The full conference program, including information on registration, is available at the conference website: http://fni.ucr.edu/2008conference.html
Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany
Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär
March 27-29, 2008
Duke University
All participants must register. Information concerning registration and housing is forthcoming and will be posted on FNI’s
website. The conference hotels are the Broqokwood Inn and the Millennium Hotel in Durham, NC. The conference fee
includes lunch on Saturday and the banquet on Saturday. Please be aware that this fee does not cover FNI’s actual costs per
person.
Conference sessions will take place, for the most part, in Von Canon A, B, and C in the Bryan Center on the campus of Duke
University. Room assignments will appear in later versions of thie program.
Thursday, 27 March 2008
3:00-5:30 p.m. Registration, Information and Hospitality Table (West Campus,
Bryan Student Center, upper floor)
5:30-7:00 p.m. Reception: Perkins Library Rare Book Room (West Campus,
Perkins Library)
Friday, 28 March 2008
Loss I
8:20 a.m. Transportation from conference hotels to Duke campus
8:50 a.m. Welcome: Lynne Tatlock, Washington University in St. Louis
9:00-10:00p.m. Plenary Lecture
Speaker: Hans Medick, University of Göttingen: “Ways of Viewing a Catastrophe: The
Experience and Memory of the Thirty Years War”
Moderator: H.C. Erik Midelfort, University of Virginia
10:10 a.m. -12:10 p.m. Sessions
Session 1: Trauma: The Enigma of Survival in Early Modern Germany
Moderator: Alexander Schwarz, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
1. Sigrun Haude, University of Cincinnati: “Loss and Survival During the Thirty Years’
War (1618-1648)”
2. Christopher Wild, University of California, Los Angeles: “Traumatic Beginnings,
Delayed Endings: Understanding and Narrating Survival in Grimmelshausen’s
‘Simplicissimus Teutsch’”
3. Claudia Benthien, University of Hamburg: “Vanitas, vanitatum et omnia vanitas. A
Psychodynamic Reading of the Baroque Transitoriness Topos”
Session 2: Loss of Place and Community: Expulsion and Migration
Moderator: Benjamin Marschke, Humboldt State University
1. Debra Kaplan, Yeshiva University: “Hannah and Her Children: A Jewish Family’s
Resistance to Expulsion”
2. Theo Pronk, Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies, The Netherlands: “Crying at
the Rivers of Babylon: Public Dissent over the Catholic Occupation of Augsburg and the
Loss of a Lutheran community (1629-1632)”
3. Rosalind J. Beiler, University of Central Florida: “Migration and the Loss of Spiritual
Community: The Case of Daniel Falckner and Anna Maria Schuchart”
4. Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania: “Mediating Loss: Christoph Saur’s
Calender as Consolation for Recent German Immigrants to Pennsylvania (1751-1757)”
Session 3: Enduring Catastrophe
Moderator: John Roger Paas, Carleton College
1. Dean Phillip Bell, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies (Chicago): “Recounting Storms
and Catastrophes: Culture, Religion, and Politics in Early Modern German Chronicles”
2. Dennis Frey, Jr., Lasell College: “The Great Fire of 1782: Loss & Recovery Among the
Handwerker of Göppingen”
3. Alexander J. Fisher, University of British Columbia: “Themes of Exile and
(Re-)Enclosure in Music for the Franciscan Convents of Counter-Reformation
Munich during the Thirty Years’ War”
12:10- 1:20: Lunch on campus on your own
Loss II
1:20-2:20 p.m. Plenary Lecture
Speaker: Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas, Austin: “Did Dürer Die? Artistic
Loss and Dilemmas of Cultural Identity”
Moderator: Peter J. Burgard, Harvard University
2:30-4:00 p.m. Sessions
Session 1: Changing Boundaries: The Erasure, Inscription, and Re-valuation of
Sacred Space in Early Modern Cities
Moderator: Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas, Austin
1. Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “Locating the Sacred in a
Biconfessional Urban Landscape: Subjective and Objective Maps”
2. Duane Corpis, Cornell University: “Losing One’s Place: Remembering and Forgetting
Space and Place in the Post-Reformation City”
3. Jörg Merz, University of Münster: “Bishops versus Cities: The Loss of Municipal
Responsibility Regarding Architectural Commissions”
Session 2: Textual Variations on Loss and Love
Moderator: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University
1. Ron Rittgers, Valparaiso University: “Loss of the Beloved: The Prayer Book of
Johannes Cristoph Oelhafen (1619)”
2. Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Stockholm University: “The One I Love: Love and Loss in
Early Modern German Prose Narratives”
3. Gerhild Williams, Washington University in St. Louis: “Losing Direction: Love,
Gender, and Geography in E. W. Happels Novel Eduard (1691)”
Session 3: Gendered Responses to Loss of Honor and the Law
Moderator: Robin Barnes, Davidson College
1. Ann Tlusty, Bucknell University: “Swordplay and the ‘Good Death’ in Early Modern
Germany”
2. Jason P. Coy, College of Charleston: “Loss of Virginity: Defloration and Compensation
in Early Modern Ulm”
3. Marc Forster, Connecticut College: “Gender and Honor in Village Taverns”
4:00-4:30 p.m. Coffee Break
4:30-6:20 (6:40) p.m. Sessions
Session 1: Reform, Conversion, and Loss of Spiritual Community
Moderator: Beth Plummer, Western Kentucky University
1. Barbara Lawatsch-Melton, Emory University: “Loss and Gain in a Salzburg Convent:
The Impact of Tridentine Reform and Princely Absolutism on the Nuns of Nonnberg
(1620-1682)”
2. Chistopher W. Close, Princeton University: “The Loss of Confessional Allies:
Augsburg, Donauworth, and the Schmalkaldic War”
3. Gesine Carl, University of Hamburg: “‘Lost in Conversion’: Verlusterfahrungen in
Konversionserzählungen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts”
Session 2: Common Mourning and Memory
Moderator: Kathryn A. Edwards, University of South Carolina
1. Almut Spalding, Illinois College: “Mourning the Young, the Strong, and the Aged: An
Eighteenth-Century Hamburg Family Coping with Death”
2. Ulrike Gleixner, Herzog August Bibliothek: “Zum Tod von Kindern und Ehegatten.
Pietistischer Anspruch und die Praxis der Selbstkontrolle in der Trauer.”
3.Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Freie Universität, Berlin: “Drowning or swimming?:
Perceptions of Risk-Taking, Fatality and Possibilities of salvation when moving in and on
water in Eighteenth-Century Germany”
Session 3: Dynastic Mourning and Memory (4:30-6:40)
Moderator: Cornelia Niekus Moore, University of Hawaii
1. Mara R. Wade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “Paper Monuments and
the Creation of Dynastic Memory: The Personal and Dynastic Mourning of Princess
Magdalena Sybille in Her Funeral Publications”
2. Cecilia Pick, Minnesota State University, Mankato: “Longing for the Grave: Mourning
the Loss of a Duke and a Husband”
3. Rajah Isabelle Scheepers, Leibniz Universität Hannover: “Enduring Loss in Early
Modern Germany—Not a Question of Gender: Countess Anna of Hesse (1485-1525)”
Question Period (ca. 5:35-5:50)
4. Andrew L. Thomas, Salem College: “Paragons of Piety: The Didactic Element in the
Funeral Literature for the Wittelsbach Consorts Louise Juliana of Orange and Elizabeth
Renate of Lorraine”
5. Andrew Morrall, Bard Graduate Center: “‘A Double Veil’: Devotion, Remembrance and the Micrographic Portrait.”
Question Period (ca. 6: 30-6:40)
6:40-7:40 p.m. Reception: Wine and hors d’oeuvres
7:45 p.m. Transportation to the Brookwood Inn and the Millennium Hotel
Saturday, 29 March 2008
Loss III
8:30 a.m. Transportation from conference hotels to the Duke campus
9:00-10:00 a.m. Plenary Lecture
Speaker: Jill Bepler, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany: “Enduring Loss – Memorializing Women in Early Modern Germany”
Moderator: Gerhild Scholz Williams, Washington University in St. Louis
10:10a.m.-12:10p.m. Sessions
Session 1: Contemplating Death and Dying
Moderator: Max Reinhart, University of Georgia
1. Bruce Janacek, North Central College, Illinois: “Andreas Osiander and an Early
Lutheran Meditation on Death”
2. Alexander Schwarz, University of Lausanne, Switzerland: “Im Angesicht des Todes:
Paradoxes und heterodoxes Verhalten in der Frühen Neuzeit”
3. Helmut Puff, University of Michigan: “Barbara Dürer’s Death 1514”
4. Isabel Richter, University of California in Los Angeles: “Fantasizing Death. Self-
Reflections on Death and Dying in the Diaries of the Late Eighteenth Century”
Session 2: Political Erasure, Inscription, and Re-Framing
Moderator: Pia Cuneo, University of Arizona
1. Christine R. Johnson, Washington University: “Losing Italy, Losing Switzerland: The
Shrinking Holy Roman Empire in Renaissance Culture”
2. Benjamin Marschke, Humboldt State University: “Losing Power. Reversionary Interest
and Generational Crises of Authority and Control. The Case of the Hohenzollerns, from
the Great Elector to Frederick the Great, 1640-1786”
3. Lisa Kirch, University of North Alabama: “Proactive Portraits: The Case of
Ottheinrich”
4. John Theibault, Chemical Heritage Foundation: “The Virgin and the Celibate:
Reputation Made and Lost in the Thirty Years’ War”
Session 3: Bankruptcy: The Cause and Control of Loss in Early Modern Germany
Moderator: Thomas Max Safley, University of Pennsylvania
1. Martha White Paas, Carleton College: The Impact of the Kipper and Wipper Inflation
(1619-23) as Revealed in Contemporary Broadsheets”
2. Susan Maxwell,University of Wisconsin,Oshkosh: “Money Matters: Art and the
Abdication of Duke Wilhelm V”
3. Mark Häberlein, University of Bamberg: “Merchants’ Bankruptcies, Economic
Development, and Social Relations in German Towns During the ‘Long’ Sixteenth
Century”
12:10-1:15 p.m.: Box Lunch (Show your conference badge.)
Loss IV
1:15-2:15 p.m. Plenary Lecture
Speaker: Christopher Ocker, San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate
Theological Union at Berkeley: “Spiritual Loss in the German Religious Controversy”
Moderator: Randolph C. Head, University of California, Riverside
Sessions 2:20-4:20 p.m.
Session 1: Loss of the Early Modern Self
Moderator: Thomas Robisheaux, Duke University
1. Reindert Falkenburg, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands: “The Loss of the Spatial
Self in Early Modern Painting”
2. Andreas Bähr, Freie Universität Berlin: “Träumen in der Frühen Neuzeit. Von der
Selbstkonstitution zum Selbstverlust”
3. Kathy Stuart, University of California, Davis: “‘She could not find peace until she
killed someone’—Loss of Self, Compulsion and Murder in Enlightenment Germany”
4. Peter J. Burgard, Harvard University: “Seizing the Day and Losing Oneself”
Session 2: Enduring Captivity
Moderator: Tanya Kevorkian, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
1. Peter Burschel, University of Rostock: “ Lost Sons. Images of Ottoman
Imprisonment in the Early Modern Age”
2. Carina L. Johnson, Pitzer College: “Glossal and Spiritual Ordeals: Surviving Captivity
in the Sixteenth Century”
3. Paul Spalding, Illinois College: “Loss of Country, Loss of Freedom: Incarceration
Conditions for State Prisoner Lafayette 1792-97”
4. David Whitford, United Theological Seminary: “The First Slave Narrative? The
Strange Journey of Noah's Son into Europe”
Session 3: Commemorating Death and Sickness
Moderator: Mara R. Wade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1. Claudia Jarzebowski, Freie Universität, Berlin: “The Brothers Leyser. Disease and
Loss in Funeral Works for Children (Seventeenth Century)”
2. Cornelia Niekus Moore, University of Hawaii: “Loss in the Funeral Works of the Early
Eighteenth Century”
3. Marion Kobelt-Groch: “Das eigene Kind zu Grabe getragen: Väter als Verfasser
protestantischer Leichenpredigten (17. und 18. Jahrhundert)”
4. Sabine Mödersheim, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “‘Nie hat ein end all unser
leid’: Images of Loss and Eternal Gain in the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Nuremberg”
Session 4: Contemplating Social Death: The Loss of Status
Moderator: Marc Forster, Connecticut College
1. Terence McIntosh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “The Loss and
Recovery of the Lutheran Clergy’s Professional Identity, 1700-1800”
2. Thomas Weller, University of Münster: “Material or Immaterial Loss? A Conflict about
Precedence at the University of Leipzig (1641-46) and its Far-Reaching Consequences”
3. Thomas Max Safley, University of Pennsylvania: “After the Fall: The Dynamics of
Social Death and Rebirth in the Wake of the Hoechstetter Bankruptcy, 1529-1586”
4. Maximilian Kalus, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena: “Loss, Insolvency and Death.
Living with Business Risks in the Late Sixteenth Century”
4:20-4:50 p.m. Coffee Break
4:50-5:50 p.m. Plenary Lecture
Moderator: Susan Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona
Speaker: Mary Lindemann, University of Miami: “The Defects of Flesh: Loss, Imperfection, Ambiguity”
5:50 p.m. Transportation to Brookwood Inn and the Millennium Hotel
7:00 Transportation from Brookwood Inn to Millennium Hotel
7:15-8:00 Cash Bar, Millennium Hotel
8:00-9:30: Banquet, Millennium Hotel
9:45 Transportation to Brookwood Inn
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Departure