„Statehood and Territoriality in the Early Habsburg and Bourbon Empires”
Graz University, AR 39.41, 6.6.-7.6.2019 (Attemsgasse 8/IV)
Organizers: Dr. Wolfgang GÖDERLE, Prof. Dr. Renate PIEPER
Thursday, 6.6.2019: Institutions
11:00-11:15: Welcome address and introduction by the vice-rector of research, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter SCHERRER
Keynote
11:15-11:45: Manuel HERRERO SÁNCHEZ (Sevilla): Statehood and Territoriality at the margins of early modern empires – Genoa and the Dutch Republic
Project presentation
11:45-12:45: Werner STANGL (Graz): Making space. From territorial practices and paper empires to a digital infrastructure on Bourbon Spanish America
12:45-14:00: Lunch
Panel 1: Territoriality
14:00-14:30: Sabine JESNER (Graz): Habsburg Challenges in the Aftermath of the Peace of Passarowitz 1718. Administrative Models and the Implementation of Rule in the Neoacquistica
14:30-15:00: Thomas WALLNIG (Vienna): Space, Statehood and Economy? A Digital Analysis of Hörnigk's "Österreich über alles, wann es nur will"
15:00-15:20: Coffee break
Panel 2: Private Agency and Control?
15:20-15:50: Ioanna IORDANOU (Oxford): Republic of Secrets: The bureaucratization of Secrecy and the Imperial Makeup of Early Modern Venice
15:50-16:20: Veronika HYDEN-HANSCHO (Vienna): Noble entrepreneurs in Austrian imperial territories
16:20-16:40 Coffee break
Panel 3: The longue durée
16:40 -17:10: Eva ORTLIEB (Graz): Centre and Territories “Face-to-Face”: The Imperial Diet and the Imperial Aulic Council in the Sixteenth Century
17:10-17:40: Elizabeth MONTANZ-SANABRIA (per Skype – Boston): Contested sovereignties: Darien, a strategic periphery of the Spanish Empire (1670-1700)
Friday, 7.6.2019: Economies
Panel 1: Finances and the State
10:00-10:30: William GODSEY (Vienna): Statehood and Territoriality: the fiscal organization of the modern Austrian Empire
10:30-11:00: Renate PIEPER (Graz): Between market integration and territorialization in early modern Empires: Evidences from the clothing sector
11:00-11:20: Coffee break
Panel 2: Economy and Changes in Governance?
11:20-11:50: Wolfgang GÖDERLE (Graz): Territorialization through Knowledge and Infrastructure: The case of 18th and early 19th century Habsburg Central Europe
11:50-12:20: Claudia JEFFERIES (London): The nature of central and peripheral money circuits in 17th century Spain and Spanish America
12:20-14:00: Lunch and final discussion