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Thursday, April 3, 2008, Location: Steinberg Auditorium

3:30 PM
Shuttle leaves Sheraton hotel for WU Campus, Steinberg Auditorium

4:00 PM
Calvin Trillin
Assembly Series Lecture: An Afternoon with Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin, veteran journalist, novelist and syndicated columnist for, among others venues, the Yale Daily News, Time Magazine and The New Yorker. His current column for The Nation, called "Deadline Poet," contains humorous verses about current events.

Followed by a Reception for Conference Participants

This event is co-sponsored by Delta Phi Alpha, the German Honor Society.

7:00 PM
Shuttle leaves WU Campus, Brown Lounge, for Sheraton Hotel

Friday, April 4, 2008, Brookings Hall, Room 300

8:00 AM
Shuttle leaves Sheraton hotel for WU Campus, Brookings Hall

8:15 - 8:45 AM
Continental Breakfast, Brookings Hall, Room 300

8:45 - 9:00 AM
Welcome, Edward Macias, Dean of Arts & Sciences

9:00 - 10:30 AM - session 1: sensations/history/news
Moderator: Anna Grotans (Columbus, Ohio)

9:00 - 9:30 AM
William Layher (St. Louis)
Horrors of the East: Setting Dracole Wayda to Print in 15th-century Germany

9:30 - 9:45
Discussion

9:45 - 10:15 AM
Silvia Serena Tschopp (Augsburg)
Wie aus Nachrichten Geschichte wird. Publizistik und Chronistik in der Frühen Neuzeit

10:15 - 10:30 AM
Discussion

10:30 - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 AM - session 2: medium flugblatt
moderator: glenn ehrstine (iowa city)

11:00 - 11:30 AM
Helga Meise (Reims)
Medienkonsum oder Wissensdispositiv? Zur Stellung von Flugblättern und Flugschriften in Marcus zum Lamms Thesaurus picturarum (1564-1606)

11:30 - 11:45 AM
Discussion

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Horst Wenzel (Berlin)
Text und Hypertext: Zur Komplexität des Flugblatts in der frühen Gutenberggesellschaft

12:15 - 12:30 PM
Discussion

12:30 - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 PM - session 3: news and the ruling elite
moderator: sigrun haude (cincinnati)

2:00 - 3:30 PM
Volker Bauer (Wolfenbüttel)
Jetztherrschend, jetztregierend, jetztlebend: Genealogie und Nachrichtenwesen im Alten Reich in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts

2:30 - 2:45
Discussion

2:45 - 3:15 PM
Elisabeth Wåghäll (Stockholm)
Eine Königin in den Zeitungen: Königin Christina von Schweden als Beispiel frühneuzeitlicher Nachrichtenvermittlung

3:15 - 3:30 PM
Discussion

3:30 - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 PM - session 4: science, news, and intellectual property
moderator: alexander schwarz (lausanne)

4:00 - 4:30 PM
Joseph Loewenstein (St. Louis)
Pennyboy's Delight: News and the Conditions of Intellectual Property

4:30 - 4:45 PM
Discussion

4:45 - 5:15 PM
Jean-Pierre Vittu (l'Université d'Orléans)
Learned and Scientific Periodicals in Eighteenth-Century Europe

5:15 - 5:30 PM
Discussion

6:30 PM
Reception Umrath Hall

7:15 PM
Buffet Dinner Umrath Hall

9:00 PM
Shuttle leaves WU campus for Sheraton Hotel, Umrath Hall, for Sheraton Hotel

Saturday, April 5, 2008, Wilson Auditorium (Room 214)

9:00 AM
Shuttle leaves Sheraton hotel for WU Campus, Wilson Hall

9:30 - 10:00 AM
Continental Breakfast in Wilson 212

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM - session 5: media battles
moderator: mara wade (urbana/champaign)

10:00 - 10:30 AM
Jane Newman (UC Irvine)
Luther's Birthday: Prognostication, Nativity Charts, and the Secularization Thesis

10:30 - 10:45 AM
Discussion

10:45 - 11:15 AM
Wolfgang Behringer (Saarbrücken)
News Processing, News Production, News Consumption Around 1600: The Invention of the Periodical Press as a Multi-Layered Media Revolution

11:15 - 11:30 AM
Discussion

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Hans Medick (Göttingen/St. Louis)
Wallensteins Tod auf den medialen Schlachtfeldern des Dreissigjährigen Krieges

12:00 - 12:15 PM
Discussion

12:15 - 2:00 PM
Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:30 PM - session 6: public crimes and private souls
moderator: amy cislo (st. louis)

2:00 - 2:30 PM
Mary Lindemann (Miami)
Criminal Acts, Political Cultures, and True-Crime Stories in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg

2:30 - 2:45 PM
Discussion

2:45 - 3:15 PM
Stephan Schindler (St. Louis)
Mapping the Soul: Karl Philipp Moritz's Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde

3:15 - 3:30 PM
Discussion

3:30 - 4:00 PM
Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 PM - session 7: novels and news
moderator: maria snyder (St. Louis)

4:00 - 4:30 PM
Lynne Tatlock (St. Louis)
The Novel as Archive in New Times: Paul Winckler's Der Edelmann (1696) and Eberhard Werner Happel's Ungarischer Kriegs-Roman (1685-1697)

4:30 - 4:45 PM
Discussion

4:45 - 5:15 PM
Gerhild Scholz Williams (St. Louis)
News Selling Novels: Facts and Fictions in Eberhard Werner Happel's Geschicht-Romane

5:15 - 5:30 PM
Discussion/Closing Remarks

5:45 PM
Shuttle leaves WU campus, Wilson Hall, for Sheraton Hotel

6:30 PM
Shuttle leaves Sheraton Hotel for WU campus, Knight Center

6:45 PM
Shuttle leaves WU campus, Knight Center, for Roloff Residence

7:00 - 10:00 PM
Reception/Buffet: The Roloff Residence, 7350 Maryland, University City

10:00 PM
Shuttle leaves Roloff Residence for Knight Center, then leaves Knight Center for Sheraton hotel