Third UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe
April 19-20, 1997,
at the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles
organized by:
coordinated and hosted by the UCLA Center
for 17th- & 18th-Century
Studies, the William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and the Center for German &
European Studies, UC Berkeley
Click here for registration information
The goal of the colloquium is to organize and sustain an annual
interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty of the
UC system who work in any aspect of late Medieval and early modern
Central Europe. The primary area will be the German-speaking world,
though contiguous areas such as the Low Countries, Bohemia, and
northern Italy (roughly the extent of the Holy Roman Empire) will be
considered as well. The era covered will stretch from the fourteenth
century (roughly the beginning of Early New High German) into the
nineteenth century.
Colloquium schedule:
Saturday, April 19
9:30 a.m. morning coffee
10:00 a.m. graduate work in progress
Rolando Montecalvo, UC Berkeley
"A Portrait of the Emperor as a Young Man: Aeneas Silvius
Piccolomini's Historia Friderici III Imperatoris"
Naomi Walenta, UC Berkeley
"The Secret Truth of Aventinus' Bavarian Chronicle"
Carina L. Johnson, UC Berkeley
"Negotiated Diplomacies: Ibrahim Dragoman at Maximilian II's
Coronation in 1562"
Thure Gustafson, UC Berkeley
"Sebastian Schertlin (1496-1577) among Many Masters"
Jason P. Coy, UCLA
"Crisis and Control: Social Disciplining in Seventeenth-Century Ulm"
1:00 p.m. lunch
2:30 p.m. workshop
Hans Medick, Center/Clark Professor
"The Thirty Years War Revisited: Historical Interpretations in the
Light of Contemporary Self-Testimonies"
5:00 p.m. reception
Sunday, April 20
9:30 a.m. morning coffee
10:00 a.m. graduate work in progress
Marcell Sebok, UC Berkeley
"'Friendship Feeds on Communication': Interactions within the
Late-Sixteenth-Century European Republic of Letters"
James Robbins, UCLA
"Civil Law and the Early Modern Subject in Justus Henning Boehmer's
Usus Modernus Pandectarum"
Katherine L. Bell, UC Davis
"Administering the Health of the People: The Medical Policies of
Johann Peter Frank (1745-1821)"
Christina Swanson, UC Irvine
"Textual Transgression in the Epistolary Mode: Sophie von La Roche's
Geschichte des Fraeuleins von Sternheim"
Erik Eisel, UCLA
"'Nachfolge . . . nicht Nachahmung': Immanuel Kant and the Crisis of
Exemplarity in Late-Eighteenth-Century German Literature"
1:00 p.m. lunch
Please note: The Clark's 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 11, 1997. 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.
Inquiries: 310-206-8552 or NancyC@humnet.ucla.edu
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