hps.cesee global book talk: The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880. Monday, May 26, 11:00 am EDT / 17:00 CET / 18:00 EEST, Zoom.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Virtual platform HPS.CESEE (History of Science in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe) is proud to present its forthcoming book talk on a new publication on history of statistics. László Kontler and Morgane Labbé will join Borbála Zsuzsanna Török to comment on her recent book: The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 (2024) [1], in a discussion moderated by Katalin Stráner.
Monday, May 26, 11:00 am DST / 17:00 CET / 18:00 EEST, Zoom.
The meeting is free and open to the public. To receive the Zoom link, please register here: https://forms.gle/mFnfLEDXEbC8L8iY8 or write to hps.cesee@gmail.com
[1] Borbála Zsuzsanna Török: The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 (Oxford, New York: Berghahn 2024)
“The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a strenuous process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on recent research to investigate the history of statistics as an overlooked part of the sciences of the state in Habsburg legal education as well as within the broader public sphere. By exploring the practices and social spaces of statistics, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török uncovers its central role in imagining the composite Habsburg Monarchy as a modern and unified administrative space.”
Participants
Borbála Zsuzsanna Török is a historian specializing in the social history of civil justice and modern state knowledge in the Habsburg Monarchy. She currently serves as part-time acting professor for Modern History at the University of Heidelberg. She is Privatdozentin at University of Vienna’s Institute for Austrian Historical Research and PI of the research project “Mobilisierung der Ziviljustiz und Sozialpolitik in der Habsburgermonarchie, 1873–1914,” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), whose follow-up project has been recently approved. Her research focuses on the social history of law, property, statistics, nationalism, and knowledge transfer in East-Central Europe. She has held fellowships from the FWF, DFG, and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and is the author of Exploring Transylvania. Geographies of Knowledge and Entangled Histories of a Multiethnic Province, 1790 – 1914 (2015).
László Kontler is a historian of early modern European intellectual history and the Enlightenment, with a focus on political thought, historiography, and the transnational circulation of ideas. Based at Central European University since its inception, he has also held fellowships and taught at institutions including Cambridge, Rutgers, and Oxford. His recent work includes studies on the reception of Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, the Viennese Jesuit astronomer Maximilian Hell, and the cultural construction of humanity in the early modern period.
Morgane Labbé is a historian and demographer specializing in population policies, nationalism, and social protection in Central Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. She is a Directrice d'études at the EHESS (Paris), affiliated with the Centre of Historical Research (CRH), and has played key roles in international academic partnerships with institutions in Warsaw and Michigan. Her research focuses on the history of statistics, social politics, demography, and charitable institutions in imperial contexts, and she has been an active contributor to scholarly networks and editorial boards in these fields.
Katalin Stráner is a historian of modern Europe at Newcastle University, with a focus on transnational history, particularly the history of science, migration, and urban culture in the Habsburg Empire and East Central Europe. She holds a PhD in History from Central European University and has held fellowships and academic positions across Europe and the US, including at Harvard, UCL, and the European University Institute. Her research explores how knowledge and scientific ideas are produced, translated, and transformed through cultural mobility, with current projects on Darwinism in Habsburg Hungary and migration from East Central Europe to Britain.
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