Frederick the Great and the Republic of Letters
Joachim Tietze, Copy of Adolph Menzel: Frederick II's Round Table in Sanssouci (original painting of 1850 destroyed by fire in 1945)
Image courtesy of Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
A Symposium
Convened by Thomas Biskup and Katrin Kohl at Jesus College, Oxford, 13-14 July 2012
For abstracts of the papers and summaries of the discussions, click on the 'more...' link beside the relevant title.
The papers will form the basis of a volume in the series SVEC, the foremost series dedicated to eighteenth-century studies.
The Convenors are grateful to the following for generously sponsoring the Symposium:
- John Fell Fund, University of Oxford
- Jesus College, University of Oxford
- Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford
- Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Hull
- German History Society
- Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin - Brandenburg
Programme
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| Realm of discourse (Chair: Thomas Biskup) more... | ||
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Frederick and the Republic of Letters (Katrin Kohl, Oxford) |
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How should we read the works of a king? Frederick as self-promoter (Andreas Pečar, Halle) |
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| Situating the Enlightenment (Chair: Caroline Warman) more... | ||
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Frederick and the Berlin Enlightenment (Iwan Michelangelo d’Aprile, Potsdam) |
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Frederick’s “cercle intime”: philosophy at court (Ursula Pia Jauch, Zurich) |
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| Exchanges (Chair: Dan Wilson) more... | ||
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Negotiating the rules of conduct in the republic of princes and philosophers: the example of Friedrich Melchior Grimm (Kirill Abrosimov, Augsburg) |
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Atlantic Frederick: cultural transfer between the Anglophone world and Friderician Prussia (Thomas Biskup, Hull) |
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| Mastering state and self (Chair: Kate Tunstall) more... | ||
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Frederick, Voltaire and the anti-Machiavel tradition (Ritchie Robertson, Oxford) |
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On the use and abuse of self-love: Frederick and Rousseau (Avi Lifschitz, London) |
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| Practitioner and patron (Chair: Katrin Kohl) more... | ||
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Frederick and lyric poetry (Kevin Hilliard, Oxford) |
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An art collector on the European stage (Christoph Vogtherr, Wallace Collection, London) |
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| The sword and the word (Chair: Tim Blanning) more... | ||
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Military action and military reflection: Frederick’s “Eléments de castramétrie et de tactique” of 1770 (Jürgen Luh, SPSG, Potsdam) |
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“Le roi historien”: Frederick the Great as a writer of history (Christopher Clark, Cambridge) |
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| Roundtable & Discussion (Chair: Nicholas Cronk) more... | ||
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