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 |