The Habsburg Mediterranean, 1500–1800
No place would be more suitable than The Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem to organise a symposium that reconsiders Habsburg agents in their Mediterranean contexts. Founded by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1856, the Austrian Hospice is located in the Old City of Jerusalem and has welcomed explorers and pilgrims, scholars and tourists ever since. The Hospice has thrived under the protection of the Habsburg Emperors until 1918, and since then under the guardianship of the Austrian State and the Roman Catholic Church. Dr Stefan Hanß (University of Cambridge/ University of Manchester) and Dr Dorothea McEwan (The Warburg Institute, University of London) are grateful for the consent of Hon.-Prof. MMag. Markus St. Bugnyár (The Austrian Hospice Jerusalem) to host the event.
PLEASE NOTE: Though participation at the conference is free, registration is required. Please contact rectorate@austrianhospice.com for registration.
Programm
MONDAY, 10TH SEPTEMBER 2018
9.00–9.10, ‘Address of Welcome’
HIRH Archduke Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen
9.10–9.20, ‘Address of Welcome’
Markus Bugnyár (Jerusalem)
9.20–9.30, ‘The Habsburg Mediterranean? Comments and Concepts’
Stefan Hanß (Cambridge/ Manchester) and Dorothea McEwan (London)
Session: The Mediterranean Stage of the Habsburg-Ottoman Military Rivalry
9.30–10.15
Géza Pálffy (Budapest), ‘The Habsburg Defence in Hungary and the Mediterranean in the Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent’
10.15–11.00
Eric Dursteler (Provo), ‘Habsburgs, Ottomans, and Venetians on the Frontiers of Dalmatia: The Capture of Clissa in 1596’
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.15
Emrah Safa Gürkan (İstanbul), ‘Sabotage, Bribery, and Information Gathering in Sixteenth-Century Istanbul’
Session: The Holy Land and the Habsburg Empire
12.15–13.00
Sundar Henny (Bern), ‘The Engaged Comparatist: Bartholomeo Georgius at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre’
13:00-14:15 Lunch Break
14.15–15.00
Tobias Graf (Oxford), ‘Fleecing the Habsburgs and Their Subjects? Alleged Dignitaries from the Holy Land in Austria and the Holy Roman Empire during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’
15.00–15.45
Dorothea McEwan (London), ‘The Church Protectorate in the Lands of the Sublime Porte and its Legal Framework’
15.45–16.15 Coffee Break
Session: The Mediterranean, Material Culture and the Symbolic Universe of the Habsburgs
16.15–17.00
Václav Bůžek (České Budějovice), ‘The Elephant at the Court of Maximillian II’
17.00–17.45
Suzanna Ivanič (Kent), ‘The Bohemianization of Mediterranean Material Culture in Rudolf’s Prague c. 1600’
17.45–18.30
Stefan Hanß (Cambridge/Manchester), ‘A Shared Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity in the Habsburg-Ottoman Realms’
19.00 Dinner
TUESDAY, 11TH SEPTEMBER 2018
Session: Habsburg Economic Activities: The Great Sea and the Danube Monarchy
9.00–10.15
Peter Rauscher (Vienna) and Evelyn Korsch (Erfurt), ‘Trading Enemies: Commerce between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires in the Mediterranean and the Danube Region in the Eighteenth Century’
Session: Habsburg Mediterranean I: Genoa / II: Malta
10:15–11.00
Michael J. Levin (Akron), ‘Of the Empire but not in it: Habsburg Spain and Genoa in the Sixteenth Century’
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.15
Phillip Williams (Portsmouth), ‘A “Society of Princes” or an “Entire Sewer of Corsairs, from all the Nations and Sects that Rob Indiscriminately”? The Habsburgs of Madrid and Hospitaller Malta, 1530–1680’
12.15–13.00
Emanuel Buttigieg (Malta), ‘Habsburgs and Hospitallers in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Contacts, Relations, Movement’
13.00–14.15 Lunch Break
14.15–17.00
Habsburg Jerusalem: A Guided Tour
Session: Habsburg Mediterranean III: Adriatic Sea
17.00–17.45
Alexander Koller (Rome), ‘The Uscoks: Habsburg’s Pirates in the Mediterranean’
Session: Imperial Enterprises in the Mediterranean and Beyond: New Approaches in Habsburg Studies
17.45–18.30
William O’Reilly (Cambridge), ‘Globalising Habsburg Interests in the Long Eighteenth Century’
18.30–19.00
General Discussion with HIRH Archduke Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen
19.00 Dinner
PLEASE NOTE: Though participation at the conference is free, registration is required. Please contact rectorate@austrianhospice.com for registration.