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PROGRAM

9.30 – 11.00

Keynote
Lucy RIALL (Florence/Osaka)
Informal Empire: Actors, Spaces, and Practices

11.00 – 11.15
Coffee break  

11.15–13.00
Power and capital

Martin IVANOV (Sofia)
Bulgarian External Debt between the Capital and the Empire

Andreas WILD (Bucharest)
Germany’s Policy in Eastern Europe Reflected in the Negotiations on the Convention with Romania of November 10, 1928.

Gabriel GODEFFROY (Paris)
“Lesser Central Europe” and the “Danubian Area” as Anti-Hegemonic Projects in Interwar Central and Southeastern Europe

13.00–13.45
Lunch break

13.45–15.30
Capital after Empire

Bianca SENDREA (Bucharest)
Landowners’ Strategies and Forestry Exploitation After the 1921 Agrarian Reform in Transylvania

Klaus BUCHENAU (Regensburg)
Old Imperial Elites Feed a New National Comprador Bourgeoisie: The Thurn-Taxis Affair in Interwar Yugoslavia.

Oliver PEJIC (Ljubljana)
The Westens in Central and Eastern Europe: The Rise and Fall of a Metalworking Business Empire under Changing Political Regimes

15.30–15.45
Coffee break

15.45–18.00
Transimperial and transborder economic regimes

Elati PANTIKOPOLOU-VENIERI (Florence)
Unravelling the Threads of Capital and Empire in the Southeastern Mediterranean: the Case of Crete’s Submarine Telegraph Connections (1850s–1900)

Botond NAGY (Sepsiszentgyörgy/Sfântu Gheorghe)
The Border Region and Economic Environment at the Turn of the Century

Gábor EGRY (Budapest)
The Forgotten Empire? Austro-Hungarian Economic Space and the Role of Embedding

Gergely IZSÁK (Budapest)
Czech Capital in Hungary: The Case of the Živnostenská Banka

18.00–18.30
Summary of the workshop
Adrian GRAMA (Cambridge)

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This workshop is organized within the Lapedatu Fellowships program, supported by the Lapedatu Foundation.