colloq99.htmlTEXTMOSS )) Fifth UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe, 1999

FIFTH UC COLLOQUIUM ON EARLY MODERN CENTRAL EUROPE

 

April 24-25, 1999 at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles

Saturday, April 24 9:30 a.m.

Morning Coffee

10:00 AM

Graduate Work in progress

Peter Starenko, UC Berkeley. Method or Madness? The Return of God, Guns, and Guardian Angels in Ducal Saxony, 1562-67

Daniel Christensen, UC Riverside. Willibald Pirckheimer and His Two Very Different Social Networks

Ernest Simmons, UC Berkeley. Authenticating the Virgin: Verification of Apparitions in Early Modern Switzerland

Michael Flanigan, UC Berkeley. In the Name of the Abott: The Administration of Justice in a Swiss Village, 1585-1720

1:00 p.m. Lunch

Graduate Work in Progress

2:30 PM

Laura L. Kinsey, UCLA. Court Travels: The Habsburgs on Pilgrimage, 1620-1760

Laura Ford-Cruz, UC Berkeley. Printers and Printers Guilds in the Early Modern Netherlands

Benjamin A. Marschke, UCLA. The Development of the Chaplaincy in Early Eighteenth-Century Brandenburg-Prussia

5:00 p.m. Reception
 
 

Sunday, April 25 9:30 a.m.

Morning coffee

10:00 AM

Workshop

Dr. Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Universität Potsdam. German Baroque Literature in the European Context

James H. Spohrer, UC Berkeley.  The "Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft" Collection: A Microcosm of German Culture in the Seventeenth Century

1:00 p.m  Lunch

2:00 PM

Graduate Work in Progress

Matthew Erlin, UC Berkeley.  Topographies of Tolerance: City, History, and Enlightenment in G.E. Lessings Minna von Barnhelm

Eva-Maria Russo, UCLA. Not Prepared to Encounter a Devil: The Rapist in Heinrich von Kleists
Marquise von O

Kimberly Garmoe, UCLA. Losing Something in Translation: A German Reading of English Colonial Authority

Michael J. Sauter, UCLA. From True Time to Mean Time: Uncovering a Public beyond Print in Early Modern Berlin


 

Please note: The Clarks location and space limitations require that advance reservations be made. Please register by phone (310-206- 8552) or by E-mail (NancyC@humnet.ucla.edu). Reservation deadline: April 16, 1999. The reservation period will close early if capacity is reached. Attendance is free of charge. Lunch will be provided both days.

The Clark Library is located at 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.

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