Thursday, September 29

9:00 Opening Remarks, Konrad Petrovszky (Vienna)

9:30–13:00 Good Governance and/as Knowledge Accumulation
Chair: Kerstin Susanne Jobst (Vienna)

To Travel and to Rule. The Court Travels of Emperor Francis I (1804–1834)
Konrad Clewing (Regensburg)

Land and People of the Russian Empire: Languages of Description
Ingrid Schierle (Tübingen)

Blueprints of the Administrative Space, Networks of Governance, Trajectories of Knowledge: ‘Staatenkunde’ in Transylvania, ca. 1790–1840
Borbála Zsuzsanna Török (Konstanz)

Channeling Knowledge. Imperial Interventions and the Emergence of the Press in Dalmatia and the Danubian Principalities
Konrad Petrovszky (Vienna)

14:00–17:30
Contesting Old Orders and Establishing New Ones
Chair: Thomas Winkelbauer (Vienna)

Transition From Above: Some Aspects of Habsburg Administration in Early 19th Century Dalmatia
Stjepan Ćosić (Split)

Regional Power Struggles and Imperial Interference: Aspects of Montenegrin Autonomy Making in the Early 19th Century
Hannes Grandits (Berlin)

Ruling (at) the Ottoman Frontier: The Belgrad Janissaries, Pazvantoglu, Ismail Tirseniklioglu. An Attempt at a Typology
Rossitsa Gradeva (Sofia)

Russian Population Policies under Catherine II
Ulrich Hofmeister (Vienna)

Friday, September 30

10:00-12:15 Legal Discourses and the Challenges of Reality
Chair: Christoph Augustynowicz (Vienna)

Dubrovnik and the Challenge of ‘Good Governance’ in the Ancien Régime and beyond
Nella Lonza (Dubrovnik)

Making a Law, Observing a Rule: Codification and Practice in the
Romanian Principalities: 1780–1834
Constanța Vintilă-Ghițulescu (Bucharest)

Good Government in Principle and Bad Reality in Practice: Ottoman Conceptions of Good Governance from the Late 18th Century Onwards until the Demise of the Empire
Maurus Reinkowski (Basel)

12:45–13:30 Final Discussion