Thursday, 23 May 2024:
9:00 Opening ceremony: Heinz Faßmann (President, ÖAW) / Christof Gattinger (President, FWF) / Sebastian Schütze (Rector, University Vienna) / Franz Pichorner (Secretary-General, KHM)
9:20 Andreas Zajic (ÖAW Vienna), Introduction and presentation of ManMAX
Section I: Prosopography and the People at Court
9:45-10:15 Markus Debertol/Philipp Laumer (University of Innsbruck): More than Chancellors and Counsellors. A Database for the Court of Archduke Sigmund of Tyrol
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:15 Marion Romberg/Christian Standhartinger (ÖAW Vienna): The Viennese Court – A Prosopographical Portal (VieCPro). Results and Future Potential for Court Research
11:15-11:45 Response: Torsten Hiltmann (Humboldt University of Berlin) / Jeroen Duindam (University of Leiden)
Discussion
12:30-14:30 Lunch
Section II: Digital Prosopography and Social Network Analysis
14:30-15:00 Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (ÖAW Vienna)/Ekaterini Mitsiou (University of Vienna): Competing Emperors in Exile. Digital Prosopography, Charters and Networks of the Rulers of Nicaea and Trebizond in 13th Century Anatolia
15:00-15:30 Digitising Maximilian: Richard Hadden/Suzana Sagadin/Marcella Tambuscio/Georg Vogeler (University of Graz): Towards the Maximilianosphere – Historical Data Modelling, Factoid Extraction, Temporal Network Analysis
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:40 Response: Márton Karsai (CEU Vienna) / Matthew Hammond (King‘s College London)
Discussion
18:00 Evening lecture: Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin (University of Lille): “The tree and the forest” – Some Reflections on the “Little Big Men” in the Construction of the State at the End of the Middle Ages
Friday, 24 May 2024:
Section III: Gender Constructions and Gendered Practice
9:30-10:00 Gendering Maximilian: Christina Lutter/Christof Muigg (University of Vienna): Why Gender is not just about Women – Gendered Imageries and Practices at Maximilian's Court and Beyond
10:00-10:30 Armouring Maximilian: Rahul Kulka (KHM, Vienna): Armour Makes the Man – Boys’ Armours and the Construction of Masculinities in the Environment of Emperor Maximilian I
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Response: Christina Antenhofer (University of Salzburg) / Markus Pilz (Kunstsammlung Veste Coburg)
Discussion
12:00- 14:00 Lunch
Section IV: Personal Networks in the Literary and Cultural Sector
14:00-14:30 Contextualising Maximilian: Elisabeth Klecker/Lukas Ebert (University of Vienna): Networks of Reception – Contemporary Readers of Encomiastic Poetry
14:30-15:00 Singing Maximilian: Grantley McDonald (University of Vienna): A Knight at the Keyboard – Interpreting Paul Hofhaimer’s Grant of Heraldic Arms (1515)
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Response: Albert Schirrmeister (DHI Paris) /David Fiala (University of Tours)
Discussion
18:00 Round Table: Managing the Prince – Studying Prosopography beyond the Court
Matthew Hammond (King‘s College London) / Manfred Hollegger (ÖAW Vienna – RI Maximilian) / Julia Burkhardt (LMU, Munich) / Gerhard Lubich (University of Bochum) / Klara Hübner (University of Brno)
Saturday, 25 May 2024
Section V: Personal Networks in Literature, Art and Administration
9:30-10:00 Creating Maximilian: Stephan Müller/Dennis Wegener (University of Vienna): Political Songs around Emperor Maximilian I.
10:00-10:30 Depicting Maximilian: Erwin Pokorny (Albertina, Vienna): An Early Design Drawing for Gilg Sesselschreiber's “Tomb Statues” of Emperor Maximilian I.
10:30-11:00 Response: Henrike Manuwald (University of Göttingen) / Andrea Pearson (American University, Washington, D.C.)
Discussion
11:30-12:00: Coffee break
12:00-12:30 Writing Maximilian: Sonja Lessacher/Andrea Singh Bottanová (ÖAW Vienna): Approaches to Maximilian and his Chancery in the Digital Age
12:30-13:00 Response: Manfred Hollegger (ÖAW Vienna) / Paul M. Dover (Kennesaw State University)
Discussion
14:00 End