Urban Cultures in the Early Modern Habsburg Territories

Monday Nov 4, 2019, 10:00 AM → 6:15 PM Europe/Budapest

1. emelet-144. Hunyadi János terem/Ludovika Főépület (Ludovika Főépület)

VENUE:
National University of Public Service
Budapest, Ludovika square 2.
main building, 1st floor, room Hunyadi

10:00 AM → 11:15 AM Keynote lecture: Jaroslav Miller: A Dream World of Ideas and Crudeness of Reality: Early Modern City as an Utopia

Speaker: Jaroslav Miller

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Session I.: Town Descriptions: Town Descriptions

11:30 AM Town descriptions and urban politics in Márton Szepsi Csombor's European Travel Journal

Speaker: Ferenc Höcher

12:15 PM Urban Environment in Buda in the 18th Century

Speaker: Katalin Simon

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:00 PM → 4:15 PM Session II.: Governing Urban Communities

2:00 PM Cities, Self-government, State in the Early Modern Age. The Political Framework of Urban Life

Speaker: István Németh

2:45 PM Early modern towns as language communities : The case of Upper Hungarian free royal boroughs

Speaker: Péter Benka

3:30 PM Jansenism and Urban Politics in 18th-Century Hungary

Speaker: Ádám Smurcz

4:15 PM → 4:45 PM Coffee break

4:45 PM → 6:15 PM Session III.: An Outlook on non-Habsburg territories

4:45 PM Image, Print and Manuscript in Early Modern Cologne

Speaker: Krisztina Péter

5:30 PM Montaigne as the Mayor of Bordeaux: Mapping a Political Network

Speaker: Eszter Kovács