(in Polish) Local communities at the Slavic-Italian-German borderland and the legacy of the Habsburg monarchy 3005-LU9-HABSBURG

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The project consists on a cycle of lectures by leading scholas whose research deals with the problem of multiethnic communities in the (post-)Habsburg area. The cases of Trieste, South Tyrol, Rijeka and Habsburg Dalmatia will be discussed, in order to present a complex web of intrests and relations within the mixed society of the

empire. The Austro-Hungarian political system formed a frame for development of different micro-systems, where the crucial question of sustainability and common policy used to meet various answers. The aim of the project is to examin precisely this problem of coexistence and cooperation at a local level, and the relation between a specific political system (which was a supra-national idea of the Habsburg monarchy) and local structures. On the other hand, all scholars discuss the question of the Habsburg legacy, or the afterlife of the imperial system, which could be seen as a source of a certain cultural unity of hte Central Europe.

The invited scholars adopt the methodological and theoretical approach of the social and cultural history. Four scholars answered the invitation: Michael Wedekind (Bremen), Natka Badurina (University of Udine), Marta Vigarella (University of Trieste and Ljubljana), Daniel Baric (University Paris-Sorbonne). We propose four meetings from October to January (once a month), a lecture followed with discussion, registered if possible in order to publish it on-line.