Wednesday, September 13, 2017 (Rudolfskai 42, HS 380)
16.15 Arrival and welcome coffee
17.00 General Introduction:
Laurence Cole (Salzburg)
Brigitte Mazohl (Innsbruck/Vienna)
17.30 Keynote lecture:
Ulrike von Hirschhausen (Rostock) Permutations of Statehood in Modern Europe
Thursday, September 14, 2017 (Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, HS 331)
09.00–10.30 Session 1:
Structural and Historical Dimensions of Dual and Multiple Statehood
Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski (Warsaw and London) Ambiguities of Union: Singular, Dual and Triune Statehood in Poland-Lithuania, 1569–1795
William D. Godsey (Vienna) The Habsburg monarchy as a ‘composite monarchy’
Alvin Jackson (Edinburgh) The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland and the survival of the United Kingdom (1707–1921)
10.30–11.00 Coffee Break
11.00–12.00 Session 2:
Dual and Multiple Statehood in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Johannes Koll (Vienna) An amalgamating state: The Kingdom of the United Netherlands 1815–1830
Pia Einonen (Jyvaskyla) The Autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland as a part of the Russian Empire (1809–1917)
12.00–14.00 Lunch Break
14.00–15.30 Session 3:
Legal and Constitutional Aspects of Dual Statehood: Comparing Scandinavia and Central Europe
András Cieger (Budapest) Constitutional Myths and Codification Practice: The Hungarian Case
Anatol Schmied-Kowarzik (Vienna) The Influence of Hungary on the Inner Policy of Cisleithania
Torbjörn Nilsson (Stockholm) Sweden – Norway 1814–1905: A Soft Union of Limited Monarchies
15.30–16.00 Coffee Break
16.00–18.00 Session 4:
Foreign Political and Military Aspects of Dual Statehood: Comparing Scandinavia and Central Europe
Günther Kronenbitter (Augsburg) A Double-Edged Sword: Habsburg Dualism and the Armed Forces
Alma Hannig (Bonn) Stability or competing institutions? Actors and Instruments of Austro-Hungarian foreign policy
Morten Nordhagen Ottosen (Odense) Conflict and Cooperation: The Impact of Dual Statehood on Military Affairs in Sweden and Norway, 1814–1905
Roald Berg (Stavanger) Second fiddle or conductor? Norway in the foreign politics of the Scandinavian dual state, 1814–1905
Friday, September 15, 2017 (Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, HS 331)
09.00–10.30 Session 5:
Representing Dualism: Symbolic Dimensions of Dual Monarchies
Bálint Varga (Budapest) Fragmented representations: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ruth Hemstad (Oslo) Mapping Scandinavia – transnational symbolic and conceptual struggles
Kristina Widestedt (Stockholm) Emotional ties in a time of crisis. Oscar II and his subjects in Swedish journalism 1905
10.30–11.00 Coffee Break
11.00–12.30 Session 6:
Ending Dualism: Norway-Sweden and Austria-Hungary compared
Peter Haslinger (Marburg) Doomed to failure? Austro-Hungarian Dualism 1895-1918
Dag Michalsen (Oslo) The dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union in 1905: Law and politics intertwined
Tatiana Khripachenko (St. Petersburg) At Aurora’s Gunpoint: The unconcluded Russian-Finnish Compromise of 1917
12.30–13.15 Lunch Break
13.15–14.00 Conclusion:
Roundtable Discussion
Ulrike von Hirschhausen (Rostock)
Jana Osterkamp (Munich)
Arno Strohmeyer (Salzburg)