Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär

FRÜHE NEUZEIT INTERDISZIPLINÄR (THE CONFERENCE GROUP FOR EARLY MODERN GERMAN STUDIES) AND DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESENT:

Fourth Triennial FNI Conference, April 7-10 2005

Orthodoxies and Diversities
in early modern German-speaking Europe

Duke University

Registration, Information and Hospitality Table:

West Campus, Bryan Student Center, upper floor, Thursday noon until Saturday, 4:00 pm

Welcoming Reception:

Thursday, April 7, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Perkins Library Rare Book Room (West Campus, Perkins Library)
Sponsored by Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library

Workshop:

Friday, April 8, 9:30 - 11:30am
Mary Lou Williams Center (West Campus, Union Building)
Claudia Ulbrich (Freie Universität Berlin) and Gabriele Janke (Freie Universität Berlin) "Between Patterns and Possibilities: New Approaches to Life Narratives"

Concert:

Friday, April 8, 8:00pm
Nelson Music Room (East Campus)
Zephyrus (University of Virginia) Conducted by Dr. Paul Walker

Plenary Address:

Saturday, April 9, 6:30pm, Washington Duke Inn
Gerhild Scholz Williams, Washington University: "The Secrets of Power, Love, and Loss: Melusine (Arras, Paracelsus, Praetorius)"

Banquet:

Saturday, April 9, 7:45 PM, Washington Duke Inn

Post-Conference Party

at the Droessaert-Robisheaux residence after the Banquet
All invited
26 Prentiss Place
Durham

Locations of Meeting Rooms

Conference sessions will take place on Main West Campus (the buildings around the Chapel), East Campus and the Freeman Center for Jewish Life. All locations on West Campus are within a 5-10 minute walk of either the Bryan Center or the Chapel. A free campus bus departs West Campus for East Campus roughly every 10-15 minutes during the day, and every half hour in the evening. The bus is free. Use the bus to reach the Freeman Center for Jewish Life, the Lilly Library and the East Duke Building on East Campus. Signs marked FNI will guide you to session meeting rooms.

Bryan Center: located close to the Chapel. Facilities include: hospitality table, information booths, campus bookstore, a café, etc. 5 minute walk to Chapel. Approximately 25-30 minute walk to either the Washington Duke Inn or Brookwood Inn.

Freeman Center for Jewish Life: located on Campus Drive halfway between West and East Campuses. Walk from Bryan Center Registration desk to Main West Campus bus stop in front of the Chapel & take East-West campus bus to Freeman Center. Approximately 20-30 minutes from Bryan Center, including bus.

Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture: Main West Campus in West Union Building. A 5-10 minute walk from Bryan Center to West Union Building 201 (2nd floor).

Biological Sciences (rooms 113 and 130): Main West Campus on Science Drive, adjacent to Bryan Center. A 5-10 minute walk from Bryan Center or the Chapel.

Lilly Library: East Campus. Take East-West bus from bus stop before Chapel to East Campus. Lilly Library is located in the middle of East Campus, a five-minute walk from the bus stop. Approximately 20-30 minutes from Main West bus stop.

East Duke Building (204B): East Campus. Take East-West bus from bus stop in front of the Chapel to East Campus. 5 minutes from the East Campus bus stop. One of two flanking buildings near entrance to East Campus. Approximately 20-30 minutes from Main West bus stop.

Nelson Music Room: East Campus, 2nd floor of East Duke Building. Take East-West bus from bus stop before Chapel to East Campus. 5 minutes from the East Campus bus stop. One of two flanking buildings near entrance to East Campus. Approximately 20-30 minutes from Main West bus stop. Allow a little extra time for bus service between East and West campuses in the evening.

Old Trinity Room: Main West. West Union Building ground floor in the middle of the building. A 5-10 minute walk from Bryan Center.

Perkins Library: The Breedlove Room and 226 Perkins Library are both located in the main university library. A 5-10 minute walk from the Bryan Center.

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 7

1:00-2:30 PM
Freeman Center for Jewish Life

Session I (Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Sanctuary): Disciplining in Reformation Germany: Pastors, Punishments and Citizenship

Chair and comment: Terence McIntosh, University of North Carolina

Jason Coy, College of Charleston: "'Foreign and Useless People': Banishment and Social Control in Sixteenth-Century Ulm"

Jay Goodale, Bucknell University: "Instituting Unity and Subversion: Lutheranism, Calvinism and Visitations in Electoral Saxony, 1577-92"

Norman Wilson, Messiah College: "Burgerschaft and Burgerrecht in the Free Imperial City of Regensburg"

Session II (Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Library): Printing, Preaching and Pedagogy in the Consolidation of Lutheran Orthodoxy

Chair and comment: Sigrun Haude, University of Cincinnati

Susan Boettcher, University of Texas, Austin: "Orthodoxy Embattled: The Development of 16th century Lutheran Preaching on Jews, Turks and Heretics"

Marie Baxter, University of Chicago: "Whose Education? Orthodoxy between Reform and Neglect"

Henning P. Jürgens, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mainz: "Reception of Controversy on the way to Orthodoxy: the Postinterim Controversies"

3:30-5:00 PM
Freeman Center for Jewish Life and Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture

Session III (Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Sanctuary): "In Times of Repeated Crisis": Authority and Social Practice in Response to Military and Natural Disruption

Chair and comment: B. Ann Tlusty, Bucknell University

Sigrun Haude, University of Cincinnati: "Divergent Patterns of Behavior in Franconia's Encounter with the War (1618-1648)"

Maren Lorenz, Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur: "Occupation as Sovereignty - a Methodological Problem: Physical Conflicts between Swedish Military and Residents of 'Swedish-Germany' (1650-1700)"

Guido Poliwoda, Universität Bern: "Disaster Management and the Social Response to Catastrophic Floods: The Example of Saxony (1784-1845)"

Session IV (Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Library): Migration and the Assimilation of Strangers in German- and Dutch-speaking Lands

Chair and comment: Susan Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona / Division for Late Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Susanne Lachenicht, National University of Ireland, Galway: "Early Modern German States and Migration Policy: Brandenburg-Prussia, Hesse-Kassel and the Palatinate and the Influx of Huguenots and Jews"

Manuela Böhm, Universität Potsdam: "Multilingualism in Early Modern Berlin. The Influence of the Huguenots and other Migrating Groups on the Berlin Urban Vernacular"

Douglas Catterall, Cameron University of Oklahoma: "Tolerance and Social Status at the Margins: Scots and Sephardim in Early Modern Holland"

Session V (Mary Lou Williams Center): Acting, Negotiating, Concealing: Confessional Diversities in the Grafschaft Baden, Cologne, and Wesel in the 17th Century

Chair and comment: Marc Forster, Connecticut College

David Freeman, Reinhardt College: "Struggling to Survive: Wesel's Dissident Lutheran Community, 1586-1632"

Daniela Hacke, Universität Zürich: "Religious Co-Existence and Political Negotiations in the 17th-century County of Baden (Switzerland)"

Rebekka Mallinkrodt, Max-Plank-Institut für Geschichte: "Religious Diversity in an Apparently Orthodox City - Appropriation and Obstinacy in Religious Brotherhoods in Early Modern Cologne"

FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 8

9:30-11:30 AM
Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture

Workshop: Between Patterns and Possibilities - New Approaches to Life Narratives

Claudia Ulbrich, Freie Universität Berlin, (organizer)
Gabriele Janke, Freie Universität Berlin

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 8

1:00-2:30 PM,
West and East Campuses

Session VI (West Campus: Mary Lou Williams Center): Disciplining in Post-Reformation Germany: Parents, Peasants, and Public Clocks.

Chair and comment: Joel Harrington, Vanderbilt University

Marion Kobelt-Groch, Universität Hamburg: "Controlling Grief. Funeral Sermons for Stillborn Children in 17th Century Germany"

Terence McIntosh, University of North Carolina: "Pietism and the Disciplining of the Peasantry"

Michael Sauter, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico: "Clockwatchers and Stargazers: The 'Public' Origins of Time Discipline in Eighteenth-Century Berlin"

Session VII (West Campus: Biological Sciences 113): Public Secrets and Private Communication in the Diplomatic Sphere

Chair and comment: James van Horn Melton, Emory University

Heidrun Kugeler, Magdalen College, Oxford: "Secrecy and the Language of Diplomacy: Concepts of Concealing and Revealing Information in Early Modern Diplomacy"

Michael Jucker, Universität Münster: "Secrets and Politics: Some Aspects of Late Medieval and Renaissance Diplomatic Communication"

Cornel Zwierlein, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: "The State Origins of the Public Sphere and the Public Origins of Secret State Communication: Innovations and Transfers between Italy and Germany, 15th and 16th Centuries"

Session VIII (West Campus: Biological Sciences 130): Marking Religion and Identity

Chair and comment: Bridget Heal, University of St. Andrews

Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania: "East is East: Germanic Images of the Ottoman Turk"

Carina Johnson, Pitzer College: "Circumcision and Ethnographic Distance"

Duane Corpis, Georgia State University: "Conversion as a Strategy of Social Redemption in the 17th and 18th Centuries"

Session IX (East Campus: Lilly Library, Thomas Room): Politica Christiana: Redefining the Religious in the Late 16th and early 17th Centuries

Chair and comment: Susan Boettcher, University of Texas, Austin

Matthias Weiss, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt: "Reproducing Norms: Lutheran Political Thought in the Wake of the Reformation"

Bettina Koch, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg: "Religious Orthodoxy and Political Diversity in Johannes Althusius's Politica Methodice Digesta"

Nathan Baruch Rein, Ursinus College: "From the History of Religions to the History of Religion: The Late Reformation in Germany and the Challenge to Sui Generis Religion"

3:30-5:00 pm, West and East Campuses

Session X (West Campus: Biological Sciences 130): Images of the Virgin Mary and Marian Devotion in Early Modern Germany

Chair and comment: David Luebke, University of Oregon

Bridget Heal, University of St. Andrews: "Images of the Virgin Mary and Marian Devotion in Early Modern Germany"

Beth Kreitzer, St. Vincent College: "Against the Enemies of the Virgin Mary: Catholic Controversialists Defend the Mother of God"

Carol Heming, Central Missouri State University: "Luther and Zwingli on the Virgin Mary"

Session XI (West Campus: Mary Lou Williams Center): Political Bodies and Medical Practice in Early Modern Germany and Austria

Chair and comment: Bea Lundt, Universität Flensburg

Mitchell Lewis Hammond, University of Victoria: "Charities, Contagions, and Civic Life in Renaissance Germany"

Claudia Stein, University of Warwick: "The 'Kidney Stone-Affair': A Well-Kept Secret Revealed"

Session XII (East Campus, 204B East Duke Building): Northern Innovations within Classical Traditions: Sixteenth-Century Arts and Letters

Chair and comment: Pia Cuneo, University of Arizona

Christine Johnson, Washington University: "The Barbarians as Humanists"

Ashley West, University of Pennsylvania: "A Crisis of Exemplarity in Hans Burgkmair's Battle at Cannae"

Susan Maxwell, University of Virginia: "Consolidation and Conformity in the Rittersaal Justice Paintings of Trausnitz Castle"

SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 9

8:30-10:00 am, West Campus

Session XIII (West Union Building: Old Trinity Room): Performing the Swiss Confederation

Chair and comment: Max Reinhart, University of Georgia

Eckehard Simon, Harvard University: "The Rise of Political Theater in Pre-Reformation Switzerland"

Glenn Ehrstine, University of Iowa: "Enacting the Swiss Confederacy: Plays, Performance, and the Public Sphere"

Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Universität Zürich: "Jakob Rufs Etter Heini und die Konjunkturen eidgenössischer Identitätsstiftung"

Session XIV (Perkins Library: Breedlove Room): Enlightened Responses to the Diversity of Mankind, 1760-1830

Chair and Comment: Christopher Wild, University of North Carolina

Brad Herling, Boston University: "From Mission to Discipline: Eighteenth Century Influences on Herder's Representation of India"

Annette Meyer, Universität Köln: "Challenged by Diversity: Conceptions of Mankind in the German Spätaufklärung"

Peter K. J. Park, University of California, Los Angeles: "The Exclusion of Asia from the General History of Philosophy: The Kantian Position, 1790-1830"

10:30-12:00 noon, West Campus

Session XV (West Union Building: Old Trinity Room): Gender and Norms of Violence in Swabia and East Frisia

Chair and comment: H. C. Erik Midelfort, University of Virginia

Ann Tlusty, Bucknell University: "Competing Orthodoxies: Custom, Law and the Ownership of Violence"

Helmut Graser, Universität Augsburg: "The Language of Violence in Court Records and Ordinances of East Swabia"

David Luebke, University of Oregon: Big Albert, "Branding Irons and the Red Cow: Decoding Rituals of Humiliation in Eighteenth-Century East Frisia"

Session XVI (Perkins Library: Breedlove Room): Old knowledge, new knowledge, classification of knowledge: rethinking paradigms in the later 16th century

Chair and comment: Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Universität Zürich

Harald Bollbuck, Herzog-August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel: "The Classification of History and the Shaping of Society: The Work of David Chytraeus (1530-1600) in Late 16th Century Germany"

Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona: "New Knowledge, Disturbing and Attractive: The Faustbuch and the Wagnerbuch as Witnesses of a Paradigm Shift"

Andrew Morrall, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture: "Wenzel Jamnitzer's Knowledge of Mathematics and Some Implications for the Arts"

Session XVII (Perkins Library 226): Representing the Dynasty: Monarchical Identity and Representation in early modern Germany.

Chair and Comment: Howard Louthan, University of Florida

Mara Wade, University of Illinois: "Becoming Protestant: Creating Saxon Identity in the Wedding Spectacles of 1548"

Benjamin Marschke, Montana State University: "Monarchical Representation and Court Ceremony in Frederick William I's Prussia"

Sara Smart, University of Exeter: "Heroes and Commanders: Johann von Besser's Presentation of the Hohenzollern Dynasty"

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 9

1:00-2:30pm, West Campus

Session XVIII (West Union Building: Old Trinity Room): Thinking and Avoiding 'Orthodoxy' in Early Modern Confessional Cultures. Strategies of Modification, Adaptation and Functionalization

Chair and Comment: Thomas A. Brady, Jr., University of California, Berkeley

Winfried Schulze, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: "New Directions in Understanding Early Modern Tolerance"

Alexander Schunka, Universität Stuttgart: "Religious Migration and the Categories of Religious Identity"

Markus Friedrich, Duke University and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: "Dogmatic Confessional Cultures and the Problem of Adiaphorism"

Session XIX (Perkins Library: Breedlove Room): Music History: Texts and Contexts

Chair and Comment: Paul Walker, University of Virginia and Zephyrus

Tanya Kevorkian, Millersville University: "The Musician and Power: J.S. Bach, Local and Territorial Politics in Leipzig and Saxony, 1723-1750"

Susan Lewis Hammond, University of Victoria: "Translating the Italian Madrigal for Lutheran Europe"

Andrew Talle, Peabody School of Music: "The Increased Trend-Setting Power of the Galant Musical Amateur, 1680-1740"

Session XX (Perkins Library 226): Representations and Gender Structures in (Auto)Biographical Texts

Chair and comment: Helmut Puff, University of Michigan

Eva Kormann, Universität Karlsruhe: "Genre, Gender and Socio-cultural Construction - Autobiographical Writing around 1700"

Bea Lundt, Universität Flensburg: "The Myth of the Emperor Charles. The Construction of European Masculinity in the Early Modern Period: the Example of the Zürcher Buch vom Heiligen Karl"

Silke Törpsch, Freie Universität Berlin: "Social Relations, Words and Objects. Gender in Interaction in the 17th Century"

3:30-5:00 pm, West Campus

Session XXI (West Union: Old Trinity Room): Media Histories of the Reformation

Organized by Helmut Puff, University of Michigan, Christopher Wild, University of North Carolina, and Ulrike Strasser, University of California, Irvine

Allyson Creasman, University of the South: "The Word in the Street: Rethinking Print and Oral Culture in the Urban Reformation"

Sabine Moedersheim, University of Wisconsin: "Emblem Books and a Multimedia History of the Reformation"

Donald McColl, Washington College: Words Fail: "Remarks on the Visual Culture of the Reformations"

Session XXII (Perkins Library: Breedlove Room): Religion and Politics: Reflections on Early Modern German Orthodoxies

Chair: Hans Hillerbrand, Duke University

Thomas Kaufmann, Universität Göttingen

Robert von Friedeburg, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Comment: Constantin Fasolt, University of Chicago