Online conference “Exploiting Nature, Making an Empire: Natural Resource Extraction in the Late Habsburg Empire”
The conference organized by Iva Lučić (University of Uppsala) and Jawad Daheur (Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies, Paris) aims at consolidating environmental history as part of the history of Habsburg Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century by exploring various forms of resource exploitation from multiple, but connected, perspectives including ecology, economy, governance and labor.
Exploiting Nature, Making an Empire: Natural Resource Extraction in the Late Habsburg Empire
The conference is free to attend but advance registration is required. For registration, please send an email with your first and last name to iva.lucic@edu.uu.se or jawad.daheur@ehess.fr
May 20 – 21, 2021
Programm
09:30 Introduction
Iva Lučić & Jawad Daheur
10:00 Keynote
Manufacturing versus Resource Extraction. Unequal Division of Labour and Regional Shifts in Core-Periphery Relations in the Habsburg Monarchy (18/19th c.)
Andrea Komlosy – University of Vienna
11:00 Coffee Break
11:10 Panel I
Get Out of Our Forest! Rural Societies, National Mobilization, State-building and Modern Forestry in Transylvania 1900-1940
Gábor Egry – Institute of Political History, Budapest
Imperial, Regional, and Local Regulation of Water and its Inter-Imperial Entanglements
Jana Osterkamp – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Chair: Iva Lučić
Commentator: Margaret Hunt – University of Uppsala
12:40 Lunch Break
13:40 Panel II
The Establishment and Management of the Investment Fund of Croatian-Slavonian Military Border as an Example of the State Forest Management during the Reign of Franz Joseph I.
Robert Skenderović – History Institute, Slavonski Brod
Securing the Forests: A Relational Approach to Transborder Conflicts and Contestations in the Late Ottoman and Habsburg Empires
Selçuk Dursun – Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Chair: Jawad Daheur
Commentator: Anna Sekulić – European University Institute
15:10 Coffee
15:30 Panel III
Indian Mongooses in the Adriatic: Knowledge, Infrastructure and Improvement
Wolfgang Göderle – Karl Franzens University, Graz
Traditional and Innovative Agroforestry during the Late Habsburg Empire in Hungary
Ana Varga – Rachel Carson Centre, Munich
Chair: Iva Lučić
Commentator: Ségolène Plyer – University of Strasbourg
Friday, 21 May 2021
09:30 Panel IV
Was there an Interplay between Ethnic Composition, State Intervention and the Patterns of the Commodification of Timber in Forested Areas? Two Regional Examples from the Carpathians, 1890-1919
Robert Balogh – University of Debrecen
Contested “Rights in Nature”: Practices of Forest Use Regulation in Habsburg Bosnia on the Crossroad between Private Capital, Local Population, and the Imperial State
Iva Lučić – University of Uppsala
Chair: Jawad Daheur
Commentator: Pieter Judson – European University Institute
11:00 Coffee Break
11:10 Panel V
Bark beetle and the Natural Resources Exploitation in the Böhmerwald Region (1868–1877)
Kristýna Kaucká – Masaryk Institute and Archives, Prague
Resource Governance in Time of Drought: The Struggle over Fodder Exports in Cisleithania at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century
Jawad Daheur – Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies, Paris
Chair: Iva Lučić
Commentator: Gunnel Cederlöf – Linnaeus University, Växjö
12:40 Lunch Break
13:40 Panel VI
State versus Peasants? The Forest Transition in Late Habsburg Austria
Simone Gingrich and Martin Schmidt – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Chair: Jawad Daheur
Commentator: Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist – University of Stockholm
14:40 Coffee Break
15:00 Roundtable discussion: Imperial Statehood, Nature and Private Capital
Gunnel Cederlöf – Linnaeus University, Växjö
Per Högselius – KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Pieter Judson – European University Institute
Moderation: Iva Lučić & Jawad Daheur
16:00 End of the conference
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