09:30 Introduction
Iva Lučić & Jawad Daheur

10:00 Keynote

Manufacturing versus Resource Extraction. Unequal Division of Labour and Regional Shifts in Core-Periphery Relations in the Habsburg Monarchy (18/19th c.)
Andrea Komlosy – University of Vienna

11:00 Coffee Break

11:10 Panel I

Get Out of Our Forest! Rural Societies, National Mobilization, State-building and Modern Forestry in Transylvania 1900-1940
Gábor Egry – Institute of Political History, Budapest

Imperial, Regional, and Local Regulation of Water and its Inter-Imperial Entanglements
Jana Osterkamp – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Chair: Iva Lučić
Commentator: Margaret Hunt – University of Uppsala

12:40 Lunch Break

13:40 Panel II

The Establishment and Management of the Investment Fund of Croatian-Slavonian Military Border as an Example of the State Forest Management during the Reign of Franz Joseph I.
Robert Skenderović – History Institute, Slavonski Brod

Securing the Forests: A Relational Approach to Transborder Conflicts and Contestations in the Late Ottoman and Habsburg Empires
Selçuk Dursun – Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Chair: Jawad Daheur
Commentator: Anna Sekulić – European University Institute

15:10 Coffee

15:30 Panel III

Indian Mongooses in the Adriatic: Knowledge, Infrastructure and Improvement
Wolfgang Göderle – Karl Franzens University, Graz

Traditional and Innovative Agroforestry during the Late Habsburg Empire in Hungary
Ana Varga – Rachel Carson Centre, Munich

Chair: Iva Lučić
Commentator: Ségolène Plyer – University of Strasbourg

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09:30 Panel IV

Was there an Interplay between Ethnic Composition, State Intervention and the Patterns of the Commodification of Timber in Forested Areas? Two Regional Examples from the Carpathians, 1890-1919
Robert Balogh – University of Debrecen

Contested “Rights in Nature”: Practices of Forest Use Regulation in Habsburg Bosnia on the Crossroad between Private Capital, Local Population, and the Imperial State
Iva Lučić – University of Uppsala

Chair: Jawad Daheur
Commentator: Pieter Judson – European University Institute

11:00 Coffee Break

11:10 Panel V

Bark beetle and the Natural Resources Exploitation in the Böhmerwald Region (1868–1877)
Kristýna Kaucká – Masaryk Institute and Archives, Prague

Resource Governance in Time of Drought: The Struggle over Fodder Exports in Cisleithania at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century
Jawad Daheur – Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies, Paris

Chair: Iva Lučić
Commentator: Gunnel Cederlöf – Linnaeus University, Växjö

12:40 Lunch Break

13:40 Panel VI

State versus Peasants? The Forest Transition in Late Habsburg Austria
Simone Gingrich and Martin Schmidt – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

Chair: Jawad Daheur
Commentator: Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist – University of Stockholm

14:40 Coffee Break

15:00 Roundtable discussion: Imperial Statehood, Nature and Private Capital

Gunnel Cederlöf – Linnaeus University, Växjö
Per Högselius – KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Pieter Judson – European University Institute

Moderation: Iva Lučić & Jawad Daheur

16:00 End of the conference