Habsburg Central Europe in Global History.
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Herder-Forschungsrat
Tschechische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Prag
23.10.2025-25.10.2025
Venue: Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro českou literaturu
Na Florenci, 1420/3, 110 00 Praha
Schedule
Thursday 23 October 2025
13.00 Welcome
13.30–15.00
Seminar with Markéta Křížová (Prague)
15.30–17.30
Animas iuvare et delectare: Jesuit Worldmaking and Central European Consumer Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (3x40 minutes, including Q&A)
The Jesuit Global Mission in the Poetic and Rhetorical Education of the Schools of the Austrian Jesuit Province in the 17th Century
Ildikó Hajdu, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest
Central European Jesuits as Global Educators, 1551–1670
Dmitry Zharov, Central European University Vienna/Budapest
Circulation, Coffee Making – and Conflict? The Integration of Tobacco in 17th-Century Central European Agriculture
Leonhard Engelmaier, European University Institute, Florence
Friday 24 October 2025
09.00–10.30
Seminar with Ulrich Schmid (St. Gallen)
Break
11.00–13.00
Nineteenth-Century Frameworks of Habsburg Internationalism: Reassessing Central European Natural Law and Naval Power (3x40 minutes, including Q&A)
Civil Rights Translated? Habsburg Legal Philosophy and Its Interpretation by Peter Lodij in Alexander I’s Russia
Maksim Demin, University of Bochum
"A Perfect Internationalism [for] the Commerce, Navigation, and Industry of Austria”: The Imperial Navy and the Austrian Lloyds as International Intermediaries in the NineteenthCentury Circum-Mediterranean
Stephanie Truskowski, University of Notre Dame, South Bend
Lunch Break
14.30–16.00
Seminar with Jonathan Singerton (Amsterdam)
Break
16.30–18.30
From Plzen to the Foothills of the Citlaltépetl: Informal Empire between South Bohemia and Mexico (3x40 minutes, including Q&A)
An Austrian “Colony for Free”: Overseas Ambitions, Scientific Exploration and the “Habsburg Scramble for Mexico”, 1864-1867
Andreas M. Schurr, European University Institute, Florence
Patriotism, Global Trade, and the Making of Austria-Hungary’s Largest Arms Manufacturer: The Škoda Works in Pilsen/Plzen, 1899-1914
Lukas Dovern, University of Kiel
Plzen’s Global Enterprises and their Role in Urban National Segmentation
Kajetan Stobiecki, Herder-Institut, Marburg
Saturday, 25 October 2025
09.00–11.00
Unfabling the East? Habsburg Encounters with East Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (3x40 minutes, including Q&A)
Habsburg Travellers Encountering Japanese Merchants: Image and Representation
Matúš Mura, Comenius University Bratislava
The Austro- Hungarian East Asian Expedition (1868-1871)
Chung Hin Mak, Free University of Berlin
Breaking Cyclical Narratives: A New Approach to the History of Austro-Hungarian–Japanese Relations (1868-1913)
Mátyás Gergely Tóth, Independent Scholar, Budapest
Break
11.30–13.00
Of World Fairs and Crumbling Empires
Entangled Worlds and the Logistics of Chinese Display in the 1873 Wiener Weltausstellung
Freda Fiala, University of Arts, Linz
PostImperial Knowledge in Motion: Scientific Displacement after the Collapse of the Habsburg and Soviet Empires
Elene Nabakhteveli, Ilia State University, Tbilisi
13.00
Farewell to the participants of the Summer School
Faculty
Guest Members
Markéta Křížová, Centre for Ibero-American Studies, Charles-University, Prague Ulrich Schmid, Eastern European Studies, University of St. Gallen Jonathan Singerton, Global Political History, University of Amsterdam
Jan Jakub Surman, Central and Eastern European History, Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Members of the Host Institutions
Johannes Feichtinger, Institute of Culture Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Franz Fillafer, Institute of Culture Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Steffen Höhne, Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council
Johannes Mattes, Institute of Culture Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Michael Wögerbauer, Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
Invited Discussant: Sandra Klos, Institute of Culture Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences