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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: Researching Minorities in Twentieth-Century Hungary: Tangible Belonging and Borderland Identity
- 06 March 2024: Bruno Schulz and the Jewish-Polish-Ukrainian Triangle
- 12 March 2024: Metternich and Bismarck Compared
- Autumn Term 2023
- 04 October 2023: A change of direction? Slovakia’s parliamentary elections and their implications
- 12 October 2023: Václav Havel European Dialogues 2023
- 28 November 2023: A literary evening with Slovene writer and artist Cvetka Bevc
- Summer Term 2023
- Spring Term 2023
- Autumn Term 2022
18 October 2022 Peace and Democracy in Crisis: Václav Havel European Dialogues
25 October Milan Rastislav Štefánik (2021): A discussion with author Michal Kšiňan
- 2022 Spring term
25 January 2022 R.W.Seton-Watson and the ‘New Europeans’
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 Dubček (1921-1992): A roundtable discussion
7 December 2021 Galicia and Rwanda: Social or Ethnic Genocide? 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
- 2019 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 Autumn Term
6 - 8pm, 09 October 2018 Explaining Orban's Victories: The Political Situation in Hungary Today - Professor Iván Balog 6 - 8pm, 17 December 2018 Journey into the Whirlwind by way of L’viv - Dr. Iryna Starovoyt
