Program of the 4th Colloquium, May 9-10 1998
Saturday, 9 May
223 Moses Hall
10:00 AM. Graduate Work in Progress
Amy Leonard, History, UCB: "Neighbor to Neighbor: Reformation Theories
on the Utility of the Cloister"
Alan Manatt, History, UCSB: "Excuses, Excuses: Imperial Cities and
the Neglect of the Edict of Worms, 1521-24"
Katie Mohr Brun, History, UCB: "Communal Solidarity: Some Lessons for
a Kleinstadt in the German Peasants' War"
Heather Madar, History of Art, UCB: "The Mark of the Beast: Dürer's
Depictions of the Ottoman Turks"
Tara Nummedal, History, Stanford: "The (Very) Social World of Alchemy
in Sixteenth-Century Bohemia"
2:30 PM Seminar Workshop
Gerhild Scholz Williams, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington
University.
"Invoking the Powers that Be: Types of Authority and the Production
of the Theatrum de Veneficis (1586)"
The Theatrum de veneficis is a collection of seventeen tracts representing
different early modern German views on issues related to the notion of witchcraft.
On the basis of this collection, Professor Williams discussed various authorizing
gestures and notions of translation and authority within the context of
the European witch craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (More
information).
Sunday 10 May
Barrows Hall
10:00 AM. Graduate Work in Progress
Naomi Walenta, History, UCB: "The World's Wages are Ingratitude: A
Story of the History of the Thirty Years' War"
John Mangum, History, UCLA: "A Funeral for the Saxon David"
Michael Printy, History, UCB: "A Cameralist's God: Enlightened Absolutism
and Reform Catholicism under Joseph II"