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Our approach to the region is multi-disciplinary, comprising history, languages and literature, culture, politics and economics.
We seek to promote research and teaching on the history, languages, literature, political culture, music, arts and society of those lands once part of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Middle Ages to the present, as well as on German-speaking Europe and the Baltic.
These countries (in their present borders) include Austria, Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
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Recent Events
- Spring 2024 Term
- 06 February 2024:听Researching Minorities in Twentieth-Century Hungary: Tangible Belonging and Borderland Identity
- 06 March 2024:听Bruno Schulz and the Jewish-Polish-Ukrainian Triangle
- 12 March 2024:听Metternich and Bismarck Compared
- Autumn Term 2023
- 04 October 2023:听A change of direction? Slovakia鈥檚 parliamentary elections and their implications
- 12 October 2023:听V谩clav Havel European Dialogues 2023
- 28 November 2023:听A literary evening with Slovene writer and artist Cvetka Bevc
- Summer听Term 2023
- Spring Term 2023
- Autumn Term 2022
18 October 2022 Peace and Democracy in Crisis: V谩clav Havel European Dialogues
25 October Milan Rastislav 艩tef谩nik (2021): A discussion with author Michal K拧i艌an
- 2022 Spring听term
25 January听 2022 R.W.Seton-Watson and the 鈥楴ew Europeans鈥�
8 February 2022 What was society in the Nazi ghettos? A new history of Theresienstadt
3 March 2022 
15 March 2022 Still Fighting Fascism: How German Communists of Jewish Origin Remembered Nazism
- 2021 Autumn term
22 October 2021 Thirty Years of Independent Slovenia: Challenges and Prospects
4 November 2021 Prague: Belonging in the Modern City: Chad Bryant
30 November 2021 The life and legacy of Alexander Dub膷ek (1921-1992): A roundtable discussion
7 December 2021 Galicia and Rwanda: Social or Ethnic Genocide?听Tomasz Kamusella
- 2021 Spring Term
5-7.30pm 11 May 2021 Politics of Metaphors in Action: Covis-19 in the Recent Slovenian Political Discourse - Professor Jernej Pikalo 听 听
- 2019听Autumn Term
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, 30 October 2019 The Light That Failed: A Reckoning 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, 03 December 2019 Sensory Experiences of Order and Disorder in Habsburg Austria, 1900-1920
- 2018听Autumn Term
6 - 8pm, 09 October 2018 Explaining Orban's Victories: The Political Situation in Hungary Today - Professor Iv谩n Balog 6 - 8pm, 17 December 2018 Journey into the Whirlwind by way of L鈥檝iv - Dr. Iryna Starovoyt 听
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