Habsburg Civil Servants: Beyond the State Apparatus

Habsburg Civil Servants: Beyond the State Apparatus

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ZRC SAZU and Victoria University
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https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZAkcOysqjorEtGUDaggZ7q45GDhB...
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ZRC SAZU
PLZ
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Zoom
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Deutschland
Vom - Bis
28.01.2022 - 30.01.2022
Von
Daša Ličen, Institute of Ethnology, ZRC SAZU

We are inviting you to the interdisciplinary online conference "Habsburg Civil Servants: Beyond the State Apparatus". It is organized by Daša Ličen, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, and Alexander Maxwell, Victoria University of Wellington.

Habsburg Civil Servants: Beyond the State Apparatus

During the long 19th century, the Habsburg civil service grew steadily. The swelling ranks of clerks, inspectors, tax collectors, military recruiters, census-takers, policemen, judges, cartographers, sanitation officials, telegraph operators, and other minor officials did not form an entirely homogenous social group, differentiated as they were by educational attainment, region, rank, and status. They nevertheless formed an important social collective, characterized above all by literacy, but also by novel habits, values, cultural practices, and novel social circumstances.
The administrative apparatus helped bring all imperial citizens together in a common society. Their role in embodying and personifying the state at the local level proved especially crucial on various imperial peripheries, where civil servants formed the main link between villages or small towns with the imperial centre. Civil servants also represented progress, introducing into relatively isolated rural communities secular morality, hygiene, science, and myriad other social and cultural transformations sometimes collectively denoted as “modernity.” Their complex role thus raises interesting questions that call for further investigation. Where did their loyalties actually lie: with the emperor, with the state, with their church, with their social class, with their particular Crownland, or with their imagined national community? To what extent did they obey the government’s directives, and alternatively to what extent did they attempt to modify, resist, evade, or subvert their instructions? Did they contribute, intentionally or unintentionally, to the spread of nationalism, or to alternate loyalties? What roles did they play in the monarchy’s social dramas, both in their working hours and when off duty? What were the cultural consequences of their unique role? How were they presented in journalism, belles-lettres, theatre, or other literary genres?

Programm

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28. 1.

7:00 PM
Welcome

7:10 PM
Oana Sorescu-ludean
(Centre for Population Studies, Babes-Bolyai University) “New People, Old Practices: The Habsburg Civil Servants in Hermannstadt, 1750-1800"
Hugo Lane
(York College of the City University of New York)
"Austrian Officials and the Polish-Ruthenian Divide to 1848"

8:20 PM
Oliver Zajac
(German Historical Institute, Warsaw)
“Czartoryski, Galicia, and plans for a future Polish
uprising”
Judit Pâl, Vlad Popovici, (Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca)
“The multifaceted identity of state and county officials in Transylvania”

9:30 PM
Peter Becker (University of Vienna) Jana Osterkamp (LMU Munich)
“A state and a desk”
Marco Jaimes
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Promotion and Protection: The Cult of Franz Joseph in Education and Law”

10:40 PM
Marijan David
(Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies) “Imperial Censorship and Censors in Carniola during the Pre-March Period"
Megan Richardson (University of Melbourne)
“The Good Bureaucrat: Kafka’s Office Writings”

29. 1.
6:00 PM
Christos Aliprantis
(Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich)
“The transnational dimension of Austrian political police in anAgeofRevolutions,1830-1867”
David Smrček
(Charles University, Prague — University of Vienna) “Bohemian Police during National Riots and Demonstrations around 1900”

7:10 PM
Daša Ličen
(Institute of Ethnology, Ljubljana)
“State Administrators as the Essence of Change? The Case of Late Habsburg Trieste”
Wolfgang Göderle (University of Graz)
“Bureaucracy in the late Habsburg Empire: The Vipers and Mongooses of Meleda”

8:20 PM
Lucija Balikič (Central European University)
“Serving Slavdom": Southern Slavic Sokol Officials
members in public office and the politics of
dualism"
Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University of Wellington)
“Habsburg Officials and the 'Slavic Language'’

9:30 PM
Christopher Wendt
(European University Institute, Florence)
“Civil Servants’ Struggles to Resuscitate the State
in Post-Habsburg North Tyrol”
Francesco Frizzera
(Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Rovereto)
“Modernity v. Backwardness: Valeriano Malfatti and Roveretoon the outskirts of the Empire"

30. 1.
5:00 PM
Zdeněk Nebřenský
(German Historical Institute Warsaw)
“Trade inspectors: State Apparatus and Society in
the Habsburg Monarchy”
Therese Garstenauer (University of Vienna)
“Manifold loyalties: Organizations of Women government employees in Cisleithania”

6:00 PM
Orel Beilinson (Yale University)
“The Habsburg Civil Service as a Career'’
Sven Mörsdorf
(European University Institute, Florence)
“Consul Count Crenneville: An Aristocrat's Career in a 'Bourgeois' Consular Service”

7:10 PM
Ágoston Berecz (Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena)
“The Adversities of Imperial Mapmaking in
Nation-state Hungary”
Rachel Trode
(European University Institute, Florence)
“Reframing Bureaucratic Failure - Civil Servants and the Nature of Habsburg Rule in Bosnia”

8:30 PM
Mátyás Erdélyi (CEFRES Prague),
Thomas Rohringer (LMU Munich)
“Administrative Reform Debates in Austria and
Hungary 1890-1914”
John Deak
(University of Notre Dame)
“Visions of the Future in the Final Years of Peace: Two Views from Vienna during the Balkan Wars"

Kontakt

Daša Ličen, dasa.licen@zrc-sazu.si
Alexander Maxwell, alexander.maxwell@vuw.ac.nz

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