Progress and Emancipation
in the Age of Metternich
Jews and Modernization in Austria and Germany, 1815-1848
A conference organized by the Centre for German-Jewish Studies
in conjunction with the Austrian Cultural Institute
to mark the 150th anniversary of Metternich's exile in Brighton
This conference will investigate socially progressive impulses within a
system which was politically conservative, taking the position of the
Jewish communities as an indicator of tentative moves towards
modernization in German-speaking Europe. The frustration of proposals
for Jewish civil rights at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 resulted in an
unresolved tension between reactionary and modernizing agendas. The
consequences will be explored in a series of interconnected papers, also
taking account of the emergence of new conceptions of Czech and
Hungarian ethnicity.
The historical framework is provided by a situation in which progress
towards emancipation was painfully slow, and debates about civil rights
may have been less significant than socio-economic pressures in the
gradual transformation. Some of the cultural developments of the period
1815-48, not least those associated with literary and intellectual life,
journalism and the salons, will be reassessed in this context. New
research about the Rothschild family shows that Metternich's repressive
policies did not preclude significant commercial and technological
developments, notably in Bohemia.
A further theme will be Jewish involvement in the liberal movement
which preceded the Revolution of 1848. Jews were prominent on both sides
of the barricades, and the Frankfurt National Assembly resolved that
they were entitled to full rights of citizenship. However, the failure
of the Revolution of 1848-9 and the frustration of Jewish emancipation
contributed to the emergence of new forms of nationalism, while
right-wing ideologists blamed the Jews for the tensions caused by
modernization and for the excesses of the Revolution.
All events take place in the Meeting House at the University of Sussex,
unless otherwise indicated.
Monday, 12 April 1999
12.00-14.00 Registration in the foyer of the Meeting House
14.00 Opening of the conference: Introduction by John Röhl (Sussex)
14.30 Alan Sked (London School of Economics), The Persistence of
Josephinist Elements in the Metternich System
15.30 Tea
16.15 Niall Ferguson (Oxford), Metternich and the Rothschilds: A
Reappraisal
17.00 Eva Novotny (Austrian Ambassador), Metternich's View of England
19.00 Reception at the Gardner Arts Centre
Tuesday, 13 April
9.30 Waltraud Heindl (Vienna), Political Reaction, Social Change and
Cultural Progress in the Age of Metternich
10.15 Emil Brix (Austrian Cultural Institute, London), The Ethnic
Denial? Metternich's Policies towards the Bohemian Lands
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Eda Sagarra (Dublin), Grillparzer, Roman Catholicism and the Jews
12.15 Peter Kampits (Vienna), Bernard Bolzano and Early Liberalism
13.00 Lunch: self-service cash lunch and bar at the Gardener Arts Centre
14.15 Edward Timms (Sussex), Civil Rights or Civic Improvement: The
Debates about Jewish Emancipation at the Congress of Vienna
15.00 Andrea Hammel (Sussex), Metternich's Austria in Feminist
Perspective: Hermynia zur Mühlen's Ewiges Schattenspiel
16.00 Tea
16.30 Hubert Lengauer (Klagenfurt), German Literature and its 'Court
Jews': The Case of
Sigmund Engländer
17.15 Silke Hassler (Vienna), Moritz Gottlieb Saphir - a Frustrated
Nestroy?
19.00 Dinner
Wednesday, 14 April
9.30 John Warren (Oxford Brookes), A Comparison of Kuranda's Die
Grenzboten and
Frankl's Sonntagsblätter
10.15 Ritchie Robertson (Oxford), Karl Beck: From Radicalism to
Monarchism
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Robert Pynsent (London), Herloszsohn and Czech National
Consciousness
12.15 Eoin Bourke (Galway), Moritz Hartmann, Bohemia and the Metternich
System
13.00 Lunch: self-service cash lunch and bar at the Gardener Arts
Centre
14.15 Robert Evans (Oxford), Progress and Emancipation in Hungary
15.00 Anita Bunyan (Cambridge), Jews, Germans and the Rise of non-German
Nationalisms in 1848
15.45 Concluding Panel Discussion, chaired by Peter Pulzer (Oxford)
16.30 Tea
End of conference
REGISTRATION FORM
Please complete in BLOCK CAPITALS and send together with the appropriate
registration fee by 28 February to:
Andrea Hammel
Research Administrator
Centre for German-Jewish Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QL
Registration Fee
£30 / £20 concessions for students (please provide photocopied proof)
and Friends of the Centre
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