The Slavic Cultures in the Habsburg Monarchy Research Group at Institute of Western and Southern Slavs at the University of Warsaw
and The International Cultural Centre in Krakow
invite you to a scientific conference on the formation of Budapest at the crossroads of ethnic elements. Discussions and presentations will focus on Slavic themes in the history, spaces and narratives of this unique city.
25–26 September 2025
Venue
Kamienica “Pod Kruki” (The Raven Tenement House), Main Market Square 25, Krakow
The event programme is available for download in PDF format.
The conference program
25.09.2025
Opening
10:00–10:15
Keynote lecture
10:15–10:45
Goran Vasin
University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Serbian elite in the Habsburg monarchy
Coffee break, 15 minutes
10:45–11:00
Session 1: Research Group on the Slavic Cultures in the Habsburg Monarchy: Theoretical premises
11:00–12:30
Aleksander Łupienko
T. Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences
Budapest after 1873 – metropolitan struggles with modernisation
Maciej Falski
Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
Croatian (not only) ecclesiastical scholars and Buda/Pest at the end of 18th century
Anna Kobylińska
Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
Hyperbole of the capital. (Buda)Pest of the Slovaks
Coffee break, 30 minutes
12:30–13:00
Session 2: Political settings
13:00–14:30
Dražen Liješnić
University of Warsaw, Poland
Budapest: A new political centre for Bosnian and Herzegovinian Muslims?
Branko Ostajmer
Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb, Croatia
The role and signifi cance of the Croatian Ministry in Budapest (1868–1918)
Miklós Tömöry
ELTE RCH, Institute of History, Budapest, Hungary
Alternative Ausgleich(s) on the dancefl oor? Slavic and Romanian balls in Pest-Buda as spaces of political and symbolic negotiation between 1865 and 1868
Lunch break
14:30–15:30
Session 3: The impact of students
15:30–16:30
Alexandra Hrčka
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
The life of a Slovak student in Pest in the 1840s – Gustáv Kazimír Zechenter-Laskomerský’s experiences in Pest
Dušan J. Ljuboja
Serbian Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Slavic Spring: Serbian student youth during the March events of 1848 in Pest
17.00 Informal meeting at the International Cultural Centre
26.09.2025
Session 4: Professional circles
9:00–10:30
Ivan Halász
Ludovica University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary
Challenges for Slovak lawyers in Budapest in the 19th century
Alica Kurhajcová
Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Following the traces of the identity of one sculptor’s family in Budapest
Michał Burdziński
Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland
On some exhibitions of art around 1900, and beyond
Coffee break, 30 minutes
10:30–11:00
Session 5: Images and representations
11:00–12:00
Dawid Maria Osiński
Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
Budapest – a city and a myth. Reading the Warsaw press from the Russian partition (the second half of the XIX century)
Natalia Łozińska
T. Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences
Specters of Budapest: The Habsburg phantasm in Miljenko Jergović’s prose
Opening of the exhibition „Brâncuși. Rzeźbienie światłem”
[Brâncuși. Sculpting with Light] at the International Cultural Centre
