History and Medieval Studies

My talk is meant to be a kind of continuation and updating of a larger project I began at the IAS a year ago on the missionaries of the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity amongst the Jews, several key figures among the converts who converted, and the European-wide Jewish response to their arguments and assault on the Jewish community, what I call, the revival of the Jewish-Christian debate in the 19th century.

The revolution in 1956 is one of the most important and perhaps most disputed events of contemporary Hungarian history. After a brief summary of the revolution, the presentation will attempt to give an overview of the main problems of the historical remembrance of 1956, focusing on the central questions: What kind of collective memory exists about 1956 in Hungary today? How and why were the official and the private commemorations of 1956 divided during the Kádár period?

The Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University

cordially invites you to a the book presentation of

L’Orient à Vienne au dix-huitième siècle

by

David Do Paço

Sciences Po, Junior Fellow at IAS CEU

The book will be introduced by the author.

Charles of Austria (1685-1740) was the last Habsburg emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, ascending the throne at an acquisitive moment as the Holy League pushed back the Ottoman line. Charles spent a crucial number of years in Spain, which marked his form and style of rule after returning to Vienna and which continued to impact upon his rule long after 1711.

The concept of trust will be scrutinized across different and sometimes antagonistic genres of international political thought. The natural law tradition and reason of state tradition worked on different assumptions, but they mutually influenced each other. How have these traditions influenced the different concepts and discussions of trust-building?

Throughout the eighteenth century the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire developed a commercial relationship based on “free, safe and peaceful trade” which changed the urban landscape of Vienna, Trieste and Pest, and which influenced both the domestic and foreign policies of the two empires. Ottoman merchants, whatever their religious affiliations, were not only able to connect the different Habsburg-ruled territories in Central Europe despite their different legal configurations, but also to integrate them into the global Ottoman trade.