Beschreibung
During the 1970s the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science,
Research and Economy supported the founding of the Center
for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in
Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in
California. These foundings were the initial incentives for
the world wide ’spreading‘ of similar institutions;
currently eight Centers for Austrian and Central European
Studies exist in seven states on three continents. The
financial funding of the Ministry enabled these, to connect
senior with young scholars, to help the latter, to
participate and benefit from the scientific connection of
the former, as the Austrian say `to sniff the scientific
air‘. A major reason for the founding of these Centers was
the need of the Ministry, to conduct research abroad and to
get in touch with the respective national scientific
community, to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better
understandig and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe.
This volume contains the annual reports (2014/2015) of the
Center Director’s and the presented papers of the PhDs,
which deal with/discuss various topics on Central European
History in Modern Times.
The Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies,
founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Sciences,
Research and Economy since the 1970s play an important role
for the Austrian and international scientific community.
Their tasks are to promote studies on Austrian and Central
Europe in their host nations as well as to offer Austrian
and Central European students the opportunity to conduct
research abroad and to get in touch with the local
scientific community. This anthology contains reports on the
activities of the Centers in the Academic Year 2014/2015 and
papers of their most promising PhD-students.
Mag. Dr. Marija Wakounig, MAS, Professor at
the Institute of East European History, University of
Vienna.
Ferdinand Kühnel, Phd fellow at the Institute of East
European History, University of Vienna.
