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), held in Vienna on 19–20 March 2026. The conference explores how archival practices shaped governance and knowledge production across imperial contexts.

On 19 March (13:00–14:20), Maarten Manse will present the paper “State of Paper: Colonial Writing Culture, Governance Pretense, and the Colonial Necessity for Producing Archives.” The presentation forms part of Panel II: Building Archives and Fictions of Governance, chaired by Wolfgang Mueller.

On 20 March (13:30-14:50), Birgit Tremml-Werner will present “Reciprocal Relations: The Role of Indigenous Languages in Late Eighteenth-Century Diplomatic Archives.”

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

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