Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung|Institute of Austrian Historical Research, Univ. of Vienna (Web)

Time: 17.-19.07.2025
Venue: Univ. of Vienna

Programme (PDF)

Panels with (among others) a women’s and gender history focus (selection):

Panel 8: Women, Business & Capital

• Eveline Brugger: [Institute for Jewish History in Austria]: “So Says Muskat, Seldman‘s Widow From Marburg.” Tracing the Career of a Jewish Businesswoman Under the Rule of Friedrich III
• Anna Molnár [King’s Coll. London]: Private Banking Activities of Female Religious Organisations in the Later Middle Ages
• Oana Sorescu-Iudean [New Europe Coll., Bucharest]: “Subtle and en-trenched ways”: Networks of public debt and private credit in Transylvania, 1750–1800
• Chair: Christina Lutter [Univ. of Vienna] | Discussant: Andrea Griesebner [Univ. of Vienna]

Panel 27: Activism and Progressive Movements in the Society

• Emily Steinhauer [Royal Holloway]: The Making of an Academic Activist in Interwar Vienna: Marie Jahoda and the Possibilities of Intellectual Labour from Austria to Exile
• Fabian Baumann [Heidelberg Univ.]: The Legal Prosecution of Czechoslovak Communists for Treason and Disloyalty, 1919–ca. 1925
• Gabriella Jeki [Károli Gáspár Univ., Budapest]: Connections and Education: How Could a Female Journalist Succeed at the Turn of the Century?
• Chair: Vanni D‘Alessio [Univ. of Naples Federico II] | Discussant: Sabine Rutar [IOS Regensburg]

Panel 31: Empire in the Urban Space

• Irene Messinger [Univ. of Vienna]: The Disruption of Social Work Knowledge: The Impact of Fascist Regimes in the 1930s on Individuals, Institutions, and Professional Expertise in Vienna
• Ágnes Németh [Eötvös Loránd Univ.]: Budapest: A sanitary Danube capital
• Gábor Koloh [HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest]: Birth Control in Interwar Hungary
• Chair: Alice Freifeld [Univ. of Florida] | Discussant: Andreas Weigl [Univ. of Vienna]

Panel 35: Being Single and Reading the News

• Orel Beilinson [Polonsky Academy]: Bachelors and the Public Sphere in Late Imperial Prague, 1907–1915
• Katya Motyl [Temple Univ.]: Single New Women in Early 20th Century Vienna
• Michał J. Wilczewski [Northwestern Univ.]: Mirroring the Male Gaze: What Men’s Humor Magazines Can Tell Us About Masculinity in Interwar Poland
• Chair: Burkhardt Wolf [Univ. of Vienna] | Discussant: Anita Kurimay [Bryn Mawr Coll.]

Panel 43: Health, Care, and Control in the Monarchy

• Janka Kovács [HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest]: Travel, Observation, and Technological Transfers. The Models of Psychiatric Institutionalization in 19th Century Hungary
• Gergely Magos [Eötvös Loránd Univ.]: Paralysis, the “Hungarian insanity”. Masculinity and the degeneration of the nation in the Hungarian medical discourse
• Viktória Sághy [Univ. of Pécs]: Venereal Diseases and Prostitution in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Official Data in the Light of British Reports
• Chair: Jan Rybak [Central European Univ.] | Discussant: Susan Zimmermann [Central European Univ.]

Panel 55: International Movements and International Protection

• John Paul Newman [Maynooth Univ.]: Illyria Unbound: Re-assessing the Illyrian Movement in its International Aspect
• Nicole Albrecht [Georgetown Univ.]: Peasant Internationalism: Post-imperial state building and the making of the global welfare regime
• Judit Acsady [HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest]: International Suffrage event in Central Europe, connecting women from the region with the rest of the world: The case of the 1913 IWSA Congress in Budapest
• Chair: Balázs Pálvölgyi [Univ. of Győr / MCC] | Discussant: Anca Cretu [Univ. of Warwick]