Summer School: Empire of Circulation

Habsburg Knowledge in its Global Settings

Placing Habsburg knowledge production from the 17^th to the 20^th centuries afresh in its global settings, this event will serve as a platform for doctoral, post-doctoral and senior researchers who specialise in Habsburg history, the history of science, scholarship and intellectual culture. Our event will allot a special place to Bohemia and its role as an interface between the regions of the Empire and as a switchboard between Central Europe and the globe.

[This event is not open to the public.]
Time: 3–6 October 2022
Location: OeAW, Dr. Ignaz-Seipel Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, Johannessaal
Audience: Doctoral and Postdoctoral researchers
Conference languages: English and German
Organizers: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Johann Gottfried Herder-Research Council in cooperation with the Humboldt University Berlin.

Application: Abstract of your contribution/research project (250-300 words) and a brief CV (preferably as PDF) to summerschool(at)oeaw.ac.at
Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2022

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Programme

Image: A Viennese fan from Hieronymus Löschenkohl’s factory depicts a Moroccan triptych: a Habsburg envoy at the Moroccan court, the pasha of Tangiers as ambassador before Joseph II in 1783, and the ambassador’s return to the seraglio.  Wien Museum