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Sensory Experiences of Order and Disorder in Habsburg Austria, 1900-1920
21 January 2020, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
A Central Europe Seminar Series with Claire Morelon
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
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Cost
- Free
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Central Europe Seminar Series
Location
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Masaryk RoomSSEES16 Taviton StreetLondonWC1H 0BW
*PLEASE NOTE, DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION AT UCL IN DECEMBER, THIS HAS BEEN MOVED TO JANUARY 21ST*
This lecture will present an ongoing research project on the perceptions of order in the Late Habsburg Empire. It will examine symbols of stability in the sensorial environment of Habsburg towns and the rupture created by the First World War in the experience of daily and yearly rhythms. One focus will be the requisition of church bells, which were melted for the production of ammunition. Bells performed an important social function for both rural and urban populations in the early twentieth century. Their removal provoked a disruption of soundscapes in the region and a changed sense of time for local communities. The talk will discuss symbols of the perturbations of the established social order in the wake of war and imperial collapse.
Image: Austrian National Library, Bildarchiv Austria
About the Speaker
Claire Morelon
at University of Padova
Claire Morelon is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Padova. She received her PhD from the University of Birmingham and the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. She previously held a junior research fellowship at The Queen’s College, Oxford and was a Josef Dobrovský Fellow at the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2017. Her publications include ‘Sounds of Loss: Church Bells, Place, and Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War’, Past & Present (2019) and the edited volume Embers of Empire: Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918 (Berghahn 2018).