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The Austrian Network for Migration History (ÖNM) recently expanded and enriched the research profile of the Department of History with its research, exhibition, collection and publication activities within the framework of historical migration research.

The library of the University of Salzburg supported the Raphael Hospiz Salzburg through the sale of used books in flea markets.

The Polonaise, with which students opened the Uni-Ball for the first time, came off flawlessly and received much applause.

A portrait of Hans Lechner, Landeshauptmann (State Governor)of Salzburg from 1961 to 1977, has been unveiled at the University of Salzburg.

Attention! The event on the topic "How a volcano crashed the world into the crisis" is fully booked and has been moved to the Max Gandolph Library, Kapitelgasse 5-7, 1st floor.

On 19 October, 2016, at 16:15, the lecture series organized by the IFFB Sport- & Bewegungswissenschaft / USI and the University 55-PLUS at the University of Salzburg will be launched: "Der Körper in der Postmoderne - zwischen Entkörperlichung und Körperwahn'.

On 20 October at 19:00, Climate Historian Wolfgang Behringer will be speaking in the Bibliotheksaula (Hofstallgasse 2-4) on the topic "Wie ein Vulkan die Welt in die Krise stürzte".

Norbert Christian Wolf, German scholar at the University of Salzburg, was awarded the Kurt-Zopf Award for his work on the founding principle of the Salzburg Festival.

The last of three evenings of meetings for young adults with refugees and asylum seekers, KHG-Clubroom, Wiener Philharmoniker Gasse 2, Salzburg:Tuesday, 24 November, 2015 ("Face To Face"), 18:00Thurs

"Learning to listen, listening to learn" - unter diesem Thema bietet Prof. Reinhold Wagnleitner, FB Geschichte, eine öffentlich zugängliche Ringvorlesung an.

Up until now there was nothing to indicate the existence of bras with clearly visible cups before the 19th century. Textiles found in a castle in Eastern Tyrol now prove that there already was clothing similar to modern bras in the 15th century - a discovery made by Beatrix Nutz, an archeologist from the University of Innsbruck.

Annual-resolved European summer climate has, for the first time ever, been reconstructed over the past 2,500 years. Tree rings reveal possible links between past climate variability and changes in human history. Climate change coincided with periods of socioeconomic, cultural and political turmoil associated with the Barbarian Migrations, the Black Death and Thirty Years' War.