Since 2019, the Foundation for Austrian Studies organises an annual lecture in cooperation with the Institute for History.

Seventh Annual Austrian Studies Lecture

2026, 8 April: Prof. Jakub Beneš (University College London), 'East Europe’s Forgotten Peasant Revolution: The Era of World Wars Reconsidered'

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Sixth Annual Austrian Studies Lecture

2025, 14 April: Dr. Hans Petschar (Austrian National Library), 'Austria’s Present Past: A visual journey through Austrian history 1925 – 2025'

  

Fifth Annual Austrian Studies Lecture

2024, June 7, Prof. dr. Sarah A. Cramsey (Leiden University) inaugural lecture "Care, Children and the Other Holocaust"

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Fourth Annual Austrian Studies Lecture

2023, 20 March: Prof. John Connelly (University of California), 'Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?'
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Third Annual Austrian Studies Lecture

2021, 29 October/2 November: Prof. Howard Louthan (University of Minnesota), ‘Revisiting a Renaissance Classic: Theuerdank, Maximilian I (1486-1519) and the Discovery of the World’

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Second Annual Austrian Studies Lecture

2020, 2 December: Dr. Gábor Egry (Institute of Political History Budapest), ‘The Empire's New Clothes? How Austria-Hungary's Legacy Kept the Successor States Running’

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First Annual Austrian Studies Lecture

2019, 29 November: Prof. Mark Cornwall (University of Southhampton), ‘A Typology of Traitors in Late Nineteenth Century Austria-Hungary’

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