Statehood and Territoriality in the Early Habsburg and Bourbon Empires

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Statehood and Territoriality in the Early Habsburg and Bourbon Empires

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Institute of History, University of Graz (Department of Historical Information Science, Department of Social and Economic History)
Veranstaltungsort
Ort
Graz
Land
Austria
Vom - Bis
06.06.2019 - 07.06.2019
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Von
Wolfgang Göderle

Established notions of statehood have recently come under pressure in the wake of current scholarship on space and territoriality. This applies particularly to the 18th century, a major historiographical divide in terms of European historical thinking, parting Early Modern from Modern History and belonging neither to the one nor to the other large realm of interpretation.

The workshop “Statehood and Territoriality” would like to open the arena to an entire bunch of new questions and approaches. Specialists predominantly dealing with either the Bourbon or the Habsburg Empire in the context of a long 18th century - spanning roughly from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna – will exchange experiences, ideas and approaches to tackle the main methodological issues they are dealing with in their daily work.

Beside "statehood", "territoriality" and "space" are the major conceptual frameworks to be questioned and interrogated with regard to their reach and reciprocal relation, especially with view to everyday historiographical work. Participants are invited to either consider case studies, or to build their paper on a larger set of more general observations covering a longer period of time. In addition, we would like to encourage participants to think about the role that knowledge - both theoretical and practical - played in the formation of the above conceptual frameworks.

Programm

„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

Kontakt

Wolfgang Göderle
Attemsgasse 8/IV

wolfgang.goederle@uni-graz.at