Pieter M. Judson holds the Chair in nineteenth- and twentieth- century history at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of several prize-winning books on Habsburg Central Europe, including_The Habsburg Empire: A New History_(Harvard University Press-Belknap, 2016). He has won fellowships from Fulbright, Guggenheim, and the American Academy in Berlin. In 2010 the Austrian government awarded him the Karl von Vogelsang State Prize.
Sometimes the imperial legacy weighs heavily on Bad Ischl, and alternative perspectives are largely ignored – kitsch and clichés dominate, with history being clotted in the shadow of the Habsburg myth. An exhibition in the public space as well as talks and statements by European experts dare to take a differentiated look at the imperial and royal period.
(Original title: k.u.k. kritisch und kontrovers)
