Keynote at the 2nd Annual Workshop of the Late Habsburg PhD Network (PDF)

Time: 22.06.2023, 18:00 Uhr
Ort: Univ. Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, Hörsaal 6 Franz König

The period after 1918 is often understood as a post-imperial or even post-colonial period in Habsburg Central Europe. The successor states drew sharp contrasts between their allegedly democratic and national values on the one hand, and the allegedly oppressive non-democratic and anti-national values of the empire they had replaced on the other. Research in the past decade has complicated this narrative in several ways. First, it has shown that imperial and national values often developed in tandem and shared a similar logic. Secondly, we now see that a range of continuities (institutional, administrative, cultural, personnel) linked the rejected imperial regime to the successor states. The lecture explores some of these continuities, examining the elements of imperial practice adopted by the successor states and pointing out where some new imperial practices distinguished the successors from the empire they replaced.

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Pieter M. Judson is Professor of 19th and 20th Century History at the European University Institute in Florence. He has been awarded several prices for his publications, such as the Karl Vogelsang-Staatspreis in 2010. „The Habsburg Empire. A New History“ was published in 2016 and has since appeared in eleven translations. His research focuses on a variety of topics in the history of modern Europe including the history of empires, borderlands, nationalism, gender, cultural, and political history.