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The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen invites you to another interdisciplinary seminar on Monday, October 5, starting at 5:00 PM. The lecture, titled Austria-Hungary as Europe in Miniature? The History of Federalism in the 19th-Century Habsburg Monarchy, will be given by Jana Osterkamp from the University of Augsburg. She will present 19th-century Habsburg federalism as a lived practice and an alternative to both the nation-state and a centralized empire. The seminar will take place on the ground floor of the UWB Faculty of Education building on Veleslavínova Street.

The lecture will be delivered in Czech; students, academics, and the general public are all welcome to attend.

Prof. Jana Osterkamp is a historian and lawyer specializing in modern European and legal history. She earned her doctorate in legal history from Goethe University Frankfurt (2007) and completed her habilitation in modern and Eastern European history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2019). Since 2023, she has served as Professor of the Shared History of East Central Europe and Germany at the University of Augsburg and has also directed the Bukovina Institute there. She specializes in the political and cultural history of the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states, environmental history, Jewish cultural heritage, and transnational memory culture. Her book A Federal History of the Habsburg Empire 1815-1918 (Oxford University Press) has been published in German and in Czech (with Argo, 2022).