News and events
Eighth Early Modern History Workshop
Friday 30 October 2009 at the German Historical Institute, London
Programme
- 09.30
- Arrival and coffee
- 09.50
- Welcome
- 10.00
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Session 1 - Information
Arndt Brendecke (Munich/GHIL) 'Integra informatio': Legitimating political decisions by claiming to be informed
Matthias Pohlig (Humboldt University Berlin/GHIL) Marlborough's secret: Gathering information in the War of the Spanish Succession
- 11.00
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Session 2 - Diplomacy
Corina Bastian (Bern) 'Female diplomacy'?: The role of women in diplomatic relationships between early modern European courts
Tilman Haug (Würzburg) 'Amis et serviteurs du roi en Allemagne': Networks of the French crown in the Holy Roman Empire 1648-1678
- 12.00
- Coffee
- 12.15
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Session 3 - Culture and Corruption
Mary Lindemann (Miami) Political Culture(s) in Early Modern Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg
Niels Grüne (Bielefeld) Political corruption in the early modern period: Practices and discourses in England and Germany compared (1550-1750/1800)
- 13.15
- Lunch
- 14.15
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Session 4 - News and Movement
Abaigéal Warfield (NUI Maynooth) Weather-magic in the media: A close investigation of the reporting of weather magic in contemporary Hexenzeitungen
Markus Küpker (Cambridge) Migration and population development in pre-industrial Westphalia: The example of Tecklenburg
- 15.15
- Coffee
- 15.45
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Session 5 - War and Society
Mark Wishon (London) British-German Interactions in the 18th century British army
Leighton James (Swansea) Tales of War: German Central Europe, 1792-1815
- 17.00
- Close
How to take part
If you are interested in attending as a participant, please contact:
Dr Michael Schaich German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2NJ
Email: schaich@ghil.ac.uk
