Opera and the Politics of Empire in Habsburg Europe, 1815-1914 (Kolloquium Historisches Seminar)
Barbara Babić, Dietmar Friesenegger, Axel Körner, Stefan Rohdewald (Leipzig U)
This event is part of the colloquium series presented by the Chair of History of the 19th to 21st Century of Leipzig University and will be held in cooperation with the Chair of East and Southeast European History.
Biographical Note
Axel Körner (Leipzig University, Germany)
Axel Körner has been Professor of Modern Cultural History and History of Ideas at the University of Leipzig since the winter semester 2021/2022 and Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), where he already taught from 1996 to 2021. His fields of research are Italian and transatlantic history, as well as the history of the Habsburg Monarchy. In addition to the history of political ideas, an important focus of his work is the field of music and opera in the 19th century. His book America in Italy. The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865 (Princeton/Oxford, 2017) was awarded the Helen & Howard Marraro Prize by the American Historical Association. Körner has held visiting professorships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (NJ), the École Normale Supérieure Paris, and the Remarque Center at New York University.
Stefan Rohdewald (Leipzig University, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rohdewald has held the Chair of Eastern and Southeastern European History in Leipzig since 2020. He studied, was an assistant and did his doctorate in Zurich (2004). Afterwards, he was a staff member and academic advisor in Passau 2003-2012. From 2013 until 2020 he was professor for Southeast European history in Gießen. His main focus are: Intertwining history between Eastern Europe and the Middle East, urban history, memory, transconfessionality. Moreover, he is the spokesperson of the DFG SPP Transottomanica: East European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics (2017-2023).
Barbara Babić and Dietmar Frisenegger (Leipzig University, Germany) are both scientific employees at the Modern History of Culture and Ideas Department at Leipzig University.