Ethnicity, Identity, and Emigration from the Regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

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Memorial Union

Location:

UW-Memorial Union, Madison, Wisconsin

Description:

  • 3:00 – 3:15 Welcome
  • 3:15 – 4:00 Annemarie Steidl (University of Vienna, Austria) “Understanding the Transatlantic Migration Experience: The Intermarriage of US-Migrants from Austria-Hungary as an Indicator of Acculturation, 1910 – 1950”
  • 4:00 – 4:45 James Oberly (UW-Eau Claire) “Measuring the ‘börtönben nemzetek’ (‘Prison of Nations’): Census-Counting in the Kingdom of Hungary, 1870-1910, and in the United States, 1870-1920”
  • 4:45 – 5:15 Break
  • 5:15 – 6:00 Vladimir Fischer (University of Vienna, Austria) “Maintaining South Slav Migrant Groups. The Praxis, 1890ies to 1960ies”
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