Online Workshop “Violence, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in the Late Habsburg Empire”
This workshop offers a platform to discuss about tensions between state and society in the Late Habsburg Empire. Moving away from analyses centred on nationalism, the goal is to analyse other sources of conflict in Habsburg society.
Violence, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in the Late Habsburg Empire
Online Workshop
April, 16 2021, University of Padua, Italy – ZOOM link: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/84726303163
This one-day workshop will bring together historians of the Habsburg Empire’s final decades to discuss recent approaches to the tensions between state and society in Austria-Hungary. Moving away from analyses centred on nationalism, the goal will be to analyse other sources of conflict in Habsburg society. The introduction of universal male suffrage in 1907 and the battles for democratization of the political process reshaped domestic equilibriums. Growing international tensions provoked insecurity among the military elite. Questions addressed will range from the relations between military and civilian power, the state repression of social unrest, and the role played by the rule of law at the local level. To what extent did the “internal war” of the Habsburg government against its citizens have roots in the pre-1914 period? How were internal and external threats articulated in the minds of the military and administrative elite? What was the practice on the ground and what were the regional differences?
Programm
10.15 – 10.30: Welcome and introduction (Matteo Millan and Claire Morelon)
10.30 – 12.00: First session
Chair: Giulia Albanese
– Birgitta Bader-Zaar (University of Vienna): “Processes of democratization as sites of modernization and violence in Habsburg Austria”
– Peter Techet (University of Freiburg): “Violence in Society, but not against the State — Intra-Catholic conflicts as Acts of Emancipation of Marginalized Peoples in the Austro-Hungarian Littoral after 1890”
– Claire Morelon (University of Padova): “Democratization and Its Discontents: Violence and the Protection of Social Order in Habsburg Austria”
12.00 – 14.00: Break
14.00 – 15.30: Second session
Chair: Nicola Camilleri
– Jonathan Gumz (University of Birmingham): “Military Law and its Discontents in the Wartime Habsburg Empire”
– Stefano Petrungaro (University of Venice): “Changing representations and practices of peasants’ protests in late Habsburg Croatia”
– Aliaksandr Piahanau (University of Padova): “Hungarian Royal Gendarmerie and Political Violence in ‘Happy Peaceful Times’ (1881 – 1914)”
15.30 – 16.00: Break
16.00 – 16.30: Final Remarks
Pieter Judson (EUI) and concluding discussion.
Kontakt
matteo.millan@unipd.it
https://www.dissgea.unipd.it/sites/dissgea.unipd.it/files/2021.04.16_0.pdf
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-97005