9.00-9.30
Inken Schmidt-Voges (Osnabrück): Introduction

9.30-11.00
I. General Outlines for Cultural Transfer between Sweden, Europe and the Holy Roman Empire

Otfried Czaika (Stockholm): Relationship and Freedom: The infinite variety of cultural transfer in the Baltic Sea Region c 1500-1700

Heiko Droste (Stockholm): Communication and cultural exchange in pre-postal times

Discussion

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00
II. Law and Administration

Tobias Bartke (Osnabrück): Zwischen Rechts- und Kulturtransfer. Die versuchte Reform des schwedischen Rechts um 1600

Ulrike Ludwig (Dresden): Das Duell auf dem Weg nach Schweden. Kultur- und Rechtstransfer eines europäischen Handlungsmusters

Discussion

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.30
III. Education and Dynasty

Ole Hammerslev (Odense): Lawyers’ construction of the Nordic states. Theoretical and methodological outlines of a prosopographic research project on the professionalization of Scandinavian lawyers

Discussion

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.30
IV. Culture and Economy

Andreas Kappelmayer (Tübingen): Zwischen Exil und Krone. Die Stellung des Hauses Pfalz-Zweibrücken im Schwedischen Reich

Erik Thomson (Winnipeg): Coining cultures: mints, corporations and sovereignty in the Swedish empire, 1600-1650

Discussion

17.30-18.30
Final discussion and conclusions

Discussants:
Olaf Mörke (Kiel)
Per Nilsén (Lund)
Jens E. Olesen (Greifswald)
Joachim Krüger (Greifswald)
Mia Korpiola (Helsinki)
Badeloch Noldus (Kopenhagen)
Janis Kreslins (Stockholm)