Multicultural Cities of the Habsburg Empire 1880 – 1914
Catherine Horel Catherine Horel has undertaken a comparative analysis of the societal, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the last decades of the Habsburg Monarchy as represented in twelve cities: Arad, Bratislava, Brno, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Oradea, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Subotica, Timișoara, Trieste, and Zagreb. By purposely selecting these cities, the author aims to counter the disproportionate attention that the largest cities in the empire...
CfP: für die Fachtagung Geschichte “Imperial Cities”, 26. bis 27. April 2018 in Moskau
Deadline november 17TH 2017 Urban history research has recently experienced increasing interest in “imperial” questions. One expression that is used over and over again is the “imperial city”. While this term has so far primarily been applied to the European metropolises of the western colonial empires, this conference aims to analyze the phenome non of the imperial city in the context of the continental empires of Eastern...
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv
Tarik Cyril Amar The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv, Tarik Cyril Amar reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of one of East Central Europe’s most important multiethnic borderland cities into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Today, Lviv is the modern metropole of the western part of...
CfP: Climax or Beginning? Modernity, Culture, Central Europe and the Great War
Climax or Beginning? Modernity, Culture, Central Europe and the Great War Prague, Czech Republic, October 24-25, 2014 Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 31, 2013 Deadline for submitting full papers: September 1, 2014 The year 2014 will inevitably be a year of remembrance and offers to look back at the origins, course and consequences of the First World War. Contemporary reflections, however, tend to oscillate between two...
