Dominique Reill, researcher in residence at Iméra, will present her work on Fiorello La Guardia and his immigration policy at the 3rd Annual Workshop of the Late Habsburg PhD Network at the University of Vienna on May 27, 2024, at 6 PM!
To learn more about Dominique Reill’s research project at Iméra, visit her resident page by clicking here.
Habsburg Immigration Schools New Yorkʼs Mayor?: Fiorello La Guardia in Fiume
Context
In 1933, Fiorello La Guardia was elected mayor of New York by a city population comprising more than 75 % immigrants, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. A little over 25 years before,that same man had served as US Consul in Habsburg Fiume, where the number of migrants passing through the Hungarian port city en route to New York City registered over 20 % of Fiumeʼs total population.
This talk will analyse what lessons the future American politician could have learned about immigration, welfare and multi-ethnic politics in his Habsburg times that helped him climb up the US career ladder.
Program
27 mai 2024
18:00 : Keynote by Dominique Reill (Hörsaal 50, 2nd floor, staircase 8, court IV)
28 May 2024
Prominentenzimmer (lower ground floor, staircase 4, court IV)
9:00 – 9:15: Welcoming words
9:15 – 10:45 Panel 1: Connected Empire(s)
Henry Blood: Railroads and the Transformation of State and Society in the Habsburg Empire
Corentin Philippe Aurélien Gruffat: The Merinisation of Dalmatia: Animals and Development Politics in an Imperial Periphery (1800s–1870s)
Zihao Song: China in the Austrian Press during the 1873 Vienna Worldʼs Fair
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Panel 2: Housing and National Conflicts
Kajetan Stobiecki: Does Beer have a Nationality? Industry and National Conflict in 19th-Century Pilsen
Marie-Theres Antonia Monika Findeisen: A Battle of Ideas on the Housing Question Terrain – the Case of Otto Bauer’s 1908 Response to the Rental Income Tax Debate
12:00 – 13:15: Lunch break
13:15 – 14:15 Panel 3: Wars and Legacies
Manfred Anselgruber: Mobilization and Leave of Absence: Reserve-Infantry man Johann Failhaber within the Bosnian Herzegovinian Occupation Campaign in 1878/79
Alexander Teutsch: Between Laws, Languages and Liability: The Judiciary in South Tyrol in the Early Years of Italian Administration (1918–1923)
The Late Habsburg PhD Network – Viena University
The Late Habsburg PhD Network is a group of motivated students and early career scholars who are working on various themes and aspects related to the late Habsburg Empire. The Network is based at the University of Vienna, but it is open to students from other universities. We meet once a month during the semester with the aim of connecting young scholars who are currently located in Vienna. The Network is inclusive and welcomes students from all disciplines, including master’s students who are completing their thesis as well as postdocs who are seeking to connect with others in their field.
