Presentation by Beatrice de Graaf at Austrian Cultural Forum, London

The Congress of Vienna – Reconsidered
Austrian Cultural Forum (London)

10.45am: Welcome

• Elisabeth Koegler (ACF – London) and Jonathan Kwan (University of Nottingham)

11.00am: Vienna and the Congress

•  Chair: David Laven (University of Nottingham)
• Kristof Fatsar (Corvinus University, Budapest): “… the Chasse at Eisenstadt was worth going to”: Hunting events and social networking at the Eisenstadt Castle of the Esterházy princes during and after the Congress of Vienna
• Brian Vick (Emory University): Jewish Rights at the Congress of Vienna: Between Great Powers, Smaller States and Political Culture
• Alan Sked (LSE): Metternich, Talleyrand and the Vienna Settlement

12.30pm: Lunch

2pm: The Vienna Settlement and Afterwards

• Chair: Matthew Rendall (University of Nottingham)
• Edward Kolla (Georgetown University): “The Legal Legacy of Vienna Reconsidered: A Pre-History of National Self-Determination”
• Beatrice de Graaf (University of Utrecht): The ‘Allied Machine’. The Allied Council of Ambassadors & Arguing Security on the Continent, 1815-1818.
• Jonathan Singerton (University of Edinburgh): “Sovereignty Transformed”? The Congress of Vienna as an Episode in US-Habsburg Relations

3.30pm: Afternoon Break 

4pm: Roundtable Discussion

• Michael Rowe (Kings College, University of London)
• David Laven (University of Nottingham
• Matthew Rendall (University of Nottingham)