Joint Padua-Vienna/Prague Workshop | New perspectives on gun history: EU-GUNS meets LINKING ARMS

Sala MoHu, Palazzo Luzzatto Dina, Ala Nord - Via del Vescovado, 30, Padova

24.01.2025

24 January 2025

Joint Padua-Vienna/Prague Workshop
New perspectives on gun history: EU-GUNS meets LINKING ARMS

Programme:

9.15
Housekeeping and introduction

9.30-13
Vienna/Prague group presentations.
Chair: Andrea Azzarelli

• Rosamund Johnston: presentation of the Linking Arms Project
• Leo Stauber, "Forging Austrian Sovereignty through Arms Production in 1950s Steyr"
• Mojmir Stransky, "Tracing Cold War Arms Exports through Austria by comparing Austrian Foreign Ministry Sources with the Czech Secret Police Archive"
• Rosamund Johnston, "Czechoslovak Arms, Zambia and Southern African Liberation Movements" (co-authored with Clarence Chongo)
• Tomas Nigrin, “From elite military unit to expensive state construction company? The Transformation and 'civilianization' of Czechoslovakia’s ‘Railway Military’”

13-14
Lunch

14-17.30
Padua group presentations.
Chair: Lorenzo Pera

• Matteo Millan: presentation of the ERC EU-GUNS project
• Anna Moro, “Gun Control, Violence, and Firearms in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: An Analysis Through the Study of Newspapers (1870–1914)"
• Roxane Bonnardel-Mira, “«He claims to carry the gun for self-defence». Police reactions to individual protection as a justification for bearing arms in Paris, 1900-1930s”
• Mathias Foit, “«Immer und immer wieder Schikanen durch die Besatzungsbehörden»: The Regulation of Privately-Owned Guns and Civil Resistance in the Occupied Rhineland”
• Assumpta Castillo Cañiz, “Dynamics of Civilian Disarmament and Rearmament in Spain (1868 - 1936)”

17.30-18.30
Final discussion and future collaborations

18.30
Aperitivo and dinner

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Foto: Big gun, 7/30/23 - Public domain weapon photograph