The Dvořák American Heritage Association, in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York University and Virginia Tech, are pleased to invite you to a two-day conference that explores the sonic and musical cultures of Habsburg Central Europe, with a specific focus on transnational circulations, exchanges, and ruptures.
Sounding Habsburg: Sonic Circulations in Central Europe
APRIL 22-23, 2022
Bohemian National Hall // New York City
Consisting of present-day Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and parts of Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Croatia, Italy, and other lands, Habsburg Central Europe has been described as “a ‘laboratory’ for the pluricultural experience.” With this event, we seek to examine the sonic/musical entanglements within Habsburg Central Europe and reveal the ways in which the aural can highlight unexpected contestations of citizenship, belonging, and affiliation. An inescapable presence in Europe from the late sixteenth through the early twentieth century, the legacy of the Habsburg monarchy continues to resonate into the present day.
The conference will feature selected papers, a keynote address by Erika Supria Honisch titled “Celebrating Habsburgs and Misplacing Manuscripts in Guido Adler’s Musical Empire,” and a concert by Ariana Wyatt (soprano) and Richard Masters (piano) featuring works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Alma Mahler, and Ilse Weber, among others.
This event is organized by the Dvořák American Heritage Association and supported by the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Virginia Tech, and New York University.
Bohemian National Hall and the Dvořák American Heritage Association require all attendees to in-person events, such as concerts, lectures, etc., to show proof of vaccination (2 doses of Pfizer/Moderna or one does of Johnson and Johnson, and at least one booster shot) and wear a mask at all times while on premises, except when actively eating or drinking.
Event Schedule
Sounding Habsburg: Sonic Circulations in Central Europe
conference
Friday, April 22 // DAY 1 // 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Panel 1: Identity at a Distance, Chronologically and Geographically
Panel 2: Definitions and Complications of “Habsburg Austria”
Roundtable: Ukraine, the Habsburg Empire, and the Concept of the “West”
Keynote Lecture
Saturday, April 23 // DAY 2 // 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Panel 3: Habsburg Devotional Practices, Aural and Material
Panel 4: Networks, (Trans)Nationalisms, and Cosmopolitanisms
Panel 5: Envoicing Habsburg Networks
Roundtable: Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe, 1815-1914
Sounding Habsburg: A Musical Journey around the Austro-Hungarian Empire
concert
Saturday, April 23 // 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Ariana Wyatt (soprano) and Richard Masters (piano)
Conference Partners
The Sounding Habsburg conference is organized by the Dvořák American Heritage Association and supported by the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Virginia Tech, and New York University.
VENUE
Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd St, New York, NY 10021
