This workshop brings together an international group of historians to discuss their research on a topic that has heretofore received relatively little attention: Habsburg home fronts during the First World War.These historians, who range from advanced graduate students to full professors, will be joined by a number of senior specialists to discuss their presentations and place them in comparative context.

Participants will analyze the differences and shared traits of the various home fronts. Among the issues they will address are gender, national indifference, transnationalism, and organized violence. Their interdisciplinary work places them at the cutting edge of the cultural, gender, social, and transnational history of the war.

Participants' contributions, much of it based on previously unused or underused, archival materials, help blur the long-held distinction between fighting fronts and home fronts. This research increases our understanding of the First World War in Habsburg Central Europe.

Conference Venue:  Schloss Rothschild, Hinterleiten, A-2651 Reichenau an der Rax, Österreich

The conference languages will be English and German

This workshop is open to the public, but due to space constraints registration is required. Please register with Tamara Scheer (tamara.scheer@univie.ac.at)

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Programme:

Tuesday  27 October

18.00  Opening remarks  -  Tamara Scheer

18.15  Key Note I  -  Maureen Healy:  Homefront, Civilians and the Everyday in World War I

Wednesday 28 October

09.30  PANEL 1  -  Homefront Formation and Wartime Preparations

Chair:  Nancy M. Wingfield

Máté Rigó:  Doing Business Behind the Front - Economic Elites, Minorities and State Intervention in Transylvania (1910-1923)

Borut Klabjan:  The Beginning of the First World War in Habsburg Trieste

Claire Morelon:  Mobilization for the Habsburg War Effort in Prague

11.00  Coffee Break

11.30  Discussion

12.30  Lunch

14.00  PANEL 2  -  Maintaining Social Order on the Homefront

Chair: Erwin A. Schmidl

Kate Densford:  Wehrmann in Eisen - Nagelobjekte as Barometers of Habsburg Social Order

Alexandra Hois:  Frauen im Dienst der k. u. k. Armee im Ersten Weltkrieg - Spannungsfelder durch weibliche Präsenz im Militär

Rudolf Kucera:  Maximizing Effectiveness - Industrial Production, Human Fatigue, and Wartime Mobilization in Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918

Catherine Horel:  Gesellschaft und Militär in Kroatien-Slawonien am Vorabend des 1. Weltkrieges

16.00  Coffee Break

16.30  Discussion

18.00  Key Note II  -  Iris Rachamimov:  "The Front," "The Homefront," and the Many Other Homes and Fronts - "Home" as a Social, a Spatial and a Temporal Idea during the First World War

Thursday 29 October

09.30  PANEL 3  -  Homefront Violence and Propaganda

Chair:  Maureen Healy

Elisabeth Haid:  Galizien - Ein Bollwerk gegen Russland? Propaganda und Gewalterfahrung in einer Grenzregion

Tamara Scheer:  Denunziation und k.(u.).k. Kriegsüberwachungsamt - Wie das Militärregime und die Bevölkerung gemeinsam die Heimatfront beeinflussten

Ionela Zaharia:  For God and/or the Emperor!? Military Chaplains and Prisoner of War Camps for Returning Soldiers

11.30  Discussion

12.30  Lunch

14.00  PANEL 4  -  Camps

Chair:  Iris Rachamimov

Alessandro Livio:  Grundzüge der Verwaltung des Internierungs- und Konfinierungswesens in Österreich-Ungarn während des Ersten Weltkrieges. Die Behandlung der italienischsprachigen Bevölkerung

Reinhard Mundschütz:  Die Internierungslager und Konfinierungsstationen für "enemy aliens" der Bezirkshauptmannschaft Waidhofen an der Thaya (Niederösterreich) 1914-1918

Julia Walleczek-Fritz:  Forced migration and POWs in Austria-Hungary during the First World War

15.30  Coffee Break

16.00  Discussion

17.15  Concluding Remarks  -  Maureen Healy | Iris Rachamimov | Erwin A. Schmidl | Nancy M. Wingfield

18.30  End of Conference

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Contact:

Dr. Tamara Scheer

tamara.scheer@univie.ac.at