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Fakultet hrvatskih studija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Hrvatski institut za povijest, Odjel za povijest Matice hrvatske

Znanstveni skup CONTRA SAGAS Early Modern Witch Trials in the Habsburg Monarchy (16th — 18th Centuries)

13. i 14. listopada 2026. od 9 do 18 sati, Dvorana Jure Petričevića, Ulica Matice hrvatske 2, Strossmayerov trg 4, Zagreb

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13. listopada

9:15 – 9:45 – Opening of the Conference
9:45 – 11:20 – Keynote session (chair: Deniver Vukelić)
9:45 – 10:30 – Rita Voltmer: War on the Witches’ Dark Counter-State? The Structure of Witch-Hunting in the Spanish-Habsburg Lands and Their Border Regions
10:35 – 11:20 – Gábor Klaniczay: Habsburg Monarchy: Catalyzer or Moderator of Witch Trials in Hungary

11:20 – 12:00 – Coffee break

12:00 – 13:45 – First session (chair: Blanka Szeghyová)
12:00 – 12:35 – Ildikó Sz. Kristóf: The Guild of Midwives: Historians’ Myth or Social History
12:35 – 13:10 – Gergely Brandl: Urban Witchcraft Trials in the Great Hungarian plain: State, Politics, Crime and Social Order in the Szeged Trials
13:10 – 13:45 – Bence K. Rácz: Panic in Pölöske: A Witchcraft Trial as Condensation of Conflicts in an Eighteenth-Century Hungarian Village

13:45 – 14:30 – Break

14:30 – 16:50 – Second session (chair: Ildikó Sz. Kristóf)
14:30 – 15:05 – Tünde Komáromi: Witchcraft in Torda county (comitatus) and Aranyos seat (sedes) in the 17-18th centuries
15:05 – 15:40 – Agnes Flora: Exorcism in a Glocal Context Demonic Struggle and Religious Competition
15:40 – 16:15 – Blanka Szeghyová: Before the Witch Trials: Early Magic Accusations in Hungary and the State of Research in Slovakia

16:15 – 16:45 – Coffee break

16:45 – 17:45 – Gábor Klaniczay, Tomasz Wiślicz, Blanka Szeghyová, Deniver Vukelić:
Round table discussion and Q&A: On the future of the research for the Habsburg Witchcraft Trials (chair: Gergely Brandl)
17:45 – 18:00 – Conclusion of Day One
18:00 – 19:00 – Short guided tour through Zagreb’s Upper Town (in English)
19:00 – 21:00 – Dinner time

14. listopada

9:00 – 10:30 – Plenary session (chair: Petar Bujas)
9:00 – 9:45 – Tomasz Wiślicz: Burning the Subjects: The Role of the Nobility in Initiating Witch Trials in Rural Areas of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
9:45 – 10:30 – Deniver Vukelić: Witch-Trial Research in Croatian Historiography: A State-of-the-Field Review

10:30 – 10:40 – Coffee break

10:40 – 13:55 – Third Session (chair: Deniver Vukelić)
10:40 – 11:15 – Petar Bujas, Hrvoje Gračanin: Demonological Skepticism of Augustin Kažotić in the Context of Early Modern Criticism of the Reality of Magical Offences
11:15 – 11:50 – Zvjezdana Sikirić Assouline: The Specificities of Working with Manuscript and Published Early Modern Archival Sources on Witch Persecutions

11:50 – 12:10 – Coffee break

12:10 – 12:45 – Klaudia Kelemen: March 26th, 1756: The beginning of the end of the Croatian Witch hunt
12:45 – 13:20 – Lucija Pušonjić: (Institutional Violence Against Women: The Role of the Body in Habsburg Witch Hunts
13:20 – 13:55 – Kristina Milković: Superstition as a topic of reports on the Croatian-Slavonian Military Frontier

13:55 – 14:45 – Break

14:45 – 17:30 – Fourth Session (chair: Tomasz Wiślicz)
14:45 – 15:20 – Matevž Košir: The typology and socio-economic context of witch trials in Styria and Carniola
15:20 – 15:55 – Davide Busato: Between Witchcraft and the Returning Dead: A Quantitative Approach to Exhumation Practices in Central-Eastern Europe (17th–18th Centuries)
15:55 – 16:30 – Karolina Anna Wojtucka: Not just witches: Men as defendants in witchcraft trials in Velké Losiny and Šumperk in the 17th century
16:30 – 17:00 – Conclusion and Conference Ending


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