Oxford University Austro-Hungarian Society

The Oxford University Austro-Hungarian Society is a non-profit educational and cultural student organisation that was founded in 2014, on the centenary of the declaration of the First World War. The aim of the Society is to offer space for discussion, cultural exchanges, and cooperation to the peoples from, and those interested in what used to be the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Society has established partnerships with several of Oxford's national Central European societies, as well as the Oxford Union and the University's Catholic Society, aiming to offer a comprehensive cultural stage for Central Europe within the University.
The OUAHS is hosting a variety of cultural and social events and frequently invites speakers of international renown - from politicians, ambassadors, and members of royal and imperial houses to world-famous artists and musicians or academics - to talks about Central European affairs and the history of the region. It has also managed to successfully establish connections with several old noble houses of Austria-Hungary and figures within the Roman Catholic Church, many of which are its patrons and great benefactors. The Society has twelve official languages (German, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, Montenegrin and Latin), a fact that makes it the most polyglot and multicultural society in the University of Oxford. To avoid confusion however the administration has set English as its working and publishing language as well as language of the record, and French as its constitutional language.
The Oxford University Austro-Hungarian Society is in close cooperation with multiple cultural institutions in London - such as the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Hungarian Cultural Centre, the Czech Centre or the Italian Institute - and its website is listed in the internet resources guide of many of these organisations as well as the British Library.

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