Franzosen in Wien: Einwanderer und Besatzer
Französische Revolution und napoleonische Besatzung in den österreichischen Polizeiakten

Dr. Winkler (Bochum), 2012. 270 S., 17 x 24 cm cm, 27 graph. Abb.; Kartonierte Ausgabe: ISBN 978-3-89911-186-6, € 33,75; Ausgabe in Bibliotheksleinen: ISBN 978-3-89911-201-6, € 51,75

siehe auch Vorstand!

• die ordentliche Generalversammlung mit der Wahl des neuen Vorstands für die Funktionsperiode bis 12/2014
• Verleihung des Franz-Stephan Preises und Förderpreises
• 30-Jahres-Jubiläum der ÖGE 18 mit einem Festvortrag des Präsidenten der Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts Prof. Dr. Daniel Fulda „Wege ins Offene. Ist die moderne Zukunftsvorstellung ein Produkt oder Ausgangsbedingung der Aufklärung?“

• Prof. Franz Eybl (Institut für Germanistik, Moderation)
• Prof. Thomas Fröschl (Institut für Geschichte)
• Mag. Christoph Gnant (Universität Wien)
• Prof. Martin Scheutz (Institut für Geschichte/Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung)
• Prof. Wolfgang Schmale (Institut für Geschichte)

• Institut für Geschichte, GaM = Geschichte am Mittwoch, Leitung Prof. Stefan Zahlmann
• Forschungsschwerpunkt Historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Europawissenschaft - Sprecher: Prof. Philipp Ther

Call for Contribution:

Tolerant Europe:
Inclusions, exclusions and minorities and the construction of Europe.
1680-1789

Panel at the XX International Conference of Europeanists
Amsterdam, The Netherlands • 25-27 June  2013

Organisator: Matthey D’Auria, Member of the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe (Website)

Application: If you would like to present a paper (max 15 minutes), please send an abstract in English (max 300 words), including a suitable title and a short biography by 1 October 2012 to Giuseppe Foscari (University of Salerno) gfoscari@unisa.it or to Matthew D’Auria (University of Salerno) dauria@historyideaofeurope.org. Please note that the working language is English.

Content of Panel (website)
Some of the most important cultural, social and intellectual changes taking place in eighteenth-century Europe are tied to the shift occurring in the notion of ‘tolerance’. Importantly, during the century, from an essentially religious concept tolerance also became a political and cultural one – as proven by Usbeck’s remarks or Vico’s writings – a shift, for example, captured in the German world by Mendelssohn. All of the foremost thinkers of the age, from Spinoza to Locke, from Voltaire to Montesquieu, to Toland, Giannone and Lessing, wrote on the concept and some campaigned for more tolerant policies. The plethora of writings on the idea of tolerance was accompanied by the proclamation of the Toleration Act (1689), the Toleranzpatent by Joseph II (1781) and the 1787 edit by Louis XVI. To an extent, this confirms the growing importance, beyond intellectual circles, of the notion.
However, while the concept of tolerance represented an important step forward in the development of Europe, the idea itself was not without ambiguities. In fact, ‘tolerance’ was and is a ‘negative’ concept inasmuch as it accepts a lesser evil – the existence of a different and often inferior ‘other’ – to a greater evil – the eruption of overt social and political conflicts. From this angle it might be argued that the idea of tolerance hides processes of inclusion and exclusion and creation of borders, identities, and hierarchies. On such processes, and on the ambiguities of tolerance as a technique of power, scholars still need to shed light.
Although the eighteenth-century notion has received much attention, few studies focus on how ‘tolerance’ influenced the feeling of ‘Europeanness’ and how and to what an extent it was construed as a peculiar trait of the European world – at once an element to be proud of and, at times, the mark of a supposed European ‘superiority’. The present panel tries to address precisely such an issue, highlighting the close relationship between the way Europe imagined itself and the development of the notion of religious, political and cultural tolerance – as an hallmark of ‘progress’ as well as one of the greatest achievements of the European mind. There is in fact much to be said on the relationship between the relationship between the notion of tolerance and the idea of Europe, not lastly because even the latter refers to process of inclusions and exclusions – processes it tries to defuse and control. From this angle, the parallel between the hidden aspects of ‘tolerance’ and the ‘dark side’ of Europe might be particularly seminal.

The time-span considered is the so-called long eighteen century (roughly 1680-1789). Original work by cultural, political, social intellectual and art historians is welcome.

Guy Thewes Stände, Staat und Militär Versorgung und Finanzierung der Armee in den Österreichischen Niederlanden 1715-1795

Böhlau (Wien), 2012, 392 S., 5 s/w-Abb., 2 Ktn., zahlr. Tab., 24 x 17 cm, Br., Preis: € 39.00, 978-3-205-78843-0

Call for Paper

Präsenz und Evidenz fremder Dinge im Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts

Jahrestagung
der „Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhundert“

9.- 11. September 2013

Tagungsort: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

Beschreibung: siehe PDF-File (english & deutsch)

Organisation: Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann (Universität Passau - Anglistik - Cultural and Media Studies)

ABSTRACTS von ca. 200 Wörtern werden bis zum 1. Oktober 2012 erbeten an: birgit.neumann@uni-passau.de

Die Österreichische Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts (OGE 18), möchte Sie über den Vortrag und die Buchpräsentation von

Univ.-Prof. (em.) Dr. Silvio VIETTA
„RATIONALITÄT – EINE WELTGESCHICHTE“  

informieren.


Begrüßung: Philipp Ther
Kommentare: Irene Etzersdorfer, Wolfgang Schmale
 

Ort:     Universität Wien - Hörsaal des Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte (Campus)
Zeit:    Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012 I 18.00 s.t.

Im Anschluss wird zu einem Umtrunk gebeten.

Mehr Informationen bietet die Ankündigung als PDF Datei!

• den FRANZ-STEPHAN-PREIS für Dissertationen oder für Arbeiten vergleichbarer Bedeutung zur Habsburger Monarchie im 18. Jahrhundert
• den FRANZ-STEPHAN-FÖRDERPREIS für Diplom- oder Masterarbeiten mit Schwerpunkt im 18. Jahrhundert.

Herzliche Einladung zur 6. Graduate Conference in European History - GRACEH 2012:
 
Transformation in European History
Preconditions – Processes – Perceptions
3. bis 5. Mai 2012 
Campus der Universität Wien, Hof 3  Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte

Das Programm sowie weitere Informationen finden sich auf der Website.

CALL FOR PANELS & PAPERS

CROSSINGS: THE CULTURES OF GLOBAL EXCHANGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

18-20 OCTOBER 2012
THE WESTIN EDMONTON
EDMONTON, ALBERTA

“The Cultures of Global Exchange” seeks papers investigating what happens when cultures meet in the eighteenth century. Many historians now trace the origins of modern globalization to the eighteenth century, pointing to the global circulation of goods, labour, and information as its defining feature. By focusing on the nature of cross-cultural exchange, the conference will pursue the significance of framing the century within the terms of a nascent globalized world.We invite proposals that investigate cultural exchanges in a range of fields, including but not limited to history, literature, visual culture, geography, economics, anthropology and area studies. Investigations of transcultural crossings could address dialogues between Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Levant, India, China and the South Pacific. Especially welcome are papers on the topic of cultural encounters between Europeans and Western Canadian First Nationspeoples.

Plenary Speakers:

• Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University
• David Bell, Princeton University

• the material history of global traffic
• translation histories
• the culture of mobility
• information/scholarly networks
• theories of globalization
• travel writing
• eighteenth-century empires
• ideas of difference
• trans-cultural versus cross-cultural
• literary circulations
• representations of cross-cultural encounters
• cultural and commercial trade routes
• spaces of intellectual exchange

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Enlightenment Liberties

ISECS International Seminar for early-career researchers

Indiana University, Bloomington (USA), 2-7 July 2012

With the patronage of the Société Française d’Etude du XVIIIe siècle (SFEDS) and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)

Organisers : Guillaume Ansart (IUB), Catriona Seth (Nancy Université)

« Liberty or death », « Liberty, equality, fraternity », many revolutionary slogans put the conquest of liberty at the top of the list of citizens’ vindications. This was the culmination of a trend under way throughout the century and which sought for freedom in various fields. Free mores, freedom to worship, liberty of expression – « Without the liberty to condemn, there is no flattering praise », as Figaro stated –, Liberty of conscience, Freedom of Spirit, Free trade, Free circulation, but also poetic licenses, franchises and immunities are some of the liberties which were debated during the Enlightenment. Questions were raised regarding the confinement of prisoners, as well as of the sick or the insane, but also concerning the imprisonment of women in often arranged or even forced marriages. The value of moral, ecclesiastical or civil censorship was debated. European lives and those of the people of America, Africa, Asia or Oceania were considered in parallel to try and determine who was actually free: natural man or the citizen whose actions were protected by an enlightened regime. We invite proposals regarding all these approaches to enlightenment liberties, without excluding any field or method.

The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) invites applications from scholars in all fields of eighteenth-century studies within the context of this one-week residential seminar. The seminar is limited to 15 participants. The proposals (approx. 2 pages, single-spaced) should be based on an original research project (e.g. a doctoral dissertation) that deals with an aspect of the theme mentioned above. Because this is a seminar rather than a conference, each participant will be given approximately one hour to present the texts and questions which will then form the basis of a group discussion.

Preference will be given to scholars who are at the beginning of their academic career (PhD or equivalent obtained after 2006). The official languages are French and English.

Applications should include the following information:

• a brief curriculum vitae with date of PhD (or equivalent) and indication of the candidate’s proficiency in foreign languages.
• a list of principal publications and scholarly presentations.
• a brief description of the proposed paper (approx. 2 pages, single-spaced).

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