Schedule

Thursday, May 17

19.00

Registration, White Hall / University of Tartu Museum

The duration of each talk (except keynote speakers) is 30 minutes following 15 minutes for discussion.

Friday, May 18

9.15 – 9.30	Opening words	White Hall / University of Tartu Museum
9.30 – 10.30	Hanspeter Marti	Ars disputandi und Rhetorik in frühneuzeitlicher Disputationsliteratur des Ostseeraums
10.30 – 10.45	Coffee break
10.45 – 11.30	Daria Barow-Vassilevitch	To register titles, reconstruct careers, identify networks. New edition of the database of Königsberg dissertations
11.30 – 12.15	Sari Kivistö	Learned artisans and merchants in early eighteenth-century dissertations
12.15 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 14.45	Peter Sjökvist	Dedicatory practices in early Uppsala dissertations
14.45 – 15.30	Pärtel Piirimäe	Natural law in Tartu disputations 1690-1710
15.30 – 15.45	Coffee break
15.45 – 16.30	Meelis Friedenthal	Pneumatology in the disputations of the Swedish universities of the 17th century
16.30 – 17.15	Kaarina Rein	Herodotus΄ “Histories” in the disputations of Riga Gymnasium

Saturday, May 19

9.30 – 10.30	Bernd Roling	Atlantic Uppsala: Paganism and Old Norse literature in Swedish university disputations
10.30 – 10.45	Coffee break
10.45 – 11.30	Robert Seidel	Poetological disputations at the University of Königsberg. Balthasar Boy’s Dissertatio poetica de requisitis quibusdam epici carminis circa objectum ejus (1691)
11.30 – 12.15	Anna Fredriksson	Johannes Schefferus and colonization – a reference to the Baltics?
12.15 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 14.45	Britt-Inger Johansson	Illustrations of Architecture in Swedish Latin Dissertations prior to 1850
14.45 – 15.30	Johanna Akujärvi	Translation in university dissertations in the 19th century and earlier
15.30 – 15.45	Coffee break
15.45 – 16.30	Tua Korhonen	Paulinus-Aenelius: Shiloh (1688). The one and only dissertation in Greek in the Royal Academy of Turku (Finland)
16.30 – 17.15	Janika Päll	Greek disputation from Tartu by Ericus Holstenius and the tradition of disputations on ethics
17.15 – 18.00	Janet Laidla	What lies beneath: Petrus Bartelius Dissertatio physica de igne subterraneo