I'm looking forward to this lecture next Thursday evening, about a French surgeon who treated Anne of Austria's breast cancer using a remedy he is rumoured to have learned about while working in the Jesuit mission to the Wendat near Lake Huron in the 1640s. Streaming and in person. Link below!
Not exactly the day the music died, but sad to know comic Mozart vendors will soon be banished from Michaelerplatz.
FYI
Ausländer hatte eine sehr interessante und wichtige Beziehung zu den USA – nicht nur zu New York, sondern auch zu Minneapolis und anderen Städten.
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Excellent Finding Aids online for preparing an application for a GHI Research Fellowship or just checking their holdings.
www.germansociety.org/horner-library
Looking ahead to forthcoming issue of *Journal of Austrian-American History*
Articles on 1952 Vienna performance of *Porgy and Bess,* Otto Habsburg in wartime New York, American disorganization in post-1945 Austria, and more.
As Captain Beefheart used to say, "I cannot go back to your frownland."
From the "steppes of Hungary"
"Sheriff James Martin & deputies were tried in 1898 for killing one miner but acquitted after defense attorneys characterized miners as 'invaders from the Steppes of Hungary' who had come to America to destroy peace and liberty"
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-...
Railroad tracks that reach across the Atlantic...
botstiberbiaas.org/habsburg-rai...
I guess this means they will miss the Vienna Philharmonic performing at the Kennedy Center in March.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
📢 CfP: The Yugoslav Wars & Post-Cold War Europe
📍 Regensburg, December 9–11, 2026
We invite proposals for presentations on all aspects of the Yugoslav Wars. 🔗 www.ifz-muenchen.de/aktuelles/au...
This conference is organised jointly with @leibniz-ios.de and @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Wiener Philharmoniker haben in den letzten 10+ Jahren (!!) meines Wissens nie ein Konzert im Kennedy Center/in D.C. gespielt, aber haben jetzt offenbar kein Problem das MAGA-Konzerthaus mit ihrer Musik zu unterstützen. Werde ich mir merken.
www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/exp...
2026 Botstiber lecture in Austrian Studies
The Jewish Community of Vienna in the Middle Ages: A Turbulent History and its Material Remains
🗓️ 4 February 🕛 Noon-2p.m. 📍223 Philosophy Hall
🔗Register for this event on our website
events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/31...
First monument in Europe to recognize solidarity with Roma and Romnja people -- through actions that saved them from deportation -- during the Holocaust stands in Oberpullendorf, Burgenland, since last November.
György Gedeon Rohonczy.
www.erinnern.at/termine/alle...
The Gerd Bucerius Scholarship, funded by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS in partnership with CEU, supports outstanding MA students in Historical Studies.
The scholarship includes:
1️⃣ 100% tuition waiver
2️⃣ monthly stipend
3️⃣ one-time research allowance of € 1.000
www.linkedin.com/posts/zeit-s...
My review of 'Controlled Freedom: Allied Cultural Policy in Vienna, 1945–1955', edited by Oliver Rathkolb and Agnes Meisinger ( @dgb-history.bsky.social ), has been published in @ahy-history.bsky.social!
@cas-umn.bsky.social @botstiberinstitute.bsky.social #Vienna
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Max Spitzkopf, the great Vienna detective and Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, now appearing in English translation, with a translator talk at the Yiddish Book Center.
www.yiddishbookcenter.org/events/upcom...
Would not mind seeing a bit more coverage of today's General Strike in Minneapolis in the Austrian media.
Die Stadtbücherei Wien ist nun mit ihrem Bluesky-Account fest im Spiel.
Bekanntlich hat Hollywood auch im Jahr 1933 das Schreckbild wiederbelebt.
#KingKong
"The exhibition features photographs, manuscripts, rare books, and archival materials that trace Segal’s journey from prewar Vienna to New York..."
www.lbi.org/events/exhib...
Recalling the story that Enver Hoxa told his people on New Year's Eve that next year would be worse than this year, but it would still be much better than the year that would follow.
Václav Horčička writes that, in 1917, at meeting of returned U.S. consuls, Austrian authorities said many emigrants would return after war. Hungary alone expected 300,000.
Only Czechs had entirely broken up with Austria.
Consuls and Consulates conference -- abstract deadline today.
Peak hate against great Fritz Kreisler, married to an American woman.
In 1917, Pittsburgh mayor declared he would gladly convene a jury to judge Kreisler. Eventually, Kreisler canceled all U.S. charity concerts.
Hamlet used to say, "It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it."
A great exhibition on Alfred Jarry at the Museu Picasso - Ubu Painter: Alfred Jarry and the Arts www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...
" What events culminate in the tearing apart of previous systems? And what comes after?"
Conference:
"Ruptures in European History Individuals, Institutions, and Historical Practices in Times of Uncertainty"
2026graceh.wixsite.com/home
Hope? Yes, hoping it does not get a lot worse...
Call for Proposals 2026 ASEEES Annual Convention - Submission Site Now Open
Theme: States and Empires
Spotlight on Balkan Studies
Deadline: March 1
buff.ly/7eZO4lX
#ASEEES26
What the hell is high protein Spätzle what is wrong with everyone
