Freitag, 05. Februar 2016, 14:00 - 16:00 iCal
Rethinking Vienna around 1900
New thoughts on and interpretations of culture and politics at the turn of the century
Seminarraum 1, Institut für Geschichte, Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
The univie: winter school 2016 invites you to attend a unique lecture on new perspectives concerning the cultural and political changes witnessed in Vienna around the 1900s. It will be held by Pieter M. Judson, renowned professor of 19th and 20th century History and Chair of the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence.
He is the author of prize-winning books on the Habsburg Empire, including "Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1914" (1996), "Wien brennt! Die Revolution von 1848 und ihr liberales Erbe" (1998) and "Guardians of the Nation. Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria" (2006).
In April 2016, Harvard University Press will publish his newest book "The Habsburg Empire".
Judson has received prizes and fellowships including from the J.S.Guggenheim foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Karl von Vogelsang Prize from the Austrian government, the Internationales Forschungszentrum für Kulturwissenschaften, and the American Academy in Berlin.
He is currently editing the Cambridge History of the Habsburg Monarchy with Mark Cornwall and The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe, 1908-1923 with Tara Zahra.
Please register via email: sommerhochschule@univie.ac.at
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Nina Gruber & Katharina Hötzenecker
Innovationszentrum Universität Wien GmbH
Sommerhochschule
+43-1-4277-24131
sommerhochschule@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Dienstag, 19. Januar 2016, 11:54
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2016, 13:28