Administrative cultures in transition in the Habsburg successor states

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Administrative cultures in transition in the Habsburg successor states

Veranstalter
Therese Garstenauer; Gábor Egry
Veranstaltungsort
Wien (online)
Gefördert durch
Collegium Hungaricum Wien, Austrian Science Fund, NEPOSTRANS (ERC-Project)
PLZ
1020
Ort
Vienna
Land
Austria
Vom - Bis
10.05.2021 - 11.05.2021
Deadline
08.05.2021
Von
Therese Garstenauer, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien

In our workshop, we scrutinize administrative values, norms and practice in the interwar period. We are interested in continuities and change in administrative culture, in terms of procedures, symbols, formal and informal rules and regulations as well as personal attitudes. The effects of administrative reforms and the role of national linguistic changes will be taken into account.

Administrative cultures in transition in the Habsburg successor states

“Today, we are jaded by the hardship of the moment, but also by the societal shift; we must reckon with a decline of standards, we cannot demand as much as in 1914.” A senior official from Upper Austria who served as disciplinary attorney for a colleague who had been involved in smuggling uttered these lines in 1926. Statements such as this point to a perceived change of values of government officials related to the transition from monarchy to republic. In our workshop, we scrutinize administrative values, norms and practice in the interwar period. We are interested in continuities and change in administrative culture, in terms of procedures, symbols, formal and informal rules and regulations as well as personal attitudes. The effects of administrative reforms and the role of national linguistic changes will be taken into account.

For registration and the link to the online event please write to therese.garstenauer@univie.ac.at (Subject: Administrative culture) before May 8, 2021.

Programm

Monday, May 10

15:00. Welcome, introductory words: Therese Garstenauer, Gábor Egry

Panel 1: Administrative and chancellery reforms

15:10 – 16:00
Peter PLENER, „Papiergröße 210 x 297 mm“. Zur Neuformatierung der österreichischen Zentralstellen 1923

16:00 – 16.10 Break

16:10 – 17:00
Peter BECKER, Transforming Files and Spaces: Administrative Reform in the 1920s

17:00 – 17:10 Break

17:20 – 18:10
Martin KLEČACKÝ, The Way to Centralised, Unified and Efficient Administration. Czechoslovak Administrative Reforms of the First Decade and Their Impact on the Public Service

Tuesday, May 11

Panel 2: Languages and nationalities

9:00 – 9:50
Elisabeth HAID, Attempts of Ukrainization and (Re-)Polonization: Eastern Galician administration 1918–1923

9:50 – 10:00 Break

10:00 – 10:50
Gábor EGRY, Learning a New Language, Keeping the Old Habits? How the Experiences and Legacies of Dualist Hungary Shaped Romanian County Administration after 1918

10:50 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:50
Cody INGLIS, The Question of Overlapping Authority in Postimperial Transition: Northern Lower Austria and Southern Moravia, 1914–1924

11:50 – 13:30 Lunch break

Panel 3 Specific Manifestations of Interwar Administrative culture

13:30 – 14:20
Edina GÁL, Orphan Care and Child Protection in Interwar Romania

14:20 – 14:30 Break

14:30 – 15:20
Károly IGNÁCZ, The Continuity of Changing Administrative Culture? The „Outskirts of Budapest” in Transition (1918–1924)

15:20 – 15:50 Break

Panel 4 Attitudes and Values

15:50 – 16:40
Julia BAVOUZET, Imperial Legacies in the Hungarian Ministerial Bureaucracy beyond Ruptures and Continuity

16:40 – 16:50 Break

16:50 – 17:40
Therese GARSTENAUER, “We cannot demand as much as in 1914!” Attitudes and Values of Civil Servants in the Austrian First Republic

17:40 Concluding remarks

Kontakt

therese.garstenauer@univie.ac.at