Sixth UC Colloquium on Early Modern Europe

Saturday April 28-Sunday April 29, 2001
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall
University of California Berkeley
 

Saturday, April 28

9:00 AM  GRADUATE WORK IN PROGRESS

Jason Coy, UCLA: "In punishment of open vice: Criminality and Authority in Ulm, 1500-1900"

Daniel Christensen, UCR: "Premodern Public Health in Seventeenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia"

Benjamin A. Marschke, UCLA: "A Day in the Life of an Army Chaplain: Alltagsgeschichte of the Chaplaincy in Early Eighteenth-Century Prussia"

Beat Immenhauser, University of Bern: "Universities and Reformation: The Impact of the Reformation on University Attendancein the Diocese of Constance"
 

11:15 GRADUATE WORK IN PROGRESS
 

Robert Dees, UCLA: "Economics and Politics of Peasant Production in South Germany, 1450-1650"

Katie Brun, UC-Berkeley: "The Abbot and his Peasants: Resistance, Partnership and the Foundations of the Territorial State in Salem"

Robert von Friedberg, University of Bielefeld: "The Making of Patriots: Resistance to Princes under the Impact of War and State-Building in Germany during the Thirty Years' War"
 

2:30 PM WORKSHOP
 

What Happened to the Peasants? Agrarian History from the Peasants' War to the End of the Old Regime

Tom Scott, University of Liverpool
David Luebke, University of Oregon
William Hagen, UC-Davis
 

Sunday, April 29

9:00 AM GRADUATE WORK IN PROGRESS
 

Warren Dym, UC-Davis: "Forked Twigs and Official Knowledge: Practice and the Earth Sciences in Sixteenth-Century Germany"

Heather Madar, UC-Berkeley: "the Genealogical Principle in Art for Maximilian I"
 

Kimberly Garmoe, UCLA: "Ephemeral Enlightenments: Hamburg Newspapers and the Late Enlightenment"

Christina Wegel, UCLA: "In Vino Veritas: Homoeroticism in Goeth's West-Östlicher Divan"

John Mangum, UCLA: "Why do the Nations so Furiously Rage Together? A Berlin Performance of Händel's Messiah in 1786"
 

Organized by Eberhard Bahr (Germanic Languages, UCLA), Thomas A. Brady Jr. (History, UCB), Peter H. Reill (History, UCLA), David Sabean (History, UCLA), and Elaine C. Tennant, (German, UCB).

Coordinated and hosted by the Institute of European Studies, Berkeley; the Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, UCLA; and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA.