• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Lyndal Roper (Oxford) , Edmund Wareham (Oxford) , Louis Morris (Oxford) , Róisín Watson
• Timing: Wednesday 14:00; Weeks 2, 4, 6 & 8

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Family Matters: Natural Knowledge in the Early Modern German Household
  Alix Cooper (Stonybrook University, NY)

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Of Fire and Ink: the Fabrication of the Desolation of the Palatinate (1688–9). On Some German Aspects of a European Event
  Emilie Dosquet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne )

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Souvenir of Siege: The Early Modern Notklippe / The Arts of Measurement in Early Modern Germany
  Allison Stielau (UCL), Hannah Murphy (KCL)

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Abbesses – Nuns – Monks. Disciplining, Communication and Culture in the Cistercian nunneries of Early Modern Upper Lusatia / Parish, Piety and Providence. The Case of Early Modern Zittau
  Jan Zdichynec (Charles University, Prague), Petr Hrachovec (Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 'Translating Luther's Sermon on Indulgences and Grace and 95 Theses' AND 'Translating the Passional of Christ and Antichrist'
  Howard Jones (Keble), Edmund Wareham (Somerville)

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Censorship of Art in the Reformation in Germany’
  Christiane Andersson (Bucknell)

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Luther for Everybody’, followed by a presentation of Reformation pamphlets held by the Taylor Library
  Craig Harline (Brigham Young)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Hessen-Kassel and the Peace of Westphalia'
  Kerstin Weiand (Marburg)

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - CONFERENCE QUEEN’S, MARIA THERESA (registration required) - ‘Maria Theresa and the Catholic Enlighenment’
  Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Münster)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - "Disgusting Objects in Early Modernity"
  Sarah-Maria Schober (Basel and Oxford)

Saturday 19 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Maximilian Study Day
  TBA

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Impact of Habsburg Court Culture on the Development of Costume Books
  Katherine Bond (Anglia Ruskin)
• 14:00 - Identity, Court Festivals, and the Politics of Access in the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire
  Richard Morris (Cambridge)

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Bernhard of Weimar as Military Enterpriser
  Joint session with the History of War Seminar
  Astrid Ackermann (Jena)

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Music in a Divided City: The Introduction of Polyphony at St Katherine's, Augsburg
  Barbara Eichner (Oxford Brookes)
• 14:00 - Towards a Sonic History of the German and Netherlandish Home
  Matthew Laube (Birkbeck)

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Sharing Space between Lutherans and Catholics in Early Modern Württemberg
  Róisín Watson (Mansfield/Oriel)

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Ritual Magic, Spellbooks and Mining
  Johannes Dillinger (Oxford Brookes)

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Contested Mobilities: Gender and Banishment in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jeannette Kamp (History Faculty)

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Making of the GDR Woman Artist Past and Present
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tina Mendelsohn (Lincoln)
• 14:00 - Luther, Müntzer and the GDR's "Historical Turn" in the 1970s
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Marcus Colla (Christ Church)
• 14:00 - Baroque to the Future: The SED’s Teleological Argument for the Socialist Project and the Influence of Bach and Handel on East German Musical Culture
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Bethan Winter (St Peter's)