Conference | Representing the Habsburg-Lorraine Dynasty, c. 1618–1918
From the conference programme:
Representing the Habsburg-Lorraine Dynasty in Music,
Visual Media, and Architecture, c. 1618–1918
Institute of History of Art and Musicology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 8–10 June 2015
This international conference will take place in Vienna from the 8th to the 10th of June 2015. It will be devoted to the new interdisciplinary research program ‘Representing Habsburg’—one of the main current research fields of the Institute for History of Art and Musicology (IKM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences focusing on the history of fine arts and music in Austria and Central Europe in their general European context. Please register at:
kunstgeschichte@oeaw.ac.at.
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M O N D A Y , 8 J U N E 2 0 1 5
10:30 Registration
11:00 Opening, Werner Telesko, Director of the Institute of History of Art and Musicology
11:30 Topics and Media of Representation
Chair: Alexander Rausch, Werner Telesko
• Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, University of Salzburg | Vom Volkslied zur Kaiserhymne: „Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze / unsern Kaiser, unser Land!“
• Friedrich Polleroß, University of Vienna | Repräsentation und Reproduktion. Der „Kaiserstil“ in den zeitgenössischen „Massenmedien“
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30 Topics and Media of Representation, Part 2
• Adriana De Feo, Mozarteum Foundation, Salzburg | Selbstdarstellung und höfische Repräsentanz: dramatische Sujets zur Glorifizierung des Geschlechts der Habsburger in der barocken Librettistik
• Irena Veselá, Moravian Museum, Brno | „Venga quel dì felice!“ Dynastisch-politische Botschaften in musikali- schen Huldigungswerken für Karl VI. und Elisabeth Christine (1723)
• Allison Goudie, The National Gallery, London | Habsburg Portraiture face-to-face with the French Revolution
• Olivia Gruber Florek, Delaware County Community College | The Absent Empress: Photomontage, the Habsburg Monarchy, and Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century
18:30 Evening Lecture
• Michael Yonan, University of Missouri, Columbia | Interdisciplinary Material Culture Studies and the Problems of Habsburg Representation
T U E S D A Y , 9 J U N E 2 0 1 5
9:00 Dynasty, State, and Nation
Chair: Richard Kurdiovsky, Stefan Schmidl
• Andrea Baotic-Rustanbegovic, University of Sarajevo | Presentation of the Habsburg Dynasty in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Austro-Hungarian Rule, 1878–1918: The Case of Public Monuments
• Nataša Ivanovic, ́Research Institute for Visual Culture, Ljubljana | State and National Representation in the Case of Ljubljana Town Hall
• Timo Hagen, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz | K.u.k. Militärbauten als Repräsentanten der Gesamtmonarchie in der siebenbürgischen „Peripherie“
• András Gero, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest | Francis Joseph: The Hungarian Hero
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Agencies and Networks
Chair: Anna Mader-Kratky, Stefan Schmidl
• Milan Pelc, Institute of Art History, Zagreb | Leopold I. in der Sammlung Valvasor – Ikonographie des Kaisers aus der Perspektive eines Zeitgenossen
• Stefan Seitschek, Austrian State Archives, Vienna | Der Wiener Hof in den Tagebüchern Kaiser Karls VI.
• Martin Krummholz, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague | Habsburgische Propaganda in Rom zur Zeit des Botschafters Johann Wenzel von Gallas
• Jana Perutková, Masaryk University, Brno | Die von der mährischen Aristokratie in der ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts veranstalteten musikdramatischen Aufführungen als Spiegel der musikalischen Feste am Wiener Kaiserhof
W E D N E S D A Y , 1 0 J U N E 2 0 1 5
9:00 Ceremonial Spaces and the „Public“
Chair: Elisabeth Hilscher, Herbert Karner
• Thomas Hochradner, Mozarteum University Salzburg | Spielball der Repräsentation? Überlegungen zur Kirchenmusik von Johann Joseph Fux
• Andrea Zedler, University of Regensburg / Michael Pölzl, University of Vienna | Tafelzeremoniell, „Schau-Essen“ und Musik als Mittel der Repräsentation im Zuge der Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten von Erzherzogin Maria Amalia und Kurprinz Karl Albrecht in Wien (1722)
• Mirjana Repanic ́-braun, Institute of Art History, Zagreb | Representation of Habsburgs in the Croatian Historical Lands: Public Spaces and Art as Political Apparatus
• Anne-Marie Wurster, University of Freiburg i.B. | „Unter Trompetten- und Paucken-Schall“: Die Fronleichnamsfeierlich- keiten zur Zeit Maria Theresias als Demonstration imperialer Macht
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Ceremonial Spaces and the „Public,“ Part 2
• Peter Konecný – Miroslav Lacko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava | Der Herrscher im Bergwerk: Die Visitationsreisen der Habsburg- Lothringer in die ungarischen (slowakischen) Bergstädte (1751–1852)
• Filip Šimetin Šegvic, University of Zagreb | Zagreb/Agram als zeremonieller Raum im Jahr 1895: Kaiser Franz Joseph und die dynastische Repräsentation
15:30 Concluding Discussion
New Book | Perspectives on the Honours Systems
From The Royal Swedish Academy:
Antti Matikkala and Staffan Rosén, eds., Perspectives on the Honours Systems: Proceedings of the Symposiums Swedish and Russian Orders 1700–2000 and the Honour of Diplomacy (Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 2015), 322 pages, ISBN: 978-9174024302, 311SEK.
Perspectives on the Honours Systems opens new multidisciplinary avenues for research on both historical and current methods by which monarchs, heads of state and governments have honoured individuals in different contexts, primarily in the Nordic countries and Russia. The essays are mostly based on papers given at two symposiums (in Stockholm 2009 and in Helsinki 2011).
The essays have been arranged in six thematic and broadly chronological parts. The first part analyses the foundation of the Swedish orders of knighthood and the background debates beginning in the 1690s. The second part looks at the orders of knighthood as instruments of diplomacy from the late Middle Ages mostly up to the Napoleonic period, while the third part approaches the material aspect of honours. The fourth part is chronological, concentrating on the first half of the twentieth century from the perspective of diplomacy as well as the wearing of orders and decorations. The fifth part, with emphasis on the Far East, discusses honorific contacts with Denmark and Russia. The sixth and last part describes the current diplomatic use of Finnish and Swedish orders as well as the Russian award system of today.
By taking a long perspective, 14 historians, archivists, museum curators, officers of orders and diplomats address fundamental questions related to honours: why honours systems have been established, what kind of role they have played in different historical situations and their current relevance in modern societies.
Antti Matikkala is a historian specializing in the honours systems. He was Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, 2009–2012.
Staffan Rosén is Vice Chancellor and Secretary of the Swedish Royal Orders of Knighthood. He is retired Professor of Korean Studies at Stockholm University and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
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