Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network - New Approaches

Datum: 
Freitag, 4. März 2016
Ort: 
Cambridge, UK

The Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network announces the programme for its annual workshop, this year themed around "New Approaches". The invited speakers will be presenting on diverse topics from the medieval period to the twentieth century and from backgrounds of archaeology, history and literature.

Attendance is free | Please send an email to Janine Maegraith (cjm80@cam.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.

Conference Venue:  Gonville and Caius College (Senior Parlour), Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TA, UK

---------------------------------------------

Programme:

14.00  Welcome and Introduction

14.15  Professor Estella Weiss-Krejci (University of Vienna):  The House of Habsburg as data source for the interpretation of general archaeological questions

14.50  Dr. Ingrid Matschinegg (Salzburg University):  Why objects matter - Research perspectives at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture at Krems (Austria)

15.25  Tobias Roeder (Clare College, Cambridge):  Army Officers of the Habsburg Monarchy and Social and National Mobility, 1740-1790

16.00  Coffee break

16.30  Dr. Peter Büttner (University of Zurich):  Schändlich und Schmutzig - Distribution und Produktion zweier sittenwidriger Lesestoffe um 1800 und ihre Zensurgeschichte in Kurbayern (in German)

17.05  Professor Yvonne Wübben (FU Berlin):  Practices of Censorship - Arthur Schnitzler and Sigmund Freud publish their dreams (in German)

17.40  Dr. Claire Morelon (Queen’s College, Oxford):  The First World War and the end of the Habsburg Empire in Prague, 1914-1920

18.15  Concluding discussion

---------------------------------------------

Contact:

Dr. Janine C. Maegraith

Co-Director

Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network

cjm80@cam.ac.uk