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Harry Carl Schaub, BIAAS Board Member, reviews the diverse Austrian experiences of his youth, as Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Austria to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and as an author with Frank Trommler, Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. Their interview was conducted on December 13, 2019, […]

New BIAAS Event Grant Application Process BIAAS’s new Event Grants application process is now OPEN. Requests may include support for conferences, symposia, seminars, exhibits, workshops, lectures, and other public events aimed at promoting an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria (including Habsburg Austria.) Letters of Inquiry are open for submission […]

BIAAS Austro-Americana Blog Series Former BIAAS grant recipient, Nadine Zimmerli, writes 2 blogs for BIAAS. Nadine Zimmerli is the editor for history and social sciences at the University of Virginia Press. She trained as a modern European historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2011. At present, she is completing […]

Vic Huber: A Life Promoting Music, Arts, and Cultural Ties Vic Huber is an American Honorary Consul in Vienna, Austria and the Programme Director of the Austro-American Society in Vienna. He shares his own personal story about growing up in post-war Vienna and his lifelong journey with American culture with Jonathan Singerton, former BIAAS Grantee. […]

BIAAS Austro-Americana Blog Series Former BIAAS grant recipient, Alison Orton, writes 3 blogs for BIAAS. Alison Orton is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In her dissertation, beer and the brewing industry are lenses through which to examine the fluidity of national and ethnic attachments among […]

PD. Dr. Friederike Kind-Kovács, a former Botstiber-CEU Fellow, discusses “1919-2019: The Legacy of Transatlantic and Transnational Aid to Central Europe” at the Post World War I Aid in Austria & Central Europe Symposium, which took place September 26 – 27, 2019, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. The symposium was jointly organized […]