ANNUAL LECTURE:

Thursday 2nd March 2017, Gonville and Caius, Senior Parlour, 5pm-7pm

Professor Pieter Judson (European University Institute, Florence)

Intimate Relationships Between Alleged Opposites: Empire and Nation in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848-1930

At least since the breakup of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1918, scholars have framed empire and nationhood as fundamentally opposed concepts, or forms of statehood. In a world that validates the nation state as the most desirable form of statehood, the characteristics of empire still appear to contradict the founding principles of nation states. In this presentation I argue that in Habsburg Central Europe, concepts of nation and empire developed in intimate relationship to each other. Not only did each require the other to give it meaning, imperial legal institutions and administrative practices also shaped the definitional parameters nationalist activists gave to their ideas of community. Similarly, in the last third of the 19th century, the Habsburg Empire’s renewed forms of self-justification were increasingly founded on ideas of nationhood. Finally, I argue that the post-1918 settlement constituted a moment of greater continuity than is generally recognized, in creating a range of mini-empires that legitimated their existence by asserting a status as nation-states.

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WORKSHOP:

Friday 3rd March 2017, Gonville and Caius, Senior Parlour, 1.30pm-6.30pm

Cultural histories of the Habsburg Empire, c. 1800—1920

Programme
1.30   Introduction
1.40   Martin Schaller (PhD, St Andrews) - The Habsburg Empire Under Foreign Eyes: British Travellers and their Experiences in Central Europe, c. 1815-1860s
2.20   Clara Gallistl (PhD, Wien) - Staging the National Bankruptcy of 1810. Economic realities in Viennese suburban theatre plays
3.00   Markian Prokopovych (Birmingham) - The City, its Art, and its Publics: Art Museums of Habsburg Central Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century
3.40   Coffee break
4.00   Julia Ilgner (Freiburg) - "Portrait of the Artist". Arthur Schnitzlerʼs Staged Authorship in Photography of fin-de-siècle Vienna (*in German*)
4.40   Annja Neumann (Cambridge) - O du mein liebes Österreich! Epistemic genre and literary pathography in Arthur Schnitzler’s ‘Professor Bernhardi’
5.20   Claire Morelon (Oxford) - Streetscapes of war and revolution: The First World War and the end of the Habsburg Empire in Prague, 1914-1920
6.00   Round table: Closing discussion

Please feel free to drop in if you are unable to attend the whole afternoon.
For further information see the attached poster and visit our website.

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Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network 
Supported by the Cambridge DAAD German Research Hub with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (FFO)
and the Department of German and Dutch (University of Cambridge)

Suzanna Ivanič, Janine Maegraith, Louis Morris, Annja Neumann, Joachim Whaley
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