Ukraine’s entanglement with the Austrian Monarchy occupies a somewhat paradoxical place in contemporary analyses of the Ukrainian past. On the one hand, Habsburg Galicia is often presented as a Ukrainian Piedmont, a model province, where Ukrainian national culture and politics flourished in tandem with their Central and Western European counterparts. On the other hand, our current focus on the sinister role played by the Russian and Soviet empires results in an unwitting marginalisation of the Austrian state in the overall understanding of Ukraine’s development.
This workshop will bring together scholars studying various aspects of Ukraine’s Habsburg experiences, 18th through 20th centuries. The event has two practical goals. The first one is to create an opportunity for UHGI-affiliated scholars working on Austria-related topics to collect expert feedback on their pre-circulated capsules in progress. The second one is to exchange ideas and address conceptual challenges inherent in incorporating Habsburg threads into a globally oriented narrative of the Ukrainian past.
8:30 – 9:00 Registration, Tea, and Coffee
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15 – 10:45 Session I: The Carpathians
Patrice Dabrowski, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session II: Habsburg Galicia, 1780-1840
Tomasz Hen-Konarski, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History / Polish Academy of Sciences
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 – 15:15 Session III: Eighteenth-Century State Fragmentation
Svitlana Potapenko, M. S. Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45 Final Discussion
