Vienna, City of Dreams at Writers Theatre

This lecture covers the geopolitical context of Vienna and Austria-Hungary during the first 50 years of the 20th century, led by John Deak, Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Deak's first book, Forging a Multinational State, was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Social Science History in 2018, and his recent work on the First World War has been published in leading academic journals. The program examines Vienna's role as a cultural capital of Europe and its place in the momentous events of those decades.