Daša Licen, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, and Alexander Maxwell, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Web)

Time: 28.-30.01.2022
Venue: virtual space
During the long 19th century, the Habsburg civil service grew steadily. The swelling ranks of clerks, inspectors, tax collectors, military recruiters, census-takers, policemen, judges, cartographers, sanitation officials, telegraph operators, and other minor officials did not form an entirely homogenous social group, differentiated as they were by educational attainment, region, rank, and status. They nevertheless formed an important social collective, characterized above all by literacy, but also by novel habits, values, cultural practices, and novel social circumstances.
To explore such issues, Alexander Maxwell and Daša Licen planned first an online conference. The rich program contains 24 lecturs to be held by international reserachers from several continents. Read more … (PDF).
Program
The full program ist out now. Find the final program and the abstracts here (PDF)
Sections

• Officials and early Nationalists
• Between National and Imperial
• The Emperor and hist Officials
• Belles Lettres
• The Police in society
• Along the Adriatic Coast
• Officials and Slavdom
• Governing the Tyrol Alps
• Bureaucrats and Labour
• Official Careers
• Official Containing Nationalism
• The End of the Empire