Decline, Collapse and the Aftermath of Empires: Papers from the East European and Eurasian Studies Research Cluster
Workshop of the Research Cluster Eastern European and Eurasian Studies
Date: Tuesday, 24th June 2025, 13:00–16:15
Venue: Dissertantenraum at the Department of East European History
Organizers: FKO Colloquium students of the Research Cluster “East European and Eurasian Studies” of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Sciences
Program
13:00–13:15 Introductory remarks | Christoph Augustynowicz
Panel 1: Minorities and Elites in the Habsburg Monarchy and Beyond | chair: Gerhard Langer
13:15–13:45 Luděk Němec: “Navigating Decline: The Schwarzenberg Family, 1888–1947/48”
| comment: Marija Wakounig
13:45–14:15 Genki Okuda: “Muslims and politics towards Muslims in the Habsburg Empire under Dualism | comment: Börries Kuzmany
14:15–14:30 General discussion of panel 1
14:30–14:45 Coffee break
Panel 2: After the Russian Empire: Violent Conflicts in the Borderlands | chair: Börries Kuzmany
14:45–15:15 Hannah Steckelberg: “Feeling Safe in Violent Times: Urban Experiences and Strategies of Security in Revolutionary Ukraine”
| comments: Kerstin S. Jobst, Börries Kuzmany
15:15–15:45 Orkun Arslan: “From Proxy Wars to Annexation: A Neoclassical Realist Study of Russian Foreign Policy in Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014)”
| comment: Wolfgang Mueller
15:45–16:00 General discussion of panel 2
16:00–16:15 Concluding remarks
