Urban Cultures in the Early Modern Habsburg Territories

Monday 4 Nov 2019, 10:00 → 18:15 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

1 Keynote lecture: Jaroslav Miller: A Dream World of Ideas and Crudeness of Reality: Early Modern City as an Utopia

Speaker: Jaroslav Miller

Session I.: Town Descriptions: Town Descriptions

2 Town descriptions and urban politics in Márton Szepsi Csombor's European Travel Journal

Speaker: Ferenc Höcher

3 Urban Environment in Buda in the 18th Century

Speaker: Katalin Simon

13:00 Lunch break

Session II.: Governing Urban Communities

4 Cities, Self-government, State in the Early Modern Age. The Political Framework of Urban Life

Speaker: István Németh

5 Early modern towns as language communities : The case of Upper Hungarian free royal boroughs

Speaker: Péter Benka

6 Jansenism and Urban Politics in 18th-Century Hungary

Speaker: Ádám Smurcz

16:15 Coffee break

Session III.: An Outlook on non-Habsburg territories

7 Image, Print and Manuscript in Early Modern Cologne

Speaker: Krisztina Péter

8 Montaigne as the Mayor of Bordeaux: Mapping a Political Network

Speaker: Eszter Kovács