In our workshop, we scrutinize administrative values, norms and practice in the interwar period. We are interested in continuities and change in administrative culture, in terms of procedures, symbols, formal and informal rules and regulations as well as personal attitudes. The effects of administrative reforms and the role of national linguistic changes will be taken into account.
Funded by: Collegium Hungaricum Wien, Austrian Science Fund, NEPOSTRANS (ERC-Project)
From – Until: 10.05.2021 – 11.05.2021
Deadline: for registration until May 8, 2021
please write to therese.garstenauer@univie.ac.at
Venue: Wien (online)
“Today, we are jaded by the hardship of the moment, but also by the societal shift; we must reckon with a decline of standards, we cannot demand as much as in 1914.” A senior official from Upper Austria who served as disciplinary attorney for a colleague who had been involved in smuggling uttered these lines in 1926. Statements such as this point to a perceived change of values of government officials related to the transition from monarchy to republic. In our workshop, we scrutinize administrative values, norms and practice in the interwar period. We are interested in continuities and changes in administrative culture, in terms of procedures, symbols, formal and informal rules and regulations as well as personal attitudes. The effects of administrative reforms and the role of national linguistic changes will be taken into account.
PROGRAM
Monday, May 10
15:00. Welcome, introductory words
Panel 1
Administrative and chancellery reforms
15:10 – 16:00
Peter PLENER, „Papiergröße 210 x 297 mm“. Zur Neuformatierung der österreichischen Zentralstellen 1923
16:00 – 16.10 Break
16:10 – 17:00
Peter BECKER, Transforming Files and Spaces: Administrative Reform in the 1920s
17:00 Break
17:20 – 18:10
Martin KLEČACKÝ, The Way to Centralised, Unified and Efficient Administration. Czechoslovak Administrative Reforms of the First Decade and Their Impact on the Public Service
Tuesday, May 11
Panel 2
Languages and nationalities
9:00 – 9:50
Elisabeth HAID, Attempts of Ukrainization and (Re-)Polonization: Eastern Galician administration 1918–1923
9:50 – 10:00 Break
10:00 – 10:50
Gábor EGRY, Learning a New Language, Keeping the Old Habits? How the Experiences and Legacies of Dualist Hungary Shaped Romanian County Administration after 1918
10:50 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:50
Cody INGLIS, The Question of Overlapping Authority in Postimperial Transition: Northern Lower Austria and Southern Moravia, 1914–1924
11:50 – 13:30 Lunch break
Panel 3
Specific Manifestations of Interwar Administrative culture
13:30 – 14:20
Edina GÁL, Orphan Care and Child Protection in Interwar Romania
14:20 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 15:20
Károly IGNÁCZ, The Continuity of Changing administrative culture? The „Outskirts of Budapest” in Transition (1918–1924)
15:20 – 15:50 Break
Panel 4
Attitudes and Values
15:50 – 16:40
Julia BAVOUZET, Imperial Legacies in the Hungarian Ministerial Bureaucracy beyond Ruptures and Continuity
16:40 – 16:50 Break
16:50 – 17:40
Therese GARSTENAUER, “We cannot demand as much as in 1914!” Attitudes and values of civil servants in the Austrian First Republic
17:40 Concluding remarks