Age of Empires I. - Europe and its empires 1814-1914 - Győr, 20-22 November 2024.

By the decades before the First World War, European powers had become masters of vast areas of the world, often at the expense of previously dominant empires. For European governments, economic and political elites, it was natural to continue to expand, to deepen their domination of the territories under their influence. This aspiration also played a role in the perspective of nation-building, both culturally and politically, often involving the idea of empire and the alignment of these aspirations with the vision of the future of the nation. For the European states of the 19th century, the process of expansion and globalisation brought a series of challenges. How to run empires that had grown large? What are the governance, legal, economic and cultural implications for each state in this competitive era?

These are the questions we will seek answers to at the conference entitled Age of Empires I - Europe and its Empires 1814-1914, organised by the Department of Legal History of the
Deák Ferenc Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the Széchenyi István University.

Conference - Age of Empires I.
Széchenyi István University
Planned programme

20 November 2024 – PhD Students’ Day

10:00 – 13:00 Session I - Chairman: Balázs Pálvölgyi

Dániel Molnár (DE DI): Die Gründung des Kaiserreichs Österreich: ein Versuch des Kaisers Franz I., eine gemeinsame, imperiale Identität zu schaffen

Tamás Dániel Andrékó (DE DI): Hegemonic Ambitions of the Austrian Empire and the French Challenge over the Italian States between 1815–1817

Tamás Székely (iASK): Security of Whom? Hungary’s “Defense Forces Debate” and Dynamics of Threat-Perception in Late Habsburg Empire

Mátyás Szabó (NKE DI): Institutionen und Modi Vivendi im dualistischen Regierungssystem der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie

Enikő Kovács-Szépvölgyi (SzE DI): Empires ambitions for a joint response to the challenges affecting children at the turn of the 20th century

Lunch

14:00 – 17:00 Session II - Chairman: Mihály T. Révész

József Spengler (SzE DI): Der Österreichische Rechnungshof, als Institution imperialer Kontrolle und Aufsicht

Zoltán Kok (SzE DI): Die Abbildung der Großmachtrivalität in der Legislative der Monarchie - vor allem im ungarischen Parlament

Péter M. Takács (NKE DI): Rethinking Mackinder’s thoughts: „Heartland” in the premodern and modern geopolitics

Bertalan Bordás (PTE DI): In the Name of Europe and Humanity - British and Austro-Hungarian Versions of Expansion in the Late 1870s

Mária Tóthné Lakatos (PPKE DI): Trends in the constitutional development of some small colonial states and their colonies, from a comparative law perspective

17:00-17:30 Discussion

21 November 2024

10:00 Opening ceremony : Péter Smuk: 19th century colonialism as a model for internet colonisation (and the fight against it, the antecedents of internet sovereignty)

10:30 Plenary Session - Chairman: Miles Taylor

10:30 - 10:50 Keynote presentation - Luigi Nuzzo: Imagining World Order. The International Lawyers and the Right of Intervention in the Eastern Empires

10:50 - 11:10 Deli Gergely: Im Schatten des Pangermanismus. Imperialistische Anspielungen in dem ungarischen juristischen "Freiheitskampf"

11:10 - 11.30 Andrea Komlosy: Regional Imbalances Regional Imbalances and Imperial Cohesion Austria-Hungary’s Multiple Spatial Arrangements in the long 19th and Century 

coffee break

12:00 - 12.20 Quentin Deluermoz: Rethinking the construction of imperial nation-states in the 19th century: The example of France during the "global 1860s”

12:20 - 12:40 Mezey Barna: Der Kampf eines Reiches um seine innere Einheit. Österreich und die Länder der Ungarischen Heiligen Krone im 19. Jh.

Lunch

Chairman: Quentin Deluermoz

14:00 - 14:20 Keynote presentation - Martin Motte: De l'action coloniale à pensée impériale: l'amiral Aube (1826-1890)

14:20 - 14:40 Szarka László: Rationale Zielsetzungen, hoffnungslose Utopien? Reformalternativen der habsburgischen Staatsidee nach dem Ausgleich

14:40 - 15:00 Képessy Imre: The unification of law in the Austrian Empire in 1849–1867

coffee break

15:20 - 15:40 Barna Attila: Imperium und Kaiserliche Selbstverteidigung – Kodifizierungsbemühungen im europäischen Strafrecht des 19. Jahrhunderts

15:40 - 16:00 Nagy Szabolcs: Rumänischer Reichsaufbau im 19. Jahrhundert – Staatspläne und Außenpolitik zur Schaffung Groß-Rumänien

16:00 - 16:20 Discussion

22 November 2024

Chairman: Frank-Lothar Kroll

10:00 - 10:20 Keynote presentation - Miles Taylor: The scramble for Africa and the new law of nations

10:30 - 10:50 Knapp László: The Austro-Hungarian Administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina

11:00 - 11:20 Pálvölgyi Balázs: Mirages and Illusions: the Possibilities of Hungarian Empire-Building in the Period of Dualism (1867-1918)

coffee break

11:40 - 12:00 Kelemen Roland – Farkas Ádám: The Evolution of the National Defence Law in the Kingdom of Hungary at the Beginning of the 20th Century with a View to the Great Powers

12:00 - 12:20 Zachar Péter Krisztián: Die Wirtschaftskammerorganisation als Instrument der imperialen Einheit

Lunch

Chairman: Luigi Nuzzo

14:00 - 14:20 Keynote presentation - Pär Cassel: China's Century of Humiliation and the Politics of Sovereign Apologies

14:20 - 14:40 Szabó Szilárd: Bosnien-Herzegowina unter österreichisch-ungarischer Herrschaft

coffee break

15:00 - 15:20 Frank-Lothar Kroll: Das russländische Imperium - Die Transformation des Russischen Reiches und seine Überlebensformen

15:20 - 15:40 Jürgen Pirker: Challenges of Nation-Building through the Empire: Constitutional Law, Imperial Court Jurisprudence, and Lessons for Modern Minority Protection in Austria

   
15:40 - 16:10 Discussion

Closing of the conference, summary