Programme
9.30am Arrival and Coffee
10.00 Welcome (Michael Schaich, GHIL)
10.10 Session 1 New Perspectives on German Society
Stephan Laux (Düsseldorf) The Jews in the German System of Estates (1400-1800)
Ulrich Rosseaux (Dresden), Leisure Activities in Dresden, 1694-1830
Anton Tantner (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften IFK, Vienna), Addressing the City: Registry Offices and House Numbers
11.20 Session 2 Religious Discourse in Comparative Perspective
James Lee (UWE) and Joachim Eibach (Research Centre for the European Enlightenment, Potsdam) Joint paper: The Politics of Preaching: a Comparison of Early Modern German and English Political Discourse
Alexander Schunka (Stuttgart), Towards an Ecclesiastical Union of the Protestant Churches: Anglo-Prussian Theological and Political Relations in the Early 18th Century
12.30 Lunch
1.45 Session 3 Experience and Identity
Charlotte Woodford (Cambridge), Making Sense of the Horror: Nuns’ Experience of the Thirty Years War
Jonathan Durrant (Cardiff), Soldiers, Witches and Masculinity in Seventeenth-century Germany
2.45 Coffee
3.00 Session 4 State-Building in Discourse and Practice
Niels Grüne (Bielefeld), Political Communication and State-Building in the 18th Century: Conflicts about the Management of Common Land in the Rhine Palatinate
Florian Schui (Cambridge), International Exchanges of Ideas about Taxation: French Administrators and Ideas in the Prussian ‘Régie’ Tax Administration, 1766-1786
Avi Lifschitz (Oxford), Debating Language: Academic Discourse and Public Controversy at the Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great
4.30 Plenary Discussion
Chair: Peter Wilson (Sunderland)
How to take part
If you are interested in attending as a participant, please contact:
Dr Michael Schaich
German Historical Institute
17 Bloomsbury Square
London, WC1A 2NJ
Email: schaich@ghil.ac.uk