Thursday, March, 13, 2014
15.00-15.30
Welcome: Prof. Oliver Schmitt (Institute for East European History, University of Vienna)
Introduction: Markian Prokopovych (University of Vienna), and
Tamara Scheer (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Social Science History)
15.30-16.30 Panel 1: The Military in a Multilingual Society (1st part)
Chair: Tamara Scheer (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Science History)
Attila Réfi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Linguistic Knowledge and Cultural Transfers in the Habsburg Army from the Late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century. The Antecedents of the Institutionalized Multilingualism of the Imperial and Royal Army
Rok Stergar (University of Ljubljana): The Language Policy and Practice of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces in the Era of Ethnic Nationalisms: The Case of Ljubljana
17.00-18.00 Panel 1: The Military in a Multilingual Society (2nd part)
Chair: Mitchell G. Ash (University of Vienna)
Laurence Cole (University of Salzburg): Army Veterans in Urban Spaces in the Littoral (Küstenland)
Irina Marin (University of Leicester): K.u.K. Generals of Romanian Nationality and Their Views on the Language Question
18.15 Keynote
Pieter M. Judson (European University Institute Florence)
Encounters on the Urban Frontier: Multilingualism in Late Habsburg Austria
Friday, March, 13, 2014
9.30-11.00 Panel 2: Conflicts in Multilingual Cities
Chair: Gerhard Botz (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Science History)
Joshua Shanes (College of Charleston): The “bloody election” in Drohobycz: Violence, Ethnicity and Urban Politics on the Eve of the First World War
Frank Henschel (University of Leipzig): „Multilingualism“ in Kaschau/Kassa/Košice before WWI
Máté Rigó (Cornell University, Ithaca): Multilingualism Meets the War: The Borderlands of Transylvania Between 1914 and 1918
11.30-13.00 Panel 3: Languages and Public Space
Chair: Carl Bethke (University of Tübingen)
Stefan Michael Newerkla (University of Vienna): The Surviving Corporate Heritage of the Late Habsburg Monarchy - Linguistic and Cultural Aspects
Michaela Wolf (University of Graz): “The benefit for intellectual life”: Translation Policy and Multilingualism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Katalin Straner (Leibniz-Institute for European History, Mainz/Central European University Budapest): Scientific Lecturing and the Urban Public: Languages and Cultures of the Natural Sciences in Late-19th Century Budapest
14.30-16.00 Panel 4: Public Representation
Chair: Paul Miller (MacDaniel College, Maryland)
Sheila Skaff (Columbia University and Barnard College, New York): Film Exhibition in the Late Habsburg Empire
Carl Bethke (University of Tübingen): The Sarajevo Newspaper Bosnische Post, 1884-1896 – German Language, Croat Editors, Bosnian Patrotism
Dekel S. Schory (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): Jewish Writers Experiencing the Viennese Atmosphere (1900-1914)
16.30-18.00 Panel 5: Music and Urban Space
Chair: Markian Prokopovych (University of Vienna)
Risto Pekka Pennanen (University of Tempere): Multilingualism in Café and Street Music in Sarajevo before the First World War
Philipp Ther (University of Vienna): Multilingualism in Czech and Polish Theatres
Srdjan Atanasovski (Institute of Musicology, SASA, Belgrade): Nation and Homeland Imagery in Multilingual Music Albums of Serbian Families in Late Habsburg Monarchy
Saturday, March, 15, 2014
9.30-11.00 Panel 6: (Mis)Managing Diversity
Chair: Michael Portmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Marion Wullschleger (ETH Zurich/University of Bern): The Polyglot Representatives of the Emperor: Language Use and Nationality Politics of the Austrian Governors in the City of Trieste, 1900-1918
Ágoston Berecz (Central European University Budapest): Non-Dominant Languages in the Administration of Hungarian Towns under Dualism (Transylvania and the Banat)
Jeroen van Drunen (University of Amsterdam): Czernowitz and the Bukovinian Desert – Observations on the Urban and Rural Aspects of Habsburg Bukovina’s Celebrated Multi-Lingualism
11.30-12.00 Closing Remarks followed by discussion
Carl Bethke (University of Tübingen), Markian Prokopovych (University of Vienna), and Tamara Scheer (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social Science History)