The conference aims at consolidating environmental history as part of the history of Habsburg Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century by exploring various forms of resource exploitation from multiple, but connected, perspectives including ecology, economy, governance and labor.
Exploiting Nature. Making an Empire: Natural Resource Extraction in Late Habsburg Empire
The contributions link environmental-historical concerns into the broader theoretical frame of imperial governance, subject-ruler relations and the expansion of capitalist structures under imperial rule. This is done by providing a platform of exchange for researchers who work on natural resource extraction in different parts of the Habsburg Empire, which encompassed diverse ecologies and positions in the world economy. The diversity of languages in which sources are available, their geographical dispersion and the differences between national historiographies make historical writing on an empire-wide scale a real challenge. For the first time, it will be possible to relate the different research results to each other and discuss them from a supra-regional perspective. Historians and environmental scientists working on the Habsburg Empire will explore multidisciplinary methods that combine environmental history of empire and human ecology. Their approaches will be discussed with Swedish scholars working on other imperial spaces. In that way the conference promotes cooperation among scholars working on imperial history and strengthens internationalization among Swedish academics.
Programm
Thursday, 20 May 2021
09:30 Introduction
Iva Lučić & Jawad Daheur
10:00 Keynote lecture
Manufacturing versus Resource Extraction. Unequal Division of Labour and Regional Shifts in Core-Periphery Relations in the Habsburg Monarchy (18/19th c.)
Andrea Komlosy – University of Vienna
11:00 Break
11:10 Panel I
Get Out of Our Forest! Rural Societies, National Mobilization, State-Building and Modern Forestry in Transylvania 1900-1940
Gábor Egry – Institute of Political History, Budapest
Imperial, Regional, and Local Regulation of Water and its Inter-Imperial Entanglements
Jana Osterkamp – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Chair: Iva Lučić
Commentator: Margaret Hunt – University of Uppsala
12:40 Lunch Break
13:40 Panel II
The Establishment and Management of the Investment Fund of Croatian-Slavonian Military Border as an Example of the State Forest Management during the Reign of Franz Joseph I.
Robert Skenderović – History Institute, Slavonski Brod
Securing the Forests: A Relational Approach to Transborder Conflicts and Contestations in the Late Ottoman and Habsburg Empires
Selçuk Dursun – Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Chair: Jawad Daheur
Commentator: Ana Sekulić – European University Institute, Florence
15:10 Break
15:30 Panel III
Indian Mongooses in the Adriatic: Knowledge, Infrastructure and Improvement
Wolfgang Göderle – Karl Franzens University, Graz
Traditional and Innovative Agroforestry during the Late Habsburg Empire in Hungary
Anna Varga – Rachel Carson Centre, Munich
Chair: Iva Lučić
Commentator: Ségolène Plyer – University of Strasbourg
Friday, 21 May 2021
09:30 Panel IV
Was there an Interplay between Ethnic Composition, State Intervention and the Patterns of the Commodification of Timber in Forested Areas? Two Regional Examples from the Carpathians, 1890-1919
Róbert Balogh – University of Debrecen
Contested “Rights in Nature”: Practices of Forest Use Regulation in Habsburg Bosnia-Herzegovina on the Crossroad between Private Capital, Local Population, and the Imperial State
Iva Lučić – University of Uppsala
Chair: Jawad Daheur
Commentator: Pieter Judson – European University Institute, Florence
11:00 Break
11:10 Panel V
Bark Beetle and the Natural Resources Exploitation in the Böhmerwald Region (1868–1877)
Kristýna Kaucká – Masaryk Institute and Archives, Prague
Resource Governance in Time of Drought: The Struggle over Fodder Exports in Cisleithania at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Century
Jawad Daheur – Center for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies, Paris
Chair: Iva Lučić
Commentator: Gunnel Cederlöf – Linnaeus University, Växjö
12:40 Lunch Break
13:40 Panel VI
State versus Peasants? The Forest Transition in Late Habsburg Austria
Simone Gingrich and Martin Schmid – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
Chair: Jawad Daheur
Commentator: Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist – University of Stockholm
14:40 Break
15:00 Roundtable discussion: Imperial Statehood, Nature, and Private Capital
Gunnel Cederlöf – Linnaeus University, Växjö
Per Högselius – KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Pieter Judson – European University Institute, Florence
Moderation: Iva Lučić & Jawad Daheur
16:00 End of the conference
Contact (announcement)
Iva Lučić
iva.lucic@edu.uu.se
Jawad Daheur
jawad.daheur@ehess.fr
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