The Austrian Centers of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and New Orleans, together with the Botstiber Foundation and the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, organized a workshop in Minneapolis from April 19 - 20, 2023, entitled “Reassessing Bruno Kreisky’s Contributions to Postwar History.”

Center Austria was delighted to welcome a group of Geography students and their two professors to the UNO campus.

When: April 27, 2023, 12:30 pm
Where: Seminar Room IC 112

When: Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Where: International Center, Student Lounge, Room IC 133

The personal and professional life of Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990), Austria's long-serving Socialist chancellor from August 1970 to May 1983, has been the focus of many books and articles. However, his ambiguous and complex relationship to his Jewishness, the State of Israel, and Zionism, as well as his connections to his overall political project and global aspirations, remain only partially researched. This book studies and analyzes these more systematically and comprehensively and places Kreisky in a comparative perspective with other twentieth-century European Jewish politicians who attained similar pinnacles of power. At the same time, the book will show that Bruno Kreisky was among the most influential and controversial political leaders since World War II.

When: November 15, 2022. 12:00 PM
Where: Earl K. Long Library, #407

By Dr. Hans Petschar

When: October 5, 2022, 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Where: International Center, Room 112, The University of New Orleans

Students from Austrian enrolled at UNO this Fall semester enjoy a trip to Chicago, IL.

When: September 13, 2022, 12:30 PM Central
Where: Zoom

When: Monday, September 12, 6:00 PMWhere: Kirschman Hall, Room 225, The University of New Orleans

When: September 7, 2pm Central = 9pm MEZ
Where: Zoom - https://bit.ly/3QSHp6W

Austria bordered communist dictatorships for over a thousand kilometers. As a neutral state, Austria played an important role as a mediator, bridge-builder and negotiator.

Volume 30 of Contemporary Austrian Studies (CAS), “Visual Histories of Austria,” was presented at the Austrian National Library in Vienna on June 13, 2022.

Center Austria Senior Fellow and former head of UNO’s political science department, Dr. Charles D. Hadley, took this semester’s Innsbruck and exchange students for lunch at Antoine’s.

Christian Stenico was the 2019/20 and 2020/21 Doctoral Research Fellow at Center Austria and is currently the Nick Mueller Fellow and the inaugural UNO Press & Center Austria Publishing Fellow.

UNO’s Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies, together with the Institute for Contemporary History at our partner university, the University of Innsbruck, organized the 2022 Meeting of the Austrian Studies Association.

Innsbruck and exchange students saw their first baseball game at Maestri Field, with the UNO Privateers facing off against the Northwestern State Demons.

Helmut Brandstätter
When: March 28, 2022, 12:30 pm
Where: Zoom & Zoom viewing at UNO’s International Center, Seminar Room 112