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

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