Birgit Tremml-Werner and Maarten Manse at Vienna Archival Conference

Maarten Manse and Birgit Tremml-Werner will participate in the conference The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th–19th Centuries) in Vienna on 19–20 March 2026. The conference explores how archival practices shaped governance and knowledge production in imperial contexts.

On 19 March, Manse will present “State of Paper: Colonial Writing Culture, Governance Pretense and the Colonial Necessity for Producing Archives.” On 20 March, Tremml-Werner will present “Reciprocal Relations: The Role of Indigenous Languages in Late Eighteenth-Century Diplomatic Archives.”

A detailed program will be announced by the organizers.

More information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/conferences

Photo: Alexander Yanov, Prikaz v Moskve (Serpukhov Museum)