Registration now open for what is looking like an excellent conference in Vienna later this month.
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@thegsa.bsky.social is accepting submissions for the Barclay Book Prize competition (for monographs published in 2025). I'm on this year's committee. The deadline for nominations is May 30. Please spread the word! www.thegsa.org/grants-prize...
Governing Divided Societies, my new book with Tom Lorman and Dan Miller, is now up on the CEU Press/Amsterdam U Press website!! Start planning your pre-orders!!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Consuls have long occupied an ambiguous place in the historiography of international relations. Ubiquitous in imperial infrastructures, yet largely
So many stories...
Born in Krnov, in current Czech Republic, Charles Louis Fleischmann created America's first commercial yeast. No Fleischmann, no mass-produced bread. Buried in Parthenon.
3rd great granddaughter is Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, failed Silicon Valley startup.
Gustav Klimt was deeply fond of cats and kept many of them in his studios in Vienna. Visitors often described his workspace as full of cats wandering freely among his drawings and materials. Despite his affection for them, cats do not appear in his art. His love for them was personal.
Congratulations & thanks to Carlo Krieger, former Luxembourg ambassador (to Brazil, China, Russia), who is behind commemorative stamp for first printed book of Mi’kmaq hieroglyphic writing.
His article on the history is open-access, online.
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For those interested in #denazification in postwar #Austria, I have a new (open source) article out with @jaustamerhist.bsky.social: "Improvised Liberation: Allied Planning for the Denazification and Democratization of Austria" scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/austria...
Journal of Austrian-American History
Mikkel Dack
Dr. Philip J. Howe
Journal of Austrian-American History
Abstract. This article reexamines western Allied planning for the denazification of Austria, arguing that the campaign’s limitations were not merely the result of Cold War geopolitics or the “victim’s...
Der Skandal ist Teil der Inszenierung.
Vienna daily @derstandard.at reports Peter Thiel will appear at Wiener Festwochen, and finds perhaps the most perfectly Austrian phrase possible to end the article, "The scandal is part of the performance."
Orson Welles circa *The Third Man*: "bekannt, berühmt, begehrt."
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Zu den Festwochen hat Mario Rau, der Intendant der Wiener Festwochen, Peter Thiel eingeladen.
Im Interview will Rau dem Standard-Reporter einreden, dass "An den Universitäten der US-Ostküste ist eine der häufigsten Fächerkombis derzeit Neuroscience und, was irgendwie skurril klingen mag, Kunst." 🤣
Journal of Austrian-American History
Journal of Austrian-American History
Journal of Austrian-American History
Abstract. This article documents the specific activities by Christian Kauder in the context of Catholic mission work and their direct influence on the daily life, culture, and religion of the Mi’kmaq....
Der "Antichrist" im Wiener Hotel: Peter Thiel kommt nach Wien. Der US-Tech-Milliardär und Trump/Kurz-Förderer soll bei einer Festwochenveranstaltung sein umstrittenes Weltbild präsentieren Meine Recherche: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
The authors of this volume challenge conventional notions about Habsburg and Czechoslovak politics, arguing that they were more democratic than they often appear. They use the consociational model of ...
Milo Rau: "Wir erleben das globalpolitische Endspiel der Demokratie"
In seinem dritten Jahr ruft der Intendant der Wiener Festwochen eine "Republic of Gods" aus – und plädiert für eine Kontaktaufnahme mit rechten Paralleluniversen
Oliver Scheiber 🇪🇺
The happiest of birthdays in the afterlife to Orson Welles!
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A former Luxembourg civil servant has just sent me postage with a new stamp that commemorates the first printed book of Mi’kmaq hieroglyphic writing (printed by a Luxembourger catholic missionary 160 years ago). No doubt the first stamp ever to include this script!
In seinem dritten Jahr ruft der Intendant der Wiener Festwochen eine "Republic of Gods" aus – und plädiert für eine Kontaktaufnahme mit rechten Paralleluniversen
