Empress Maria Theresia, the onlyfemale ruler of the long-livedHabsburg Empire, while conservativeby nature introduced radical reformsto education, boosted Austria’seconomy and promoted inoculationagainst smallpox.

Hosted by theAmbassador of Austria and inassociation with the Austrian CulturalForum, we commemorate thetercentenary of her birth with workswritten in Vienna in the afterglow ofher reign.