The textual and visual congruence between the film-newsreels and papers, for instance used in Matthew Stibbe’s talk on civilian internment camps and Lutz Mutzner’s paper on Alice Schalek’s coverage of the Isozno Front, offered participants unique cinematic frames of reference. ![]() THOMAS BALLHAUSEN (Filmarchiv Austria) introduced a series of rare film clips, ranging from footage of the repatriation of the assassinated Archduke’s and Archduchess’s bodies back to Vienna, to shots of civilian internment camps and the Austrian General Staff, to selections from the wartime farce “Wien im Krieg” (1916) mentioned in Robert von Dassanowsky’s paper on Austrian wartime film. Further bolstering the conference’s multinational, interdisciplinary character, “Cultures at War” paired analytical papers on Austria-Hungary’s cultural front with sessions spotlighting the actual artifacts of wartime cultural mobilization, such as film, music and poetry. While the majority of papers tended to focus on Cisleithania, a significant minority of presenters centered their talks on wartime culture in the Hungarian, Czech, Croatian, and Romanian lands. ![]() The strongest, most engaging papers, including the majority of those presented in the opening and closing plenary sessions, spoke across the disciplines rather than to field-specific internal dialogues. Interdisciplinary fluidity and multi/transnational perspectives on Austria-Hungary’s war of culture and ideology constituted one of the conference’s major strengths. The conference also marked the launch of distinguished Kraus biographer Edward Timms’ memoirs, Taking Up the Torch: English Institutions, German Dialectics and Multi-Cultural Commitments, at a reception hosted by Austrian Ambassador Dr. Proceedings were conducted bilingually in German and English, with participants switching freely between languages in the stimulating question and answer sessions. Key themes probed included cultural mobilization and the Augusterlebnis tensions between supranational and national loyalties as well as elite and popular culture censorship in literature, art, and theater center and periphery relations gender, pacifism and the feminist Burgfrieden. Like the diverse lands and peoples of late-Imperial Austria-Hungary, conference participants hailed from a variety of disciplines including history, art history, literature and theater and film studies, and harnessed a wide range of textual, visual, and musical sources. The conference brought together over thirty-five scholars from Central Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States presenting to fellow scholars, students, and the general public. Individual articles are sold on the displayed price.Underwritten by the Austrian Cultural Forum London, the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Oxford Regius Professor of History, “Cultures at War: Austria-Hungary 1914-1918” spread new research on the production, dissemination, and reception of culture in the Habsburg monarchy during and immediately after the Great War. Online subscribers are entitled access to all back issues published by Akadémiai Kiadó for each title for the duration of the subscription, as well as Online First content for the subscribed content. Print + online subscription:Ė36ĞUR /ė76 USD ![]() Print + online subscription: 620 EUR / 776 USD World Bank Lower-middle-income economies: 50%Įditorial Board / Advisory Board members: 50%Ĭorresponding authors, affiliated to an EISZ member institution subscribing to the journal package of Akadémiai Kiadó: 100% Regional discounts on country of the funding agency Literature and Literary Theory 155/823 (Q1)Īcta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae Literature and Literary Theory 320/845 (Q2) Literature and Literary Theory 383/934 (Q2)
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