FYI
Andrew Jameson
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371 (+44 1524 32371)
----------
> From: Andrea Hammel <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Metternich Symposium
> Date: 09 February 1999 15:23
>
> 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
>
> Accommodation (in single study-bedrooms on campus) and Meals
>
> I will require Sunday night Monday night Tuesday night Wednesday night
> 11 April 12 April 13 April 14 April
>
> bed and breakfast
> (£27.50 per night)
>
> Cheques, which must be in pounds sterling, should be made payable to
> 'University of Sussex'.
>
> Total payment enclosed £......................
>
> Kosher food is unfortunately not available on campus, but please
> indicate any special dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian) or any
> special needs (e.g. wheelchair access):
> ........................................................................
> .............................................................
> There will be a reception on Monday evening and a dinner on Tuesday
> eveningto which all registered participants are invited. There will also
> be self-service cash lunches and bar available on Tuesday and Wednesday.
>
> Name....................................................................
> ........................................................................
> ........................................................................
> ............................................
> Address.................................................................
> ........................................................................
> ........................................................................
> ........................................................................
> ........................................................................
> ........................................................................
> ........................................................................
> .....................
> Telephone/e-mail........................................................
> ......
> Institution (if any)....................................................
> ......
> Please enclose a self-addressed envelope, if you require a receipt.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|