Programme of the conference “Local Communities and New Elites in Austria-Hungary”
Local Communities and New Elites in Austria-Hungary
12–13 June 2023
German Historical Institute Warsaw
The conference is organised by the Research Group on the Slavic Cultures in the Habsburg Monarchy (Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw) in cooperation with T. Manteuffel Institute of History (Polish Academy of Sciences) and German Historical Institute in Warsaw
Venue: German Historical Institute, Aleje Ujazdowskie 39, Warszawa
Monday, 12 June
9.00–9.10
Opening remarks
9.10–10.10
Keynote lectures
Miloš Řezník, German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Historicizing the concept of elites: Is a trans-epochal comparison of elite formations possible?
Daniel Baric, Sorbonne University, Paris, Scaling Austro-Hungarian elites: from local to imperial, from biography to prosopography?
10.10–10.30
Coffee break
10.30–12.10
Session 1. Imperial elites
Michael Wedekind, Central Institute of Art History, Munich, Between Austria and Italy: the liberal elites of Italian speaking Tyrol, c. 1848 to 1915
István Nagy-L., Institute of Hungarian Research, Budapest, Birth of the Southern Slavic military elite of the Habsburg Monarchy
Gábor Egry, Institute of Political History, Budapest, Provisioning, welfare, social security, city management in late Austria-Hungary: stepping stones of a late post-imperial career
Edit Fabó, Institute of Hungarian Research, Budapest, The celebrated civic ethos and state frameworks
12.10–12.30
Coffee break
12.30–13.50
Session 2. Professional elites
Kate Densford, University of Nevada, Reno, Secondary agricultural education and the rise of local elites
Ségolène Plyer, University of Strasbourg, Maintaining a recent elite. Forms of modernization of textile industrialists in Northeast Bohemia in the early twentieth century
Tomáš Korbel, Charles University, Prague, Socio-professional networks of Czech architects and builders in the 19th century: Alois Turek, Adolf Bohaty, Gustav Wiedermann
13.50–14.30
Lunch break
14.30–15.50
Session 3. Leaders and community structures
Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Żyd uczący chrześcijan. Galicyjskie szkolnictwo i jego kadry w dobie równouprawnienia [A Jew teaching Christians. Galician educational system and its personnel in the age of equality]
Hanna Kozinska-Witt, Independent researcher, Rostock, Zarządzanie galicyjskim miasteczkiem przemysłowym: rada gminy miejskiej Podgórze jako arena działalności miejscowych elit [Management of a Galician industrial town: the Podgórze municipal council as an arena for local elite activity]
Adam Świątek, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Między lokalnością a słowiańskością. Próby organizacji struktur dziennikarskich i współpraca dziennikarzy słowiańskich w monarchii habsburskiej pod koniec XIX i na początku XX wieku [Between localism and Slavism. Attempts to organise journalistic structures and cooperation of Slavic journalists in the Habsburg monarchy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries]
16.30
Informal meeting at German Historical Institute
Tuesday, 13 June
9.00–10.00
Research Group on the Slavic Cultures in the Habsburg
Monarchy: Background remarks
Community, elites, localness: framing the cross-cultural studies
Aleksander Łupienko, Polish Academy of Sciences, Community—theoretical frame
Maciej Falski, University of Warsaw, Emerging elites: Slovenes in Trieste
Anna Kobylińska, University of Warsaw, Making the community visible: New nest of Slovak locality
10.00–10.10
Coffee break
10.10–11.50
Session 4. Transformation of the local elites
Josip Jagodar, University of Slavonski Brod, The transition from frontier to civil society and the development of local political elites – a case study of the municipality of Kobaš (1872–1914)
Anikó Borbála Izsák, Institute of Political History, Budapest, Change and continuity in times of radical rupture: the elite of Baia Mare between 1910 and 1930
Anna Jonáková, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague / Charles University, Prague, Czech middle-class families and the role of their elites in a small town in the second half of the 19th century
Iryna Orlevych, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, „Old” and „young”: conflicts among the Russophile intelligentsia at the beginning of the 20th century
11.50–12.10
Coffee break
12.10–13.30
Session 5. Communities vs. nationality
Natalia Kolb, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, „świat nie chce nas widzieć innymi, tylko właśnie takimi…”: rola duchowieństwa parafialnego greckokatolickiego w organizacji ukraińskiego ruchu narodowego w Galicji na przełomie XIX i XX wieku [“the world does not want to see us as different, but just like this…”: the role of the Greek Catholic parish clergy in the organisation of the Ukrainian national movement in Galicia at the turn of the 20th century]
Kamil Dwornik, University of Warsaw, Wyodrębnianie się inteligencji ukraińskiej z duchowieństwa greckokatolickiego w Galicji na przykładzie życiorysu Josyfa Łozynskiego [Emerging of the Ukrainian intelligentsia from the Greek Catholic clergy in Galicia on the example of the biography of Josyf Lozynsky]
Rafał Majerek, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Słowackie elity przełomu XIX i XX wieku a zagadnienie emancypacji kobiet [Slovak elites at the turn of the 20th century and the issue of women’s emancipation]
13.30–14.10
Lunch break
14.10–15.30
Session 6. Local conflicts and competing elites
Damian Kubik, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Relacje chorwackich i serbskich elit w Dubrowniku w okresie zarządu austriackiego w latach 1867–1899 [Relations between Croatian and Serbian elites in Dubrovnik during the period of Austrian administration between 1867 and 1899]
Tomasz Jacek Lis, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Walka pokoleń – proces wymiany elit intelektualnych na austro-węgierskich rubieżach na przykładzie Dalmacji i Bośni i Hercegowiny od lat 70. XIX wieku do I wojny światowej [The struggle of generations – the process of exchange of intellectual elites in the Austro-Hungarian borderlands on the example of Dalmatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina from the 1870s to the First World War]
Kajetan Stobiecki, Herder Institute, Marburg, Czeska twierdza na Zachodzie – pilzneńskie elity a problem „granicy językowej” w latach 1860–1914 [A Czech stronghold in the West – Plzeň elites and the problem of the “linguistic frontier” between 1860 and 1914]
15.30–15.50
Coffee break
15.50–17.10
Session 7. Beyond localness. Towards individuated localities
Michał Burdziński, Silesian Museum, Katowice, Bycie artystą (w) monarchii [Being an artist (in/of) monarchy]
Maciej Czerwiński, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Dalmacja Simy Matavulja [A Dalmatia of Simo Matavulj]
Aleksandra Hudymač, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Tożsamość niedokończona – doktor Bencúr w podróży [An unfinished identity – Dr Bencúr in travel]
17.10–17.30
Closing Remarks
