Wednesday, 13 July
(Venue: Seminarzentrum, Raum L115, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem)
15:30–16:00
Avi Lifschitz (University of Oxford), Martin Urmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Welcome and Introduction
16:00–17:00
Martin Urmann (CRC 980 “Episteme in Motion”)
Panegyric, confirmation of the canon, and knowledge production: prize contests as a hybrid medium of public debate
17:00–17:15 Coffe break
17:15–18:15
Arjan van Dixhoorn (University College Roosevelt, Middelburg)
Dutch prize contests as a measure of long-term cultural change in Europe
18:15–19:15
Maria Florutau (University of Oxford)
The role of the jury in shaping the prize essay genre in the Netherlands in the second half of the eighteenth century
19:30 Conference dinner
Thursday, 14 July
(Venue: Villa Engler, Altensteinstraße 2, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem)
10:00–11:00
Martin Gierl (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Organizing science: prize contests in Göttingen and the case of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
11:00–12:00
Rita Krueger (Temple University, Philadelphia)
Constructing useful knowledge: essay contests in Habsburg Bohemia and Moravia
12:00–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–15:00
Nicola Miller (University College London)
Competing to define the future: prize contests in independence-era Spanish America
15:00–16:00
Béla Kapossy (EPFL, Lausanne)
‘The spirit of legislation’: the Bernese prize essay competition of 1764
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16.30–17:30
Juliane Engelhardt (University of Copenhagen)
From science to practice: the role of prize contests in academies and patriotic societies in the Danish-German-Norwegian composite monarchy
17:30–18:30
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
Popularisation and prestige in the staging of prize contests at the St Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1777–1802
19:00 Conference dinner
Friday, 15 July
(Venue: Villa Engler, Altensteinstraße 2, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem)
10:00–11:00
Maria Susana Seguin (Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier/ENS Lyon)
Prizes and awards at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, 1700–1750
11:00–12:00
Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile (Universität Potsdam)
The transformation of academic prize contests in the aftermath of the French Revolution
12:00–13:30 Lunch break
13:30–14:15
Final discussion