MLA Sessions 2005

MLA Session 1
Creating Knowledge I

Program arranged by the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature (SGRABL)

Presiding: Jonathan Clark Concordia College

1. Patricia Hardin, Virginia Military Institute: Emblems and the Structure of Knowledge: The Works of Andreas Gryphius

2. Stephen Mark Carey, Georgia State University, “The De-generation of Knowledge in Heinrich von Wittenwiller’s Der Ring

3. Rasma Lazda-Cazers, The University of Alabama: Seductive Lands: Representation of Landscape in the Northern Countries from the Middle Ages to the 16th Century


MLA Session 2
Creating Knowledge II

Program arranged by the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature (SGRABL)
(put this session in December 30 spot)

Presiding: Karin A. Wurst, Michigan State University


1. Mara R. Wade, University of Illinois: Knowledge and Cultural Transfer: Dynastic Networks and the Rise of European Court Theater

2. Dwight E. Raak TenHuisen, Calvin College, “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: A Comparative Look at the woodcuts and engravings in Staden’s Wahrhaftige Historia”

3. Luciana Villas Bôas, Columbia University, “The Epistemology of Travel and the Writing of Ethnography in the Sixteenth Century”