promoting new scholarship about Austria and Central Europe across disciplines in the humanities, the social sciences, international business management, and the arts; • CONNECTS scholars, students, and an international community to resources in Minnesota, Austria, Central Europe, and the European Union; • REACHES OUT to students, scholars, and an international community, bringing an awareness of Austria and its relevance to American life; • ENRICHES THE TEACHING MISSION of the university and the College of Liberal Arts by connecting its research and outreach programs with classroom opportunities for students. The Center pursues its mission through a variety of activities, including research, publications, international interdisciplinary symposia, student and faculty exchanges, scholarships, and outreach events for both students and the Twin Cities community.

2019 2020 3 publications AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK Volume LI • 2020 Executive Editor Howard Louthan,

Editor Daniel Unowsky, University of Memphis

Book Review Editor Britta McEwen, Creighton University Donald Wallace, Naval Academy

Assistant Editor Timothy McDonald, University of Minnesota CONTENTS Kann Memorial Lecture Maria Theresa and the Love of Her Subjects By Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Forum: The Habsburg-Ottoman Borderlands: New Insights King Rudolf I in Austrian Literature around 1820: Historical Reversion for the Study of the Nineteenth-Century European Legal and and Legitimization of Rule Social Order By Karin Schneider Introduction By Emily Greble Vagrant Servants as Disease Vectors: Regulation of Migrant Maidservants in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Frontier Anxieties: Toward a Social History of Muslim-Christian By Ambika Natarajan Relations on the Ottoman-Habsburg Border By Edin Hajdarpasic The Battle Over National Schooling in Bohemia and the Czech and German National School Associations: A Comparison (1880–1914) The Strange, Sad Case of the “Bosnian Christian Girl”: Slavery, By Mikuláš Zvánovec Conversion, and Jurisdiction on the Habsburg-Ottoman Border By Alison Frank Johnson Respectable Citizens: Civic Militias, Local Patriotism, and Social Order in Late Habsburg Austria (1890–1920) The High Stakes of Small Numbers: Flight, Diplomacy, and Refugee By Claire Morelon Return on the Habsburg-Ottoman Border 1873–74 By Jared Manasek Jews, Mobility, and Sex: Popular Entertainment between Budapest, Vienna, and New York around 1900 Europe on the Sava: Austrian Encounters with “Turks” in Bosnia By Susanne Korbel By Maureen Healy The Other Legacy of Vienna 1900: The Ars Combinatoria of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Articles By Julie M. Johnson Toward the Golden Bull and against the Pope: The Role of Custom and Honor in King Ludwig IV’s Nuremberg and Frankfurt Appellations Remembering the Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy One Hundred Years (1323–24) on: Three Master Interpretations By Kevin Lucas Lord By R. J. W. Evans

Anglophilia and Sensibility in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna: Prince Bullfights Redux: Business, Politics, and the Failure of Transnational Charles Antoine de Ligne’s Testament and the Indissolubles Cultural Transfer in 1920s Budapest By Rebecca Gates-Coon By Alexander Vari

2019 2020 4 THE CENTER for AUSTRIAN STUDIES AUSTRIAN STUDIES NEWSMAGAZINE 2019-20

Bischof at Center Austria, University of New Orleans; and Michael Haider and the staff at the Austrian Cultural Forum-New York (ACFNY) to publish a comprehensive view of scholarly and cultural events in North The Austrian Studies Newsmagazine (ASN) is an English-language America in the field of Austrian and Central European studies. We thank publication founded in 1989. Published semiannually, the ASN is free each of these individuals and organizations for their cooperation and of charge to subscribers around the world. It includes lively, thought- support. provoking interviews, feature articles, and reviews of books and cultural events. Its readership consists of: In 2019-20, we published a featured article about Centennials of the 1918 revolutions in Austria-Hungary’s successor states, and continued the • students who are introduced to inter­disci­plinary study of the region guest column with a piece by Brigitte Le Normand. We inaugurated the by receiving information about scholars, activities, and opportunities junior scholar’s column with a story by Ambika Natarajan. We published for funding and study abroad; interviews with Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Philipp Ther, and others. Our reviews of scholarly books included volumes by Deborah R. Coen, • scholars who learn about international conferences, postdoctoral fellowships, archival holdings, and the work of colleagues in other Günter Bischof and Hannes Richter, and Robert Dassanowsky. Barbara countries and disciplines; Lawatsch-Melton also generously continued to report on the Salzburg Festival. • an educated public that learns about current developments in scholarship, current events in the region, and the relationship between Jennifer Hammer, Kendra Bunke and Jacob Smiley assisted with the the two. production of the ASN.

The Austrian Studies Newsmagazine also partners with Joseph Patrouch Please send an e-mail to [email protected] to request your subscription at the Wirth Institute at the University of Alberta, Canada; Günter to the ASN! events The 35th Annual Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture “Maria Theresa and the Love of Her Subjects” Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Professor of History and Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin Institute for Advanced Study)

In 1982, the University of Minnesota Libraries acquired Robert A. Münster before holding her current position in Berlin. She is the Kann’s personal library. Consisting of roughly 5,000 monographs, it is author of several books, including Maria Theresia. Die Kaiserin in ihrer noted for its richness and integrity as the product of a single collector. Zeit. Eine Biographie (2017) (forthcoming in English from Princeton Located in the Elmer L. Andersen Library, it serves as a valuable University Press), The Emperor’s Old Clothes: Constitutional History and resource for scholars in Austrian history. The first Robert A. Kann the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire (2013), and The Holy Memorial Lecture dedicated the collection in April 1984. A printed Roman Empire of the German Nation from the Late Middle Ages to 1806 version of each lecture now appears in the Austrian History Yearbook. (2013).

On November 5, 2019, internationally renowned historian Barbara The Center has launched a funding drive to ensure that the Kann Stollberg-Rilinger delivered the 35th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture. Lecture will continue to add to the intellectual life of the discipline Professor Stollberg-Rilinger earned her doctorate and habilitation and keep Robert A. Kann’s spirit alive. To donate, contact Robyn Rost from the University of Cologne, and taught at the University of at at 612-625-5092 or [email protected].

2019 2020 5 2019-20 Center for Austrian Studies Lecture Series and Cosponsored Events Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Austrian Studies has made some adjustments to its Spring 2020 program. Events scheduled in March, April, and May 2020 were either moved online, canceled, or postponed. Changes are indicated in the list below. September 20. Lecture. Deborah Coen, history, Yale University. “Reimagining the History of Climate Science.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program, cosponsored by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World.

October 1. Workshop. “Habsburg Urbanisms: Eastern European Architectural History” with architectural historians Kimberly Zarecor, Iowa State University, Vladimir Kulić, Iowa State University, and Eva Špacková, Technical University of Ostrava. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

October 14. Lecture. Britta McEwen, history, Creighton University. “Shame, Sympathy, and the History of Illegitimacy in Vienna, 1880-1930.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

October 24. Lecture. Eugenie Brinkema, contemporary literature and media, MIT. “Incremental Love: Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012).” Presented by the Institute for Advanced Study, the Moving Image & Media Studies Graduate Group, and the Center for German and European Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

November 1. Lecture. David Do Paço, history, Sciences Po, Paris. “Ottoman Vienna: An Urban History of the 18th-century Habsburg Monarchy.” Presented by the Center for Early Modern History, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

November 5. 35th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Professor of History and Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. “Maria Theresa and the Love of Her Subjects.”Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, with the support of individual donors to the Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture fund, cosponsored by the Department of History.

November 20. Lecture. Christina Traxler, history, University of Vienna and UMN Fulbright Visiting Scholar (Fall 2019). “Negotiating Faith, Religious Consent and Peace-making in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

November 25. Roundtable. “Peter Handke and the Nobel Prize.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, and the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic, and Dutch.

December 4. Brown Bag Lecture. Kenneth Janda, Emeritus Professor, political science, Northwestern University. “Studying World War I through Emperors, Peasants, and Immigrants.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies.

January 28. Lecture. Bruce Berglund, history, Gustavus Adolphus. “What the Miracle Means: Olympic Hockey and the Transformation of Sports in America and Central Europe.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, cosponsored by the Department of History.

February 21. Campus Workshop. Heather Morrison, history, State University of New York at New Paltz. “Black Labor and Aid: Viennese Naturalists’ Reliance on Enslaved and Free Black Populations in Colonial Settings.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies in conjunction with the Atlantic Workshop Seminar.

February 25. Lecture. Alexander Vari, history, Marywood University. “From Paris to Budapest (and back): French-Hungarian Cultural Transfers from the Nineteenth Century to the Interwar Period.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies in conjunction with FREN 5350: Social Space and Everyday Life, cosponsored by the Department of French and Italian.

(Postponed) March 18. Gallery Talk. “Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture” exhibit organized by the Goldstein Museum of Design. Remarks by author Jane King Hession, historian and emeritus professor Gary Cohen, and Roy Close, son of Lisl and Win Close. Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Goldstein Museum of Design, cosponsored by the Department of History. Exclusive interview available online at: https://z.umn.edu/CloseCASinterview. (Online) April 3. Lecture. Tara Nummedal, history, Brown University. “Alchemy, Knowledge, and the Digital Humanities: Reimagining a Seventeenth- Century Alchemical Masterpiece.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Center for Early Modern History, and Center for Medieval Studies, cosponsored by the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic, and Dutch.

(Postponed) April 10. Lecture. Martin Mulsow, German, University of Erfurt. “Perspectives for a Global Intellectual History.” Presented by the Center for Early Modern History, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

(Online) April 13. Lecture. Janek Wasserman, history, University of Alabama. “The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas.” Presented by the Center for Austrian Studies in conjunction with HIST 3419: History of Capitalism, cosponsored by the Department of History.

(Canceled) May 1-3. Conference. “The YMCA and Relief for War Victims during WWI.” Organized by Dylan Mohr (PhD candidate, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature) together with Lena Radauer (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg). Cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and others.

(Rescheduled for February of 2021) Lecture. Magda Teter, history, Fordham University. “Dissemination and the Uses of the Jewish Past: The Role of The Present in the Production of History.”Presented by the Center for Jewish Studies, cosponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies.

2019 2020 6 faculty Research & Teaching Gary B. Cohen (History, emeritus) published a book Desperta Ferro 40 (2019): 50-54 and “Polonia mea experimental choral and orchestral piece based on review of William H. Hagen’s Anti-Jewish Violence in est: Erasmus and the Writing of the Polish Reforma- She Did Not Speak, composed by Isaac Roth-Blum- Poland, 1914-1920 in The Journal of Modern History tion,” Odrodzenia i Reformacja w Polsce [Renaissance field, entitled “I See You,” was to premiere at the 92, no. 1 (March 2020): 213-15. and Reformation in Poland] 63 (2019): 257-262. He New England Conservatory of Music, followed by a also delivered two conference papers, one at the Six- performance in New York City in April 2020. It was Ross Etherton (GNSD) organized a panel series teenth Century Studies Conference, October 2019 postponed because of the pandemic. She taught (“Miniatures of Modernity”) for the German Studies and the other one at Peking University during his GER 3104W: Reading & Analysis German Literature; Association’s annual conference. The series included guest professorship in June 2019. GER 3633: The Holocaust and GER 8300: The Uncon- papers on Austrian writers Friederike Mayröcker and cealed in Experimental Writing. Robert Musil. In fall 2019, along with Matthias Rothe Alice Lovejoy (CSCL/MIMS) published one article, (GNSD), he organized a roundtable discussion, “Celluloid Geopolitics: Film Stock and the War Karen Painter (School of Music) delivered a paper hosted by the Center for Austrian Studies, on the Economy, 1939–1947,” Screen 60: 2 (Summer 2019): at the Language of Dying – Language of Death: An Swedish Academy’s controversial decision to award 1–18. She delivered two invited talks: “Czechoslovak international Conference on Linguistics, University the Austrian writer Peter Handke the 2019 Nobel Army Film and the New Wave,” Department of East of Graz, Austria, June 2019. She taught MUS 1914W: Prize for Literature. He taught GER 3104W: Reading Central European Studies, Charles University, Prague, Music in Nazi Germany, MUS 5611: Music Research; & Analysis German Literature “Modern Miniatures,” December 2019; “Cinema and the ‘Modern Child’: MUS 5647: 20th-Century Music, and MUS 8640: which included several German-language authors Studying Children and Cinema during the Cold War,” Music and Racism. from Austria and Central Europe, and GER 3512: Department of Cinema and Media Studies/Film Imagined Communities: German and European Cul- Studies Center, University of Chicago, October 2019. Igor Tchoukarine (CAS, History, CSCL) published a ture and Controversies 1700-Today. She was co-organizer and respondent for the sym- book chapter, “‘Playing the Tourism Card’: Yugosla- posium “Habsburg Urbanisms: Architecture and City via, Advertising, and the Euro-Atlantic Tourism Net- Anna Graber (Earth Sciences) hosted Deborah Coen Building in Eastern Europe,” University of Minnesota, work in the Early Cold War” in Tourism and Travel (Department of History, Yale University) for her talk October 2019. Her article “‘A World Eternally Under during the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences “Reimagining the History of Climate Science” in the Construction’: Věra Chytilová and Late-Socialist across the Iron Curtain, eds. Christian Noack and History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Collo- Prague,” Studies in Eastern European Cinema 2018: 2 Sune Bechmann Pedersen (Routledge, 2019). He quium Series in September 2019. (special issue on Věra Chytilová, ed. P. Hames): 1–15, presented a paper at the American Historical Asso- won the Studies in Eastern European Cinema Best ciation Convention, January 2020, and was co-orga- Patricia Hampl (English, Regents Professor Emerita) Article Prize and Honorable Mention for the SCMS nizer and respondent for the symposium “Habsburg remains on the permanent faculty of the Prague Central/East/South European Cinemas Scholarly Urbanisms,” University of Minnesota, October 2019. Summer Program for Writers, and was teaching Interest Group Outstanding Essay Prize. He taught HIST 3244: Eastern Europe, HIST/JWST there in July 2019 as every year. 3729: Nazi Germany and Hitler’s Europe, and FREN Leslie Morris (GNSD) performed a reading from her 5350: Social Space and Everyday Life: Readings for Howard Louthan (History, Director CAS) published ongoing memoir project She Did Not Speak at the Humanists. two articles: “La reconquista católica de Bohemia,” Rimon Jewish Arts Council in June 2019. A large-scale Classes The courses below contain major components HIST 1534/3534/JWST 1034/3034: HIST 1032W: Europe and the World, II dealing with Austria, the Habsburg Empire, or Intro Jewish History & Culture HIST 1362/3362: Global History of World War II the Central European successor states in a wider HIST 3244: Eastern Europe HIST 3101: Intro to Med Hist European context. The university also offered online HIST 3264/HIST 5264: Imperial Russia HIST 3265/5265: 20th Century Russia classes in Central European topics and language HIST 3547: The Ottoman Empire HIST 3283: Marx, Capital, and History classes in German and Russian. The University of Minnesota is an active participant in the Big Ten HIST 3637: Modern Russia HIST 3611: Medieval Cities of Europe Academic Alliance (BTAA) CourseShare program, HIST/JWST 3729: Nazi Germany/Hitler’s Europe HIST 3704W: Daily Life, Europe which allows students to study Czech, Hungarian MUS 1914W: Music in Nazi Germany HIST 3722: Studies in 20th C Europe 1945-91 or Polish, and other languages. MUS 3602W: Music History II HIST 3767: Eastern Orthodoxy MUS 5950: Concertos of Haydn, Mozart & HIST 8900: Premodern Urban History: Europe & FALL 2019 Beethoven Mediterranean ARTH 3009: Medieval Art PHIL 1911W: Amadeus: In Search of Mozart MUS 3601W: Music History I ARTH 3311: Baroque Art PHIL 1914: Space Time Aristotle-Einstein MUS 3603W: Music History III GER 1601/ JWST 3601: Fleeing Hitler: German PHIL 3601W: Scientific Thought MUS 8640 Music and Racism Filmmakers POL 3451W: Politics and Society in the New PHIL 1914: Space Time Aristotle-Einstein GER 3431: 19th-Century Literature Europe PHIL 3601W: Scientific Thought GLOS 3921: Europe POL 4461W: European Politics HIST 1031W: Europe and the World, I SPRING 2020 POL 4474W: Russian Politics HIST 1361W/3361W: World War I: A Global GER/JWST 3633: The Holocaust History

2019 2020 7 student support 2020 CAS Grad Student Summer Research Grant

Once again, the Center for Austrian Studies held a competition for Summer Research Grants. The grants provide financial support to current outstanding enrolled University of Minnesota graduate students in order to further their progress toward degree completion.

This year, we awarded the Summer Research Grant to James Gresock (history). In his dissertation, Gresock aims to explore how public executions were experienced and understood by early modern European audiences. He understands public execution as a highly nuanced performative drama that is intended to purge a society of its malefactors and restore order through contextually specific acts of ritualized retributive justice. Gresock’s dissertation investigates instances where this contextual specificity was lost, in particular, in the transformation of an execution from a local statement into far-reaching news, and he looks at how this translation itself created new meaning.

For his award, Gresock’s research project, “Dismembering an Execution: Construction of Meaning and Conflation of Imaging from Oldenbarnevelt to Old Town Square,” focuses on how media was used to transform an execution’s contextually specific acts of retributive justice into narratives with broad appeal and polemic undertones. Drawing on visual media such as broadsheets and pamphlets, his project focuses on two executions, one in The Hague (1619) and the other in Prague (1621), and points to instances where depictions of the latter execution drew on the local representational syntax of the former to apply coded and polemical evaluations to a far-away execution. Gresock argues that these subtle visual assimilations played an outsized and overlooked role in the formation of contemporary perception and will go on to investigate their corresponding influence on later historical narrative. 2020 Voices of Vienna (VoV) Scholarship This award was created and funded by Kathryn and Wilbur C. Keefer in honor of William E. Wright, founding director of CAS. It is awarded to graduate students from CLA and the School of Music in alternating years.

The 2020 winner is Alexis Zanghi (Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature). In her research, Zanghi examines representations of housing in contemporary installation and social practice art through archival research and by examining the impact of such installations on the built environment during crisis and displacement, both within cities (through gentrification) and around the world (resulting in migration). For this award, Zanghi is interested in the 2000 art project Please Love Austria by performance artist and filmmaker Christoph Schlingensief. The latter relocated, in 2000, twelve asylum seekers from a detention center outside of Vienna to a complex of five shipping containers in the city’s center for a Big Brother online broadcast on webfreetv.com, during which Austrians voted to evict one asylum seeker at the end of each day. Please Love Austria was especially prescient in the installation’s representation of public space through a form that simultaneously referenced property television and an expanding surveillance state. In summer 2020, Zanghi has prepared for future archival research in Vienna by examining existing scholarship on Please Love Austria as well as other depictions of dwelling through contemporary art Photo: Jeff Barnett-Winsby within Vienna’s built environment. She has been aided by the expansion of digital content and resources by arts institutions in response to COVID-19, including the Wiener Festwochen, which originally commissioned Please Love Austria. Zanghi is especially interested in examining the contemporaneous experiences of Vienna’s city dwellers of Please Love Austria and she looks forward to building on her research when travel restrictions lift. Minor in Austrian & Central Minnesota History Day 2020 European studies Every year, National History Day holds a nationwide competition for students in middle school and high school to research and complete An undergraduate minor in Austrian & Central European Studies, a historical projects: papers, posters, films, or dramatic presentations. At program of the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch (GNSD), the state level, CAS supports their efforts by awarding two $100 prizes to gives students a window not only on to Austria but also on to the outstanding projects with a Central European topic. changing world of Central and Southeastern Europe. It draws on the resources of the CLA faculty and CAS, including the faculty and courses In 2020, CAS prizes went to Mack Jorgensen, Naveena Srinivasan, and listed on page 7. Students must pass a German language proficiency Sreya Subramanian (Parkview Center School) for their documentary exam, complete junior-level German Conversation & Composition, “The Prague Spring: Socialism with a Human Face” (junior division), and and complete at least one Topics in Austrian/Central European Culture to Emma Steen, and Wina Vander Heyden (Moose Lake Secondary course in the Department of GNSD (German 3520). School) for their documentary “Maria Theresia von Paradis: The Blind Enchantress” (senior division). 2019 2020 8 partnerships CAS Partners at the University of Minnesota

The Carlson School of Management’s Vienna a resource for information and teaching about and most important collections of materials Executive MBA program, administered in part- the Holocaust and contemporary aspects on US immigration and refugee life to be found nership with the Vienna University of Econom- of genocide and human rights abuse. CHGS anywhere in the world. The IHRC and CAS fre- ics and Business (WU), entered its 21st year in maintains a full calendar of events and engage- quently collaborate on projects. 2020. This year 73 students (in two cohorts) ment efforts. It is active in organizing exhibits from 26 countries were enrolled in the pro- and helping K-12 teachers incorporate lessons The Minnesota Population Center (MPC), gram. about the Holocaust, world genocides, and Steven Ruggles, Director, was established in human rights issues into their curricula. CHGS March 2000. It is a University-wide interdisci- Vienna EMBA students’ residency program in and CAS share program administrator Jennifer plinary cooperative for demographic research Minnesota was cancelled due to COVID-19. Hammer, and they frequently cosponsor lec- housed in the Office of the Vice President Carlson Executive MBA program also canceled tures and events. for Research. As a leading developer and dis- their EMBA students’ visit to Vienna and WU. seminator of demographic data, MPC serves a The Institute for Global Studies (IGS), Evelyn broader audience of some 25,000 demographic During the 2019-20 academic year, four Carl- Davidheiser, Director, creates an environment researchers worldwide. In 2004, the National son students spent a semester at WU, and for students and scholars at the University of Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded MPC a ma- five WU students spent a semester at Carlson. Minnesota to investigate the sets of interre- jor grant to create integrated, fully document- One Carlson student participated in the 2020 lated processes forming today’s increasingly ed digital samples of European censuses and WU International Summer University via a interdependent world. IGS provides a vibrant micro-censuses from the 1960s to the present: new virtual platform. In addition, one student curriculum for students, brings together schol- the Integrated Public Use Microdata Sample from Warsaw School of Economics studied on ars from diverse disciplines, and works with the (IPUMS) International Project. The NIH has exchange at Carlson. community to create partnerships examining continued to renew the grant, most recently in global issues. In 2012, CAS became a member 2014. MPC’s partners in the European statisti- The Center for German & European Studies of the IGS hub, consisting of ten centers with cal agencies have contributed more than fifty (CGES) is a DAAD-funded Center of Excel- an international agenda. The hub provides censuses and micro-censuses from 1960 to the lence. Its mission is to promote new knowledge accounting, administrative support, and assis- present. Each census sample from Hungary, about Europe, foster transatlantic relations, tance with events planning and staging. Pat Austria, the Czech Republic, and other post- and educate the next generation of American Baehler and Sarah Striegel, in particular, are Habsburg countries has been downloaded experts on Germany and Europe. CGES works involved in organizing our lectures and sym- thousands of times by researchers. Additional closely with CAS on both a formal and an infor- posia. samples are being integrated into the data- mal basis. In 2019-20, CGES, under the direc- base as they become available. Many scholars torship of James Parente, Jr., partnered with Founded in 1965, the Immigration History Re- connected with the Center have come to the CAS on several events and lectures (see page 6). search Center (IHRC), Erika Lee, Director, is an University of Minnesota to avail themselves of interdisciplinary center that promotes research MPC’s expertise, including Fulbright Visiting The Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies on migration with an emphasis on immigration Professors and BMBWF Research Fellows. (CHGS), headed by Alejandro Baer, Director, is to the US. The IHRC has built one of the largest Visiting Faculty 2019-2020 Christina Traxler was the Fall 2019 Fulbright Austria visiting scholar at UMN. Traxler is a postdoctoral assistant in the Department of Historical Theology at the University of Vi- enna. While at the UMN, she gave a talk “Negotiating Faith, Religious Consent and Peace- making in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe” in December 2019. Her book Firmiter velitis resistere. Die Auseinandersetzung der Wiener Universität mit dem Hussitismus vom Konstanzer Konzil (1414–1418) bis zum Beginn des Basler Konzils (1431–1449) was pub- lished in 2019 with V&R Unipress and Vienna University Press. For more details on Traxler, please consult the Austrian Studies Newsmagazine 32, no. 1 (Fall 2019-Spring 2020).

Paul Schweinzer was the Spring 2020 Fulbright Austria visiting scholar. His stay was hosted by the Institute for Global Studies, the Center for Austrian Studies, and the Department of Economics. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Klagenfurt and specializes in game theory, mechanism design, contract theory, and applied microeconomics. While at UMN, he taught a class on sports economics. A reflection by Professor Schweinzer on his spring semester in the Twin Cities is available online on the Center for Austrian Studies’ website at: https://z.umn.edu/ interview2020Fulbright.

2019 2020 9 support & collaboration Support Collaboration Austrian Government Minnesota Many individuals and departments in the Austrian federal government In 2019-20, the Center collaborated with and/or was supported by a wide assist CAS with financial support, advocacy, or expertise. The Center range of organizations at the University of Minnesota, in the Twin Cities, deeply appreciates the assistance of Sektionschefin Barbara Weitgruber, and in the state of Minnesota. Abteilungsleiter Christoph Ramoser and Felix Wilcek of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research, and Florian Gerhardus of Units within CLA included the Center for German and European Studies; the Austrian Exchange Service. the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; the Center for Jewish Studies; the Center for Medieval Studies; the Immigration History We also extend heartfelt thanks to Wolfgang Waldner and Martin Weiss, Research Center; the Human Rights Program; the Institute for Advanced Austrian Ambassadors to the United States; Michael Haider, director of Study; the Institute for Global Studies; the Consortium for the Study the Austrian Cultural Forum (ACF) in New York; Christian Ebner, ACF of the Premodern World; the Center for Early Modern History; and the deputy director; Peter Sedlmayer, Austrian Trade Commissioner, Chicago; Departments of French and Italian; German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch; and Ulla Kalchmair, Director of Press for the Salzburg Festival. and History.

Other Sources of Support Outside of CLA, the Center collaborated with the Carlson School of The Center is thankful for its many institutional and individual supporters. Management, the University of Minnesota Libraries; the Immigration Individual donors are gratefully acknowledged on page 11. History Research Center Archives; the Program in History of Science Technology and Medicine, the Minnesota Population Center; the University collaborators, who often contribute financial resources when Minnesota Design Center; the University of Minnesota Press; and the they cosponsor our events, are listed in the column to the right. The Weisman Art Museum. We also collaborated with the Global Programs Center also appreciates the ongoing support of the College of Liberal Arts and Strategy Alliance to facilitate student and faculty exchanges. and its dean, John Coleman. CLA development officers Mary Hicks, Peter Rozga, and Robyn Rost also provide assistance to the Center. Off-campus collaborators included Metropolitan State University; St. John’s University; St. Thomas University; Minneapolis Institute of Art The Institute for Global Studies (IGS) serves as the administrative platform (Mia); the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center of Minnesota; Marit Lee for several internationally-oriented research centers in the College of Liberal Kucera, the Czech Honorary Consul in Minneapolis; Dr. Kurt Witte, Arts, of which CAS is one. We thank Evelyn Davidheiser, IGS director, for the Austrian Honorary Consul in Minneapolis; the Minnesota Historical her invaluable support and advocacy; John Blair, administrative director Society and its Minnesota History Day program; the Germanic-American of IGS; Klaas van der Sanden, program director; and Pat Baehler, and Institute; Anselm House; and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Sarah Striegel, IGS event coordinators, for their support of CAS. Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC).

Kathryn Keefer once again funded the Voices of Vienna scholarship and was a valued community liaison on our advisory board. North America Institutions. The Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta, Joseph Patrouch, 2019-20 CAS Advisory Board director, continued to be a valued partner, as did Center Austria, Gary Cohen, History, emeritus CAS STAFF: the Center for Austrian Culture and Commerce at the University Jeanne Grant, History, Metropolitan Jennifer Hammer, Program of New Orleans, Günter Bischof, director. State University Administrator Alice Lovejoy, Cultural Studies & Igor Tchoukarine, Editor Professional Organizations. The Center continued to work Comparative Literature closely with the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History and Roberta Maierhofer, American EX OFFICIO: executive secretary Paul Hanebrink. CAS also worked with the Studies, University of Graz Evelyn Davidheiser, Director, IGS American Historical Association, the Association for Slavic, East Daniel Necas, Immigration History Michael Gaudio, Chair, Art History European and Eurasian Studies, the German Studies Association, the Austrian Studies Association, and the HABSBURG Discussion Research Center Archives Michael Haider, Director, ACFNY Network. Jim Oberly, History, University of Kathryn Keefer, Community Liaison Wisconsin-Eau Claire Lyndel King, Director, Weisman Art Karen Painter, School of Music Museum International Andrzej Piotrowski, School of Howard Louthan, Director, CAS In Austria, the Center’s partners included the Austrian Academic Architecture Leslie Morris, Chair, GNSD Exchange Service (ÖAD) and the Austrian American Educational THomas E. Rassieur, Curator, Prints James Parente Jr., Director, CGES Commission (Fulbright Austria), and Lonnie Johnson, executive and Drawings Department Klaas van der Sanden, Program secretary who retired last year and was succeeded by Hermann Agis. The University of Graz is our partner in both a faculty Head, Mia Director, IGS exchange and a student exchange, as well as other scholarly Jole Shackleford, History of Science, Ann Waltner, Chair, History collaborations. We partnered informally with the University of Technology, and Medicine Vienna. Finally, the Carlson School of Management and CAS Brian Vetruba, University Libraries partner with Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien.

2019 2020 10 making a gift Dear Friends, So much has and will be written about the academic year 2019-2020, specifi- I’ve heard many donors say they cally spring 2020. These pieces will be produced by professionals in public health, want to give to where the need is infectious disease, and social justice, and those authors possess far greater exper- greatest, which is amazing. If you’re tise than I. Rather I will focus on my own area of expertise, namely philanthropy thinking about your giving in these and the impact of generosity. terms, I humbly point you to the Center for Austrian Studies general People make charitable contributions to a variety of organizations and for a va- fund, which provides flexible dol- riety of reasons. Some donors seek public recognition or praise. Others have a lars for Center leadership to use as personal interest in a particular cause. Many feel the need to give back to institu- needs change and opportunities tions that have played a significant role in their lives, and many want to make the emerge. The events of Spring 2020 world a better place. Common to all contributions is simply that giving makes provide an ideal example of a time people feel good. when undesignated dollars can make a world of difference to programs. With limitations on international travel and cancellations of in-person events, the Why? Because charitable giving is a choice to do good for someone or some- work of CAS may have different financial needs than one year ago. Yet the work thing beyond ourselves, a desire to provide resources to groups that are impor- continues and you can help make it happen! tant to us and reflect our values and concerns. Giving is an act of free will with no expectation of reciprocity. That is why charitable giving is so powerful and why I Of course, I continue to encourage you to direct your charitable gifts to the area love working with donors every day. that most sparks that feeling of goodness in you. And I welcome conversations and questions about matching the Center’s needs with your philanthropic inter- The Center for Austrian Studies is proud to be part of a community of schol- ests and resources. There are numerous ways to make your contribution, such ars and friends dedicated to its mission and values. Moreover, CAS gratefully as recurring monthly gifts, IRA charitable contributions, and an estate commit- acknowledges every single donor who has chosen to manifest their support ment through a bequest or beneficiary designation. through a charitable gift, especially during times of economic uncertainty and calls for aid from numerous other worthy organizations. For their leadership I hope that this summary of the Center’s activities for 2019-2020 reaffirms your in giving this past year, we recognize Dr. David and Mrs. Rosemary Good and choice to be part of our community and inspires confidence in our work and emerita professor of history Dr. Paula Sutter Fichtner and Mr. Edward Fichtner. mission. Thank you all for what you do to advocate and support the Center for Thank you! Austrian Studies.

I always encourage donors to give to the program or area that matters most to With appreciation, them. This is why CAS has a number of funds to which one may direct a gift, such as the Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture, the R. John Rath Award, and the Robyn Rost, Development Officer Austrian Studies Center Scholarship. phone: 612-625-5092, e-mail: [email protected]

2019-20 CAS Donors AUSTRIAN FEDERAL MINISTRY CAS GENERAL FUND OF SCIENCE AND RESEARCH FUND Prof. Wayles E. Browne III Jeffrey L. Canfield Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Edward Fichtner & Paula Sutter Fichtner Science, and Research Harlan Woodring The CAS 2019-20 ROBERT A. KANN MEMORIAL LECTURE FUND Annual Report R. JOHN RATH AWARD FUND John W. Boyer ©2020, Center for Austrian Studies. Dr. Gary B. Cohen Isabel F. Stensland Edited & designed by Igor Tchoukarine (with the assistance of Dylan Mohr). Rex H. Levang CAS AUSTRIAN Richard L. Sandberg Editorial associate: Jennifer Hammer STUDIES SCHOLARSHIP The Center for Austrian Studies is a unit DAVID F. & ROSEMARY H. GOOD Barbara C. Krauss-Christensen & of the College of Liberal Arts, University FUND IN HERITAGE Dr. Russell P. Christensen of Minnesota. STUDIES AND PUBLIC HISTORY The University of Minnesota is an equal VOICES OF VIENNA opportunity employer and educator. Rosemary H. & David F. Good Kathryn Keefer

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2019-20 CAS/BMBWF Research Fellow Since the 1992-93 academic year, Wegenschimmel is a doctoral industry is global in its scope Austria’s Federal Ministry for candidate co-advised by Philipp and networks, it has also long Education, Science, and Research, Ther (University of Vienna) and been closely connected to (BMBWF) has awarded a fellow- Ulf Brunnbauer (University of state actors and embedded ship to a doctoral student from an Regensburg). In his dissertation, within local, regional, and Austrian university to come to the Wegenschimmel explores how two state-level infrastructures. University of Minnesota for nine shipyards (Uljanik in Croatia and Unfortunately, Wegenschim- months of research and/or classes. Gdynia in Poland) have managed, During this time, the fellow works mel’s stay at the University part-time on Center programs. despite chronic unprofitability, of Minnesota was shortened to survive institutional upheav- due to the COVID-19 pan- Peter Wegenschimmel was als since the 1970s. His research demic; he returned to Europe this year’s CAS/ BMBWF Fellow. posits that while the shipbuilding in March 2020. PAST BMBWF FELLOWS 01-02: Stephan Hametner, 10-11: Thomas Schmidinger, University of Vienna University of Vienna 92-93: Sonja Kröll, 02-03: Harald Stelzer, 11-12: Thomas Hörzer, University of Salzburg University of Graz University of Graz 93-94: Manfred Blümel, 03-04: Manuela Steinberger, 12-13: Matthias Falter, University of Vienna University of Graz University of Vienna 94-95: Thomas Burg, 04-05: Mirjam Marits, 13-14: Verena Stern, University of Vienna University of Graz University of Vienna 95-96: Thomas Winderl, 05-06: Silke Stern, 14-15: Carl Neumayr, University of Vienna University of Graz University of Graz 96-97: Rudy Weissenbacher, 06-07: Barbara Reiterer, 15-16: Martin Baresch, University of Vienna University of Vienna University of Linz 97-98: Anita Eichinger, Peter Wegenschimmel 07-08: Simon Loidl, 16-17: Michael Streif, University of Vienna University of Vienna University of Salzburg 2019-20 CAS/BMBWF Fellow 98-99: Johanna Ortler, 08-09: Thomas König, 17-18: Sarah Oberbichler, University of Vienna University of Vienna University of Innsbruck 99-00: Stefan Riegler, 09-10: Jan Surman, 18-19: Silke Antje Niklas, University of Graz University of Vienna Andrássy University