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Conference participants on Day 1. (Photo: Christopher Adam.) The first day of the HSAC conference also included a panel on Austro-Hungarian Egos during the First World War, featuring papers from Andrea Ritter (of the Jewish Theological Seminary of Budapest), on war neurosis, Judit Pál of Babes-Bolyai University in Kolozsvár (Cluj) presenting on the empire’s multi-ethnic elites and Kristen Csenkey, a student from the University of Toronto, speaking about the contributions of writer/psychiatrist Géza Csáth.