BOOK PRESENTATION - The Sound of Habsburg: A Musical History of The Austrian Empire
hosted by Professor
Eugene Finkel
Philipp Ther
Professor of East Central European History, University of Vienna
The talk will feature musical relations between Italy and the Habsburg Empire and present some tunes, which even fans of "classical" music have never heard.
PHILIPP THER
Philipp Ther is Professor of Central European History at the University of Vienna, where he also guides the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET).
Previously Ther was professor of comparative European history at the EUI in Florence. His book
Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent. Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa (Suhrkamp) was awarded the non-fiction bookprize of the Leipzig bookfare in 2015. An English version entitled
Europe since 1989: A history was published by Princeton University Press. His publications also include:
Before he published in English The Dark Side of Nation States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe, New York: Berghahn Press, 2014 (German 2011, Polish 2012, Czech 2017) and
Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in 19th Century Central Europe, West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2014 (Czech 2008). He has co-edited twelve other books, and his articles have been translated into fifteen European languages. His most recent books are a synthesis on the history of refugees in modern Europe
Die Außenseiter. Flucht, Flüchtlinge und Integration im modernen Europa, Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2017 and
Das andere Ende der Geschichte: Über die Große Transformation, Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019. An extended English version
The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492 was published by Princeton UP, 2019. In 2019 he was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Fund. This award is endowed with 1.5 million Euros and is the highest recognition for scientists in Austria.
