Session 1: State Formation on the Ground
Paul Warde: Locality-level State Formation in the South-west of Germany / Robert Spaulding: The Transformation of the Rhine and the Formation of Modern Germany, 1648-1848

Session 2: New Approaches to the Political
Alexander Schmidt (Jena): The Power of the Muses? French and German Diplomats Assess High-culture in Napoleonic Germany / Estelle Joubert (Toronto): German Opera and Politics from Enlightenment to Napoleon / Katarzyna Pekacka-Falkowska (Torun): Plague in Torun in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries - the Politicisation of Disease

Session 3: Religion and Politics
Scott Dixon (Belfast): The Sense of the Past in Reformation Germany: History and Historiography in the Work of Johannes Letzner (1531-1613) / Jennifer Smyth (Dublin): Unnatural Pharisees: Knowledge, Clergy, and Laity in the Early Reformation / Jane Finucane (Glamorgan): „Revolution“ in Magdeburg? War and Constitutional Change 1629-31

Session 4: Cultures of Knowledge
Richard Kirwan (Maynooth): Representation and Social Action at the University in the Holy Roman Empire 1500-1700 / Stefan Ehrenpreis (Berlin, München): Pedagogical Discourse and Primary Schools in Germany and England, 1600-1750

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