[Bilimsel Haber] Conference Invitation: "The Collapse of Ottoman and Austria-Hungarian Empires: Patterns and Legacies" 16-17 January, 2014, Vienna

[Gonul Pultar]

From: Hakan Yavuz <hakan.yavuz at poli-sci.utah.edu>



The Collapse of Ottoman and Austria-Hungarian Empires: Patterns and Legacies


Organized by the Turkish Studies Project at the University of Utah, the 
Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Social Science History and the Institute 
for East European History at the University of Vienna

16-17 January, 2014, Vienna

Location: Institute for East European History (University of Vienna), 
Spitalgasse 2/Hof 3 (Campus), 1090 Vienna



THURSDAY, January 16

16.00-16.30     Welcome Address by Philipp Ther
                 Institute for East European History/University of Vienna

Organizer’s Welcome, Hakan Yavuz (University of Utah) and Tamara Scheer 
(Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Social Science History)

16.30-18.00     Panel 1: World War I: From Imperial Persistence to 
Dissolution

Chair Prof. Oliver Schmitt (Institute for East European 
History/University of Vienna)

Erik-Jan Zürcher (Leiden University), “The Odd Man Out, or Why there was 
No Regime Change in the Ottoman Empire at the End of World War I”

Justin McCarthy (University of Louisville), “Military Causes for the 
Destruction of the Ottoman Empire”

Iris Rachamimovs (Tel Aviv University), “Internalizing Imperial 
Collapse: At what point in World War I did the A-H Empire appear 
moribund to its Citizens?”

18.00-18.15     Coffee Break

18.15-19.15     Keynote Address Isa Blumi (Georgia State University)
“The Occupation Effect: The Consequences of Occupation Regimes in the 
Balkan Territories of both the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1916-1925”

19.15-21.00     Reception




FRIDAY, January 17

09.00-10.30     Panel 2: Austria-Hungarian Ambiguities: Towards Collapse 
and its Perception

Chair Prof. Gerhard Botz (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Social Science 
History)

Tamara Scheer (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for History and Society) “The 
Hope for Unification and the Fear of Disintegration: The Effect of 
Multilingualism in the Habsburg Army (1868-1918)”

Arnold Suppan (Austrian Academy of Sciences), "Was Austria-Hungary 
Condemned to Fail?"

Nancy M. Wingfield (Northern Illinois University), “Morals and Morale on 
the Home Front: The Decline of the Cisleithanian Austria”

10.30-10.45     Coffee Break

10.45-12.15     Panel 3: Balkan Wars and Paths of Radicalization

Chair Prof. Erik-Jan Zürcher (Leiden University)

Siegfried Mattl (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for History and Society), “A 
Prelude of Doom: The Empire and the Balkan Wars”

Maurus Reinkowski (University of Basel), “Hapless Imperialists, 
Resentful Nationalists: Trajectories of Radicalization in the Late 
Ottoman Empire”

Ramazan Hakki Oztan (University of Utah), “Foreign Intervention and 
Young Turk Mindset: Christianity as Marker of Disloyalty?”

12.15-13.30     Lunch

13.30-15.00     Panel 4: Nation State and Other Possibilities: Concepts 
and Transfers

Chair Prof. Justin McCarthy (University of Louisville)

Zafer Toprak (Bogazici University), “The Quest for Wilsonian Principles: 
The Demise of the Ottoman Empire and the Concept of a Nation State in 
Turkey”

Alp Yenen (University of Basel), “The Austro-Hungarian Model and 
Turkish-Arab Relations in Late-Ottoman History”

Maureen Healy (Lewis & Clark College), “Austrian Economic Visions in the
Orient, 1900-1930”

15.00-15.15     Coffee Break

15.15-16.45     Panel 5: Ottoman Collapse and its Conflicting Trajectories

Chair Prof. Maurus Reinkowski (University of Basel)

Hakan Ozoglu (University of Central Florida), “Substituting the Empire: 
Views of U.S. Diplomats on the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Rise 
of the Turkish Republic”

Mehmet Arisan (TED University), “Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu and the 
Republican Manifestation of the Imperial Loss: The Emergence of an 
Elusive National Subjectivity”

Serpil Atamaz (TOBB University), “Conflicting Interpretations of the 
Past and Competing Visions of the Future: Early Republican Responses to 
the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire”

16.45-17.00     Coffee Break

17.00-18.30     Panel 6: Book Discussion

Hakan Yavuz and Isa Blumi (eds), War and Nationalism: The Balkan Wars 
1912-1913 and Their Sociopolitical Implications (Salt Lake City: 
University of Utah Press, 2013)

Tamara Scheer, “Minimale Kosten, absolut kein Blut!”: Österreich-Ungarns
Präsenz im Sandžak von Novipazar (1879-1908) (=Neue Forschungen zur
ostmittel- und südosteuropäischen Geschichte 5, Frankfurt et al. 2013)

Hakan Yavuz (editor), Isa Blumi (editor), Erik-Jan Zürcher 
(contributor), Gül Tokay (contributor), Serpil Atamaz (contributor), 
Tamara Scheer (contributor)

18.30-19.00     Concluding Remarks

Hakan Yavuz (University of Utah), Tamara Scheer (Ludwig Boltzmann 
Institute for Social Science History)

19.00-22.00     Dinner




Sponsors

Turkish Studies Project, University of Utah
Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Social Science History
Institute for East European History, University of Vienna
Turkish Historical Society, Ankara

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