Professor Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI speaks in Salzburg

The Chairholder of the European Civilization Chair at the Natolin campus, Professor Richard BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI, participated in a conference held at the University of Salzburg devoted to the question of Dual Statehood in Modern Europe.

The 150th anniversary of the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 provided the occasion to gather together historians from across Europe to compare unions and various forms of dual or multiple statehood including the Habsburg Monarchy, the British and Irish unions, the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdoms of Portugal and Brazil, and the Russo-Finnish union.

Participants were enjoined to set aside considerations of which nationalities "won’ or "lost" in such unions and to consider the purposes and workings of the whole structure. Professor BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI spoke on "Ambiguities of Union: Unitary, Dual and Triune Statehood in Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1795".