Austrian Studies Annual Lecture 2023 given by Professor John Connelly
The Fourth Annual Leiden Austrian Studies Lecture “Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?” was given by Professor John Connelly on Monday, March 20, 2023 at Leiden University’s Faculty Club.
More than sixty people attended and the audience included Madame Ambassador Astrid Harz (Ambassador of Austria to The Netherlands), Ms. Daria Bouwman (the Cultural Attaché at the Austrian Embassy in The Hague), Dr. Steven Engelsman (the President of the Austrian Studies Foundation), Mr. Hugo Weiland (the President Emeritus of the Austrian Studies Foundation) and his wife Heidi, the Board and Curatorium of the Austrian Studies Foundation, dear colleagues, fellow historians and, of course, students interested in Central European Studies. During the reception which followed the event attendees were treated to a trio of violinists from the Practicum Musicae Orkest.
Professor John Connelly traveled to Leiden from Berlin, where he is a Fellow of the American Academy. At the University of California, Berkeley he is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History. His books include Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 (2000) which won the 2001 George Beer Award of the American Historical Association; From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews (2012) which was awarded the John Gilmary Shea prize of the American Catholic Historical Association; and From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (2020). He has written for many notable academic journals as well as Commonweal, The Nation, The Washington Post, the London Review of Books, and the Neue Zürcher. He is on the editorial boards of Slavic Review and Contemporary European History.
'Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?' by Professor John Connelly
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