EIGHTH UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COLLOQUIUM

ON

EARLY MODERN CENTRAL EUROPE

 

and

 

AN EXHIBIT OF THE FRUITBEARING SOCIETY COLLECTION

 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY

 

16-18 April, 2004

 

Cover graphic: Matth‰us Merian The Palm of the Fruitbearing Society (1646)

 

Saturday April 17^th, Morrison Library, Doe Memorial Library

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST                       8:30

WELCOME ≠ Thomas A. Brady Jr., UCB

SESSION I ≠ Randolph Head, UCR (moderator) 9:00

Ellen Yutzy, UCB ≠ Anabaptism and the Reformation in Hesse: A Contextual Study

Michael Flanigan, UCB ≠ Heretics, Neighbors, and True Religion: Late Sixteenth-Century Swiss Confessional Relations According to the Lucerne City Clerk Renward Cysat

Robert Dees, UCLA ≠ Peasant Debt in the German Southwest as Evidence of General Economic Decline, 1450-1650

 

COFFEE BREAK                                       10:30

SESSION II ≠ Ulrike Strasser, UCI (moderator) 11:00

Karen Logue, UCB ≠ A Narrative of King-Making in Fifteenth-Century Hungary

Jeanne Grant, UCB ≠ Oaths and Credibility in the Bohemian Land Laws

Julie Tanaka, UCB ≠ Cultural Hegemon: A New Face in the Empire

Richard Ascarate, UCB ≠ Translating Cannibals, or the Possible Politics of Representation in Hans Stadenπs ≥Warhafftig Historia≤ (1557)

 

LUNCH ≠ Faculty Club, Howard Room 1:00

SESSION III ≠ 301 Doe Library 2:30

WORKSHOP ≠ Niklaus Largier

Department of German, UC Berkeley

 

The Emblem Tradition and the Fruitbearing Society

DRINKS AND DINNER 7:00

 

Sunday, 18 April

Morrison Library, Doe Memorial Library

 

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST                            9:00

SESSION IV ≠ William Hagen, UCD (moderator) 9:30

Warren Dym, UCD ≠ The Formalization of Treasure Hunting in Mining Texts

Marc Lerner, UCLA ≠ Eighteenth-Century Versions of Republicanism in a Rural Community

Kris Pangburn, UCLA ≠ Reading the German Debate about the Immortality of the Soul as an Investigation of the Personality, 1770-1820

Peter Park, UCLA ≠ The Exclusion of Asia from the Formation of a Modern Canon of Philosophy: A Debate in German Philosophy, 1790-1831

LUNCH ≠ Morrison Library, Doe Memorial Library 12:00

 

SPONSORS Berkeley Reformation Seminar, GTU, UCB Department of History, UCB Institute of European Studies, UCB The Library, UCB Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA

ORGANIZERS Thomas A. Brady, Jr., History UCB Peter H. Reill, History, UCLA David Sabean, History UCLA Elaine C. Tennant, German, UCB

 

Program design:: Takafumi Katasutra