Maria Theresa (1717-1780): Tercentenary workshop on the Habsburg empress and her time
Convened by Tobias Heinrich (Kent) and Avi Lifschitz (Oxford)
Programme:
12:45 Welcome and introduction
13:00 Session I: Memorial Room, The Queen’s College
Chair: Ritchie Robertson (The Queen’s College, Oxford)
Werner Telesko (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Maria Theresa: the making of a myth. Old questions and new insights
Catriona Seth (All Souls College, Oxford)
Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette
15:00 Session II: Memorial Room, Queen’s College
Chair: Peter Wilson (All Soul’s College, Oxford)
William O’Reilly (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
‘All the king’s men’: Maria Theresa and the Holy Crown of St Stephan
Thomas Wallnig (University of Vienna)
After 2017: is new research on Maria Theresa possible?
17:00 Keynote Lecture: Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (University of Münster)
Maria Theresa and the Catholic Enlightenment
18:30 Drinks reception
Attendance is free, but registration is required via the following link: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/15423
The workshop is supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum in London, the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture and the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London, the Oxford Centre for European History, the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and the Voltaire Foundation.
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Contact name: Avi Lifschitz
Contact email: avi.lifschitz@magd.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Open to all
