News & Events
Forthcoming Talk: Professor Mark Cornwall
Tuesday 18th October 2016
‘The Law and Rhetoric of Treason in the Late Habsburg Monarchy: The Case of Croatia’ by Prof. Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton)
Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 5 – 6pm
The new term has begun and our seminar programme gets underway in less than a week, so we’d like to remind you of what’s in store for this Michaelmas. Next Tuesday we will be hosting Professor Mark Cornwall as he examines Habsburg Croatia’s very own ‘Dreyfus trial’ and the light thrown by questions of treason and loyalty on the Austro-Hungarian elite during the dynasty’s final years. Please see the event page for further details of this exciting topic, and we hope to see you at Caius next week. Then two further talks in November will take us from the public sphere during the Viennese Enlightnment to a global comparison of the Habsburgs’ place within world histories of rulership: please note the updated date of the 15th November for Jeroen Duindam’s talk, not the 11th as previously stated.
Forthcoming Seminars in Michaelmas
With the next academic year fast approaching, we already have some dates for your diary. Full details of all these events will appear on the website in due course, and please watch this space for further announcements.
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
Tuesday 18th October 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College, 5-6pm
Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton)
The Law and Rhetoric of Treason in the Late Habsburg Monarchy: The Case of Croatia
Tuesday 1st November 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College, 5-6pm
Andreas Gestrich (GHIL)
The „Wienerisches Diarium“. Press, State and Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Vienna
Tuesday 15th November 2016, Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College, 5-6pm
Jeroen Duindam (Leiden University)
From Vienna to Istanbul and Beijing: A Social History of Rulership Across the Globe
We hope you enjoyed Katy Bond’s talk yesterday; many thanks to all those who came. There is not long to wait until the Network’s next event, our annual lecture, which will be taking place from 5 – 6:30pm next Tuesday in the Leslie Stephen Room of Trinity Hall (please note the slightly longer time and different location to normal). Further details are as follows:
Update: Katy Bond and Professor Howard Louthan
For those of you planning to attend our events next month, here is a brief update to confirm where they will be taking place. Katy Bond’s paper on the role of costume books in Habsburg power networks will be happening in the Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College, whilst Howard Louthan will be delivering our annual lecture, entitled ‘The Habsburgs and their Eastern Neighbours: Re-evaluating the Religious Landscape of 16th-century Central Europe’, in the Leslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall (not in Caius, as previously advertised).
Furthermore, an abstract of Professor Louthan’s talk – which will address the crucial yet neglected relationship between the Habsburgs and their Jagiellonian neighbours in Poland-Lithuania – is now available here to whet your appetite.
Forthcoming Talks: Katy Bond and Professor Howard Louthan
Following the success of our annual workshop earlier in the month (a full report of which is now available here), the Network is looking forward to two further exciting events next term. Firstly, on the 10th of May Katy Bond will be giving a talk on the political forces which shaped the development of the costume book genre, and then on the following Tuesday we will welcome Professor Howard Louthan as he delivers our annual lecture, with the ambitious aim of revising our understanding of Central Europe’s religious topography in the 1500s and the Habsburgs’ place within it. More details of both these events are to follow in due course, but do put them in your diary now as they are not to be missed. In the meantime, we wish everyone a happy Easter for the coming week!
Tuesday 10th May 2016
‘Costume Books: 16th-century Habsburg Networks and Power’ by Katy Bond (University of Cambridge)
Gonville and Caius College, 5 – 6pm
For further details and a full abstract, see here.
Tuesday 17th May 2016
‘The Habsburgs and their Neighbours: Re-evaluating the Religious Landscape of 16th-century Central Europe’ by Prof. Howard Louthan (Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota)
Gonville and Caius College, 5 – 6:30pm
Here is a quick reminder of our upcoming workshop next Friday, which is set to be the highlight of our calendar this year. Please note one small change to the programme; we regret that Peter Büttner will not be able to join us, but we are pleased to announce that Dr Anna Ananieva of Queen Mary University of London will be giving what promises to be a fascinating talk on the journalism of the “elegant world” in Habsburg Hungary. Extracts of all the talks are available here.
Forthcoming Event: Annual Workshop
The Network’s biggest event of the year is fast approaching, and we are pleased to be able to announce the full programme for our annual workshop, this year themed around ‘New Approaches’. All are welcome and attendance is free, although it would be helpful if you could let us know you are coming by emailing Janine Maegraith at cjm80@cam.ac.uk. For further details about each talk please follow the link below.
Friday 4th March 2016
Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College, 2 – 6:45pm
The programme is as follows:
2pm Welcome and Introduction
2.15-2.50pm
Professor Estella Weiss-Krejci (University of Vienna)
The House of Habsburg as data source for the interpretation of general archaeological questions
2.50-3.25pm
Dr Ingrid Matschinegg (Salzburg University)
Why objects matter. Research perspectives at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture at Krems (Austria)
3.25-4pm
Tobias Roeder (Clare College, Cambridge)
Army Officers of the Habsburg Monarchy and Social and National Mobility, 1740-1790
4.00-4.30pm Coffee break
4.30-5.05pm
Dr Peter Büttner (University of Zurich)
Schändlich und schmutzig – Distribution und Produktion zweier sittenwidriger Lesestoffe um 1800 und ihre Zensurgeschichte in Kurbayern (in German)
5.05-5.40pm
Professor Yvonne Wübben (Freie Universität Berlin)
Practices of Censorship: Arthur Schnitzler and Sigmund Freud publish their dreams (in German)
5.40-6.15pm
Dr Claire Morelon (Queen’s College, Oxford)
Streetscapes of war and revolution: the First World War and the end of the Habsburg Empire in Prague, 1914-1920
6.15 – Concluding discussion
Forthcoming Talk: Konstanze Fliedl
The Network is looking forward to welcoming Professor Fliedl of the University of Vienna, who is visiting us next week to deliver a talk on the intersection of chess, Habsburg loyalism and racial politics in Stefan Zweig’s acclaimed Schachnovelle (1942). For more information please click the link below, and stand by for further details concerning the programme of our Annual Workshop Day, which is to be held on Friday 4th March.
Thursday 4th February 2016
‘Jewish Chess: Stefan Zweig’s Novella in the Context of Racial Polemic‘ by Prof. Konstanze Fliedl (University of Vienna)
Green Room, Gonville and Caius College, 5:30 – 6:30pm
Please note that the talk will be delivered in German.
This talk is sponsored by the Cambridge DAAD German Research Hub.
Forthcoming Talk: Luca Sholz
Many thanks to everyone who has attended the network’s recent events and helped to make it such a successful term. Looking ahead to the new year, we are pleased to announce that Luca Scholz will be visiting us to give a talk on borders within the Holy Roman Empire. In a time when the movement of people across Central Europe frontiers is more controversial than ever, this promises to give a fascinating perspective on a very complex issue. Further details of our Lent Term programme are to follow; in the meantime, enjoy the festive season.
Tuesday 19th January 2016
‘Leviathan’s Skin: Borders and the Ordering of Movement in the Old Reich’ by Luca Scholz (European University Institute)
Junior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College, 5-6pm
Forthcoming Talk: Shiru Lim
Please make space in your diaries for the Network’s next event, in which Shiru Lim will be visiting us from UCL in order to tackle the ever-relevant topics of government deception and the role of the intellectual, in the context of eighteenth century Prussia. For more details about this talk, follow the link below.
Tuesday 24th November 2015
‘‘Is it useful for the people to be deceived?’: Frederick II and Jean Le Rond d’Alembert on Philosophical Kingship’ by Shiru Lim (University College London)
Green Room, Gonville & Caius College, 5-6pm
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